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Growing Your Business Using Our Community Digital Marketing Strategy.

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IAA Better Business Alliance Membership is a small investment with big rewards and includes membership in Accessibility International, and Sustainability International.

The new customers that you desire, want to patronize businesses that operate honestly and ethically and that also care about people and our environment.

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What is the IAA Better Business Alliance?

The IAA Better Business Alliance is an online community of associations, organizations, businesses and individuals, dedicated to operating their businesses in an honest and ethical manner.

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What does the IAA Better Business Alliance do?

Digital Marketing Strategy Innovation

IAA Better Business Alliance membership employs a unique community based Digital Marketing Strategy which helps connect your business to more new customers.

The IAA Better Business Alliance Community makes it easy and inexpensive for your business to use digital marketing and the power of multiple association memberships to build your business.

Instead of spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars each year, your IAA Better Business Alliance membership allows you to join the associations whose membership will benefit your business, all for one low membership investment.

Community Based Marketing

IAA Better Business Alliance membership uses the power of community based digital marketing to connect your business to more new customers.

We all know that the Internet is a wonderful and essential tool for marketing your business. However it can be frustrating when your small business never places near the top in internet searches. You’re lost in the crowd, invisible and impossible to find in searches. How can you hope to compete for customers with large companies with seemingly bottomless marketing budgets?

The IAA Better Business Alliance Digital Marketing Strategy provides more than one way for your business to be found by new customers and gives them good reasons why they should use your business. Would you like to be page one on internet searches?

Choose the IAA BBA program which will give you more than one opportunity to make it to page one of a search. Your IAA BBA Membership also includes membership in an Industry Association, specific for your business type. If for example you are a Bed and Breakfast you would be enrolled in the IAA Bed and Breakfast Association.

Don’t forget, belonging to the IAA BBA also includes membership in Accessibility International and Sustainability International. The customers that you want to connect with care about people and our environment. Aren’t these the customers that you want to patronize your business?

Digitally Fueled Business Growth

IAA Better Business Alliance membership’s Digital Marketing Community offers the opportunity for your business to connect to more new customers.

Please, if you want more new customers to find your business, learn how the IAA Better Business Alliance can help your business connect with the new customers that you need to grow your business.

To beat the competition, you have to be creative with your marketing. Our Digital Marketing Strategy gives potential customers more and unique ways to find your business.

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9 Royalty Free Music Sites to Enhance Your Videos *

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How to Increase Your Email List Subscriptions *

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11 Ways to Improve Your Customer Feedback P

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Should your business continue remote work after COVID-19?

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5 ways to communicate with customers about COVID safety

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Creating a business budget plan for emergencies

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How to Create Brand Loyalty in 5 Easy Steps P

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The Secret to Writing Effective Sales Copy

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SEO is Central to Your Digital Marketing Strategy *

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3rd Step to Beating Writer’s Block: Getting the Words Flowing

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Sustainability Solved™ by Will Richardson Webinar

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A quick guide to TikTok marketing for small businesses P

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You See How to Turn Anticipation into Customer Acquisition

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How to use personalization to increase sales *

Learning how to use personalization in your marketing can be the difference between you creating ineffective messages that fly right past your target audience or you building high-performing sales campaigns your ideal prospects couldn’t ignore if they wanted to. The...

What Makes a Product Sustainable and Why Should We Care?

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How to scan for WordPress vulnerabilities with WPScan P

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How to protect your small business digital privacy

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How to pick a brand graphic style that grabs *

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6 marketing trends to watch for 2021

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The Better Business Alliance is Committed to Sustainability *

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Tips for partnering with other local businesses P

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5 WordPress blog security measures P

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20+ Ways Your Business Benefits From Using Social Media *

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Social Media Optimization Energizes Your Digital Marketing *

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How Emotional Ads Work Best to Engage Your Customers *

Emotional Ads Work Best to Engage Customers Most of us understand that the ads which engage us emotionally work better than those that don’t. I could hear many marketers utter a simultaneous "duhhhh!" when they read that. You might find it...

