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Strategies on how to focus and achieve your goals

Strategies on how to focus and achieve your goals

Time is your greatest asset. We have the same 24/7 as everyone else.

By focusing on what you need to do and set it up in a way that works best and naturally for you with a rhythm is what make the difference between accomplishing business and personal goals.
Want to learn more about success principals to manage your focus, shift the way you divide your time, to achieve more?

1) Check-in questions to help you identify opportunities for personal development.

Q1. Are you setting and achieving your goals?
Yes/ No/ Like to be more consistent

Q2. Do you have a clear vision of what are your success goals & financial goals are in
3 months | 6 months | 1 year | 10 years? Yes/ No/

Q3.How are you allocating your time to every day, week, month to achieve them?

Q4. Do you have a set rhythm in how you organise your week?

Q5. How do you currently set goals?

Q6. Are there Key Performance Indicators you set for yourself or your team?

Q7. What is your critical personal and business goal?

Break your goals into weekly measurement and milestones. We recommend weekly reflections and reschedule your time plan for divine and timely execution.

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”– Malcolm X

 

Download our free eGuide ‘ Power of Focus’ with a time planning tool to help you work on achieving more.

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Best Picture-Perfect Image Sizes For Social Media in 2018

Best Picture-Perfect Image Sizes For Social Media in 2018

The sizes of the photos we share on our social media sites matter in this digital age

To help you create the right dimension and sized graphics, we have prepared a collation of updated social media dimensions. In 2018, we are looking forward to working with our clients and offer our followers great digital marketing snippets and insights. Let’s create graphics and campaigns to build your personal and business brand following. To ensure that it looks attractive and professional, sizing graphics in brand colors and the right dimension for social media sharing in 2018 is our mantra and we would like to advocate the same to you.

The best sizes for sharing images on social media

1200px*628px

1024px*576px

1080px*1080px

 

552px*368px

600px*900px

 

800px*320px

 

Want to utilize more of social media marketing to grow your following and sales in 2018?

Download ‘9 Steps To Create A Social Media Plan’.

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PICTURE-PERFECT IMAGE SIZES

Page Cover photo size

For Desktop : 820px x 312px (we recommend you create this in 1920 x 731)
For Mobile : 640px x 360px
Just be mindful of to keep important features on your photo in the centre of the image as you upload on desktop version, that for mobile view would be condense and sometimes cropped away.

Profile photo size

Personal Profile Cover size

 upload 170px x 170px
851px x 315px  (we recommend you create this in 1920 x 711)
Link preview size min. 600px x 314px
Photo post size 476px x varied height, a larger one gives better quality
Group Cover photo size 820px x 250px (we recommend you create this in 1920px x 585px)
Event Cover photo size 1920px x 1080px OR small graphic at 500px x 281px

Header size 1500px x 500px for Twitter header details and free template
Profile photo size 400px x 400px for New round Twitter profile picture
Tweeted Image size 1200px x 675px
Twitter Card image size 1200px x 628px

Google+ Cover photo size 1080px x 608px
Google+ Profile photo size 250px x 250px

Linkedin Photo Size 1584px x 396px
Link share size 1200px x 628px
Linkedin Picture Quotes 792px x 528px
LinkedIn profile “background” 1000px x 425px and 4000px x 1700px
Linked in profile picture 400px x 400px and 2000px x 2000px
LinkedIn photo share 1200px x 1200px
LinkedIn Company cover photo size 1536px x 768px
LinkedIn logo size 300px x 300px

Photo Size 736px x 1104px to 2060px
Profile Photo size 180px x 180px or larger
Board cover 340px x 340px
Minimum image size that can be pinned 100px x 200px

Profile Photo size 110px x 110px minimum
Photo size 1080px width

Channel Art Photo Size 1546px x 423px to 2560px x 1440px
Video Thumbnail Size 640px x 360px to 1280px x 720px
Channel Icon Size 800px x 800px

Best Picture-Perfect Image Sizes For Social Media in 2018

 

We hope these recommended image sizes are valuable to you. We continue to learn lots about what’s best for all the different social networks, and I’ll be happy to continue updating this post with all our latest findings.

 

5-steps to prepare an effective headline and marketing message

5-steps to prepare an effective headline and marketing message

Ar you struggling to grab your prospect’s attention?

Is your headline is interesting enough to your audience?
Will you like to ensure that your marketing message cuts through the clutter of information to address a real issue and make a connection to viewers?

Here are ‘5-steps to prepare an effective marketing message, that Cuts-through-the-Clutter’.

An effective marketing copy must:

1. GRAB the prospect’s attention with a well-written headline as the opening statement

Our example: Are you keeping your business top of mind and interacting socially? OR Are you using Social media to find new customers, boost traffic to website and sales?

