Tips
advice from the pros about all things marketing
Use Images Properly For Your Business’ Social Media
Eye-catching pics and videos are best but sometimes a simple graphic or stock photo will do. If you’re not taking the photos or designing the graphics yourself, you’ll want to be sure you stay in compliance when you post.
QR Codes For Marketing – A Simple Guide
To understand how and when to use a QR code it helps to understand what it is. QR is short for Quick Response and is machine-readable code that contains data like a website address or contact information.
Handle Negative Comments and Build a Positive Brand Image on Social Media
Businesses often worry about negative feedback on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but how you handle these comments can shape your brand’s reputation for years to come.
Free Spring Content Calendar to Keep You On Track
We have found that a Content Calendar is the absolute best tool to support your Social Media marketing strategies. We’re sharing 5 convincing reasons you should work one into your plan.
Expect the Unexpected in Social Media Marketing
What we can tell you is that the best social media marketing strategy is to expect the unexpected, (ahem… TikTok ban, anyone?) but still have a plan and outline some goals to work towards. And then be flexible.
Sharing Social Media Accounts with Multiple Admins
As we all know, sometimes there can be too many cooks in the kitchen or radio silence when you’re trying to create a good social media strategy. Here are a few different ways we’ve seen accounts like this work well…
Top 5 Social Media Marketing Questions – Answered
We’ve gathered a bit of information to have at your fingertips to remind you to actually use Social Media Marketing!
FREE 2025 Social Media Calendar for Marketing Success
What’s your plan for your company’s 2025 Social Media channels? Do you even have a plan? If not, that’s where you should start. Getting your plan together for your social media marketing is most important.
Content Marketing with a Free Content Calendar
Your marketing strategy can include regular updates on your website, weekly or monthly emails, blog writing, pay-per-click ads and social media presence and ads.
Batch Content Creation and Scheduling
We’ve created some tips you can use to make content creation a slightly smoother process that doesn’t take up your whole day or wake you up at midnight with the thought that you forgot to post.
Capture That Content – A Marketers Guide on Social Photography
If you want your company’s content to be one of the ones that gets noticed, use some of our tips to get good photos that are quick, don’t need a lot of editing and can be posted with your written content to capture your audience’s attention.
The Power of Your Frequently Asked Questions in Marketing
Frequently Asked Questions hold the key to creating engaging, customer service-oriented content on your social media.
Hook, Line and Social Media
To help you encourage views and get people to linger a little longer with your video, image and written posts, we’ve come up with some great hooks to capture those eyes.
Integrated Website Social Media Feeds – Pros and Cons
If you have a social media account, should you integrate your social feed into your website? This is a loaded question and although our experience encourages us to steer away from having a social feed on the websites we create, there are some people who feel that it can be a pro for your marketing.
Help My Business Go Viral
Although, we do have a few secrets up our sleeve to help your business weed through the noise of social media and find the right audience which will (most of the time) help you expand your reach.
Stop Overcomplicating Your Social Strategy – A Free Content Calendar
The best business social strategy is to have a general plan or outline for what you’d like to do, have a few “go-to” posts to keep your account active and give your audience what they want.
Monthly Posts in Minutes With Our Free Spring Content Calendar
There are so many tips and tricks to creating great content for your business on social media, but it can become overwhelming. Have you heard any of these?
Organic Social Media Marketing Vs. Paid Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing has many facets and nuances that are unique to each and every industry and business. But when you’re using social media to build a network in which you share information that in turn grows your company’s brand, increases traffic to your website and can often lead to higher sales, it helps to put some best practices into play.
Benefits of an Agency for Social Media Marketing
The main reason a marketing agency like ours can exist is that we support small, medium and even large sized businesses with their marketing efforts which allows the company to focus on what they do or sell without the extra hassle.
What to Do When Social Media Goes Down
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other social platforms have found themselves under scrutiny lately when their platforms suddenly stop giving us the benefits we come to expect.