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Top 21 crowdfunding platforms of 2021 P

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How you can use customer emails to grow your sales

Collecting customer emails on your website is one of the simplest and most automated ways of increasing your business sales and creating loyal customers. By sending out targeted newsletters to your customers you’ll be giving those people an incentive to visit your...

How can you recognize phishing? *

Phishing is a serious threat to every individual and business. I'm sure that you have already received fraudulent email's that appear to come from your bank, PayPal, or Amazon. Some of these emails are easily recognized as fakes because of obvious grammatical...

The Key to Long-Term Traffic and Profit for Your Blog

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Develop your 2021 marketing strategy, look back to plan ahead

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Responsible Sustainability is Your Business Success Story

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7 small business network security tips

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How to Communicate and Market During the COVID-19 Crisis P

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How Your Great Blog Post Topic Engages Your Visitors

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How to Get More Subscribers, Followers and Connections

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Memorable Remarkable and Relatable Word of Mouth Marketing *

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5 Easy Steps to Make Your Content Marketing Better

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Grow Your Email Subscriber List Using Opt-In Incentive’s *

One of the tips I suggest is to offer your readers some kind of incentive for them to subscribe. This is commonly known as an ‘opt-in’ or a ‘lead magnet’. Let's talk about the kinds of things you can offer as an opt-in. Why you need an opt-in Obviously, having an...

5 Steps to Improve Your Employee Hiring Process

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How to Influence Purchasing Decisions in 5 Easy Steps

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How to Promote Your Amazing Blog Using Social Media

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How to apply for awards and stand out like a pro P

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How Blogger’s Great Content Improves Their Business Sales

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5 most common domain extensions, which should I use? *

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5 post-pandemic business ideas fill needs

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Going the Extra Mile Should be Standard, not an Upgrade P

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How Using Data Analysis Can Make Your Content Amazing P

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Honesty is an Amazing Skill Worth Mastering

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How to optimize YouTube videos for increased exposure P

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How Mobile Messaging Can Engage Your Customers P

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What Is Workflow Software? Everything You Need to Know

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How the WAVE Tool Enhances Your Web Accessibility

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6 Proven Accounts Payable Automation Best Practices

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How to incorporate a business

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25 money-making small business startup ideas

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How to positively handle negative social media comments

Negative social media comments and reviews are sometimes amusing, but they can pose major problems for businesses. Many studies have explored the impact of online reviews on consumer behavior, and the general consensus is that: The majority of consumers read (and care...

How You Can Use Networking to Promote Your Amazing Blog P

Let’s Turn Our Attention to Networking for Blog Promotion What is Networking? A quick online search found the following definition which I feel is pretty appropriate. Networking is “the action or process of interacting with others to exchange information and...

Your Social Media Posts Aren’t Word of Mouth Marketing *

Social Media Dominates the Conversation Whether on social media or through word of mouth, next week's sales are driven by this week's conversations about your brand. The best way to grow your business is to help your customers do it for you. ...

14 questions to ask before designing your web site P

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11 SEO Ranking Tips to Make Your Long Form Content Engaging

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5 cybersecurity tips for your small business

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Make Your Blog Posts More Engaging and Conversational *

To Be Effective Your Blog Posts Must Be Engaging I'm sure that you've already heard that your blog posts need to be written in a style that is “conversational”. You may not understand why it is important to do this. Your posts are telling your...

Are Schedules and Deadlines a Help or a Hindrance? P

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Is Your Company Customer Focused or Operations Focused P

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2nd Step to Beating Writer’s Block: Coming Up With Fresh Ideas

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3 low-cost marketing trends for the new normal

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Your Customer Surveys are the New End to the Work You do P

It’s Amazing What Comes Up in a Conversation About Customers I was at a Winter Park Bloggers & Social Media Meetup and while waiting for the program to begin was chatting with several other members. Being business owners we were discussing customer service...

Make Your Company’s Name Your Brand Promise

I wanted to share this post by my favorite customer service guru, She Hyken. Last summer I played golf with a friend. At the end of the game, he had blisters. He didn’t play very often, and the golf clubs rubbed his skin raw. My hands were just fine. I’m fortunate to...

