Does Your Small Business Have a Unified Brand?

Visual brand unity can often be overlooked in small business marketing. But it should be one of the guiding tenets of your marketing strategy. Here’s why. What is visual brand unity? Visual brand unity is like short-hand. It helps communicate your company identity at a quick glance. It is using similar fonts, colors, visuals and … Read more

How Does Your Business Get Featured on Google Snippets?

One of the most powerful drivers of web page visitors is Google’s Featured Snippets. Featured snippets attempt to answer questions on the search page. Google highlights content from websites and users are able to find information without going to another web page. Interestingly, even though Google is attempting to reduce clicks, featured snippets still drive … Read more

Should Your Business Engage with Negative Reviews?

Online reviews give customers power to provide rapid and direct feedback to your business. While this can be great news for your small to midsize business, it is important that you actively participate in review management. One negative review can have a big impact on your online reputation. But, you are not powerless! Here is … Read more

Is Your Business Ready for 2021 Marketing?

We are (finally) in the year 2021! The pandemic forced many people to begin doing business online last year. And that accelerated changes to the online marketing landscape.  With all of these changes, is your business ready to market online in 2021? Let’s take a look at five things your marketing team should do this … Read more

How Brand Management Revolutionizes Your Company Image

One of the most important aspects of online marketing is brand management. Brand Management is building positive associations with your brand. Companies with a profitable online presence are intentional about their branding. The four main aspects of brand management are awareness, reputation, value and loyalty. Awareness The very first marketing goal for your company must … Read more

What are the Image Sizes for Parler?

Parler Social Media Sizes and Dimensions A very fast-growing new social media platform is Parler. Within days it’s size has exploded. Here at the Octane Marketing Agency, we’ve put together a list of image sizes for Parler because we couldn’t find them ourselves. So we spent 30 minutes uploading images until we figured it out! … Read more

Using Live Video to Attract Online Customers

Should your business use live video for marketing? Live video is an emerging marketing trend that creates a powerful online connection between you and your customers. It feels authentic because it is often less polished and more unpredictable. So, it creates a sense of immediacy that cannot be found in pre-edited online videos.   Sounds great, … Read more

Customer Retention and Your Bottom Line

What is Customer Retention? It is keeping your customers loyal to your business. It is all about building a great relationship with your customer. Your business creates value in their lives and so they trust you with their money. And these customers will not only keep coming back, but they will likely bring others along … Read more

Adapting Your Marketing Strategy after COVID-19

Digital marketing is a rapidly changing industry. And because people have been forced to operate in the digital world during the COVID-19 pandemic, this transformation has accelerated rapidly. Why is online marketing changing so quickly? Because more and more of us are working, shopping and educating using online platforms.  Advertisers realize they must reach us … Read more