In marketing for franchisors and franchisees, we often get asked this question: “How do we make a good offer?” Everyone’s trying to figure out how to turn online interactivity into off-line, in-store sales. And when done right, a compelling offer can do just that. When you’re
The quick answer is no. You should try to get more engagement. The long answer is more complicated. First off, let me make a few disclaimers here. I’m not addressing the businesses that have five, 10 or 30 likes. If your business only has as
To drive more customers into your store, the easiest solution is to create an online offer and share it far and wide. People who are interested (and who weren’t before) now flock to your establishment to get that discount, and now you have a busy,
It’s the question every franchisee and brand marketer has been asking for the last few years, ever since Facebook diminished the reach of page posts to 1 to 4 percent of all page followers: How do I get more people to see my content? The
Social media analytics remind me of the Wikipedia rabbit hole. You try to look at one simple thing, and next thing you know, you’re several pages away on a completely different topic. Fascinating information, but is it really useful? The amount of data available to
At Rallio, we meet with corporate offices that have a varied number of locations (or franchisees, agents, offices and so forth) under them. Many of them understand how essential local pages are to their business, but for others, the idea of monitoring and managing that many
Photos add the most value to your social media content marketing strategy. They consistently get the most shares on Facebook over text, links and video (though video engagement has risen with the auto-play settings on Facebook and Twitter). To make sure you’re sharing images with the greatest potential,
ROI. Everyone’s looking for it. It’s a short leap from being able to track engagement online to asking how it will help your business. Through the power of the internet, the ability to monitor and analyze data from marketing efforts has never been greater. We
With so many social networks taking up popular bandwidth, it can be difficult to keep up, or frankly, even know where to start. It can be overwhelming to have a grasp on so many platforms at once, especially when they’re always changing. Through this overview
Whether you’ve been watching the news, looking at a billboard or gone to a tech-friendly wedding, you’ve probably seen a hashtag being promoted. Calling for you to use them, people, organizations and businesses have rallied around hashtags as a way to draw attention, discuss a