Websites through Google Business Profiles are Going Away
The free websites made through Google Business Profiles will soon be deleted, and after a small window of time, will result in error messages.
Marketing Goals: Define, Track, Evaluate
With Social Media Marketing goals, you have several options. You’ll want to really define what your goals are. Try to stay away from words like “more.” More of what? And how much more? And in what time frame? And for how much spend? And with what effort?
Social Media Account Security
The hackers and spammers are everywhere! And they are targeting your business accounts. They know that if they can just get into your account, they’ll have access to credit cards and other payment info as well as audiences who are loyal to you and will click links without thinking twice.
New Year, New Free Content Calendar
Do you have “better social media marketing” as one of your 2024 new year’s resolutions? If so, we’ve got a helpful social tool just for you.
Supplement Your Marketing Efforts
If these situations are coming up in your office, it may be time to consider supplemental marketing help. Does your Marketing Department run into any of these 3 hurdles.
Generate Content with our Free Fall Social Media Calendar
Use the content calendar as is or add in more industry specific content to make it work for your unique strategy.
5 Things You Should Know About Social Media Marketing
If you’re new to marketing your business on a social platform, you may be wondering about the basics. We’ve compiled a list of a few things you should know as you begin your journey into the social media chaos.
How to Find Relevant Content Specifically for Your Business
When you’re trying to get more people to organically click to your website, you might want to try using your social accounts to push them there. But you’ll need to use relevant topics to persuade that click out of them.
The Lazy Marketer’s Tip for More Content
Filling up the ol’ social media content calendar can be a challenge. You might come up with a few good ideas, schedule a few posts and then worry what comes next.
Simplify Your Social Media Strategy
As a digital marketing agency, we understand the content writer’s block that can come with day after day and week after week of attempting to crank out ideas.
8 “Of the Day” Post Ideas, Unlimited Content Potential
Consistency is key when it comes to social media marketing. But to keep the ideas flowing when you have so much else on your plate? That’s where the struggle can come in.
Social Media Best Practices for 2023
Using these best practices on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and more will help decrease the stress that can go along with Social Media Content planning and strategies for local, national and international businesses.
Summer Content Calendar – Free Download
We’ve used our research and compiled a completely free content calendar that works generally for all businesses. And we want to share it with you!
Free Social Media Calendar for Posts and Ideas
The creative team at Green T Design has come up with another 3 months of free social media content ideas to keep your posts fresh, your pages active and your clients informed. Free Social Media Content Calendar!
Determine the Purpose of Your Social Media Pages
When you’re planning your social media strategy, you want to determine what your pages will be used for. And this is true whether you’re using Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest or another social platform.
Really Helpful Ideas for Reels
Reels have been a top performing type of post for social accounts as of late, but some accounts can see better engagement by using still images, especially on Instagram. Our best suggestion to determine what works for you is to try different types of posts and see what works!
Business Reviews: The Good, The Bad and the Now What!?
Ensuring that you actually get online reviews, that you react to them properly and use them to your marketing advantage can help them drastically influence your sales, SEO and ROI.
2023 Social Media Post Ideas – Content Calendar
We’ve handcrafted a 3 month span of social media post ideas that you can steal, recreate or use as filler. Free Social Media Content Calendar!
Stories VS Reels VS Posts
We’re breaking down Stories vs. Reels vs. Posts for you so you can determine the direction you want to go with your social marketing strategy.
Tell Your Audience What They Want to Hear
We’ve compiled a list of ways for you to determine what your social media users might want to know more about.
Creepy Cocktail Contest
Each day we’ll post a new drink here with the recipe card and video along with our thoughts on presentation, taste and uniqueness.
Free Fall Social Media Content Calendar
We’ve created another 90 days of social content ideas that you can use as is or as a jumping off point for your brain storming. Free Social Media Content Calendar!
End of Year Data Tracking
Next year’s marketing strategy should already be on your mind. And one of the best ways to make that a successful strategy is to analyze your marketing performance.
