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WHY RUN A FACEBOOK ENGAGEMENT AD?

Me a comment 20 minutes ago asking about a article that I cut a while back on running an engagement ad on how to run a Facebook engagement ad and sometimes people get it right away. Sometimes people don’t and that’s why I love your comments. Man, if you have any questions whatsoever drop me. A comment below question me on my articles.

Question me on strategies. Ask questions, that’s how you get answers to what the thoughts that are going on in your mind. You know all that stuff that you’re thinking of or assuming or trying to try to figure out, I’m telling you man most likely. Your answer is a question away. So if you can, if you can drop comments below man, I promise you. I would do my best to get to every single one of them and drop a new article to really kind of bring you up to par on where, where you know you should be and where your ads could be in this particular case.

So this one had to do with an engagement ad article that I made and, for some reason, Miriam is not really having success with it, and so what I’m going to do is I’m going to kind of just add my two cents and and just kind of Walk you through another engagement, ad and and kind of just share some more information on on making you understand it and just making it more clear and in making sure that you guys really understand the differences between all these different ads.

The pros and the cons and just the advantages and the disadvantages of running an engagement ad or a article view ad or lead capture, ad, really understanding the differences between all the different ads that you can possibly possibly be running through Facebook, because that’s where it truly Starts man, it truly starts when you come over here to your Facebook page, you click on create and you click on add it all starts there when you click on that ad.

It’s going to bring you to this section right here, and this is what you want to bookmark so bookmark. This page right here come up here, hit the star and just bookmark this tab, because this is where all the magic is going to happen. Okay, now um, this is where it starts. An engagement is right here, but I want to really kind of edge, Kate, you and kind of share. What’s the purpose of an engagement like why an engagement ad right, it all comes down to your goal.

You guys it all comes down to your objective, like what the heck are you trying to do on my blog. I talk a lot about online marketing and when it comes to online marketing, there’s many aspects to it, but I truly believe at the end of the day, it’s all about capturing a lead. It’s all about making a sell, and/or capturing a lead, and so with that being said, coming in here to the Facebook platform, whether I’m running a Facebook ad or whether I’m running an Instagram ad or whether even running a YouTube ad 99 % of people.

That are that are running ads are doing it for those two main reasons to either make a sell or to capture a lead. Okay. Now those are the two top reasons. The third reason is for some type of brand awareness or some type of exposure. Okay, that’s the third reason, so so to tell you the truth. The third reason when you, when you go for for in this case, engagement, which I call exposure brand awareness, it’s it fits number three.

It fits that category of the third, the third reason, but mainly people that are that are going for for for that type of an ad are mainly people that are that are that, are how can I say this that are that are just trying to get some Type of exposure: okay, they’re, not driving the click to a landing page they’re, not driving the click to a checkout on your website, whether it’s a Shopify or an Amazon or your own e-commerce website.

So your objective isn’t to drive a click to buy something. So, therefore, you are most likely just looking for exposure you’re, looking for just brand awareness, you’re looking for exposure, you’re looking to just get your name out right, and so those are the people s the third reason and and the third types of people you know that Run ads, it’s it’s it’s if that time, a person that is not necessarily looking for lead or a cell right away.

So, to tell you the truth, the way I look at that is that if you have extra budget, if you have extra money to throw at Facebook ads, then you can start running engagement. You can run maybe brand awareness and reach you can maybe go for. Go for go for article views, go for article views right if you’re just looking to spend some money and get and get your feet wet if you’re, just learning and you’re trying to really explore and really understand the differences between all these ads, because at the other Day, it’s going to be your analytics.

It’s going to be your reporting. It’s going to be your numbers that determine the differences between all this stuff right, you’re going to have to look at your report, but what I’m going to do is really give you give you give you a heads up and give you a cheat sheet on how To really approach it, engagement in this particular case, shout-out to Miriam Miriam, is, is trying to run an engagement ad okay.

So what I’m, assuming? What I’m, assuming is that Miriam is not looking to drive a click to a landing page, because if we, if we were, then our objective would be to capture a lead right, we’re driving it to a landing page in order for them to put their name and Email, that’s going to be a traffic type of ad or it’s going to be a conversions. It’s definitely not engagement. Okay now can people see the engagement ad click on it and then go to your website yeah.

That can happen for sure, but you’re telling Facebook, hey man, that’s not really my objective. If it happens, it happens great, but my objective is to get article views or my objective is to get just brand awareness or reach or engagement, which all kind of cover. What those are exactly in more detail, but if you’re, if you’re, not driving a click to a landing page, where you’re going to be capturing a name and number or if you’re not driving a click to a website where you’re looking to make a sell.

Okay, then agent is something you can run and again. I just truly believe it’s only if you have more budget, because because at the end of the day, I’m willing to bet the majority of you guys that are reading this article right now are looking to do number one or two number one you’re looking to make A sell online number two you’re looking to capture lead, so really engagement wouldn’t be your type of Facebook ad.

Now again, if you have an extra budget, if you have more money to spend engagement, I’m going to tell you why people run engagement, I’m going to tell you the benefits of an engagement ad, but an engagement ad, wouldn’t be something really for you right now. If you’re, if you’re really trying to turn it trying to accomplish step one or two, you know reason one or reason 2. So if you’re, if you’re not doing that, then an engagement ad would be something you can run.

Okay, so an engagement ad. Let’s take a look at, let me, let me see if I can find. Actually I for sure would be able to find. Let me see if I can just go through my newsfeed and let’s see if we can find an engagement ad okay. Now again, as I mentioned, the objective with an engagement ad is to not necessarily get that person to click. Okay, they’re not we’re not looking to get them to a website to buy something; we’re not looking to get them to a landing page, to give up a name and number okay: we’re not giving away anything for free, there’s, no free download, there’s no free training article! There’s no name and email: that’s not the objective, we’re not taking them there! Okay! So with that being said, our whole thing would be to keep them on Facebook, keep them on Facebook and get them to engage in the post aka, the ad okay.

So as you scroll through Facebook, let’s see if we can find an engagement, ad, okay and and – and I could just I can just look at it in and 99 % of the time I can know exactly what type of ad it is just by looking at It so, let’s see if I can find an engagement ad, this could be an engagement ad. Okay, now I’ve seen way way, bigger numbers, but bestseller publishing this a article of Russell Brunson.

Obviously this is not coming from clickfunnels. This is not Russell running this ad. It’s someone else: it’s bestseller publishing now this right here could possibly be an engagement at for sure. I’m 99.9 % sure that this is an engagement ad. So anytime, you see the word sponsored and you’re scrolling through and you see a ton of engagements you’ve seen a ton of people like it. You see a ton of people share it, which is not exactly a lot, but the ad could have just started today for all we know, and that could be a ton of engagement just for today alone, and then they run it for another five days and before You know it, the 15 comments are going to be a hundred and fifty comments and the thirty shares are going to be.

Ninety shares right, so this ad could have just started today for all we know, but what I do know what I’m. What I’m willing to bet is that it’s an engagement ad, because you see the engagement anytime. You see a ton of shares, a ton of comments and a ton of likes. That is an engagement ad. Now, there’s a learn more button, so I can click on it and I can go off of Facebook and I can go to a landing page and there’s my name and number.

But the objective was not that the objective was to keep these people on the platform and get them to comment, get them to share, get them to like okay. Now, what are some reasons why people would do that right if they’re not looking to capture a lead or, if they’re not looking to make a sell, necessarily at the end of the day they are, but not in this particular case, not with this specific ad objective.

It’s an engagement ad, what’s the purpose of it, and why would someone even run it? Why would bestseller publishing run this engagement ad? A couple reasons is because of the social proof when you’re scrolling through and you see different posts and there’s a ton of people liking. It a ton of people sharing it. It gives off social proof that a bunch of people are liking. This post, which is true little, do we know that it’s coming from an ad right, because once once they stop it, that engagement stays and this post could be a post on their business page and it’s no longer running as an ad.

But the social proof remains, so it was worth it to spend the 20 bucks to get a ton of people to share it, a ton of people to like it. So when we turn the ad off, those numbers remain in it, and now our looks like an authority, it looks like it’s been seen by a ton of people which it has and and little do people know that it was an actual ad that made all that Happen so number reason reason number one why this person would run.

It is for the social proof to get the numbers up high and it really build that credibility. Okay, what could another reason? Another reason be. Another reason could be that this person didn’t have a landing page which they probably do. I don’t even want to click on, learn more because I know where this is going. I seen this ad before, but this and there’s a link right there in the actual and the actual coming in the in the copy up here in the text, so that there’s the link, so this learn more, is definitely taking me to this link right here, but Reason number two could have been that they didn’t have a link.

You know a lot of people can run. You can run an engagement ad, someone that doesn’t have a landing page. You don’t have to have a website, you don’t even have to have any URL at all and you can run this engagement ad and just get a bunch of people to comment. That’s reason. Number two, so reason number two a lot of people. I don’t even have a landing page, don’t even have a website, but they want to run Facebook ads and keep everything on.

Facebook they’ll run an engagement ad and just get a ton of people to comment a ton of people to comment now, one one downfall about that is that you obviously have to keep looking at your Facebook all damn day, because if you have ads running – and you Have people commenting it’s your job to make sure that you’re replying it’s your job to be stuck to your phone like frickin flies on, and you have to be commenting and replying to all these comments, because you’re paying for those comments right.

Those aren’t just random comments. Coming because you put up something organically, those are paid engagements, so you want to make sure that you’re, actually replying and staying engaged with the post. That’s the whole purpose of an engagement ad, so you can get up the the you can get the Facebook algorithm working in your favor, because a ton of people are commenting and Facebook keeps showing it to more people.

Okay, that’s number two reason: number three is to get a shitload of people to share it: okay, depending on your budget, if you had 50 bucks like let’s say, for example, we put 50 bucks at this engagement ad this 3. This 30 would most likely end up at 300 within a few days. We’d have hundreds of people share it. That’s a huge huge benefit. Huge benefit. Is that worth the 50 bucks hell yeah to get a bunch of people to comment to keep them on Facebook? Remember we don’t have a landing page, let’s just say we don’t have a website, we’re just running ads and keep it keeping the traffic on Facebook.

It was worth it for all those people to comment, and it was for sure worth it for all those people to share it. They all shared it to all their friends and tens of thousands of people most likely saw this article which which, which was super powerful. So the fourth reason: here’s here’s the fourth reason and that’s kind of all. I got for you. The fourth reason why someone would run an engagement ad is to build custom audiences of the people who are actually engaging in it.

Okay and the only reason why you would do that is to retarget those people in the future. So, for example, I run this engagement ad. I run it for 5 days at $ 10 a day I put $ 50 into it. What I’m going to be able to do now is I’m going to be able to go into Facebook and create a custom audience of everyone who engaged in this post? So all the people who shared it all the people who commented all the people who liked it all the people who clicked on it Facebook is going to allow me to categorize all those people create a custom audience and then therefore, I can retarget that audience in The future with ad number two that’s powerful, so as people start to start to click and comment and share Facebook’s going to collect all that data for you and that’s now considered a warm market.

Now you can go out there and run the next ad or in the next ad, run multiple ads thereafter and retarget. Those people who engaged in your previous ads, that’s powerful. That’s the name of the game, no matter what objective you’re running is retargeting you’re, going to be retargeting people who are engaging you’re going to be retargeting people who are landing on your pages, because you’re pixel in them you’re going to be retargeting.

People who are reading your articles, because Facebook’s tracking, all the article views right so creating custom audiences are what you actually have to do in fact, stay to the end of this article stay to the end of the article and at the end, you’re going to see Me do another article on how to create a custom audience and why you need to be creating custom audiences. All this engagement needs to be in a custom audience that you’re going to be able to retarget with future ads in in the future.

Okay with ads in the future, so stay to the end, you’ll see that article come up, that’s how to create custom audiences with with Facebook. So that’s super super powerful, but mainly those are the top 4 reasons. Men why you would run an engagement ad so so, and you know what let me let me let me let me add, number 5. Here’s number. 5. Here’s number 5. Okay, here’s the top! Here’s a fifth reason: it’s because of the engagement because of the numbers because of the social proof, so let’s say, for example, I have $ 100 to spend on a Facebook on Facebook which ain’t, so you want to step your game up in 2020.

You got to be coming with a little bit more budget than that, but let’s say, for example, just for the numbers sake. Let’s say we have a hundred bucks and, let’s say 50 bucks we’re going to spend on this engagement ad and the whole purpose is to get a shitload of people to comment like and share okay after the $ 50 budget, that ad is turned off. We then go run a second ad, using in the same exact post using the same exact ad, but rather than engage, or I should say post but but rather than running an engagement ad.

Let’s say we run it again for conversions, but we only run it to the people who engaged that’s retargeting, but then also we take it again and we run it under article views now whenever we want to grab this contest. This is what we, what we call an asset whenever we want to run this asset again. Let’s say this is a high converting ad. A lot of people engaged a lot of people, viewed it and it’s a good article and we shut it off now and we want to rerun it again when we rerun it again.