2. ENGAGE the reader’s attention with a sub-headline that builds on a headline that persuades the reader to read further

Our example: No time or expertise? No worries, our social media bees can help your business get connected and grow!

3. INFORM the body copy.

Give the reader some significant information on how you deliver the promise. Give the prospect or customer enough compelling information so that he or she can make a cogent decision.

Our example: Our knowledgeable and socially savvy bunnies can help you refresh your social media attraction and get people buzzing in like bees to flowers and produce the honey of success!

Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues.

Facebook is a powerful marketing tool – it’s a great space to keep customers informed, develop brand identity, and broaden your reach. We can manage your business Facebook presence from creation of your Facebook account through to social media posts with custom graphics, cover picture updates, update of services, and additional home listings to increase awareness of the general public and prospective customers.

We are results and goals focused: 

Set specific goals to increase followers and engagement to increase exposure of content created to connect and engage. We will select the right content type at specific intervals for specific purposes:

  • Business service information and advertisement
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Contest or offer
  • Creative/motivational posts
  • FAQs and answers.

4. OFFER: Offer a crystal clear, low-risk, easy-to-take next step to take action.

Our Example: Offer for the month!

Get a refresh social media page! Go from mediocre to attractive design!

Update your Facebook profile for only $99+GST to the first 10 customers, we will help you to customise and design for an attractive cover and profile image. We will also prepare a SMART social media plan and proposal to help you get more awareness, engagement and leads. Our monthly social media marketing and management service rates starts from $300+GST. Engage us to help you with:

  • Content planning, creation, and distribution
  • Customer Service in coordination with your key personnel
  • Collaboration with the marketing team to build online presence
  • Connection-building with other groups
  • Comment and share post to community groups relevant to business profile and reputation management
  • Build referring links back to your website for sales and offers.

5. Call to action – Close with a compelling offer.

Our Example: Grab our offer!

Valid until the end of this month or first 10 customers to respond. To book your spot, send me an email to rosalina@remc.co.nz with your current message, describe your target audience and desired actions you would like them to take.

Marketing to your success,

Rosalina Pang. Digital Marketing Strategist.

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Does this sound like a good format to promote your services?

Would you like a sounding board and a marketing specialist to look into your next crafted marketing message? Contact me and ask what our offer is to this month and how we intent to distribute this to your prospective customers! Invest in a better marketing message and get more converting customers.

 

 

Get Digital Marketing Training to Ensure Your Business Survival into The Digital Age

Get Digital Marketing Training to Ensure Your Business Survival into The Digital Age

WARNING! Some Business May NOT Survive The Digital Age

The Internet has changed the workforce quite a bit and your business/ industry is likely to be affected (even if you have a traditional, brick-and-mortar business). Think about it — do you know anyone who has never made a purchase online?

How often do you hear people talk about their online research before they purchase something (even if they end up making the purchase in person)? Even if you don’t plan on conducting sales online, you’ll want to have a website where people can go for information about your business.

Most small and medium-sized businesses with web and social media presence do not consider a digital marketing strategy. Some business may not survive the digital economy with how rapid consumer adoption is to instant quotes and order fulfilments online.

Internationally, 2/3 business may not survive in the next 10 years.
In New Zealand, Statistics NZ Business operations survey in 2016 shows that 69% of businesses have a website, 72% have internet sales. Without of doubt, with faster internet fiber, on-demand services, internet sales, and order fulfillment are going to raise. Businesses and industries will see more disruptions in the market with sharing economies, time to market is shortening and consumer expectations are rising.

A Good Digital Marketing Strategy is Necessary to Ensure Survival of Your Business

Most business owners have invested in a website,  company and product branding, and gained followers on social media;

The challenge is to have a systematic process to convert visitors from various channels into sales.

Often business owners have not set a budget for digital marketing development or connect effectively to an online audience. Probably because they have a sales team and established channels. Or it could be a case of generational indifference, that their customer base is old-school, personal referrals or advertising has worked for the last decade, so it is a case of  ‘why change what is not broken’ mentality.

Are you keeping up with your communications and marketing processes in this digital economy?

With consumers demand raising and personalization is a growing expectation, what are your digital marketing development efforts? Do you have them sussed or are you drowning in the sea of information overwhelm?

Marketing is the process of creating your brand, communicating your story and exchange of value to meet market demand and desire.

Digital Marketing has changed the traditional marketing landscape and created an omnichannel experience. The way people search for products and services have changed. We all search for something or someone via our mobile device and make assumptions based on what we can find digitally before we decide to trade. Customer’s reviews, orders, and desires are fulfilled on the web, an app or social media channel.

Watch this video by World Economic Forum on insights into the impact of digital technologies on business and wider society over the next decade.

