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Digital Marketing for Small Businesses – Native Marketing Techniques

Native Marketing

Native advertising is just the term for a type of advert that looks and sounds exactly like the content that surrounds it.

Much advertising on social media counts as ‘native’, especially if the style and tone of the ad is similar to the content surrounding it.

Sponsored content is another important native stream and indeed many online publishers – like Buzzfeed – have come to rely on it as an important revenue stream.

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For a small business, large-scale publisher partnerships probably aren’t realistic.

But if you’ve got something useful and interesting to say about a particular issue related to your business, you could explore having an appropriate third party site with a similar target market to you publish your blog articles or any video content you make as advertorial.



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Caroline Hagan

Caroline brings over 20 years experience as a Designer and Developer; featured in .NET magazine, the only woman in the UK accredited for Google Mobile Sites. A STEM Ambassador and Google Women Techmaker Ambassador. Previous clients include Blackberry, FIAT, Clark Shoes and Sky.


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