This is number five when, whenever we rerun this this ad again, these numbers stay. So one reason to run a article I mean excuse me to run an engagement is to get all these numbers up and then we shut it off and run it again under, let’s say conversions, and by the time we run it under conversions. All these numbers are super high. That’s the reason. That’s the fifth reason. It’s a social proof, and I don’t know if that would reason number one chime at the rewind this article and read I myself, but it’s a social proof.

Okay, it’s a social proof, whether I said that as number one or not it’s it’s social proof when you have big numbers like that, and people are scrolling through, let’s see if we can find find one, that’s actually even bigger than that. As far as the numbers, let’s see look at this perfect example. Perfect, perfect example. This is a 30-second article man. This is rant from spark a our creators. Look at the engagement 8,000 people liked it.

Four hundred and five comments, 548 shares. That is the definition of an engagement ad okay. Now they ran it under that they ran the engagement at first under engagements right. They ran the ad under engagements. First, let’s say they put a couple hundred bucks to get these big big numbers. This is the very very first time that I’m seeing this ad I’ve never seen this ad. I don’t know who spark a our craters are, but hey Tripp, Tripp out on this look at it.

This way, let’s say, for example, they spent the last month targeting a completely different audience: okay and they ran it under engagement. They got all this engagement and they did it last month. Okay, now we’re in a new month and now they’re running it again, but under let’s say conversions and by the time they run it again. It’s coming to people like me and by the time I’m seen this ad for the very first time.

The numbers are absolutely ridiculous, so I’m looking at this and I’m saying holy, these people must be crushing. It 548 shares 405 comments. Are you kidding me who the hell are these people? They must be doing extraordinary right, that’s the assumption and that’s the perception and that’s what people think and that’s how that that’s social proof, and so it was worth the hundred bucks on the engagement.

They turn it off and then now they’re running it running it again, because it was a great article, so now they’re running it again under conversions over here under conversions, because they’re a whole objective now is to get people to download download, learn more which, when you Click on learn more: you can go to a page, a landing page and enter your name and email or or or yeah to download something.

That’s conversion, that’s akin version. An action is a conversion. An action is a cell or a or a lead capture. Okay, that’s conversion! That’s the conversion objective over here; okay, so if you’re looking to do any of that make a cell online or capture an actual name and number aka elite, it’s conversions! But if again, if you had extra budget, is it worth it to run? Engagement? First, to get a shitload of people to comment like and share and then take the same piece to come over here and run conversions.

Was it worth it hell? Yeah was worth it these people to have these big numbers like that? All that shows man has credibility. All that does is show social proof. It’s it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s! It’s letting people like like me, think and assume that they’re the big swinging. You know what of the industry and they’re killing it. That’s all! I’m thinking big numbers. You know freaking crushing it.

That’s what I’m thinking and so that’s the whole purpose of an engagement man is to is to get people to stay on the platform, crank up the numbers and engage in your post and those are all the different ways they that are reasons why you would do It and in and if anything, in my opinion, the biggest reasons, why is to create the custom, audience and retarget those who engage and that’s exactly what you do with a article view ad.

So when you come in here and you run article views, the whole objective with article views is to not get people to click on it and go to a landing page or to get people to click on it and go buy, buy your product. That’s not article views. The whole objective with article views is to capture an audience is to create a custom audience of all the people who are actually viewing it. So then, therefore, you can go out there ad number 2, ad number, 3, ad number, 4 and retarget.

All the people who readed your article, that’s how you continue to stay top of mind and you continue to get in front of a warm market and that’s how your actual cost would remain super low, because all you’re doing is retargeting an existing warm market of people Who are already reading your stuff or engaging in your post? Ok, so I know that was a ton right there. You guys reread this article, if you and in in in in in and learn from it man, because those right there are all the reasons why an engagement ad is is, is worth it just depending on your budget and in depending on on your overall objective.

Okay, so what I’m going to do here? Man is all run. A quick engagement, ad I’ll put together something super random, real, quick and and just run it run it through. So you guys can know how I set it up and depending on what industry you’re in, if you’re, in housing or, if you’re in employment or, if you’re in credit. Okay, if you’re in insurance mortgage loans, make sure you click on one of these okay.

Because if you don’t, if you don’t check this box and in and in check – and you know, freaking mark the correct one – your ad will not be approved. Okay for sure, so I’m going to go with this one homeowners insurance, I’m going to run it on it. On a on a sample page right here, shot up to my boy, Robert, and we’re going to just set up a quick engagement ad under his his his recent post, and what I do also is I post every ad that I do 9 out of 10 ads That I do, I put it on the page first, okay now this right here is what he put up on the page on the fifth, and this is what he wrote being selfish, isn’t always bad, and what I’m going to do is I’m going to actually add To it, because this is going to be an engagement ad, so I want to see how how it, actually, you know, turns out.

So what I want to do is I want to. I want to simply ask a few questions in here up at the top, so I’m going to put I’m going to add to this being selfish, isn’t always bad? What are your thoughts drop? A comment below okay, so now we’re getting people to comment, we’re getting people to drop a comment. What are your thoughts? We’re asking them a question being selfish? Isn’t always bad? What are your thoughts drop? A comment below I’m going to save that and and and now we’re going to go in as an engagement ad, so whatever your engagement, that is ask a question, because the whole thing is is to get people to comment.

That’s the whole purpose of an engagement ad is to get people to comment, get people to share you. People like it. So let’s ask him: let’s hey what are your thoughts and let’s just get a shitload of people to comment below with their thoughts? Okay, so that this will be fun and we don’t have to put a huge budget towards it. So, let’s go with uhm: let’s go with we’re, going to go with and we’re not even going to go at CBO right now, because it’s going to be a one-time one-off ad.

So I’m not going to even do worry about the the campaign budget. Optimization. Let’s just run through this part here and set it up so custom audiences. We don’t have any custom audiences just yet so we’re going to come down here and we’re going to simply target his local area. People who live in the city of Norman okay actually know what we’re going to go with everyone in his state. Let’s go with everyone in the state Oklahoma.

How do you even spell Oklahoma, dude? Okay? So, let’s go with Oklahoma, we’re going to just target everyone in the actual state people who live in this state, okay and then and then, when you actually go with when you check that box and you go with housing or credit or or anything like that, like I did on the first page, you can no longer chew or change the actual age or the gender okay, so that remains the same and that’s totally fine and we’re not even going to we’re not even going to focus on on any of the detailed targeting we’re Going to leave it very very broad – and this is another another another key key strategy and a Golden Nugget tip running on an engagement ad a lot of times.

People will come in here and put in the actual demographics, the interests and the behaviors right. The detail targeting, but in this case I’m not I’m going to leave it straight bullying, I’m going to I’m going to leave it wide open, I’m going to leave it wide open, because my whole thing is: I want to grab an audience um um. This is a cold. Add I’m going out to a cold market. These are people that don’t know him.

Yet it’s an engagement ad okay. So what we’re going to do at the end of this at the end of this campaign, we’ll put five dollars a day for five days and at the end of the campaign, we’re going to get a bunch of people who engage and what? What I’m going to do is then be able to create a custom audience of everyone who engaged with this post and then and then retarget them in the future. Okay, so is that worth the 25 bucks heck yeah, it’s worth the 25 bucks, so we’re going to leave this part blank.

When I’m going to worry about that now, what we’re going to also do is we’re going to exclude people who, like his page, we don’t need to target those folks who, like the page, I’m going to leave it at automatic placements. That’s fine, post engagement is what we’re going for and then we’re going to go daily budget of $ 5 and we’re going to set a start and end date. So today is the 27th and I’m going to go with I’m going to go with 5 p.

M. We’re going to start it today and we’re going to go till the end of the month. Okay, so we’re going to go we’re going to go twenty seven! Five! Ten fifteen twenty we’ll put twenty dollars towards this ad and run it for the next four days. Okay, so this is how I normally set up my ads. You guys, because I don’t like to even though I do check my ads all damn all day. I mean I’m in the damn ads manager all day and I’m to tell you truth.

I am micromanaging it to a certain extent because I get high off the numbers. I get freaking high off the numbers, I love looking at the damn numbers and and and making sure that the ads performing you know right so, but if I happen to forget about it or if I happen to and and that’s what allows my mind to do, My mind allows me to forget about it, although I come in here and and read the numbers, like a hawk, my mind, is at ease, because I know that my mind.

I know in my mind that I have an end date already set up where I know that I’m not going to go over budget, that’s the biggest thing I don’t want to do. I don’t want to go over budget. I don’t want to forget about an ad that is still turned on and it’s been 70 days later and the damn ad is still turned on and it’s like dude. You don’t want that so so I always make sure that there’s an end date, but I still micromanage the ads and I’m looking at the ads all day and because it’s why I do full-time – and this would I do full-time so I’m always up in here.

But I still set a a start and end date for sure: okay, so I’ll go $ 5 a day run it for the next four days and then what I’m going to do is I’m going to hit continue and now we’re in the third step. So, as I mentioned, I post it on the page first, okay, so it goes on the business page first and then I come in here and run the ad. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to make sure that I have the correct page.

So I’m going to scroll down scroll down, get the right page, there’s the right page and then I’m going to use existing post. So you selected page we’ll just leave that as that and then we’re going to use existing post. And it’s going to be that last one that you just seen being selfish, it being selfish, isn’t always bad! You choose that post right. There you hit continue and now we have it there.

So we don’t have to write anything. We don’t have to upload a article or an image everything it’s already there, because it’s on the page, okay, so down here, and so oh say right here. This post can’t be used for for ads on Instagram, which is fine, okay, so, and then, if I want, I can add a call to action button. So again, even though it’s an engagement ad and people are going to be engaging with it.

Liking comment share. There’s a chance that someone can click, learn more and go to an actual landing page or go to a website right. There’s always that chance so right here, just to kind of back yourself up, you can always put some type of call to action. Button get quote: learn more, send message shop now, I’ll just put send message for now, since we’re not taking them off of Facebook, we’re going to leave them on Facebook and if they want, they can for sure always send a message, but we just want it.

We want it, we want to see the numbers we want to just kind of get some engagement going and again. The whole purpose of this is so I can create an audience, create a custom audience of people who engage in it and then I can retarget them in the future. Okay, so um preview not available unable to display a preview. Okay, it’s fine! It will refresh once and then right here I can create new or I can use existing.

So this is on just on the messaging which we don’t have an existing. So we’re going to just leave that, as is and then verify your changes, you hit confirm and you’re done you guys that is it! That’s how you set up an engagement ad and so hopefully that kind of answered some questions to Miriam. What you want to do is, if you have, if you know your interest, and you know your target audience then for sure put that in the detail targeting, but what a lot of times when it comes to the engagement, it’s good to leave it wide open as Well, because, at the end of it all I’m going to be doing is grabbing all the people who engaged with it as long as it’s within my city are within my state and or within my country on where I’m doing business like, I don’t want to send An ad worldwide and and and and and create a custom audience of all the people that who engage with it, because when I go and try to sell something to them in the future, they’re, not even my audience, I don’t want to do it that way.

So when you’re doing an engagement ad always make sure it’s within the same location within the locations that you’re able to do business. Okay, in this case the guys doing business in Oklahoma. So I’m not going to run this ad all across the country or in multiple countries, because if I get all that engagement and create a custom audience around, all those people who engaged when we go run. Facebook ad number two three and four we’re going to have an audience of a bunch of people that are out of our out of our demographics and that’s not what we want.

So in this case, we’re going straight for his state and we’re going to just find everyone who engages with the post and then retarget to retarget them in the future, with our custom audience and with feature Facebook and Instagram advertising. Okay. So hopefully that made sense. You guys shout to Miriam. Thank you so much for dropping a comment and asking a question. If you guys are new to the blog man, I’m dropping weekly content on social media, marketing, affiliate marketing and making money online.

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2019/2020 Deluxe Monthly Planner | Erin Condren

That is coming out very very soon. It is done tada, it’s a deluxe monthly planner. This will be launching on the site on June 4th, and here are just some details that are different about this year. So let me actually get you in the frame a little bit butter and then let me like its talk a little bit alright.

So the base price for a non metallic cover, which this one is a non metallic cover, is increasing. They used to be thirty eight dollars and then now they’re going to be forty dollars and then also the base price for metallic covers are from forty three they’re going from forty three dollars and then now there are $ 45 for a metallic cover. If you want the eight and a half by eleven, this is the standard 7 by 9 size, which I prefer, but that’s a $ 5 increase just to like.

Let you know if you want that the eight and a half by eleven, your page count is actually increasing this year from 194 pages, with 40 notes pages to 230 pages. Still with the 40 pages of notes in the back, you can also choose your own start month between july 2019, ending in december at 2020. So if you want it to start like in September, you can you know, there’s lots of variety. Mine starts in January 2020.

