How to Rank Better than Your Competitors Using SEO

how to rank better than your competitionEveryone interested in marketing wants to know if they can be the top dog in their industry and get ranked for any keyword fast on Google. This is possible but there are a few things to consider if you are looking to beat your competition. The brand image of your organization matters, the amount of [...]

10 Social Media Marketing Tips for Beginners

10 social media marketing tips for beginnersSocial media marketing is an avenue of marketing that a business cannot ignore. This is becoming one of the main methods of reaching current and potential customers with new products, services or to build a relationship with these customers. However, for those who are just starting in this field, it can be hard to navigate. [...]

5 Basic Marketing Strategies for Beginners

5 Basic Marketing Strategies for Beginners profit parrotIn today’s competitive world, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your marketing efforts are focused on the right strategies. Whether your business is big or small, there are certain marketing strategies that should be in place. How you carry them out will depend on your business’s needs and resources, and will also require [...]

5 Reasons Why You Need A Social Media Manager For Your Small Business

seo services ottawaSmall businesses can benefit greatly from hiring a social media manager. Many small businesses tend to underestimate the importance of a social media manager in their organization, which means that you’ll be missing out on important search engine optimization (SEO) opportunities that can boost the growth of your business. Here are the top 5 reasons [...]

Should You Be Using Instagram to Market Your Business?

instagram management ottawaInstagram is a social networking site that uses visual images to capture the attention and interest, creating leads to your small business through little to no cost to yourself. The world of online marketing through the use of social media has opened up to any size business and thus Instagram is a means worth investing [...]

Top Social Media Trends

social media trendsWith over 4.8 billion social media users worldwide (and growing), staying on top of social media trends is no longer optional—it’s essential for business success. To thrive in the fast-paced digital landscape, businesses must focus on emerging strategies that deliver real results. At Profit Parrot, we’ve compiled the most impactful trends for 2024-2025 to help [...]

What to Post to Your Social Media Accounts

Small business owners who want to manage their social media marketing campaigns themselves often struggle to develop a good strategy. They don’t know what they should post on different platforms or understand how they should manage all of their social media accounts well. Here are some tips that will help you create the best possible campaign [...]

The Best Ways To Get Instagram Followers For Free

Instagram is a highly popular social media platform, especially among the younger demographic; 90% of users are under 35  so you can see that it’s a very youth-centric app. Instagram has around 400 million active monthly users and about 30% of all Internet users are using this social media network. According to studies, 60% of [...]

How to Increase Your SEO Ranking By Using Social Media

If you own your own website then you have undoubtedly already heard of the importance of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. The higher your SEO ranking, the more likely people will be to see, click on and visit your site. There are lots of different ways in which you can increase your SEO ranking, however, one [...]

The Easy Way of Using Facebook Ads for Small Businesses

How can your small business hit your target audience while using your, usually small, advertising budget to get the most bang for your buck? Facebook advertising will let you target a specific audience, reaching precisely the people that you are trying to reach and for a very reasonable rate. No risky investment of your hard [...]

5 Simple Facebook Marketing Tips for Beginners

Social media is one of the fastest growing and least expensive marketing strategies available today. Setting up a Facebook account for your business lets people from all walks of life view you and your business in a less evasive arena. You ultimately want to direct people/traffic to your website and increase the visibility of your [...]

5 Crazy Social Media Statistics for 2016

Today, social media is an important part of our everyday lives. From entertainment to business, and from personal relationships to interacting with our favourite celebrities, sports personalities, and politicians, social media has emerged as an important form of communication that we simply cannot live without. Many social media platforms are now very well established and [...]

The Best Social Media Scheduling Tools

Before we get into what the best social media scheduling tools are, it is important to be sure you understand what they do in the first place. So, with that said, a social media scheduling tool is, in essence, a website that can help you track, plan for and manage your social media posts. Furthermore, these [...]

The Best Memes About Social Media for 2023

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What the Pokemon Go Craze Can Teach You About Social Media Marketing Success

If you own a business and live in the 21st century, then you’ve doubtless heard about the Pokemon Go craze as well as the benefits and necessity of using social media for marketing your business. Few enterprises however, offer such a good example of just how effective social media marketing can be, as does the [...]

What is Snapchat and Should I Use It for Marketing My Business?

If you are new with Snapchat, maybe it is time to get familiar with it. We just started using it for sharing funny images with our friends! Snapchat is a mobile photo-messaging application that enables users to create short videos and take photos that remain viewable to recipients for around 2-10 seconds, then the snap will [...]

5 Content Marketing Statistics Every Business Should Know.

Has your business increased its content marketing efforts? If not, you definitely need to. Content marketing is a vital tool for growing your business. Finely crafted content that an audience finds interesting, relatable and valuable allows the brand to come across as helpful and necessary. This increases the chances of converting those audience members into [...]

Small Business Secrets: 3 Quick Ways to Use Social Media and Win

There are now more than 1.15 billion Facebook users, and 23 percent of those users are logging in at least 5 times every day. Social media isn’t just popular, it’s practically an epidemic, but the viral entity that’s spreading is information. It’s easier than ever before for small businesses with limited resources to reach out [...]

How Can You Use Virtual Reality in Your Marketing Strategy?

In this new age of increased technology and consumption, effective marketing strategies have become increasingly important to the survival of any brand. It has always been true that in order to succeed and thrive, a brand must make themselves well know and desirable; however, with overwhelming competition in nearly every faucet of every market today, [...]

The Best Tools for Finding Content for Social Media Marketing

Finding the best tools to help you find content for social media posts is the secret behind the success of many social media professionals. These tools can help you create a workflow that is organized and seamless. Identifying the best tools to help you out allows you to automate, optimize and succeed with social media [...]