5 Helpful Social Media Tools
Being a social media manager can be an overwhelming role to play in your business, especially if you’re also busy being the business owner, office manager, sales person or any of the other titles you may hold in a day.
Add Some Merry to Your Marketing
A web refresh is always a good idea, especially for the holidays. It’s great for SEO and even better, it can improve your customer’s experience. Let the merrymaking commence!
Free Summer Social Media Content Calendar
Looking for content to post all summer long? Look no further because our content calendar is good for all industries, making your social media marketing tasks so much easier. Download this free calendar today.
The How To’s of User Generated Content
Your clients are talking and you should know about it and what to do with that information. Our latest blog walks you through ways you can utilize content that is created from your audience.
Effective Newsletter Marketing
We’ll help you answer some questions about email newsletters, how to use them and who to send them to.
Is it Evergreen Content or Time for a Refresh?
Creating content for your website is crucial but making sure it’s accurate is even more important. Here are some tips to review your blogs and articles and deciding whether to refresh, redo or keep.
Market Like a Pro, Episode 7: Track, Test and Analyze
Determine if your marketing efforts are working and where to spend money on advertising in the future in our latest episode of Market Like a Pro.
How to Turn a Blog into Multiple Social Media Posts
Breaking your blog down into mini- blogs or short blurbs for social media are a great way to repurpose and put new life into a topic that might not have gotten as much love as it deserved.
Challenge Your Clients to Learn from You
Marketing outside the box: Use your expertise to market your product with an educational challenge or series.
Why Do Social Media Holidays Work for Marketing?
Sprinkling in interesting/funny/relatable content can solicit more devoted clients than just a flashing sale button. Try it!
Snag and Use Social Media Content
As a busy marketer, you’re probably always looking for content ideas for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and social media in general. Well, we’re here to share!
Market Like a Pro, Episode 6: Market with Some Money
Pay Per Click marketing is one of the fastest ways to drive traffic to your website. Learn all about it in our next installment of Market Like a Pro.
2022 Marketing Trends You Should Do Now
Adaptation is key this year, so you may want to change things up a bit, or go all in on what’s already working for you.
Plan Your Content for Easy Marketing
Steal these tips to come up with ideas for your business. You can even use your content calendar strategy for your email campaigns, podcasts, ad schedule, etc.
March into Great Ideas
The Facebook post planner has some great ideas, or you can try one of these for your March content calendar in 2022.
How to Look Professional on a Webcam
No matter what your situation, here are some tips to make sure you look and sound your best the next time you use your webcam.
Wow Them with Your Wisdom
Do you want your marketing efforts to make an impact? Wow your clients with your expertise! Prove to them that you ARE the business they should turn to when they need your products or services and that you’re the real deal!
Professional Doesn’t Need to be Boring
The key rule of Social Media is to post content, both video and pictures, that will be interesting to your audience.
Content Ideas at your Fingertips
Content calendars allow you to keep your ideas all in one place, research and prepare before the posts are needed and it helps keep you on track.
Invest in Your Growth
Hear about social media ads from Tammi: we do this every day at Green T Design so we have just a bit of experience! And if you still aren’t sure what to do, we’re happy to help.
What is a Vector File?
In this recent video, Charity, our Graphic Designer and Photographer, walks you through the types of vector files you might come across.
Good Ol’ Email Marketing
In our latest video, Tammi shares 4 of the easiest and most effective emails that you can use to reach your clients.
Why Remarketing Works
Remarketing is a simple marketing strategy of showing ads to people who have already shown an interest in your products, services or brand. It’s probably already happened to you.
Clickable Content Ideas
As you decide what to share with your potential clients, use these 3 ideas from our Owner, Tammi, in our second episode of our Market Like a Pro Series.
Social Media FAQs: Switching Between Personal and Business Facebook Accounts
Switching between your personal page and Business page is simple.
Social Media FAQs: Switching Between Personal and Business Accounts on LinkedIn
If you are using LinkedIn and would like to switch from your personal to your business page, follow these steps.