That’s just kind of how my brain works, so I am, you know, happy that that is how it starts online, and this is only going to be offered in a 12 month version and there is also an option to add dot, grid and productivity pages in the Back so that is kind of the gist of this. I just wanted to show you this. I know some of you are like Emily. This is like a very different cover for you. This is a PR cover so, like I didn’t get to choose my cover or my guts or anything so, but it’s still a lovely and lovely cover, but you can obviously you know, take it out and then put your own cover on it, which is something I Really love about this planner.

If you guys have readed my blog before I will leave em in the card. I think it’s up here. My money talk playlist, because I typically use this planner for all of my budgets. I will stick that up there, but yeah. I’m just kinda, I just want to like thumb through this with you guys. You can see the difference and I have the colorful kaleidoscope pattern. They are going to be having this in the neutral kaleidoscope as well so very similar to the life planners.

So you have your kind of year at a glance here, which I absolutely love this page, it’s always so nice and then you get these twelve boxes and if you guys haven’t seen my walkthrough of the coil bound Erin Condren planner, it’s very not similar to this. But it’s similar ish to this I’ll, put that up in a card for you guys as well, and then we have January 2020. That starts – and I’m loving this. This is one of the pages that I absolutely love for the life planner that just came out and they included it in the monthly deluxe and I’m really glad that they did because people that just use the monthly deluxe I feel like can really utilize this.

It’s just like blank right here, so you do have like the birthday monthly goals and then like two areas that don’t have anything on them. This would clearly be easy enough to. You know, put it another sticker over it. If you don’t want to track birthdays or monthly goals, and then you get into the month with the sidebar and then you also have the next month at a glance right over here, which is awesome and then just like previous year, you got one two three four Notes pages and this one kind of goes at this one, because I’m just looking at like you know, pink and pink so yeah, that’s the biggest difference.

I want to walk through side by side, but let’s look at the rest of this first, because I have my other. This is my 2019 planner over here. So I want to walk through it together, but that’s basically what the month looks like so yeah so, like I said, mine goes through December, so I wanted to get at the end of December and then we have 2021 at a glance which is great, especially if You use this for budgeting and you know certain things are coming up like you know, maybe some vacation or something like that, and then we’ve got a bunch of notes, page ages, which mine just has the additional sorry about the glare you guys.

The dog is like in the curtains um, so I have the additional notes pages of which I love. These are so nice and very, very useful, very, very useful and then in the back. I have two pages of little event stickers here. So those are my cute little event stickers and then um, sorry I’ll get out of the curtains. I’m sorry, you guys the way you’ll get out of the curtains. Okay, we’re better! Now! Sorry, if you guys didn’t see before anyway, these these are the event stickers.

Oh goodness, Doyle’s living his best life, clearly um, alright and then at the very end. You have your pocket and then this has the metallic on the cover and then on the cover when we’re trying to say on the flap and then this one also has the big pocket flap as well. In my pr1, I got this already attached. I don’t believe that this comes with the planner, but it’s just a really acute idea and I really like how the dual tip marker goes with the cover it’s kind of cute right.

Alright, so I want to walk through month by month or like page by page. Basically and show you what the biggest differences are this year between this one and then my old one, so let’s look through it together. Actually here, let’s do it like this no hold on look well, nope we’re going the wrong way, Emily we’re going the wrong way. Okay, well, it’s not big enough. Okay! Well, let’s just flip through things and then when things are kind of changing, then I’ll show it together.

So we just got like quote pages totally. Fine, we’ve got our tabbed page. This is all the same, just a different print and then again same, but just a little bit different, and then we’ve got the next page which same all right. So we start in to January, and then this is very different. Like I said, you know, this is just an extra page and then we have this page, which I think is going to be really great for a lot of people to utilize versus just going straight into the month.

And then, if we go to the next page here, the monthly is just it’s a little bit different, but it’s just because of the design. Then it’s a little bit different, but still the same idea and loving this in the corner. They also have it here. We go to this page which no you guys are seeing my budget, I mean so very similar to the next year and then let me just count the pages real quick. So I have one two three, four, okay, one, two, three, four okay, so it has the same amount of lined note pages between every single month.

You just get two extra pages in the beginning of the month, which is awesome so yeah. I mean it’s just a good way to track things I feel like and then in the back for notes pages feel like okay, so there were two sticker sheets in the back as well, and then this and all these dinky things – I don’t know if you guys – Can see this remember these dinky things drives me nuts, because you can’t really put anything in there.

I feel like everything just like falls out but yeah. I use mine for budgeting. As I have shown, i’ve actually torn a couple of pieces out of here too, and i’ve used them. They do have the perforated edge on this one. Let me see if they have it on these ones, yeah they have a little perforated edge on there. So I just don’t feel bad, especially when there’s like what is it 40 sheets back there? I don’t really feel bad when there’s so many sheets.

In the back like in my life planner, I feel like. Oh, I don’t want to take a sheet out of a life planner because there’s only like a couple of them, but in here you know, I don’t feel bad tearing out a sheet. If I’m you know doodling or just brain dumping or something under strap it out. So yeah that is kind of it. I want to know what you guys use your Erin, Condren monthly, deluxe planner for or maybe what you would use it for if you’ve never had one before like.

I said I use mine strictly for budgeting, but I know that there’s a lot of different ways that you can use it. I know people that actually use this as their just main planner and they don’t do weeklies, because it’s just you know too much detail for them and they just like the boxes and that’s just easier for them, which I totally understand. I’m also heard of people using this for like activity tracking, if you know like weight, loss or just trying to stay active or health things if you’ve got like health issues, or things like that that you want to track like daily.

Something for you know your physician or something so yeah I mean. I think this is just like a great at-a-glance planner and I love the coil. Oh before we go. Let’s look at the coil sizes because I know that’s always a question here know they’re the same: they are the same. I know it looks a little bit funny on camera, but they are the same. It’s funny because this this um thicker cover and back cover kind of makes it look funny, but yeah they’re the same same sizes last year, alright.

Well, that is going to be it for all of the new information for the deluxe monthly planner for 2019 to the 2020. If you all have any questions feel free to put them in the comments down below and remember these go on their website on June 4th. There are links below, for you guys so feel free to check that out and if you liked the article make sure to give it a thumbs up feel free to subscribe, and I will see y’all in the next article bye guys well folks, it’s time to kick It old school


 

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Top Google Made Tools Helping SEO Efforts

So you know a lot of a marketer is a lot of a business owners. Always try to want to find the best tools. What can help me paid one expensive, one, cheap ones free once all that stuff. So what I want to say is the tools are great, but there are so many tools available now that a don’t cost money that you should use them and you have plenty of fun – would work with it.

So I’m going to go one by one. All of these tabs have been open with all of these google-owned tools and that can help you with SEO and i’ll explain, kind of a tip or two about each one. So the first one, obviously we’re going to start with google com. So any time you want to do research, you want to find it your complete, your competitors are doing and you want to search specifics, use google, so very simple, not not something! You know a secret or anything.

Everybody knows this, but what you can actually do – and you really need to get good at this – is to know how to search so, let’s say i’m selling soccer jerseys. Okay. So if I’m doing research one, obviously I can search for all of my competitors, see what they’re doing to I can use things like a you know, site colon or I can use all these different search operators to refine it look for it. I can use things like the refining by blog.

Maybe I want to find all of the blogs that that a deal with a softer right, so I can then reach out to them. I can create content for them. I can use. I can always subscribe to search within the discussions or news or stuff like that, so google com number one most powerful tool for any kind of an marketing research that you want to do pretty obvious now. The second thing, which is the second tab, is basically to use a part of what’s in google com, which is the three auto-suggest, so a what happens when you know, when you type in something it’ll, try to give you so say.

If I type in salford soccer space, it will try to give me what are the next most popular searches that people actually type in, so that can give you content ideas, more ideas of what’s going on and really give me a lot of insights so use the Autosuggest, it’s very very helpful. Ok, so we did that so google com auto-suggest and we talked about ok, so the next one is AdWords. So right now I didn’t sign in, but I just wanted to give you a tip about Adwords.

So if you’re doing SEO you’re doing organic marketing, AdWords is actually, in many cases a very good, complementary tool. Uh, because it’s right now a Google Analytics doesn’t provide all of the keyword data for for organic results. You know they have that not provided getting to right. Now about eighty percent or so and soon getting to a hundred, you don’t really have much information. So before you do a SEO efforts which you obviously know takes a lot of time takes months years and on you want to try too many cases pay some money.

Get actual keyword, data know what converts better, don’t don’t spend two years trying to rank for a keyword and the conversion rate is not good. Is so spend some money and gather some data for a lot of data. Okay, so that’s that’s. Adwords equate fit okay, so AdWords we get now. The next thing a part of AdWords is the actual keyword tool right. So um we used to be the adword keywords tool. Now it’s the keyword planner.

Obviously you can cap into this tool and give gain information about who searched it. Sorry, what are people searching for? What are the numbers, and then you can search by landing pages, maybe you’re clear competitors and just get gather additional information, which is keyword, tools, very helpful, of course, forever SEO efforts. Okay, next thing is a Google Alerts. Google Alerts very simply put you, can set queries to check every now and then, let’s say every day, you can take right in your competitors website and see what engines are talking about them.

You can have a alerts for specific types, may be only a blog posts about something that you’re looking for so using this alert system. To actually give you insight and help you check automatically this information very, very useful. I love doing it for competitors to see what they’re up to I love doing it for our brand name and a lot more other hands. Okay, so great. So the next thing is obviously Google Analytics, so I’m not going to go into it, but Google Analytics has tons and tons of information.

What are your users doing? What are they not like about the efforts? What are the key words? What are the top landing pages on and on and on and on so very helpful for a lot of stuff? Ok, the next thing is using Google’s blogger blogspot have a blog, yet content link for yourself get more users, write more content, very, very obvious. Ok, the next one is the Google PageSpeed or Google developers in general.

So it gives you a lot of insight, but I like to use pagespeed because actually i’m very obsessed with half with that’s the page load a loading time and I just love working on that and making our clients website as fast as possible. There’s been many many researches research that has showed that the having slower speeds on your website actually in make your visitors lead. So you just want to have a nice design store.

We want to have a nice quick store, so evaluate it analyze your store figure out. What the problems are, make it faster and faster and faster. Also, you can use things like a Google’s it and mod PageSpeed, which I helped your server run faster. If, in that, you know some of our clients who use it, but some of the time it’s a little over memory usage on our servers, but it’s a good idea. There’s a lot of tools.

There’s a lot of caching a lot of all these tools that you can actually read about in the Google developers. Next thing, obviously, is Google Calendar setting up just updates setting up a regular content calendar? You know once a week you write for a blog. It twice a week you research about this three times a week. You do this and that very, very useful. Ok, next one Google Drive a great for collaboration with Excel the word: hey all that stuff between teams.

You know, so you have everything online. You don’t always have to have what one of the same computer is great for creating public documents that you can actually gain leverage from them for SEO. Just perfect for organizations perfect for link if we reach out organization having all of your contacts in one place: lovely very, very nice, app yeah. The next one, which I actually forgot to put, which is very helpful, which we do is actually a gmail or google apps right.

So we basically have you know everything in one place: a Google Apps it your your gmail, easily searchable. You can use templates for your emails if you have reach out to maybe, and they you just have everything in one place. I really like Google Apps to recommend it strongly. Okay, next thing is google plus so again a you know, google plus tied into search algorithm a now. You have personalized search, so it’s great for your friend sister to +1 things to search to connect in the communities on and on and on, and this is just a picture.

I took it in one of the moles a few days back and I just thought there was no assistance. So again you know Google Plus very recommended great tool. Next one is google translate especially perfect, especially good, for you know, learning about opportunities from other languages. Maybe you’re looking to translate your website and you want to figure out more opportunities, maybe reach out and just expand.

So using google translate in a global. You know more global internet and more global world is very important. Next one obviously Webmaster Tools, a lot of insight and you can figure out about your ear. Crawl errors may be things you have to redirect real ones from 404 pages, a lot of stuff, some Webmaster Tools, you know tons of stuff. You can actually improve them. Do next, one is the head platform which we’re using right now is creating articles creating content SEO SEO marketing getting out there is about a big part is about creating content, sharing your information, helping solve problems, creating articles like what I’m doing right now and later on.

Also interacting with your community, so the way I do it and I would love to do it and to continue is now for this article. For example, if you have any questions about any of the google tools and how they can help with your SEO, our marketing efforts I’ll be happy to help, and I want to help you guys in the comments. So ask me any questions and i’ll be happy that they give you detailed answers about any questions you have and just more information, and I want to interact with you guys.

I want to create more content and I love your questions and it is done, and the last thing which I like to do is actually google web history. So if you go, then your settings, you can, you can go into web history if it’s enabled and if not, you should enable it and the reason I like it is I like to create content right. So what I like to do is anytime. I search for some kind of problem with in my industry or my business or my client business.

