Welcome to another edition of the…

Weekly Small Business Marketing Update

In this week’s installment, we find out why your website isn’t producing results, how to make your email marketing more human, 3 tools to boost your social ROI, and a whole lot more!
So without further ado – here are this week’s Top 5 Small Business Marketing Links:
1.  Three Deadly Reasons Most Websites Fail — By MarketingProfs
It’s no longer a question of whether or not you need a website for your business, it’s a given, right? (please agree with me so I don’t have bad dreams tonight). But constructing, managing and promoting an effective and successful business website…well that’s another issue altogether.
2.  5 Quick Ways to Humanize your Email Marketing — By Business 2 Community
Effective marketing begins with communication. And effective communication sounds like real people really talking to one another. The same goes for email. So how “human” are email marketing messages?

3.  Three Ways to Boost Your Social ROI — Entrepreneur Mag

Social media marketing is all the rage…and it turns out that, if used the right way, it can be extremely effective (and profitable). So how do you put it to work “the right way” for your small business?
4.  7 Reasons Why Marketers Should Be Twerking Miley Cyrus — By Six Pixels of Separation

What marketing lessons can you glean from the spectacle of Miley Cyrus’s crazed VMAs performance? Turns out more than you might think…

5.  In Marketing and Sales, Context is King — By Patch
When it comes to “closing the sale” when and where you ask for the question is as important as the question itself.

Well folks, that’s all we’ve got this week! So until next time, we ‘ll see you back here again, same Bat time, same Bat channel.
P.S. Did you happen to catch this week’s Marketing Expertise blog post: What Miley Cyrus, Twerking & Effective Marketing All Have in Common? (if not, I recommend you check it out!)