A Love Note to Social Media

Dear Social Media, You’ve been in our lives for over a decade, and we are forever grateful for you. Our relationship started out more social, but in recent years you’ve really helped us decrease marketing costs, build relationships with customers, and drive traffic to our sites. Don’t let anyone tell you that you don’t matter! … Read more

Personalizing your Social Media to drive Engagement

As part of our WebPresence and Social media services for our business clients, we are always looking for the best ways to build an online community for our clients. Our goal is to create posts that engage with followers, facilitate conversations, and build brand awareness so they always think of your business first when they … Read more

8 Marketing Resolutions for 2015

It’s officially 2015! You’ve probably spent some time this week thinking about how you can make yourself a better person. You’re probably planning to hit the gym or set a budget. While these are great goals, you should think about your marketing as well! Now is a great time to evaluate your current marketing strategies … Read more

Big Changes Coming for Twitter

In an attempt to gain new users and engage existing users, Twitter will be launching many new features over the next couple months. Slow user growth has been a major concern in recent months, and Twitter shares fell as much as 12% in Q3. This site overhaul definitely looks to address new user growth first … Read more

Marketing Your Business Without Spending A Lot

Emily Adams, our content marketing specialist, recently wrote an article about free or low-cost ways to market your small business. This article includes advice on how to build your brand, grow with social media and develop a good website. From the article on wework.com: “Marketing your business online is now more accessible than ever before. … Read more

Anatomy of a Great Facebook Post

There may not be a formula to great Facebook content, but there are certainly things you can do to make your posts more successful. Take a look at the example below: The image will be the first thing that people notice. Posts with images perform better than posts without or posts with link thumbnails. Make … Read more

The Importance of Online Presence

The importance of integrated Online Presence, combining social media, email, website, blog, and content marketing

Powerful online presence is more important than ever. It’s not good enough to just have online marketing, every aspect needs to be integrated. AMG offers comprehensive WebPresence services of web design, SEO, social media and content marketing. Learn how and why to tie each of these services together.

Pinterest Launches New Analytics Tool

Pinterest, the bookmarking social network, announced Tuesday that a new robust analytics tool is now available to businesses. Within the new analytics dashboard you can now see number of users who engage with your pins, pins that generate the most impressions, user demographics, off-network data for social plugins and more. This is a major upgrade … Read more

10 Tips for Using Instagram for Business

You can’t ignore the social network any longer, Instagram is a major force in the social media world. Instagram is growing the fastest of all social media sites, increasing its active user base by 23% in the last six months (Tech Crunch). The site is built exclusively upon photo sharing, and provides a great opportunity … Read more

The Power of Visual Content

What image should you use? Visual content is critical for content markeitng, social media, websites, and more.

A Picture is worth a thousand words. Make that 60,000. Visual information is processed 60,000 times faster than text in your brain (Wishpond). When you incorporate images into your marketing mix, you’ll be able to communicate more information faster – more value for your consumer! Attention Images grab your attention. Where does your eye go? We’re … Read more