The COVID-19 outbreak has taken its toll on the economy, prompting tech giants to get creative with how they can financially help businesses across all industries at scale.

When a crisis hits, your business needs to be ready to respond to consumers’ changing needs and buying behaviors.

Social media is a critical platform for digital marketing in today’s day and age. Not only does social media give you an active audience of followers to interact with, but it’s a great way to drive people to your website. While frequent posting is a basic way of generating leads via social media, there are also uncommon ways that drive leads too. 

Inbound and outbound marketing are two of the most basic tactics for marketing your business. While outbound marketing is the more traditional tactic, these two distinct strategies work together to turn prospects into loyal customers. Here’s what you need to know about inbound vs. outbound marketing:

The Paid Search landscape is continuing to evolve by diversifying keyword strategies to incorporate audiences. This has allowed businesses to reach more online consumers with ads that are contextually relevant to their search query, intent, location, and more.  

Digital marketing is tricky enough without factoring in the finer details such as paid search ad extensions. However, ad extensions are not only simple to use, but they’re also free to add. Below we’ve outlined a guide to selecting the right ad extensions for your business:

GSM continues to monitor reports by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) about the rapidly evolving developments with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The health and safety of our associates, customers, suppliers and our community is of utmost importance to us. As such, we believe it’s important to share what we are doing to respond to the outbreak.

Triggered communications, often in the form of email or a text message, are a great tactic for developing deeper relationships with your customers in all stages of the customer life cycle. You can welcome new customers or subscribers with a discount or incentive, celebrate a customer's birthday with a special offer, remind customers of upcoming or missed appointments, and much more. 

Prospecting and high-quality lead generation aren’t easy tasks. Throughout the process, it's common to encounter problems, including:

Account-based marketing (ABM) is one of the most innovative and advanced marketing strategies out there. While this strategy isn’t brand new, it’s only now that the concept is gaining a lot of attention and businesses are embracing it for its power in growing ROI. Within the past three years, this tactic went from being relatively non-existent and unheard of to a popular B2B buzzword across the internet.