I search for so let’s say, for example, we’re set it and selling again soccer jerseys. So now, if I’m a business owner, one of my workers is actually searching for something in order to solve a problem. I want to actually go back to that history. Remember what problems I have and then obviously remember what the answer was and I want to share it. I want to share it with my my potential customers, with my customers, with my workers and and using this kind of a what you search for this theory of, if I search for it, probably because the internet is so big or so many people online.

Probably there’s many more people searching for it. So if you can go back to what you searched for figure, it out right content create articles, create images, infographics, animated, gifs, blah blah blah all that stuff. You can actually use that that history in order to kind of create content I that stuff, that’s basically it so again, if you have any questions about this, about any tools to help in either within google or otherwise that help with SEO help with marketing I’ll really Be happy to help with you guys be happy to assist.

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How to Build a Fanbase From Scratch | Real Artist With Real Results

Let’s say they want to get something done. They want to grow this. They want to be a huge artist, a musician or whatever, but they don’t do anything they don’t put in the work. They might have done one piece, but you don’t put in the work. So if you want to grow something greater than yourself, you have to be consistent.

What’s up guys, it’s your boy with chingu, which means old friend in Korean. Your boy makes music and art, and I am so happy to be here with you today. We’re going to talk about how to build a fan base from scratch from not a baby, even if you got a couple fans like your mom, your dad, your brother, this is a article. That’s going to really fine-tune your ideas and get you to the next level. So, let’s get right into it, how do you get your first loyal fans of your music, your art, etc? Okay, I get this.

I get asked us a lot, not just musicians, rappers producers, but also painters too graphic designers, people that want to start their own merch line like what do you wear? Do you start you feel me and that’s where I was at almost two years ago. That’s when I first started driving my own music in my own, just trying to grow a brand. I don’t know what to do. A lot of aspiring artists are asking me, you know: how do you do this? How do you do that? What is the most important in terms of growing a brand in terms of sharing your arts of the world? How to get new fans, not just numbers, but like real people? That rock with your stuff, appreciate your art by your by your merch, by by whatever I’m going to be starting an artist coalition very soon, but in the meantime, if you guys want to know, keep up to date with that click, the link.

In my description, it’s the Facebook you got a like and follow click, send message and you’re going to go through a cool little survey made to get you into my private group from there. We can genuinely grow with your artistry with what you want to learn and not just the quick little repost on soundcloud Jam. That’s just faking doesn’t do anything but a genuine way to grow your artistry, your community, your fanbase, all right, so you got no resources.

No connections, no money: what do you do? You got? Ta, use your mind dummy now. I’m playing you have to use time. Time is a valuable asset. Time is more important than money in the long run. Okay, what’s super important step, one is to join a community. Join a community of like-minded people, people that you know are giving you value rockin with what you have, because they got artists in there doing different things like yourself, but guess what not the first.

The first thing you do is not say: hey yo. My name is this: here, my soundcloud link drop a like what Road. Okay do not spam do not spam. What you have to do first, is give value. What you have to do first, is be family in this community, especially in this time of quarantine on our computers on our phones, much more than we were before, because this is like our main source of communication with our friends and family so use this time.

Accordingly, you can either use this time to sulk. You know just drown in your couch or you can use this time to thrive. I don’t know your choice, but here are some reddit communities that I personally recommend our slash. Hip hop hits you’re going to find a lot of hip hop culture, music news in there, but you can also put your own music, but that is recommended after you post about it’s got to be 90 %, other content other cultivating things giving value again.

You have to give things that you learned that you felt like was though, and then you can put in your your piece, your own thing that you make, but it’s all about giving value being genuine in that family that community our /. Listen to this really, though, find a lot of low-key aspiring artists, like you boy, but you know Tyler posted one of his articles there and it blew up. You know and there’s a certain way to do it.

Certain thing that you need to look out for when you are posting, but we’ll make another more in-depth article about that on reddit posting. But those are some communities that I urge you that I encourage you to join right now. Our slash, EDM production same deal, learning how to produce EDM our / trap production. How to produce trap those things that you’ll see Tyler’s tutorials on different things on how to produce trap, produce music or whatever so get into those communities become a family give value before you even think of posting your own thing, but actually learn from these people.

You’ll probably meet a lot of like-minded people and you’ll just make a bunch of new friends. So there’s so many pluses, alright. So follow artists. You love style brand people that you would love to tour with okay, so those people that you have in your minds who you would want to tour with who you absolutely love and admire and respect, follow those people on social media. And now it’s not just about your learning so much from them, you’re learning their style and their values and like what you can implement, but support them in the way that you would want to be supported.

So what does that mean like commenting engaging on their posts? Sharing their music sharing their art and commenting genuine things, not just fire emoji, but like really getting in there and be like yo. I really rock with this. Thank you for this genuine content. Whatever that’s really going to put in perspective as you as the fan and then connecting with your fans as the artists, because they’re doing that with you got to put out what you want and return it baby, alright, so established value, do not spam! No one wants to, would you go to someone you just meet and say you know, hey support my cause.

Fam, you got to do it, you got to do it, you got to do it. That’s not real. It’s not genuine, like club rush. Okay, if you’ve been to college, there’s a bunch of tables a lot of people promoting their clubs, you will be handed seventeen flyers talking about get credits of this talking about you’ll get friends with that, and here’s a water bottle. That’s going to be useless in a couple weeks. You know they try to do all these things to get you in here, but then you see a small little table with, like you know not too many things, just a clipboard and and like a picture of like there are five groups and the member and yeah Five members in the group – and they tell you the facts, to tell you honestly who we are, what we do and what we stand for and they say no, you won’t get any credits.

No, you won’t get no fancy. What about all, but we do care about. You love to connect to do put your you know, down and you’re, going to feel mad connector you’re going to feel mad loved because this this person, this group, was genuine with you and not spamming, a link and later along the way. Maybe he makes some dope music and then sends you like, and you actually like one of us to it anyways step two.

This is a really important key bro. This is so important, but people don’t care, be consistent, be consistent on your niche. Okay. What I personally do right is, I tried new things. I didn’t know what was going to work, but I tried and I tried and I tried and now I found fine-tuned it to a place where, like I know, this is going to work, and I know this is not going to work, but I’m still going to Try new things, I’m always going to try new things.

That’s what’s up so like be consistent and it sounds so general was also drawn out. But really, let me tell you specifically: alright, I posted I posted every single day on Instagram when I first started out with my first song. I posted a song every week in the very beginning and I’m picking that up again, but I did that in the beginning. So hard and consistently every single day, I’m posting I’m posting in communities, I’m talking to new people.

New fans are being are being grown from my garden of creativity. You know it didn’t start with me having thousands of followers. It started with me having like 50 followers. You I mean pressing just continually growing just trying new things, there’s a lot of people. Let’s say they want to get something done. They want to grow this. They want to be a huge artist, a musician or whatever, but they don’t do anything they don’t put in the work.

They might have done one piece, but you don’t put in the work. So if you want to grow something greater than yourself, you have to be consistent me and Tyler. My bandmate, my artist friend producer. He and I have decided to post a article every single day to YouTube. That’s not something that I’m telling you you should do, but it’s such a incredible feeling accomplishing something that you set out to do something of consistency and it sounds super sick.

When I’m just like yeah, we post a article every day, that’s a flexo. You know I mean but be consistent. That’s what makes that’s what’s going to make your brand stand out. That’s how you’re going to own your niche and that’s how you’re never going to be forgotten by your fans. Whoo number three write down your goals. Speak it into existence manifests what you are saying, and this is no hippity-hop jumbo Slipslop.

This is real value. Man focus on your overarching goal. Okay, write it down. Earl Nightingale type beat I’m going to put that link down in the description because I believe in it. So strongly, but your mind is so powerful. You have to write down your goals. Your overall can go for the long term, but then you know by doing that, you’re going to figure out what you’re going to do through the day. What are you going to accomplish that day, so you can get to that goal? You’re going to be so focused you’re not going to be worried about how you’re going to get there.

You just know that you’re going to get there and so like if your overarching goal is to tour the world nationally in a couple years, then today you may release two pieces of content post on three different social medias. You may connect with 10 new fans you’re going to do things differently, so I urge you to write down your goals journal. I urge you to journal. You know, I encourage you to get you a cute little journal like this one from a Korean grocery store.

It don’t matter, does any Journal, but but just writing, and even if you don’t do it every day, you’re going to have it in your mind that you wrote this goal, this thing of importance that you want to grow your value so much so, even when you’re Feeling down, are you feeling like you’re, not worth anything or you feel you know sad or like not motivated you’re, going to be driven to do what you set up and do? Because you have this goal and you’re visualizing it so important.

Man will dive into that. More, but these are some important tips on how to grow a fan base from zero from scratch and I’ll go more in depth with these articles, if you guys liked, it definitely drop a comment with what you would like to see. More of and I’ll definitely make more articles of that nature, but in-depth tutorials. My personal blueprint Tyler, is producing. We just want to grow as artists, and we want to give you about you because it gives us value so yeah man follow me on my social subscribe, because at the end of the day me and my brother Tyler, we were posting a article every single day On YouTube so turn on all notification, though, and you will be updated with that, you will gain value as an artist you’ll build dedicated fans.

You see a lot of funny content, you’ll you’ll, listen to the dope, unique music, so yeah. This is a valuable blog for you and for us, so thank you so much for growing and learning more about how to grow your artistry and taking it seriously and growing so much that yeah dude. I had no idea, I would be at this place two years ago when I started so it’s just a blessing man, so I hope you have a wonderful day implement these tips to your artistry, your brand, whatever you are doing – and I pray that you are creative And you are refreshed during this quarantine time and you thrive, so yeah man there’s been old chingu.

Thank you for reading. I hope you have a wonderful day see you tomorrow. Peace was that was that a secretary Bruce


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NoSQL Data Modelling for Scalable eCommerce

I am the pol III buddy and I am platform architect for stables. Step is calm and this session. As part of this session, I am going to share my learnings my experience. What we did at sleepers and the general application of new circle technologies for our scalable ecommerce platform. So if you are here from last two days, you heard a lot about all these different vendors and companies who actually write either write the products, no sequel, databases or they provide the services right.

But this session is from the different angle: it’s from our user. If you are part of a like, if you are developer Architect manager executive at any IT company – and you are looking at no support hearing a lot about it, how do you start? I mean you have scalability issue you? You are not that happy with other things, but how do you really start and make a change in your organization, so this is more from the user point of view, and how do you apply? How do you change your mindset when you start working about working with? No mobile technologies or big data and specifically about the scenarios where it can be helpful.

I mean it comes all each and every problem that is there in IT, but it can be applied to specific areas and it is, it is really helpful there. So I am going to share that a few years back when I started to hear a lot about Big Data in no sequel, MongoDB, Cassandra, everything I always thought that it’s more for search engines and social networks and is good for like that. I think I was working with Pearson and learning an education domain.

I thought the HUDs great yeah very good, like for PhD students and for such search engines and social network, but, as I was introduced more and I started using it like in one day like we literally decided to go with it after using it. For a few years, I realized that it can solve problems in every any domain. Actually, so I I personally use it in Aulani contacts and educational websites, identity and authorization and any go for sure.

So, and this way I thought I should share how how share with everyone that this can help us all problem in many other areas and just to give some background on steeples, I mean how many of you know staples. I hope you know how many of you buy some staples or check out on staples and go online and buy it so for staples forget about retail. Just looking at tip is calm. It’s the second largest website in terms of revenue.

So, of course, scalability is the biggest challenge or one of the key, a stability and scalability, especially when the holiday season will come cyber monday Thanksgiving I mean that is, that is the focus, a scalability and stability. So I just start with some of the context around ecommerce and if you buy online I mean you know what he converses. So I think it’s not anything domain but just from the data modeling point of view, I always think of e-commerce as three key entity, and you can disagree with me, but I mean I always see it revolving around user product and order.

So for user. Why user is important because they are going to pay for if they are going to buy it? You are going to get money from that and you run a lot of angle. It takes a lot of logic off of user and what they buy. So we divide the user in all these different segmentation. Oh this is the user. This is a set of user oppai electronics, this these are the user, will generally go for all the printer related stuff and we target the different promotions and couponing and ads.

So, that’s why this user – and there is lot of things I mean I just try to get through the main entities, but there are lot of other entities that goes with the user through that again for the use. As I said, we do lot of things with user and I I mean there are many users or the client of the website. I mean we need scalability for this part of the system. Now I go to the products the product is all those skewers cue said that we sell in e-commerce website and it is part of category and catalog.

Ideally I’d any product should not be the need that much of scalability, because there is a fixed set of SKU or SKU, said that you are Celine. But with this whole change with marketplace a concept, we are allowing all this other vendors to come to our website and sell this job, and that’s why there are huge number of skew excuses on website and that’s why, even through our cases, it is an entity that Needs scalability for e-commerce.