For your business success, and with limited time and budget, we have observed that most SMB business owners don’t yet have a clear digital marketing plan or direction. Consumers and business behaviors have advanced with technology and flow of information, also known as the ‘Internet of things’ IoT.  Industries are being disrupted by instantaneous, on-demand services, autonomous information and the sharing economy is the part of the new wave. The vehicle is through digital mediums.

Are You Lagging Behind?

We know you have limited time, but to ignore and sideline digital marketing would not be a wise decision.
This might affect your customers’ loyalty since they would also sideline your business and start following someone else more proactively. Let’s see the top four statistics and digital trends before going further:

  • 57 percent of B2B marketers stated that SEO generates more leads than any other marketing initiative — HubSpot
  • Marketing technology spend is now higher than advertising spend for companies — Gartner
  • Nearly one-third or 2.34 billion people worldwide regularly use social networks — eMarketer
  • On average, B2B marketers allocate 28 percent of their total marketing budget to content marketing — Content Marketing Institute

The statistics mentioned above clearly convey the importance of digital marketing, and after reading them, you can NOT give a blind eye to the fact that a successfully done digital marketing could quadruple your bottom-line.

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View our Get Digital Marketing Program.

You Need Digital Marketing Training If;

  • You are a small business or entrepreneur with an ambition to survive and grow.
  • You want to retain your customers and get more online visibility and qualified leads.
  • You want to enjoy free time and prosper.
  • You want to increase the value of your business and grow your database of customers.
  • You want to improve your brand’s online presence in order to reach domestic and global markets.
  • You have limited time and money and want more out of it.

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Do you want to get more sales in less time and do the things that really matter? Would you like support and guidance to create a lead generation system to double your business? If you are committed, then enroll yourself in Revive Me Marketing’s Get Digital Marketing- 12-week Accelerator Program.

✔The program is for entrepreneurs and SMBs ready to accelerate sales with digital marketing and increase profits online.
✔ Outline your growth objectives, to set your goals
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Get ready for your digital marketing transformation!

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5 Ways Social Media Can Help Small Business Grow

5 Ways Social Media Can Help Small Business Grow

In the past year, I have increasingly used Facebook as a key communication app to message friends and customers, with almost instantaneous response. Sharing ideas, personalising messages, notifying future events and promoting offers through this medium, has been soliciting a much higher response to email marketing especially with a small and personal contact list.

For more professional matters, industry news and updates, a finely crafted eNewsletter still has a place. It serves as another medium for more comprehensive messages.

Before we delve into the 5 ways in which social media can help any small business grow, I have some 3 introspective questions for you as a small business owner:

  1. In your own opinion, what will be the greatest benefit you can get from using social media in your business?
  2. Are you willing to start using social media (if you haven’t yet) or are you still not convinced enough that it’s truly beneficial?
  3. If you have started, do you know how to enhance the use of Social media marketing to build your brand, friends and followers?

While you get a brain exercise by finding the answers, let’s learn the five ways the social media can help your business grow.

5 Ways Social Media Can Help Small Business Grow1) Monitors Your Brand’s Reputation

An infinite number of online conversations take place on a daily basis across social networking sites. Many of these discussions are about the public’s perception of various brands on the market, both good and bad. By utilising online reputation management tools, you can monitor for mentions of your brand on the Internet to promptly engage in those active conversations. This can go a long way in helping to convert a prospect that has been researching your brand to a viable customer. In the event that negative feedback is being voiced, these monitoring tools allow you to take action quickly before your brand can be damaged.

5 Ways Social Media Can Help Small Business Grow2) Positions You as an Industry Expert

By using your various social media channels to share compelling, industry-specific content that your customer base will find valuable, you can be viewed as an expert in your industry. Earning this status will help you to become the “go to” person in your domain and creating additional opportunities to expand your brand’s presence on the Internet through guest blogging or webcasts.

5 Ways Social Media Can Help Small Business Grow3) Increases Sales

Social media marketing needs to help increase sales and revenue. That’s why it’s called social media marketing and not simply social media public relations. To be fair, improving brand awareness and legitimizing a brand should, by themselves, help increase sales. But there are ways to use social media to directly steer consumers toward the sales funnel. For fans of the business, business owners can write posts that link to products, sales, etc.

Marketers can also use promoted content and advertisements to sell products to target audiences who haven’t become fans of a brand yet. The ability to target particular audiences is one of the greatest benefits of social media marketing. Social networks know a lot about consumer interests and demographics, so even though there are hundreds of millions of fans, marketers can accurately target the right people with the right message.

There are also a lot of ways that retailers can sell products directly from social networks. On Facebook, business owners can set up a Facebook store with apps like Ecwid or Beetailer. Shopify account can sync and publish a Smart Market Mobile App to for users to receive deals and buy directly on mobile.

