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Having bad luck with your website? 360 PSG has your back

Managing a company in today’s world is a full-time job. There are bills to pay, deadlines to meet, people to hire, meetings to attend—the list goes on. So who has the time to manage a website on top of all that? Truthfully, no one. If you spend the necessary amount of time it takes to manage a website, you’re most likely neglecting your business’s other needs. (Trust us, we know.) Take control by giving some up, and learn how we can help turn your company’s web presence around.


Tips for Unifying Your Brand: Part One

Many business owners end up feeling a bit like Lewis Carroll's Alice—overwhelmed, unsure and perhaps even a little irritable—when it comes to branding. This is unfortunate because branding is actually all about simplifying your life. Good, unified branding creates credibility and trust. It helps showcase your company’s personality, and it generates more than customers—it generates advocates.


LinkedIn Marketing In 2019: New Company Pages & Features You'll Want to Know

LinkedIn is an excellent platform for professionals and businesses to connect with each other; however, are the connections always meaningful? The platform is surely trying to make it so. LinkedIn has lagged behind Facebook when it comes to offering its marketers options for ad formats, targeting, and content features. With the release of “LinkedIn Pages” (replacing “Company Pages”) and updated advertising tools, the new year is a great time to get back into marketing on the web’s largest professional network. For business owners and professionals looking to grow their business and build relationships, LinkedIn has got you covered.


How to Make Facebook and Google Advertising Perform Better Together

Two is usually better than one, right? It’s time the narrative of Facebook advertising vs. Google AdWords comes to an end. These days, you want both! For any business, large or small, advertising on both Facebook and Google allows marketers to create and manage the buying cycle for every campaign. Instead of comparing Google and Facebook, brands can utilize both platforms’ features for leverage to hit their marketing goals. No advertising platform is perfect and that is why joining the strongest two together is an essential digital marketing strategy.


3 Highlights From Facebook's Community Boost Event in Buffalo

Facebook held a three-day Community Boost event in Downtown Buffalo July 9-11 and 360 PSG was there on the scene to soak up all the information. For those who don’t know, Facebook (and Instagram) have been touring the country hosting Community Boost events to train business owners on Facebook and Instagram marketing features. Not only do these events help train marketers of all skill levels, they share the direction both platforms are headed and the type of content and advertising that will flourish on each.


Is Instagram the New Facebook?

Is it a story of David and Goliath? Probably not, because Facebook owns Instagram and can’t really lose to it if there is a mutual benefit. You can even integrate your Facebook marketing with Instagram simultaneously with Ads Manager. But, what if you want to focus on one platform?


Updating Your Facebook Marketing Strategy to Tackle Organic Reach

If Facebook’s new algorithm update has you feeling like the last kid picked in gym class, you aren’t alone. When the social giant announced in January that it was putting a strong focus on personal pages (and much, much less on Business Pages), the professional social world dramatically rumbled. Not only had organic reach declined to almost 2% throughout recent years, Facebook declared that it’s practically non-existent moving forward. What does this mean for companies with a Business Page?


4 Reasons Why Your Company Needs to Blog

A company blog hosted on your website is a great content strategy to improve search visibility, enhance branding and even generate leads. Is the effort to create engaging, relevant blogs worth it for business owners who simply don’t have the time or resources to produce it?


Facebook Advertising Trends: What to Expect in 2018

As we enter 2018, Facebook will continue evolving to include new features and change the way marketers use the platform as a whole. What does this mean for small businesses who want to advertise on the world’s largest social network, but don’t have the budget to keep up with heavy weight advertisers?


All About Google Posts

First, they were just for presidential candidates. Then, they were just for public figures, athletes, and museums. But as of June 2017, Google Posts are now available for every business utilizing Google My Business. 


How to Write Social Media Captions That Work

Having a strong caption to accompany a visual will improve engagement, and then placement, of your organic content. What makes a caption effective? We've identified eight ways to help make your social media writing pop.


Leading The Way To Conversions With Social Media Lead Form Ads

In 2015, Facebook announced its newest ad format: lead ads. Described by the powerhouse social network as "an easy way to sign up for more info - anywhere", lead ads enable potential customers to sign up for a product or service directly onto the ad.


The Essential Digital Duo: Paid Search + Paid Social

Social media advertising and search engine marketing (SEM) are two of the most popular strategies in online marketing, but the most common questions is - is one better than the other? While each business has its own individual path to success on the web, there's no doubt that allocating budget spend to both paid search and paid social is essential.


Meet Some Of 360 PSG On Snapchat 2017

The past year has been eventful for Snapchat - the mobile app developed "spectacles" to record from the user's perspective and even created a camera roll in case the storage on your phone is full. The past year has been eventful for 360 PSG as well, so we thought sharing snaps of some of our team was only appropriate! 


Solidifying Your Digital Donation Campaign This Year

Thinking of starting a donation campaign this holiday season? Consider that digital marketing has made larger scale campaigns accessible to smaller organizations. Check out some tips for starting your first digital donation campaign, here.


A Survival Guide to Your LinkedIn Company Page

Finding new ways to connect your business with the appropriate audience can seem like survival of the fittest. Fortunately, LinkedIn is a powerhouse professional network with almost 450 million members worldwide. LinkedIn is a network built for professionals but has carved a niche in the B2B markets, as well as recruiting. It can be a powerful tool for any size business looking to develop other meaningful business connections with some of the social media "fluff" taken away. If you already have a LinkedIn company page, or are just starting out -- there are some best practices to enhance the experiences of your business, prospective colleagues, employees and customers.


Get Your Company's Social Media 'Back to Business'

It's crucial to keep your company's social accounts current and monitored. Aside from producing new content and being in consistent communication, there are goals you should be setting for your social media efforts. We have put together six steps to getting back on track and reaping the benefits of having a well-maintained social presence.


How to Hit the Ground Running With a Marketing Campaign After Summer is Over

We're all guilty of taking advantage of the summer months while they are available to us; the warm weather, long lunches, the social atmosphere coming to a peak, and the easy going nature of our days tend to take off some of our edge. It's summertime, and the living is easy. The harsh reality is that the Fall comes a lot quicker than most of us expect, and the slower summer months begin to affect our bottom lines, in whatever role we assume. Instead of scrambling, we've broken down some steps to keep you on top of your game as you begin your first marketing campaigns to get back to business.


The 7 Key Things You Need for a Successful Digital Advertising Campaign

With business and marketing moving more online, it's important to know how to not only run an advertising campaign completely online but also how to make sure it's successful. Learn about the key question you should ask yourself before diving into online advertising. 


The Good, the Bad and the Unnecessary: The Lowdown on Social Media Updates of 2016

Social media is a fast-paced medium and platforms are constantly updating and tweaking in order to stay ahead of the game. Now that we're almost halfway through 2016 (can you believe it?!), we wanted to round up all the updates Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat have put out since the beginning of the year. Spoiler: there are a lot!


Spring Cleaning For Your Site

Your website is the first impression that you make to prospects and clients. Because of this, you should be aware of changes in the marketplace to ensure your website is up-to-date and take advantage of current best practices. This is not to say that you need to redesign your site every year, but an annual spring cleaning may be in order.