Why Small Businesses Need a Strong Brand

Why Small Businesses Need a Strong Brand

Stark SocialBlog

As a small business owner, you may wonder why branding is vital for your company. The truth is that branding is essential for any business, regardless of size. However, it’s even more critical for small businesses to establish a strong brand identity. Here’s why:

  1. Branding sets you apart from the competition. With so many small businesses popping up all over the place, it’s more important than ever to differentiate yourself from the rest. A strong brand will help you stand out and be remembered by potential customers.
  2. Branding builds trust. Customers are more likely to do business with a company
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Boost Your Online Business Presence In Under 1-Hour A Week

Boost Your Online Business Presence in Under 1-Hour a Week

Stark SocialPodcast

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Did you know that your online presence is easy to manage and doesn’t have to be overwhelming?

Deanna has worked on crafting a strategy for her consulting clients that helps them manage their social media and digital strategy with ease while allowing them to manage their businesses with ease. Taking time to get your social marketing strategy and time schedule nailed down makes all the difference in your regular daily social marketing routine and makes it no sweat to manage. As always it’s important to create fabulous editorial calendar and a checklist that ensures you’re making sweet Read More

 

SCV Today: May 11, 2016

Stark SocialPress & Media, Social Media

Our team knows that monitoring your business and personal social media can be a tough task, and we do our best to help our friends and fans do it with style and ease. We get to be pros at attending training, webinars and bookmarking our favorite sites to keep us up to snuff with social media best practices and new technology. However, when it comes to managing the social media your kids are on, is a whole other ball of sticky wax!

Recently, our co-founder Deanna Miller was asked by our good friend and a host of SCV Today, Mike Read More

Choosing The Best Social Media Site For Your Biz 1080p

Choosing The Best Social Media Site For Your Biz

Stark SocialPodcast, Social Media

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A question, Deanna gets a lot… Do I need to be on every social media channel? And, the reality is that not every business needs to be everywhere. It might not match your business model, or provide you with a viable customer base and it makes much more sense to focus on the things that are going to increase that sales funnel!

Deanna and Nate chat about social media channels, and which ones are MUST haves for businesses and which ones are just add-ons to support solid efforts as needed.

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Enhancing Your Hyperlocal Marketing

Stark SocialPodcast, SEO, Social Media

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Believe it or not, there are tons of sub-topics when it comes to marketing, and for a long time people have lumped advertising and marketing into one enormous category. However, in a recent post by Seth Godin posted about the three things he felt were changing about how we market business and in this episode we discuss Hyperlocal Marketing, and how it’s changing thanks to technology, a revolving door of new applications and new theories on what works best for the various types of businesses.

Hyperlocal Marketing is something that most brick and mortar businesses, as well Read More

The Social Life Podcast

The Social Life Podcast Launching November 4th

Stark SocialBlog, Podcast, Social Media

We’re got Training Webinars, we’ve got Quick Tip Videos and now we’ve got The Social Life Podcast!

The questions are constantly rolling in, and we are always happy to answer them via email, Facebook messenger or even Twitter, however, we searched for a way to alleviate the needs of our audience and also have fun while doing it. And, thus the podcast concept for The Social Life was born! A podcast is a neat way to share topical information that allows anyone to engage with it from anywhere at any time, and we all know that traveling can be Read More

 

Big Changes Coming to Google+

Stark SocialSocial Media, Webinar

Google+ has become an evolving anomaly over the last several years, and it continues to baffle those who attempt to tackle it. Whether you hate it or love it, Google+ it definitely a necessary social media channel to keep your eyes on. With Google restructuring its Dashboard, creating Google Photos and encouraging businesses to use it’s various offering sans a G-Mail Account, it’s worth keeping in any social media repertoire.

In this engaging webinar, Deanna Miller of Stark Social and Mike Bjorkman help guide and explain the newest changes with Google+ and how to maximize them within your everyday social Read More

 

Expand Your Reach with Pinterest

Stark SocialSocial Media, Webinar

Pinterest is an outstanding way to expand the reach of your brand or business. In this training, Deanna of Stark Social and Mike Bjorkman the Broker/Owner of HomeSmartNCG discuss the many ways that real estate agents, and small business owners can get their product in front of potential clients, as well as build a sales funnel and ultimately and email list for future contact.

In the past, Pinterest has been pegged as simply as a great place to share recipes, DIY projects and crafts. However, with the advent of many add-ons for the business owner, Pinterest has become something much Read More

 

Be A YouTube Expert Webinar

Stark SocialSocial Media, Webinar

Video can seem daunting and a little bit overwhelming to the novice user. Not everyone is a YouTube star, like Mike Bjorkman our co-host and the Broker & Owner of HomeSmartNCG with locations in Northridge and Santa Clarita in California.

During this webinar in the 10-Week Social Media Series, Deanna and Mike cover how to optimize the use of video on YouTube in order to create a steady fan-base and discover new potential clients. That’s right, YouTube isn’t just for cute cat videos or learning how to make the perfect muffin! Jump on YouTube and implement the tools from the Read More

SCV Today: August 5, 2015

Stark SocialPress & Media, Social Media

Our team knows that monitoring your business and personal social media can be a tough task, and we do our best to help our friends and fans do it with style and ease. We get to be pros at attending training, webinars and bookmarking our favorite sites to keep us up to snuff with social media best practices and new technology. But, when it comes to managing the social media your kids are on, is a whole other ball of sticky wax!

Recently, our co-founder Deanna Miller was asked by our good friend and host of SCV Today, Mike Bjorkman Read More