If I go to the third one is order and you can tie it to the shopping cart, because we do not think the shopping. Cart, shopping, cart as well, but the order has is still is the final final key. When you get the money – and you do the checkout and it has all the integrations with the banking system – will pull through min system and inventory check and grism online in pickups. All other things are tied to the program order, so that that is the last push that needed to finish.

The transaction and order is the place where you really need the transactions or will visit are in in detail how it works out with no sequence. So this is the very basic data model for e-commerce, if okay, so if you in some of the slides, I’m not just trying to capture the key aspect of the no sequel adoption like if you are coming from simple background, many of us – I am, I am From I’m coming from signal background, I studied normalization to that during my engineering and then used it for five seven years, and I thought I must export it like doing the normalization I mean I can work with business and oils for fewers and have a perfect data Model using normalization and one day might turn upside down and there is no normalization.

I don’t think from other way entirely. So in this way, I think when you are as user as an architect as a developer, it’s going to add up no sequel from coming from simple background. This is the key you have to just forget about having this normalization and start thinking or like you have to try to merge all your data and try to see like very few number of tables or very few number of core entities so just take the example Of user right, if you do not normalization like relational database, you will create one table user input.

First name last name other attributes there. When you come to address, you will Co address user can have multiple address, so I should put it in a separate table and have some references here for user segment. Again, it’s a separate table. No! No! No! It should not be your. The data replication so will put it in separate table and whenever we want to get the information across entities will try to do joins and then get the data.

That is the usual way right now forget about it, go to the new sequel and you have to start with this flat entity. So you should. You have user. Your first name last name address when you go to address, addresses the nest identity of the user entity. So you don’t create a separate structure for that separate document for that, but you embed that and you call it nested entity here and put it third.

The same way, all the segmentation user so 500 days thought everything you try to put it here. I mean, I should not say everything. Otherwise you will have just one document in Florida, inheritable or entire schema. That’s not the way and we’ll go to the next one. There so when we started doing it, we argued a lot it should we really put user as the nest identity of segments or we should we put segment as the nest identity of user and night refer.

I try to find some guidelines there. How do we decide part case right? I mean I can tell it an architect, oh for this scenario, if this makes sense, but why and how do you repeat that effort for development, so I think many others are also calling. The same thing is: question: oriented scheme are design right. You work with your analyst. You work with. This is people you find all the action that end user will take on your website and then you try to identify inputs and outputs.

So, ideally, you are trying to identify the queries that will run on your system. The key here is that all the parameters of the query should be part of one document or one table or whatever. You call in no simple terms right if you are doing column column oriented. It should be part of that one structure, whether how to divide how to decide mr. Dent so just two examples, and maybe that can give you some answer.

So if you are trying to figure out most of the time, you are trying to figure out what other products viewed the most in last week, then you start with the product and the viewed by users are are nested entity as viewed by so that you can. You can run the query efficiently or if you are interested in what are all the products viewed by the particular user in last week, you are trying to target the user.

Then you, you can start with the user input view product, as the view now column there. So but but the key you can you can do mistakes here I mean as that’s fine, but the part that is important is that all the all the input and output parameter of the query should be part of the one structure, and that is the that is The key so so sometime as a user like as user of technology, you really care too much like how Java does the GP JVM how they put the variables in heap and all that say, like you really sometimes don’t really care.

How does all this databases put share the data in this different partitions and, like you know, limited, you want to know limited amount of knowledge so that you can do your work right. You don’t want to know every each and everything about that technology that you are trying to use, but there are few things you would really have to understand about know, sequel before you start using it I mean you don’t have to you know each and everything, but There are two or three key concepts and you design your system using no sequel and eventual consistency is one of them.

I mean if you are attending all the session. I mean you must be exploited, eventual consistency, but we we have used relational database for so long that we take this essayed properties or transaction management is like this word right. We think. Oh, it’s always there, but it’s not always there when you start with no sequel. So you have to understand what you for no sequel technology technology that you choose.

You have to understand whether it have eventual consistency like weak consistency or strong, consistent like how does it work out and you design your accordingly. Just to give you a very very basic example of eventual consistency, what it is – and this is a little bit of non Commerce example – that if you have an account in bank with $ 100 and you open two browser and fire the event at the same time, It try to deduct $ 60.

If the bank website is using relational database, it can throw error for one of the transaction, because it’s real-time consistency, yeah, immediate consistency. You can get error in one of your session that you don’t have enough amount and things like that. But on the other side, if you go to ATM right, if you, if you some way, you try to detect the $ 60 or $ 70 from two different ATM at the huddle, you can get the money, but eventually you will get some message alert and your Account will have minus balance because ATM is is a different transaction context, so it can’t hurry early, have global transaction across website and ATM.

So I mean in at the head after some time after delay or few millisecond or second it will. It will match up, but it won’t be the real-time consistency in e-commerce, where it’s important, like inventory, check right. If there is only last printer left – and there are two user who are trying to buy the same print or one of one of the user should get an error, but it might not happen it that way, interval time if you are using those equal.

So you had you design your system that way so that you don’t really deduct your money before. You know that there is a. There is a printer result and I can discuss that part in detail available at the last, but I think we stuck a little bit when we try to design some of this. This type of scenario that really need transaction management using no support. Okay. So again I said: sometimes you really don’t want to know where your data is stored right, but one key concept that you should know about.

No sequel, is that or you don’t all of your data or all of your tables are not in one once upward. It is actually divided its partition and discharged, and it is on this different physical server. It makes the life of your IT department, like infrastructure, very easy, because you don’t need one beefy server right I mean you can have like few communities our world and you are you’re good to go. So, if it’s good in that way, but just on the old it just on the logic logic side, you have to understand that your data is divided here and that’s why.

That is the reason why you can’t lose the join in business right, because if the part of your table or part of your documents are divided everywhere, so ideally, you can’t really do the joint very effectively. Mostly, you are putting an application layer, but you still have admin and others who are dealing with this configuration and this logic. So that is one more key aspect, often so, just just really click on design guidelines.

You have to think about aggregation industry entities over join. You whenever you say your data is not normalized. You have to be okay with some kind of data application, because normalization is good at that it will avoid the data duplication. But when you are saying that it’s denormalized there can be some data duplication in your system. You don’t understand eventual consistency. Actually you have to constant the cap theorem, you have to understand.

You can’t get everything you will either get any two out of consistency, availability and partition, tolerance. So most of the knows, equal our technologies, like consistency, go and focus on our ability in partition tolerance. So, whatever technology that you choose, you should understand. What is the trade-off that you are making out of this three and then charting in linear scaling I mean charting.

Is the is the mechanism, but what you get is linear scaling, which is, which is the key benefit? If I will go up, how do you really build the ecommerce data model right? You decided, you want to start in the noisy coil and you did some presentation and VP or director. Everyone is who yeah? Let’s, let’s do it? How do you really start doing it, and I think there are many other steps in between that, but I think if I mean this is a little bit from the whole mindset.

But still, if you follow this, you will get the initial data model for your non-sequel system. So, first of all, you have to identify the operations the operation third end user will perform on your website. You identify all the entities that is referred by that operation and then you identify the attributes of the entity in context of the sub operation. And then you identify the relationship between these entities and then you repeat this for all scenarios and combine everything at the end.

So the so the example here very very basic operations for e-commerce, fine product by category or add product to the card so find a product by category. It will refer to protocol category or add product in the cart, villopoto, shopping, cart, and what that should is that is theater so for product is name, was chew: items in stock, price category, etc. Four categories, ID name or less product – god say here now: what is the key? As I told you, you have to think about all the parameters needed for each operation and we should be part of the same structure, so you say fine product by category.

So you need also, although in putting up all the attributes of the product and category in context of that operation, part of the same document and that’s how you can match your data model, whether it will work at the end or not. So you can see here for a product will excuse me price size, whatever, whatever is the key indicator product, but it has categories birth so that you can actually run the query and find product from the category or you can the categories of that product and the Card so I’d put up to the cards.

The card will have all these hardened tributes here, but at the same time it will a product that is added to the card. What is a total of it? What is the user that is owning the card things I done now same here for the user, you have all the, but at the same time you have segments or products that you bought card 30. Have things like that and in again I told you right. We would you had a match, we would look at each operation or each query and see whether you can find all the answer of that query from any one of your documents, and this is more documented or yes to pick a table.

So so, if you we are running lot more and heretics and not more query on quite got just the card. So every time, if we go through the user it will, it will add some delay to that. So and then here for the card, we will not help everything. It will have only subset of the attributes that that’s needed for for here, but this card will have in this way. I said when you do not do the decarburization. That will be some amount of application.

You can decide. I mean it’s always a trade of you. If you don’t want that duplication, you had to be okay with running the query in certain ways. Okay, I go to the next one. Okay, I mean, if you use no any of the knows it. While you I mean this is no brainer for you, but I still wanted to give you some real queries or example how how it can apply to the e-commerce domain so, for example, find product by SKU.

That is still oh yeah. That is correct. So I’ll say that is like dpi catalogs are fine, and so I mean I’m just trying to show how how how different or how similar it is to SQL update the card. So it will have some kind of push addition or a pending kind of thing to the card and will increment the subtotal and things or that find the user by zip code. This is interesting and okay. This is a whole new topic of using Hadoop, but I will will visit dot, but how can you I mean there are there? Are there are few operation? There are information that is data, data intensive and time intensive and that doesn’t really work out.

Well, for your time, queries, but if you want to see some of the trend long-term, we really need analytics and we need some some other against them. So this is the example for that MapReduce. If you want to aggregate all total orders by zip code, you want to see how effective our website or campaign or our couponing in this one particular region you are, you can do map and then reduce and then try to run that and others and find like Number of orders by zip code.

Actually, if you want to do this for the last two years, you really need may produce, but if you want to do it for shorter time period like one month or less than that, you can still do it with this kind of it doesn’t take that long. So again, because I showed you a lot about MongoDB just to give another another variation of data modeling for e-commerce using Cassandra – and I mean Cassandra itself a big topic.

I can’t explain you column and column, family and super column. It’s super column family here, but I always think of Cassandra is a recursion of table right. If you, if you, if you have one table and you just take out one column and put another table there, I mean that. That’s how I always think of Cassandra. Our data model – and so here I try to capture the user as a part of a supercar family, so each user consists will make one row.

So one group, a show is consists of one user, so that is the key user one. The the value will have a winner column, family and in the current family, the first column is products bought and that we have two product, then ten cards that will have products and total both again. The second row is: is user 2 and user 2 is a key and I’ll give the column family there. So that is how you can do it, and then you have to figure out the whole new takes for your queries and things.

I thought make head appeals to me the same okay, so next I’ll go to analytics, but what I want to say for just on the nose equal part is that as part of this presentation, I am NOT trying to take a stab at best, no circle technology. For e-commerce, I mean, I don’t think you and I have expertise or even there is a finite answer in industry for the best non-secular technology for any opening person.

I mean here you have to look at your use cases I mean. I don’t think there is any e-commerce platform can decide. One day I want to rewrite whole system whole site in Nasik own. You really can’t do it. You have to think incrementally. So you take subsystem of your website, you take one component, try to use no sequel and put it out. There see how it goes and then so. Migration is a whole new topic and you learn from your bond one implementation and apply it everywhere, and it’s I mean we are.

We are going that idea and I don’t know how everyone feels about it, that maybe we can use different, no sequel technology for different subsystem of our our website. We were to see how that goes, and but it’s hard to find one to a sequel technology that works for every scenarios for such huge website. So that is just just to share some of the thoughts that is going on how person I don’t have that many slides.

So if you a question you can ask me sure every said I have three different ways of looking at the day, and so I have this product. The red paper was $ 25, and but you now have a price increase in $ 26. So does happen such that, if I happen to have gotten in at $ 24, in my shopping, cart was at $ 24, even though somebody else who may have come in because of the fact it’s not permit consistent across they’ve come up with $ 26.

Yes, it so when you don’t have consistency like immediate consistent with this, this can be one of the scenario, and what we argued at the hot time is that we I mean for for staples.Com and many other website. They don’t really change price in the middle of the day. They do it like one batch at the night, so anyways we are not doing it real time, so it doesn’t matter that we can invalidate all the web session at that time.

Whenever we’ll change the price – or we can do some logic there, like one doing that one pending is easier than doing it like for every second right. So then, then we thought we are just arguing or we are worried about the wrong problem, and that was a confusion because generally there are not many side who will change the price middle of today. Okay also, I have another pricey right price graph right here and is from a data management point of view.

How do you know those are all priced relationship? It’s all the same thing, and so even one system that are different. Some prices yeah. I don’t know in your system, you have basically three different documents and they’re all high price in it, but you know those all mean the same thing. Those all need price. Okay. How do you know that those are all same price? How they’re all home for us? Yes, so actually for most of the ecommerce website, volts is fair in our website, also one.

