In this webcast, Tamara Fuchs, Shuup’s Growth and People manager, discusses key marketing tips and tools for small businesses and demonstrates the different marketing features within the Shuup platform. Tamara provides viewers with a general marketing model from Hubspot (attract, engage, and delight) and discusses how this simplistic model can drive traffic and sales to any marketplace or business.
What is Marketing?
Marketing can be defined as, the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. In short, marketing is creating meaningful content that communicates your brand, product, or service to current and potential customers.
Marketing is essential for any business, but can be especially crucial for new or small businesses. Marketing can help a business not only attract their audience, but also keep the audience engaged and satisfied with the business. Creating long-lasting and meaningful customer relationships is the heart of any successful business.
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Marketing Definitions 101
These are a few key terms or definitions that are key in creating a solid marketing foundation for any small business.
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SEO (Search Engine Optimization):
The practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results.
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PPC (Pay-per-Click):
A model of internet marketing in which advertisers pay a fee each time one of their ads is clicked. (a way of buying visits to your site, rather than attempting to “earn” those visits organically)
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CMS (Content Management System):
A computer software or an application that uses a database to manage all content, and it can be used when developing a website to update content and/or the website structure.
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CRM (Customer Relationship Management):
A technology for managing all your company’s relationships and interactions with customers and potential customers.
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Slug:
The part of the URL that explains the page’s content.
Marketing Tips & Tools
Throughout webcast, Tamara offers a few tips for small businesses to focus on when marketing. Creating a clear brand, service, and/or product is key. Any business should begin here since there must be something to market. Furthermore, creating a website or marketplace with CMS templates, editable content, and analytical functionalities is essential in building a strong marketing foundation. Tamara also emphasizes social media as an upward trending tool in marketing. And how 3rd party services such as Hootsuite may be beneficial.
Additionally, marketing can be demonstrated in many forms using a wide variety of tools. Tamara touches on many of these tools including a website or marketplace, social media platforms, e-mail campaigns (ex. Newsletters), paid and non-paid advertisements using SEO/PPC, and 3rd party CRM (customer relationship management) software.
Shuup’s Built-in Marketing Tools
Tamara concludes the webcast by giving viewers an inside look into Shuup’s marketing features. She demonstrates Shuup’s:
- CMS template
- Dashboard reports
- Content pages and blogs
- SEO URL Slug
- E-mail marketing via Mailchimp
- 3rd party integration capabilities
For more details on the marketing features Shuup has to offer or other questions regarding Shuup, speak to a Shuup expert or request a demo today!