Social Media FAQs: Switching Between Instagram Accounts
There are two simple ways to switch between Instagram accounts.
Social Media FAQs: Connecting Facebook and Instagram Accounts
Once your accounts are connected, you have the choice for only some or all of your content to cross post.
Social Media FAQs: Adding an Admin to Your Business Facebook Page
If you would like to add a new Admin or Editor to your Facebook page, follow these steps.
Know Your Audience
Green T gives you some pointers on how, when, and what to post for your particular audience to get the most out of it.
Social Media Content Block
We hear ya! One of the toughest parts of managing social media accounts is coming up with content that’s interesting and works for your industry.
Food Makes Great Content!
The content ideas are abundant when it comes to food. We’re happy to help you come up with a content strategy to get more interesting, engaging posts on your social platforms.
Content Everyone Can Use
Our marketing experts poured hours into this exciting content creator, and it’s completely FREE! Are you ready for a little bit of help?
GT at Sixteen
Reflecting on Success
Combining creative with strategy, Tammi has paved the way for this unique marketing company to grow continuously for 16 years.
3 Must-Do Website Strategies
These three tips are simple but so important to get the best bang for your website buck.
6 Photography Tips for Great Social Media Posts
Hopefully you’ll find these tips to be useful and you’ll soon be “wow-ing” your social media follows with stellar imagery.
Social Media Content Ideas by Month
We’ve compiled a small list of lesser-known causes and nationally celebrated themes by month for you to springboard your social content brainstorming.
A Blog About Blogs
Blogging. It is so important. As a business owner with a website and products or services to sell, you’ve probably heard that you should be doing this. But, what, oh what, should you write about?
Don’t Get Fooled by Content
The creative team here at Green T Design has curated another calendar packed with social media post suggestions to streamline content for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and can even be carried over into your blogs.
Norms for Forms
There is strategy involved in placing forms on your website and doing it right can increase your leads, skyrocket your sign-ups and up your reviews from happy customers.
The Social Media Breakdown
If you don’t have a good social strategy, you either won’t get noticed in the digital marketing realm or get passed over for a competitor who is more “interesting.” It’s an unfortunate side effect of the on-line shopping age.
3 “Must Dos” for a Successful Holiday Marketing Campaign
Take a few minutes to listen to some great ideas from Vanessa, our Marketing Director, to kick-start your Holiday Marketing.
Google Usage Rights Tool – Updated
In our video Don’t Be an Image Thief our Designer and Photographer, Charity, talked about how to search for images that can be used in your marketing.
Simple Steps for Easy Marketing
Don’t make your marketing strategy more difficult than it needs to be. Our CEO, Tammi, shares four simple steps that can help any business streamline its marketing!
The Dilemma of Picture Permission
You find a nice image, save it off of your Google image results and post it to your page. It seems innocent but the fact is, you may have just broken the law.
Don’t Be an Image Thief
These are image standards every business should be using; you don’t want to be the one who receives a letter asking for you to pay top dollar for an image you inadvertently stole or be the business that consistently uses watermarked images on social media.
Digital Business Communication is Key Right Now
We’ve compiled a list of best practices businesses can use to stay in touch with their audience while staying relevant. The most important aspect is to actually have a website for your business!
Keeping a Positive Business Outlook During Crisis
We’ve compiled a list of hope-filled things you could use to inspire business flexibility. Hope it helps to get those ideas flowing!
Social Media Basics: Hashtags
Some of the biggest questions we get asked in our social media training classes are about one thing: Hashtags.
2019 Year End Wrap Up
The highlights from Marketing in 2019 with some tidbits to get you prepared for 2020.
Fonts = Feelings
Picking the right font for your brand is incredibly important. Here are some font types to consider and what they could say about your brand.
Your Social Voice on Social Media
Keeping true to your brand’s voice is so important. Here are some ideas for you to use the next time you post.
What is Marketing Automation?