This way that we have a different system subsystem that we call PD be like Product data management and we store all the pricing in chemistry entire. So most of the price that will copy is the done product orders that will save the price for, but ideally, if you won’t have, the real price are fitting into over no sequel store. So PDP is entirely separate subsystems that trans entirely in different different different of what do you call it runs out of the website and it just has the integrations every night.

It will push the data after that, the data is read only so in our website. Better way to are seeing prices, read-only is most of the time it’s all done. You know either either a user already bought that product that paper or that prayer price, and this way that price doesn’t matter, or that is the price for that day and and the night will be pushed ugly. What else about to be morning? Sorry you this! What you know it? No, it’s one of those things for say I could work on the price hike right, you’re, going to go work on the different on the order document and he’s going to work on the third dot for whatever it was.

If we’re not talking, how do I know, how do you know to call it price when I call the price and he knows to call it rice, how do you keep track of that, so every night the data will be pushing all end up going, even when You defined it, how do you know that you should call it price, maybe say wrong? No, no any! That’s why we have to decide on this first, some basic structure of the of the document.

Otherwise, all these different people will refer to this prices differently and then they can’t do it yeah yeah. Definitely we have to you have to come up with and this way I know. Theoretically, we can change the structure in any 10p bond and all that, but it doesn’t work out that well with real scenarios, because you have your own oil it’s running on today. Suddenly I decide. Oh, this is not price.

This is myself price. It won’t work for analytics right because it’s running off of that or some other tools that is running off of that so yeah. Theoretically, yes, I can still change my document structure and do my website will still work, but it will mess up something and there’s that and that’s why I’m putting a lot of emphasis on this data modeling. Ideally, if you really go to any no sequel tutorial anything, they won’t talk about schema.

They don’t talk that much about a camera because it’s flexible, you can changes each rod, but it doesn’t work because I agree with you totally. Okay, do you have anything which kind of you kind of do something else or something? Yes: did you keep track of prices always called price yeah? So what so? This is our take that for e-commerce, 80 % of transaction is read, only the user will just go browse, browse browse and then they’ll buy.

So what we are trying to do is that we are trying to use use, no sequel where think about reusing your sequel. In those read-only scenarios, instead of writing dances and items – and this way wherever we are writing the price – that system is still thick ball and then we are pushing this here and then everything is knows the goal. But it’s all read, you know, so we we don’t have to worry that much about consistency, oh yeah, and and that’s the that’s the thing I said right I mean some of we are maybe at the end I shall say what is what is.

Actually, we are doing what I got is a plan to do and what is actually done. We can’t really take our whole website. I mean, if it’s not possible, to take the whole website and Ono’s right. We are just trying to look at new sub system that we are writing, for example, reserve online and pick up in store okay, so we are trying to look at the heart and trying to see how we can use musical in that scenario, so it’s very small Subset of saying, but we are, we are trying to think about like this big bank, just to get an idea how it works out.

How can we do the doubling? How does it look like and what are the ideas that can he was the pain point so that it should have you had any concern over how long that takes and we need to drink the system so to date, words that that way, and it works really Really bad so every every night something will drawn and it will load the data, but it will be enable exactly at midnight or some some point of time.

So it will. It will be loaded first, but it will be like enable for everything like it. One particular like 3:00 a.M. A.M. In the morning, so that I mean we are not really worried about the loading part like how long would it take and things that are not worried about that part. There are few things that is, that is tricky there, but overall, no, I I don’t think it’s that big open, because we are doing it.

One yeah. This is not heavy for, say so and maybe we’ll go to the next one. So we are looking at the no signal technologies for a few, a few specific areas, whatever the new areas that we are and more on analytic side and more on. I don’t know how much you know worse tapers, but we are using IBM commerce as our old engine so but we are trying to come up with all this new subsystem on cloud and open source and using no sequel.

So that is the new initiative, and we are thinking about all this, for that is it no? No! No. These are not your actual documents for carp management – oh, no, no, no just example, visitors or so, or lots of stuff to understand what arm is coming from this pointer inducer. It has to be mapped. This ie has to be tracked with that system. How do you do it very true and that’s the problem going with the sub system right, if you just decide to do no sequel just for one subsystem.

All your other relational system need that foreign key, that you are stuck with and that’s why you had to have that foreign key and you have to have something which will make your foreign key with this, this this user idea, whatever you are talking about, and then That’s one of the biggest challenges we are saying with this subsystem design and with this migration and things of that, and this way we are trying to trying to go with the systems of force that doesn’t really deal with this core entities.

But it will have some like. I give you the example. Writer is online and pick up in store, or something like that, which is which is really a top player on the core web site. Today, you have some kind of a mapping table which maps with the automation – no no, not today, not today. This is this is this is the this is the plan. This is not being production, but we have done very similar at Pearson. I had a very similar person in bed fever.

We are trying to just take the user, just the authentication, part and method is it MongoDB and everything else was in relational, but that was true. So also we never had foreign key. It was like it was vertically partitioned, so only there was a separate user or schema and web services that we could replace for easily and user was interacting with all other entities via web service, and that’s why it was easy to purely think that subsystem entry right.

It using a simple so if we have the repetition like that, it’s it’s easier to just take one part: entry title: you have a user’s an entity and over there is a product spot. That’s one-to-many relationship. So is that product spot only for that particular session, or it is next to the history also, so you had to decide if you, if you, if you I mean actually on our website, one one user had known by that many different product, they buy the same Product in repetitive quantity like paper, so they will buy the same paper but like every month or like they buy the quantity will better, but not the total number of products they buy.

What is really that different? But if there are like large number of products caught by one single user, we have to decide like how much data we want to store for that immediate system and how much it I have you in the store for analytics and long-term data. So I mean if something like Amazon: they can’t really store all the products. What, by that means, are in your immediate scheme, so you can decide how much data you want to store.

You guys take the day from the mystical story and merge it with like the order data, for example, which is making sword in a sequel store and send it to do for large-scale attitude. I can do one thing whenever we will start this migration order either it will never be turned into new circle, or it will be the last thing to turn into noticeable. You know so that’s for sure for now that it order is something that anyways it’s a subset of.

We are using sterling for that. So it’s more like a SAS miss Brenda product for us. So we are not looking at that, but we know all the transactions and complexity around consistency will come into picture when we go to the order and that’s the we are not worried more about the checkout and everything because it’s all like all we just punching to Bank of America and get something out, so we are not worried about that part, but we are more worried about the inventory and few other things are very nice, actually, some more for downstream towards adieu.

If you’re joining the order, data from your sequel store with the stuff in your house equals door, and you know sending all that stuff and I for a dude processing. We are not doing it not, but this is the one area we are thinking a lot about. So so here right, so what what is I think I just screaming out of time, but what is more important for e-commerce? On one side, you all your sales data right other side, you have all your couponing and promotions and ads and everything.

How do you correlate that and enemy you want to set you you just don’t want to give over your stuff right. You want to sell it at the price where it user will buy it, but you still make the profit out of it and that’s why all this cross blog enter it exists is the key today for IT. The problem is that there are many across many ways. You can sell data and there are many ways you can: target user retail tablet app mobile app web, then pet store.

There are global other, like staples at 34 prisons in 34 countries. So how do you? How do you really think salons did and how do you see what is the effect in what is not effective, and that’s where we are, we are struggling, I mean, ideally, we can really plug into all this different sick wall and write one centralized sequel database or Have some ETL any DW, but it’s it’s very. It makes it very very brittle, because if retail or if website will change the radar model, all the CTL and everything has to change.

Everything is report once and it’s not scalable I mean we get the data all like 10 days back, but what if we want to use the data from Black Friday on Cyber Monday right, I mean we really need new, real-time data and that’s why we are thinking About using Hadoop and if all the system can send that tax output or logs server logs as have try and we can fit into the Hadoop cluster and from run some MapReduce or high, because we still want to store our data on long term in Sequoia.

If you really want to or something laid out, we can still read this text file and have some dashboards. There are two ports and everything out of it, some conclusion out of it, and I think that implementing this will be easier than changing the core website. Internals and this will have immediate success or immediate term benefits. In terms of that, I don’t know how I mean. In the end, I I mean I want the feedback on all these things, because we are going to build up and we are thinking very seriously about that for sure.

Okay, I said I’m not going to compare all this notes about technologies, but just just very, very a basic overview of challenging advantages and disadvantage of Sakhalin no support. I think acid properties and this transaction management is the key we are so used to it and there are many advantages with it, so that is definitely the plus on simple side, but on the other disadvantage is I mean how many of you have tried zeroed out? How many of you get this push from your management that we should do zero downtime deployment and all this like DMA changes are always complicated to manage for zero down like you, you, you really want to run this DML queries and then fill the other previous data.

I’ll fix the other data and then that that’s kind of complicated, so it makes it brittle it that is, there is no real linear scalability to support the massive data volume, and now that is I mean it. It struggled with the lightweight analytics and things like that. On the other side, no sequel great – I mean you, don’t have to worry about schema and brittleness, and I mean it works really well for e-commerce, because it’s all read like most of the things are radar until and unless user will decide to buy that it’s already Traitor, so it works really well for that scenarios for normal IT.

I think the expertise and try to adopt this new technology and make the changes is one of the challenges like it’s not the technical challenge, but it’s a challenge for sure and sometimes limited query capabilities, and I think that it. There is a lot of improvement. In last few years, in this area like in I mean earlier, there was not control for non sequel, but I think all these companies are making progress in that one, and migration is the key.

If you have, if you are working on a new product that was working with pure Sunehri, working on team product was and using no sequel was, and it was easier, but having something that is full grown and really change it to adoption. Equality is quite a big igniter again with Hadoop. You don’t have to worry about matching it and backing into different sequel and say that you can directly process the logs and tags and it’s highly scalable again.

The expertise and all other things are. Are the challenges zero? If you have any questions you can ask now, I would love to get your feedback if you think something makes sense, something doesn’t make sense. This is not the direction area we should go or we should go. Please send me an email. This is my personal email, but you can so deepali talk through various APIs. Comm is another one, and thank you.

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8 SEO Tips for Your Website

Nowhere And so SEO stands for. Search Engine Optimization and it’s work that you do To make sure that you prove to Google and other search Engines you’re the best So for SEO. I like to use the analogy of all the work that you need to do is like a 1,000 piece puzzle And you and all of your competitors. You all have the same puzzle and we’re trying to prove To Google who’s the best which one of these puzzles Is the most complete My puzzle’s best? Definitely the best Yours is definitely the best.

We know that Does Google know that We shall find out Right But the thing is not Everyone has all 1,000 pieces, Some people are new, Some people have been Doing it for a long time, and Google doesn’t necessarily care that you have all the pieces in The thing that Google cares about is that you have more than the next guy. You could have maybe 10 pieces and if you’re in not a very Competitive space then yeah you’re going to appear on the first page, So these eight tips that We’re going to talk about are going to help you to Start putting those pieces in to get started on your SEO.

Journey for local businesses Perfect. So, let’s jump into the tips. What’s tip number one Tip number one for local businesses: Everybody needs this. Is you need to create or claim your Google My Business Profile, Google, My Business? Is this Tool that Google has created that allows users to see all Of your business information in one place, We did a article all about This so go check it out, so you can deep dive, but basically, if you don’t have a profile, You need to go, create one and, if you haven’t claimed your profile, meaning that your profile exists.

But you didn’t necessarily do It or some user created that you need to claim it. So that you can update it with all the right information Right, You need to make sure It’s in your control, Don’t let it out to the World for anyone to add It’s yours, So tip number two is that you need to optimize your profiles, It’s great to have it created, but if you don’t have all the information that Google is looking for, then they’re not going to recommend your business over someone else.

So that means having your Business name correct your address: your phone number, your hours of operation, Those are the basics that most people do, but optimizing it really Means going a level below that so adding photographs, adding your logo adding pictures of your building, so that was when people are Actually going to your business, they know what it looks like If you’re a restaurant include pictures of dishes.

And what you’re known for so that way, people have Lots more information when they’re, looking at your Google, My Business page, So those are the key things That you need to do to optimize If there’s reviews that are outstanding, you need to respond to All of those reviews You need to encourage your Customers to go and leave reviews, because that also plays a part In how you’re going to rank against other local business profiles, All right, Morgan What’s tip number three Tip number three: is you Need to add your business to relevant business directories.

These are other sites. That their main business is promoting other Businesses like yourself, and so you need to make Sure that your business, not only is there but the Information is correct and the great thing It’s an easy back link. Absolutely So it really helps with your SEO to make Sure that your business anywhere people are looking At these business directories, your business shows up All right, which brings Us to tip number four Tip number four is to Add your business address to your website.