5 Ways Social Media Can Help Small Business Grow4) Improves Customer Service

Another benefit of social media that’s easy to overlook is customer service. Even if a business has a dedicated customer service department, telephone number, or email, it’s important to handle issues via the method of communication the consumer prefers. The fact that people use social media to ask customer service questions is reason enough for businesses to ensure their ability to help customers through social media.

5) Attains Positive Reviews

Delighted customers who are interactive on social media would have an avenue to share their experiences, post, share and act as advocates for your business. Of course there might be the odd negative review posted, but this provides the business an opportunity to interact and response positively to ‘make right’ of a negative experience. Best brands and businesses are build with integrity and honesty anyways, a bad review on social media can often be made right with other delighted customers themselves responding to the criticism.

Final Words: Use Social Media to Build Attraction!

Today, NO Social Media presence means NO presence at all. Therefore, it’s important to get your social media plan right on point NOW!

if you don’t have time or resources to get set-up on a social media plan and action, you may want to look at outsourcing to someone or a dedicated company that quickly understands the nature of your business and give you a defined plan with purposeful actions.

The clock is TICKING!

5 Ways Social Media Can Help Small Business Grow

4 Tips on How to Effectively Engage with Your Interactive Community from Social Media to Website

4 Tips on How to Effectively Engage with Your Interactive Community from Social Media to Website

Following to our article on ‘The benefits of building and growing an online community on social media’, I had a few people ask me some really interesting questions.

  • How would we know if the audience visiting our website is engaged with our content or just passive readers?
  • How can we leverage on the interactive community on social media to visit our website?
  • How do we keep these interactive community engaged and continue to interact and exchange with us?

In this article, we share ideas on how to nurture passive readers, to engaged ones, interactive community to become advocates and potential customers.
Tips on How to Effectively Engage With Your Interactive Community from Social Media to Website

Firstly, let us distinguish between having an audience, and an online community. 
The key difference between these two entities is “Interaction”

Audience and web visitors are passive readers that do not actively participate in conversations.
They may visit your social media page or website every now and then and yet had not a reason to engage with you.

A community is an interactive group of like-minded individuals that may choose to be a passive audience, and more likely be enticed to actively participate in community discussions if pushed with the right tactics. Lots of community groups have grown organically and are people who share a common interest in specific topics dear to their hearts. They could share the same occupation, goals, political, commercial and non-commercial interests. Just look online for growing number of groups on LinkedIn and Facebook and I’m sure you will find a few that you are personally interested and subscribed to if you haven’t already.

Is your audience engaged with your content or just passive readers?

When reviewing your website analytic, we can view the pathways of where traffic have viewed your sites and the hot spots of clicks and views on a page.

Here’s a good example by Dan Barker. You can read the full report here

Tips on How to Effectively Engage With Your Interactive Community from Social Media to Website

1) Create quality content.

Let’s create content that is relevant, inspirational, motivational, educational or entertaining. Create content that is not about what you are and what you do, but something coherent to the community. Create unique content that is exclusive to your community.

Content may be in the form of a video, infographic, images and short but robust text filled precise information. Sweet, short and savvy is the in thing. Long articles can be boring and may tend to drive away potential engagement in a blink of an eye.

2) Design a shareable content.

You know your content is good when someone shares it. Facilitate easy sharing by designing your content in the simplest form and shareable via social buttons. Give your content a catchy heading with relative imagery. There is no rule written in stone here. You just need to be creative and explore. Add the right plugins to enable “click-sharing”.

 3) Be consistent.

Next big thing to keep in mind is consistency in content presentation. This means giving a heads-up on upcoming events, topics or promotions and posting content on a regular basis. Stick to your schedule even if you go away for a long vacation.

 4) Be active on Social Media.

Whether you are on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ or any other social media site, you have to actively participate too if you aim to build your own community. Share others’ content, comment, answer questions and connect with people in your niche and listen.

  • Keep a two-way traffic going to build a strong community.
  • Engage and show you care. Remember that you are dealing with live people.
  • Be prompt in replying to comments. A simple click of emoticon would suffice.

There may come a point in time when everything will be difficult to manage. After all, you can’t be expected to sit on your computer for 24 hours. When this happens, you can always outsource the job of monitoring your social sites to professional social media marketing team from Revive Me Marketing.

Promote and create valuable content for your community by making new connections and promoting other community members and do let them know. Find sites that allow guest posts and contribute a reference or practical tips article. Be specific and do an authoritative piece. The message should be “be a reliable resource, not a brand pusher.” Media loves experts who love to share their trials, failure and successes.

Tips on How to Effectively Engage With Your Interactive Community from Social Media to Website