It’s a suite of tools used for campaign optimization which generate leads, drive sales, and measure ROI.
Featured Service: Marketing Automation
Marketing Automation allows us to better track, target, re-market and follow up on leads in a way that simplifies the sales and marketing process.
Yahoo and Logo Updates
The announcement of Yahoo’s new logo yesterday brought up the never-ending discussion about how often a company should refresh their logo and in turn, their branding.
Make Your Keywords Work For You
Anthony shares some insider basics on how to make your keywords work for your website.
Work Smarter, Not Harder
Running your business is so much easier when you have back up to save you time, can help you make more money, care for your brand and more.
Netflix tests human-driven curation with launch of ‘Collections’
Netflix is testing a new way to help users find TV shows and movies they’ll want to watch with the launch of a “Collections” feature, currently in testing on iOS devices.
3 Essential Tips to Make Better Videos
In-the-moment-video-content is an extremely useful tool for marketing your business and staying front and center with your brand.
Marketing Agency vs. Marketing Employee
Let’s discuss the pros and cons of one employee vs. a team of pros.
Size really DOES matter!
Our designer Charity takes a minute to talk about what can affect the quality of the images you use to represent you and your company!
It’s about THEM and not YOU
Vanessa shares some ideas about reshaping your voice when it comes to marketing and making your ads and posts more about the consumer and less about the business.
Do I Really need A Marketing Firm?
Learn more from Tammi, about the many ways a Professional, Experienced Marketing Firm can help.
It’s Time to Get Social
Does social “really” work? Well over half of your clients are using it on a daily basis to research products, so we say YES!
A New Look for Google Search
With this new design, a website’s branding can be front and center, helping you better understand where the information is coming from and what pages have what you’re looking for.
Anthony’s SEO Quick Tips: Google Search
Anthony has got a quick tip on how to make sure it is performing the way you want it to.
Does your Website WOW You?
We’re here to help! Let us take a look at your site and help you get a site that WOWs you and your clients.
It’s Time to Love your Logo
Are you 🥰 in love 🥰 with your logo? You should be! If you’re not, we’re ready to help. Give us call… 717-218-8437
Logo Files and What You Need to Know
Our Designer, Charity, sits down to talk about what everyone should know about the different logo file types they may come across…
Website Trends, 2018
Many businesses had to (and still have to) step up their game so they don’t get left behind on the dreaded “page 2”.
Your Holiday Marketing Begins Now
From Marketing Strategy and Analysis to Facebook, Email and Video campaigns, our marketing experts are here to make your process easier and hopefully more lucrative.
But I Hate to Get Emails!
We can help you gather email lists, create strategic email marketing campaigns and design beautiful email templates for your next promotion.
*Ring, ring.* Is your computer running? Well, then you better go catch it!
If you’re unsure whether or not a phone call you’ve received for you business is legit, we’re happy to help check into it for you!
What is SEO?
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Basically, creating a website that, like a big fishing net, pulls in customers and clients from many different places on the internet using many different strategies.
Your business starts with YOU!
Many of our clients understand you have to spend (some) money to make money, but then they are concerned with their small budgets for items like business cards, websites, social media and more.
You Might Have a Browser Issue!
If your favorite website with super cool features takes for-ev-er to load… you might have a browser issue!
Redesigns – Rebranding – Refreshing Your Business
In today’s society, we crave visually stimulating, recognizable advertising that has been reviewed by our peers and easily researched prior to purchasing or visiting.
Show Twitter Who’s Boss
So use these basics to get started and see how much more business you can drive to your bottom line.
How to Comment Correctly on Business’ Social Media Pages
As a consumer, giving feedback is useful to all companies, if and only if, it is constructive. There are several things to consider before posting negative comments on a business page.
Local Businesses without a Website
As a small or local business the best thing you can be to your potential customers is accessible. Make yourself easy to search out and review.
Top 5 Reasons you should have a separate Business Account on Facebook
It makes you look more professional, it broadens your reach, angry customers happen from time to time, and more.