It sounds pretty plain and simple, but a lot of websites don’t have that So again to increase your rankings. This is one thing that not Only Google is looking for, but your users, if they’re wanting to visit your business, they want to have the address. Very prominently placed So put it in the footer. Have a separate page about your location, Just make sure that it’s there Visible and very prominent All right so should We put a Google Maps thing on the site too.

Yeah that helps That’s. Visual People can click it. They can see exactly where you’re located the cross streets. So that’s Always helpful as well so just make sure that you actually have the address called out. And written out next to that Perfect, which brings us to tip number five, What’s tip number five, Make sure that your NAP is consistent across the web. What’s NAP, Name I like naps, I mean well ( laughter, ) Name address phone number, So you need to make sure That those three things are consistently formatted everywhere, So pick one and then Update it on your website, [ Nealey ], Stick with it, Update it on your Google, My Business and then update it anywhere.

Else where your website appears, If you don’t own those websites, Email, the owner and say: “: Hey: can you update this?” And most likely they will but just make sure it’s Consistent everywhere Perfect To number six, what do we got? You need to update your home, page’s, meta, title and meta description, The meta title and meta Description are things on your website that you control how your website shows Up on the search results, So whatever the meta title, Is that’s what will appear on the search engine results page and then the little description below This is a great opportunity for you to let your clients Know what you’re about So, if you are a coffee shop in Seattle, maybe you should have That, in your meta, title and description Put your location, Put more information about your business.

So that way, your users Know what you’re about Right and most website builders or applications that you use have a section for you. To add a meta title, a meta keyword and meta descriptions. If you don’t know how to go. In the backend and do it, which most of us don’t want to right So if you need help just contact, whoever you’re Hosting your site with They’ll, probably be able to help you get that information there.

Because if you don’t set anything Google will just assume Whatever it wants to put there – and it may not always be relevant to what you want to Invoke to your audience All right Morgan! What do We got for tip number seven Tip number. Seven is just to make sure that all of your other Seo elements are in place Make sure that you have great Content on your website Make sure that your Source code is formatted in the way that Google likes to see it, Make sure that you have a great number of high-quality backlinks that are pointing back to your site.

All of this will help with your local SEO. We actually did an entire article. All about the basics of SEO check it out right here, So it’s super relevant to make sure your site is structured in a Way that Google basically wants so on your site, those H1 Tags, like you mentioned it’s basically, a code On the site that says “, This is my most relevant Tag line,”, if you will So only one H1 tag per site.

Images are super important. Because Google cannot read images, but it can read text. So that’s that little description there Most website, builders or Applications, like Word Press, has a place for you to add those All right. Morgan, we’re On the very last tip, It’s been an incredible Journey # thejourney. What is tip number eight Tip number. Eight is To consider launching paid ads or Google guarantee, So if you’re not getting The results fast enough or the traction that you need Using steps one through seven and appearing in the organic sections, then this is where paid ads and the Google guarantee comes in, So you can consider doing these things Paid ads.

Obviously, it’s pay to play Whoop. You appear right at the Top of the search result, It’s amazing, but once Your ad budget is gone. You no longer appear there, But people click on the ads, They’re very effective. So I love paid ads. It gets you right to the top, but I’m not really familiar. With what Google guarantee is Give us the low down, So the Google guarantee Is basically paid ads supercharged, So you could pay.

Anyone really can pay to have their business. Appear in the paid ads, but the Google guarantee Takes it to the next level, where, if someone purchases the service through the Google guarantee And they’re not happy, they can get their money. Back, which is really awesome, So it’s Google vetting certain businesses and making sure that they Provide a great experience, There’s extra levels, you Have to do to qualify for the Google guarantee, but it’s really great and Stands out in the search results and people love it All right guys.

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How To Do Long Tail Keyword Research For Google SEO

Everybody goes oh when I start to talk about this, but it’s something that can really change your life. I just wrote a post about this on my website and I of course use long tail keywords in my keywords. So Google SEO things like that.

So let’s talk about at 40,000 feet what longtail keywords are because there was a gal in a Facebook group. The other day and she had written a post and I’m going to say I’m using my friend barb grassy as my goat, that she’s the book loss and she helps writers. She helps edit book. She helps coach writers, she’s except successful author herself, and so I figure if barb doesn’t know how to do SEO. Longtail SEO, then, who does so longtail SEO means kind of you’re going to go for the shortest version of the biggest keyword you can pick? Okay, so I’ll give you an example from my site when I started my website years ago, I was trying to rank for real estate marketing and or let’s go back to marketing right like I was trying to rank for marketing and there’s no way, I’m going to Rank in Google for the term marketing because there’s a lot more bigger sites that can rank for that, but even real estate marketing.

You know if you do a search for real estate marketing, because marketing people do marketing there’s um million there’s over 1 billion results for real estate marketing, okay, and so I I knew I to do some other things. That would help me rank for longer. Tail keywords like real estate, marketing marketing to a farm, real estate, marketing, funny realtor postcards real estate marketing how to get your first listing like those are all longer terms now.

Would I use real estate marketing every single time heck? No, I would say marketing your real estate business, how to succeed at real estate at your real estate, marketing how Realtors well you’re not supposed to use Realtors. I got in trouble for that one. You got to read your chart, your trademark keyword terms, but so real estate marketing. So you have real estate marketing strategy tools, ideas.

So then you can go even longer right, so real if real estate marketing was your logging. It like your shortest long-term keyword, then you would add things on the end, so we’re going to go with Barb’s and we’re going to yell at her. So I found this on her site. How do I start my book and I’m sure that this is super super interesting to her people, and I love that she’s answering a question that her readership or the people that she meets in public or her coaching clients house.

So this is probably I do this too. I’m like okay, I get to ask this question a thousand times. I want to answer this question. How do I start my book, but from a standpoint of Google, if you go and figure out, I use a tool called ubersuggest, it’s free and what they do. Is they pull in the Google search volume? So I did a search for how do I start my book and this was closest to it. How do I begin to write a book so for D and then, let’s see if we have how to start, how do I start a book? Thirty? How do I start my book ten? So those are searches per month, so I wan na help barb get right.

So that’s excellent! That’s going to be like part of her title, but we need to get her longer like more search volume. Keywords in her long tail. So, let’s, let’s sort this by search volume, can we search it by search flight filter results? Oh find keywords within search results. That’s awesome! Oh, and it’s an order by search form. It is in order by search volume, okay, so uh, okay. So how to write a book? How to write a book is our very, very, very best volume, 40,000 searches a month.

So we got how I’m going to write little notes over here right, I’m going to do this, how to write a book. So now, let’s find out from Google how competitive that search term is because probably other people know about it: how to write a book right how to write a book. There’s a 64 million different how to write a book results, and that is, if you put the quotations around it, it forces you to it forces Google to just look up in that exact order right.

So if we took them off so there’s a million how to write a books, there’s a billion how to write a book results, so we can’t really probably compete with that very well right. So, let’s add a word nonfiction right: how to write enough fiction book. How to write a nonfiction book now we’re down to 54 million results, which is still a lot, admittedly, but there’s only a hundred and sixteen thousand how to write a nonfiction book.

So we went from billions to hundreds of thousands, so I would say we could start with how to write a non-fiction book right whoa. We could do write a nonfiction book how to so. We just moved our how-to over how to get started right just by changing that. How do I start my book right like? How do I start? My book is not good, but how do write a nonfiction book now, let’s see uber, suggests write a nonfiction book.

It’s Lincoln it’s thinking now, isn’t this fun the best two seconds to figure this out a nonfiction book? Oh start it right. We want to filter it by words that have right in it how to write a book. So that was our 40,000 book. I write a novel: how to write an e-book, how to write a book, so we still have our how to write a book, how to write a book now. Is it an order right so she may want to. This.

Is it this is where it gets super exciting how to write a book for nonfiction authors right? She may want to write a big giant post. That is all about how to write a book for nonfiction authors right. So here’s my thing: this would be her bullseye. So this would be how to write a book for nonfiction authors. That is just blatantly going after the highest level of SEO longtail keyword that we think we can get.

Then she would say, write a nonfiction book how to get started. That would be one of these supporting posts. She would link back to that. She has other she’s other posts that are titled poorly, that we will go look at. She has a lot of words here, she’s writer, so she can. She can write some words. Girlfriend doesn’t have a problem with that choose one: how long should you book B so then she would do a writing non-fiction.

How long should your book be, which is slightly different right, writing nonfiction, is different from write. A nonfiction book people ask me all the time. So if I get a longtail keyword, should I do that one over and over and over again – and the answer is no like – that would be the most boring thing and you would only be trying to get that one tiny, long-term keyword search, let’s see what I Don’t want to know what shoes one is except the worst title ever Barbara Grassi.

You know I love you. Okay, write a book. He had ideas for as a marketing tool. Okay, so this is kind of about marketing. So we’re going to say, writing a nun. Now we got write a nonfiction book, write, nonfiction, writing, nonfiction and writing a non-fiction book to market your business right, and so now we have our three posts that we can try to get to how to write a book for nonfiction authors right and as we do More and more content with those longtail keywords on our website or on our blog most people have a wordpress or maybe a square skate space at this point.

But as you write more and more of those, you will go up so in my first example where I was telling you minis talking to us in my first example when I was telling you about my how to marketing to a farm or how to you know, Do a funny, realtor, postcards and stuff like that, what happened was I wrote enough different posts that were about real estate marketing? That, eventually, Google began to give me credit, but in the meantime I got Google traffic from those littler posts and my blog started to grow and I started to gain Authority.

So that is how you do. Longtail research in a super super easy to step way. Hoover suggests find a better search term that has more searches and then do a search on Google to find out what kind of results they get. Oh, I forgot one more thing: ooh. This is very exciting, so you can also do this. So if you say nonfiction, I don’t think it’s going to be in there. I think we got to do nonfiction, author Association, nonfiction authors, but let’s say right oops.

If I could type I would be unstoppable, oh shoot. Now we have to I’m glad that happened, though. So because I did that write a nonfiction book search, we need to do a incognito window, so I’m on a Mac. So I do control shift to control, shift command and just look up non opening on an incognito women window. So we’re going to go. Google right and then we’re going to say, write a book in a month in 30 days, so obviously, obviously there’s a lot of quickness around like that would be some good topics.

You could use right ain’t, let’s see what happens if we do nonfiction book outline. Oh, my gosh. She could do a an outline business plan. That’s nonprofit business plan. So let’s see write a nonfiction book fast, there’s fast again, it seems to be writing a nut seed. Now this is where now we’re crossing over to the other word. So we went from write to writing writing a nonfiction book for the first time.

That’s a really good one, and so, as you do this you’re going to be able to find these things in Google and just start writing them down. Everybody wants to make this so hard. Google tells us exactly how to do it, and this is how I do my research. Now I have all kinds of expensive keyword tools. I love SEM rush with the rest of us. I love you know the Google Keyword planner, but nowadays you can really start to get those super high level keywords right from Google just from showing the search and then doing a little research so hopefully helps Tara, Jacobsen marketing artfully.

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How To Market Your Restaurant on Social Media in 2020 |Food Business/Restaurant Marketing Strategies

Today we’re going to be going over the four Ways to market your restaurant on social media in 2020, So many of you guys have already been on that Social media train. So congratulations to that because a lot of people actually don’t See the value Just in the last two three years: people Don’t see the value on posting on social media because there’s no direct ROI, There is no direct association with you putting In a dollar on ads You putting a dollar on investing in your Brand on social media and how much you get back, You don’t know, which is the reason why a Lot of people don’t do that, but today people are waking up.

People understand the importance of social Media, That’s the reason why people are spending Thousands of dollars hiring social media people to take pictures for them to write captions To interact with their customers, But in today’s now age this is just not enough. It is not enough just to post nice pictures. It is not enough to just engage because the Market is so saturated. The platforms like Facebook Instagram they Are so saturated with beautiful pictures, You need the right strategies to actually Stand up and aside from the crowd, which is the reason why I want to be sharing with you.

The four different ways to market through social media for your restaurant and they’re Coming right up, The number one way to market on social media Is to use ads Now I’m 100 % against using ads. If you are Not aware, and if you don’t understand objectives and if you do not have already a solid base, And foundation for your business, However, if you already have a solid foundation, If you already have, people who are interacting with your brand, then running ads is a must Running ads on Facebook and Instagram is still Relatively cheap, as opposed to the native and the like print ads bus ads and article Ads and stuff like that, And on top of that running ads on social Media like Facebook and Instagram is super super effective.

When you can combine that With a right strategy, So, for example, when we’re running ads, we’re Not running ads just to sell people on Hey know what Come to my restaurant 20 % off. No, we don’t want to do that. We want to be able to run ads strategically. To show people that Hey, you know what This is the behind the scenes process of how We make our food, This is the type of food that we offer. This is the type of people that we serve.

