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Four ways to create a better Zoom meeting or recording
Todd Mitchell Todd Mitchell

Four ways to create a better Zoom meeting or recording

Here are a few simple tips to create a better quality Zoom meeting. Generally speaking we want to think of it as as nice of a studio setting as you can get it so that it's comfortable for you and you're listening audience and that it's well lit and the audio is good quality and there are minimal distractions.

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Keywords, search words, and tags
Todd Mitchell Todd Mitchell

Keywords, search words, and tags

What’s the difference? They are all share similar traits. Keywords (KEY - WORDS) — are the important words that apply to your product, service or business and relate to what your audience is searching for online. Search words are the words or phrases that your audience is searching for online. And tags, are names, titles, or descriptions that apply to your image, text, object, download, file or web page that help online robots, AI, and search applications find your product, service or business. And while they are almost always similar and even repetitive, there are occasions to be unique.

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Social Media BOOST vs. Social Media Ads
Todd Mitchell Todd Mitchell

Social Media BOOST vs. Social Media Ads

Boosted posts on social media like Facebook and Instagram are a little less complex than ads and are easier to get a handle on if you are used to your social media’s News Feed. Unlike an ad, a boosted post is simply a regular post that you pay to reach a wider audience. Most boosts cost maybe $10-$25 although you can arrange more budget and reach—whereas advertising is much more involved and costly.

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Marketing planning & budget is critical to any business
Todd Mitchell Todd Mitchell

Marketing planning & budget is critical to any business

Developing a sound marketing strategy and budget are vital to the business. Consider the 23 primary components of marketing and what that might cost to implement. But first, a simple review of the top 5 marketing questions: What is it that you are marketing? Why are you? How will you do it? To whom precisely? and what’s a reasonable budget?

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Email is still alive— and more important than ever
Todd Mitchell Todd Mitchell

Email is still alive— and more important than ever

Almost everyone in the modern technological world today has email. Text, social media, apps, phone, and most definitely email. We use the email on a daily basis to communicate with family, friends, or at work. Certainly in a work environment we see sometimes hundreds of emails a day. So creating quality emails that get attention and truly get the job done are much more important today than ever.

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Converting old newsletters into a modern on-screen experience
Todd Mitchell Todd Mitchell

Converting old newsletters into a modern on-screen experience

However, in the growing ‘digital’ world, it’s apparent that there continue to a tremendous need for more digital and online content that tap into the benefits of the modern day: Mobile, responsive, digital, analytics, security, SEO, cross links, social media integration, storage, database, and ease-of-use.

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Colossus SSP Branding and Website Development—How fun leadership can help inspire fun and effective results
Todd Mitchell Todd Mitchell

Colossus SSP Branding and Website Development—How fun leadership can help inspire fun and effective results

Designing the Colossus SSP website was fun, primarily because of the CEO (Lashawnda) and the rest of the team were just awesome— that helps ANY project become a privilege rather than any old task. We wanted to portray a specific look here. A mysterious sort of “there’s something behind the curtain” feel, and using some slick bold colors, a fresh new brand logo gives this a rich, modern, sophisticated look that tells their story very simply.

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