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Looking for real advice to grow your business? You’ve come to the right place.From hard-hitting facts to interesting antidotes, our blog tells you the best ways to market your small to medium-size business. Learn tips to make your social media soar, amp up your online presence, or motivate your team to take it to the next level.
Six Mind-Blowing Digital Marketing Stats
Do you consider yourself a numbers junkie? Does a deep-dive into a whole spreadsheets worth of statistics and percentages get your pulse racing? If not, then you should be. The great thing about the age of big data is that any question you can possibly ask can be...
Employee Spotlight: Meet Jill
At Times-Union Media, we work to create strong partnerships with our local customers, understanding their specific goals and creating custom solutions that add value to their business. Our mission is to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our readers and...
Keep it Simple: Get to the Point and Get Results
Owning a small business is already one of the toughest jobs out there. You’re not only the CEO, you’re usually the accounting department, the sales department and the marketing department. Oh, and if there’s a moment you also need to spend some time doing whatever it...
Power Up Your Digital Strategy: Marketing Myth Busters
How hard is it to find a customer in a virtual haystack? Can constant social media posts really drive you nuts? Times-Union Media is hosting it’s first-ever Myth Busters Power-up event! We’re revealing the truth behind some of the biggest myths in the industry, and...
Beyond Blogs: Creating Content that Matters
The Internet is rife with possibilities outside the written word – here are a few ways to get your business recognized online. It’s a saying almost as old as the Web itself: Content is king. But what exactly does that mean? For a business looking to build its brand...
Employee Spotlight: Meet David
At Times-Union Media, we work to create strong partnerships with our local customers, understanding their specific goals and creating custom solutions that add value to their business. Our mission is to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our readers and...
How Tactical Baby Gear Built Itself on Social Media
Created on Instagram and raised on a steady diet of likes and shares, this unique diaper bag company knows its way around social media. Here’s what we can learn. It all started, as most great ideas do, with a problem in need of a solution. Beav Brodie was preparing to...
Don’t Be Pushy: The Art of Sales Without Selling
What image comes to mind when you think of the classic hard sell? It’s a used car salesman making the sale, isn’t it? Even though the industry has refined the process tremendously, we still have that mental image of the pushy used car salesman, nickel and diming you...
After the vote: Bold City Best FAQs
Thanks to all who participated in this year’s Bold City Best competition! We are excited to announce the winners next month, and want to do our best to answer all your questions. We’ve put together FAQs to answer your most pressing questions right now, and we will...
Doing it Right: 3 Blogs Using Content to Sell
Put some entertainment in your sales pitch, and you’ll never pitch again. It’s not always easy making your case online, especially when you have a product or service to sell. The sheer amount of white noise out there makes it easy to get lost in the crowd, between...