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Oneupweb’s Best Photos of 2024
As another incredible year comes to a close, we’re reflecting on the experiences that shaped 2024 from our point-of-view. The entire Oneupweb team values the creativity, collaboration, and celebration, these photos tell the story of our team’s journey. Here’s to the memories we made this year and the exciting opportunities waiting in 2025….
A Guide to Multi-Location Social Media Marketing
Whether it’s a few locations around town or hundreds of stores across the country, managing an effective, localized social media strategy isn’t easy. For many brands, deciding how to support individual stores or service areas is a choice between a one-size-fits-all approach and a disparate, decentralized strategy that sacrifices brand consistency and authority. This guide…
Zapier: Integrations and Automations for Marketers
There are never enough hours in the day to get it all done, but Zapier automations could save you enough time to drink your morning coffee before it goes cold. Zapier and no-code alternatives like Make and Integrately are smart ways to automate repetitive tasks and free up more time for big-picture thinking. If you’re…
Ethics and Marketing: A Line in the Sand
Marketing ethics go beyond industry regulations or platform terms of use. Ethical concerns in marketing go deeper, forcing organizations and agencies to evaluate strategy, content, and tools to respect consumers’ rights. In an industry known for toeing the line, modern technologies like artificial intelligence and murky privacy rules have made doing the right thing murkier…
Why You Shouldn’t (Always) Post Links on Facebook
Meta designed its two marquee platforms to win the attention economy. The underpinning algorithms that shape the user experience on Facebook and Instagram are constantly optimized to serve users personalized content – the right cat video at the right time. Everything these algorithms do is meant to keep users on the platform. That’s a big…
How to Market Yourself in Real Estate
You signed up to buy and sell houses or commercial property, not start a TikTok account. Marketing for realtors has changed dramatically over the past two decades, moving from the Yellow Pages and newspaper ads into diverse, competitive digital marketing channels like paid search and automated emails. The shift triggered an entire industry offering marketing…
The Beauty of a Graphic Design Retainer
Marketing teams want champagne-quality design assets on a fizzy beer budget – and they need it delivered on time. In-house marketing departments struggling to meet constantly evolving internal demands and goals need a hand. It’s smart to outsource the most specialized skillset first – and that’s why you need a graphic design retainer. The 5…
The Evolution of Instagram’s “Link in Bio” Strategy, Explained
Since its inception, Instagram has disallowed links to social posts, forcing marketers to get creative. Over time, brands have developed different get-arounds for placing external links from Instagram to high-value content on their website or other platforms. But none are more well-known than the “link in bio” method. We’ll recap what “link in bio” and…
SEO for Dispensaries: Grow Your Business Organically
As more states legalize recreational marijuana and municipalities offer up more licenses, cannabis retailers battle market saturation and are more and more desperate to stand out. As a part of a comprehensive marijuana marketing strategy, search engine optimization is a smart investment with long-term results. Marketing in the Cannabis Industry: Why SEO? Dispensaries face regulatory…
The Very Best Brands on Social Media
Marketing for a brand on social media can be tricky. Social media managers walk a thin line between maintaining brand standards, delivering engaging content on several platforms and proving the social channel’s role as a part of a comprehensive strategy. For inspiration, look at the social media accounts of these top brands and see what…
3 Ways to Use TikTok to Increase Brand Awareness
TikTok, the 5-year-old platform that has matured from teen dance challenges to a marketing behemoth, might be the most accessible and affordable brand awareness play on social media. The powerful (and mysterious) algorithm serves relevant content based on user behavior and has redefined what it means to go viral. Franchises are uniquely positioned to leverage…
Yes, It’s Time to Grow Your Threads Account
Meta’s “Twitter-killer,” Threads, launched on July 5, 2023. In just 5 days, the app had over 100 million downloads, the fastest to hit the milestone. Thanks to a nearly seamless integration with Instagram, the Threads app has enjoyed steady growth and rolled out a few key features that have made advertising on Threads more impactful…