This is how they feel about our food after They come and consume at our restaurant. This is behind the scenes. This is how everything is made And then, when the timing is right, when you Want to promote a certain campaign, you would want to then offer them something in return. You’d tell them that you know what there’s 10 % off Or Hey, you know what Come during this weekend for this specific Promotion So, at the end of the day, running promotions, Is very, very strategic: You cannot just send them an offer and expect Your customers to return right away.

You need to be able to warm them up. You need to show them behind the scenes. You Need to be able to tell them a story, You need to be able to show them behind the Scenes of how you are working So at the end of the day when the timing Is right, you’re going to become top of mind for your customers And another powerful thing and another powerful Way of running ads is to retarget What that means, and that’s actually, where The true power is when you’re running ads is when you can retarget people And what that means is haven’t you ever experienced Something that you know you were wanting to buy a certain item, Let’s say, for example, a jacket You want to buy that jacket.

You click on Add to cart, and at that moment someone calls you and you shut your computer and then you Go out for dinner, something like that And an hour later you come back. You open Up your laptop and you forget about the jacket So yeah you have the intent to buy that jacket. But because of the fact that life takes over, you forgot about it completely And all of a sudden next day you get an email, Reminding you that Hey, you know what You have this jacket in.

Your cart. Just want to remind you that if you want to Check out you get 10 % off something like that. That’s called retargeting, That’s showing up in your inbox showing up In your feed telling you that Hey, you know what You forgot about me, but I’m here That’s the power of running ads And then the same note. You can actually do The same thing with food and beverage as well, So, for example, when people actually interact With your ad they’re, like Hey, you know what I really like this product.

I really like this menu of yours. I really like this recipe of yours, Great stuff And next time, whenever you have a promotion, You show it in front of my face now because of the fact that I love your branding because I already love and want to try out your product, I’m much more inclined to actually come to Your restaurant and try out your stuff And that’s the power of retargeting. That’s a power of being timely with the ads So you’re not just running ads, because everyone else is doing it.

You need to have a strategy. You need to have Objectives and you need to be able to retarget in a timely manner. That’s the number one way to market on social Media for your restaurant in today’s time, The second way to market through social media For your restaurant is through review sites. Yes, review sites are social media as well. Because this is a platform where people can actually search for your restaurant and your Brand Believe it or not more than 80 % of people That go and eat a new place.

They go on review sites like Yelp, like Google reviews all These different review sites and you need to make sure you have a presence on these Different sites, And on top of that, actually I’m going to Throw you another stat. Did you know that a half star rating increase okay accounts? For more than 30 % of increased traffic, And what that means is that, if you have a Three and a half star versus someone that has a four star, and yet you guys serve the Same thing, 30 % of the time people will search and people actually go and prefer the place.

With that half a star more that four star restaurant, they would prefer that and they Would have 30 % more sales than this company and this brand, this restaurant, who has only Three and a half star, which is the reason why you should pay a lot of attention on review. Sites, Okay, A lot of times, you may be wondering: Hey But Wilson I don’t have much reviews or Hey Wilson. You know what my restaurant just Started, I don’t know how to get reviews.

Well, you need to make sure that you strategize On getting reviews, good reviews, bad reviews, it doesn’t matter just honest reviews. Okay, You can always work towards making sure your Product satisfies your customer Now, on the same token, if your product sucks Then it doesn’t matter if your reviews are not because you shouldn’t even be in the restaurant Business, I’m saying this: if you have a good product, That you can actually improve upon that.

You can actually serve to the customer that customers Actually enjoy it Now, some of the ways to get reviews are to Actually, incentivize your customers and incentivize them with, for example, a drink for every Time they come in and show that they have left a review or perhaps having a sign out. Your door that says Hey, please, leave us a review on Yelp or something like that Because a lot of times, if you don’t ask you Shall never receive, which is the reason why you should always always ask Just like how, at the end of the article I’ll Always ask you to smash the like button, because it helps with my YouTube journey and because At the end of the day, if I don’t ask, I will never receive that like button, So please smash that like button, But nonetheless coming back to this incentivize Your customers to leave a review on Yelp Whenever you have it reviewed, make sure you Respond to them and engage with your customers, Whether the review it’d be a troll review.

Where people are just complaining about you because Hey you know what They have bad service, because the guy looks Like he’s always bored at work, but if you’re not that bored and it’s just how you looked And unfortunately, that review is not warranted, then you can reply Hey, you know what And make some put some character into it. Make it fun. For example, you can be like Hey. This is How I look, How dare you Or something along the lines of that Just make it fun with them, Show your character, because people who are Actually, reading these reviews they’re human too, They understand what is a true review and What are the reviews aren’t actually warranted? For example, it is a warranted review that Is a negative one then own up to it own up to it and tell the people that unfortunately, This happened to you, I’m so sorry, Let me make it right to you and actually improve Upon it And people are much more forgiving if you’re Honest and if you own up to it So there you go Review sites, do not take this lightly because It would make or break your business The third way to market on social media for Your restaurant is through influencer marketing And what that means is that influencers are Basically, the cool kids in the class They’re, the people that people look up to They’re the people that are outspoken and They’re, the most popular people They’re like prom Kings and the prom Queens Okay.

So these are the people that you would Want to bring into your restaurant, These are the people that you want to reach. Out to and actually find their profile and offer them to come into your restaurant to Have a free meal to actually you know what Not pressure them into writing a post, not Pressure them to sharing, but more so just to come and experience what you have to offer And if you’re genuine about that and if you’re Not an annoying person about this a lot of times these influencers would be more than Happy to post, on your behalf more than happy to post their experience at your establishment.

And that says a lot about you versus food critics or versus anything else. Influencers are the major players in town And major influence for your restaurant because a lot of times you can actually leverage their Customer base They’re the people that follow them and a Lot of times these influencers they have 10 20 thousand. A hundred thousand subscribers And followers that actually read what they have to post.

So if they had a pleasant experience at your Joint then majority of the time they can influence their following as well And case in point when we first started 720 Sweets, the first day that we opened there was a food blogger who came in and posted About us and the next day three more of her friends came in and tried our ice cream. Our Smoking ice cream and find that this was a pleasant experience.

They actually asked us if they can post for Us and at that time this was five years ago. Okay, At that time, I didn’t know what was influencer Marketing, but I just said that Hey know what I just want to serve you I just want to bring the best dessert to the Market And because of this attitude that we had We were able to actually have them post for us and talk about their experience on social Media And in turn, we became super busy.

The third Day onwards, and within the first year we expanded to three shops all because of influencer Marketing, So this is not something you want to take. Lightly nowadays, this whole industry has transformed, has evolved and has matured Which makes influencer marketing that much more important, So, at the end of the day, if you really want To be able to market, and if you want to be able to bring your brand out to the world, Do not oversee the importance of social media and do not oversee the importance of influencer Marketing And a lot of times this is where they’re going To be able to share through word of mouth as well, When people see your post online, they’re Going to be talking about it with their friends, So if you deliver a positive experience, a Good experience to your consumers, a good experience to your food bloggers and influencers They’re going to talk about it even offline, and that brings a lot of weight through marketing.

For your restaurants, Now I know we talked a lot about influencers. Social media, influencers and stuff like that, However, you did not want to oversee the importance. Of catering to influencers that are offline as well We’re talking about people that are not really On social media, but has a lot of following and it has a lot of networks so, for example, People that are in the real estate game or people who are in the banking industry they Love your product, they come and try it out and they’re like Hey.

You know what I can bring this back to my branch Or real estate agent. Hey know what I really liked this. I want to buy a bunch of this stuff or buy A bunch of gift cards and gift it to my association. These are all things that you do not want. To oversee as well, Even though they’re not on social media, they Too, have a lot of influence; They too hold a lot of weight through word. Of mouth marketing, Nonetheless, if you can actually combine the Effect of social media and influencer marketing with word of mouth marketing that becomes A really strong synergy and a big combo that can help your restaurant market in today’s Age, Fourth and final way to market on social media.

For your restaurant is to be able to build a community. This is something that I personally am an Advocate of Okay, I do not run any ads. I do not run any paid promotions until I can Build a solid base, a foundation of fans that love our product and love our service and Loves us in general, because it is super super important You don’t if, for example, there is no loyalty, There is no way you can demand a premium if people don’t view you as a brand, If they don’t love you, they only treat you Like a commodity And when you are treated as a commodity, how Do people value you They value you by price, So if you’re not the cheapest in town, if Not the cheapest most bang for the buck, then they’re not going to come to you because They view you as a commodity, However, if they view you as a brand that They love, then they’re willing to support your journey and then they’re willing to pay A premium and then they have that loyalty for your brand.

So at the end of the day it doesn’t matter If you have competitors that are open around the block, it doesn’t matter. If you have competitors, That opens right beside you. They’ll still come to you because they want to support your Journey and because they’re, a loyal fan of yours and they’re willing to pay that little Bit of a premium for your product because they’re a loyal fan Now, having said that, how do you build a Loyal fan base A lot of times.

This comes from personal engagement. These are things that are not scalable. These are things that require one on one: interaction, That you need to care for them that you need to show them that you appreciate them. Some simple gestures like that you addressing Them by their first name accumulating fans one by one and knowing your first thousand Fans is so so important for the success of your restaurant Address them by their first name, treat them Something small, So then that way, they feel that, Oh, I’m a Vip Ooh, I kind of like this Ooh, I’m special And in turn slowly, but surely they become Regulars and they become loyal fans of you sharing along your story.

Why is it that you’re building this brand? Why is it that you’re building your restaurant And what are you working on what you’re working towards And if they know a lot more about, you understand, Your journey understand your story, then they’re much more prone to want to support. You on your journey for your restaurant And which is how you can build your loyal Fan base one fan at a time. This is something that is not scalable, but Is essential for your restaurant’s success? Number four is to be able to create that community Of loyal fans And that’s going to make a difference between A failing business and a thriving business, So there you go the four ways to market your Restaurant on social media Number one is to be able to use ads use ads.

With an objective strategize about it, Don’t just run ads with 20 % off, because people Don’t really attach to ads like that, You need to be able to tell them a story. You need to show them the product that you’re serving you need to show them how it’s like To enjoy your product behind the scenes and tell a story before you run an ad to get them. To come in The second way to market your restaurant is Through review sites Review sites like Yelp, Google, all these Different sites Do not take this lightly and create a way An automatic way to be able to attract these reviews because it’s super important, because 80 % of the people that decide on where to eat, checkout review sites Super super important and never looked like That Third way to market your restaurant on social Media is through influencers.

Influencers are the cool kids on the block. These guys are the prom Kings, prom Queens And you want to make sure that you bribed them: Okay, bribe them with a free meal, treat them Exceptionally, well give them a pleasant experience, but ask for nothing in return, because if you Ask for something in return. It would just feel like it’s a stretch. It would just feel not natural. It would feel like it’s a bribe, Bribe them in a way that they don’t feel like They’re being bribed Okay, That’s the art of this And, lastly, number four: create a community Create a community of loyal fans.

So then that Way, you can step out aside from the crowd and not be compared as a commodity, that only Competes through pricing, You want to be able to create a community So then that way you have loyalty and you can demand a premium for your menu and your Goods, Hopefully this has helped you out in building An amazing restaurant. I really hope this has helped you If you guys liked this article, if you guys Find value in this article make sure you smash the like button, because it’s going to help Me out a lot throughout this whole YouTube journey, But if you want even more content, if you Want to know the A to Z, if you want to learn more about how we’re able to build this international Ice cream chain, and so then that way you can have these skillset and these templates That we’ve created for the last 10 years anywhere from negotiating free rent to building My first thousand loyal fans check out in the link below.

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Marketing Tip o’the Day… Attention to Interest

In other words, the ADA formula remember attention interest desire in action, but today we’re going to focus on the 1st 2 of those formula, points, attention and interest. Remember it’s a linear process. You must convert attention into interest.

Let me illustrate if you’re walking down the street and you hear a loud bang that captures your attention. You turn around to see a 65 Volkswagen Beetle backfiring down the road. Alright, the noise got your attention, but are you interested probably not? On the other hand, let’s say you walk down the street here loud bang and turn around, and there you see a man with a smoking gun. Are you interested now now? What you do with that interest depends on your personal make up your character and a number of other things, but the point of the matter is, you are definitely and immediately interested.

The attention has been converted into interest. That’s what you have to do with your advertising and the way to do that is through delivering sound benefits. What’s in it for the customer, that’s it for today’s tip, don’t forget to subscribe to the blog and leave your comments below and don’t forget to enter our contest by referring people to both this blog and to my good, bad and ugly ads blog. The person who refers the most subscribers each week will win a prize each month, we’ll win a prize and on November 13th the person who has referred the most new subscribers between now and then will receive a 70-200 dollar principal center marketing coaching program, absolutely free.

The details for the contest are right at the end of this program. Vo is, cannot a poof and we’ll see you next time with another marketing tip to help you get more customers who will pay you more money? More often, the fastest easiest, most cost-effective ways possible. You