Website Terminology Glossary: Website Design, Vol. 1 P

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How to Grow Your Blog with Viral Content

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What is technical SEO? Small business technical SEO checklist

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How and why to host virtual parties for ecommerce businesses

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Introducing Pro Product Cheat Sheets

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Goodbye 2020, hello 2021! The past year was definitely a memorable one. As increasing numbers of businesses turn to online store solutions, e-commerce sales have reached record highs. And there’s no denying that this has led to astronomical growth in the website...

How to Build a Business Others Love Recommending P

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You Can Build a Business Others Love Recommending Do you rely on word of mouth marketing to promote your business? Are you wondering how to get more people to recommend your product or service? Would you like to learn how to build a business that others...

What’s the deal with quarterly estimated taxes?

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This post was originally published on Jan. 8, 2015, and was updated on March 5, 2018, Jan. 17, 2019, Jan. 30, 2020, and Jan. 15, 2021. The above content should not be construed as legal or tax advice. Always consult an attorney or tax professional regarding your...

What happens when a search is done?

When someone does an internet search they use a search engine, either Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo or one of the others.

Google is the most widely used search and two of Google’s top ranking factors for any website are LINKS and CONTENT.

Let’s examine each factor, see how it affects your website, and how IAA Better Business Alliance membership will help your business stand out and be found by new customers eager to use your business.

Search Engines Love Links

Most businesses, including yours fall within the seven leisure categories of Stay, Dining, Play, Events, Exploring, Shopping and Services. The IAA Better Business Alliance’s Community of websites help your business to connect with the customers who are interested in one or more of these categories. Let’s look at how this works if your business is a Bed & Breakfast.

Customers you want to connect to could be visiting your area because of activities, destinations, or services which are close to your Bed & Breakfast. Your business profile on the BBA website and our community of websites allows you to establish links back to your site from the activities, destinations and services near your business. By helping potential customers satisfy their “needs” you give search engines many new ways to help customers find your business.

STAY For Example, if your business is a Bed & Breakfast, then the STAY category would be your PRIMARY category.
DINING If your B & B has an onsite restaurant your business could also belong in the DINING category.
PLAY Your B & B business may be close to activities like whitewater kayaking which would give you a listing in the PLAY category.
EVENTS Your B & B may also host meetings, weddings or elopements so your business would also belong in the Events category.
EXPLORING If your business is close to natural or historic sites, this could mean a listing in the EXPLORING category.
SHOPPING Proximity to terrific Flea / Farmers Markets or Outlet Malls would include your B & B business in the SHOPPING category.
SERVICES Providing catering for Events would mean that you should include your B & B business in the SERVICES category.

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Search Engines Love Links!

As you can see it could be quite easy to develop a wide variety of LINKS feeding back to your website that would have a high relevance to your site. Each Link provides an additional path by which a search could find your website.

An added bonus for you is that search engines love links and rank your website according to the number and relevance of the other websites linking back to your site.

Membership in the Better Business Alliance and your membership in the associations, alliances, and organization members of the BBA provides you with a unique, innovative and honest method to control and develop links that search engines love when they rank your business website in their searches.

Search Engines Love Content!

Content Marketing is king when it comes to any Digital Marketing Strategy. It’s central to your Digital Marketing and is a crucial element of everything you do. Your content needs to be unique, authentic and quality while also being interesting, useful and entertaining for consumers. What makes content king?.

Here are 5 reasons why is content king!

Good Content is Great for Search Engine Optimization
Good Content Encourages Customer Engagement
Good Content Generates Leads and Sales
Good Content Increases the Value of Your Product / Services
Good Content Increases Traffic

Can you afford 27 Cents / Day to make your Digital Marketing Strategy Better?

Your business profile on the IAA Better Business Alliance website and our community of websites allows you to establish links back to your site from the activities, destinations and services near your business. By helping potential customers satisfy their “needs” you give search engines many new ways to help customers find your business. For as little as 27 cents / day, you can make your Digital Marketing Strategy work better.

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Membership in the IAA Better Business Alliance, is an inexpensive and unique way to help new customers find your business.

IAA Better Business Alliance Membership is a small investment with big rewards and includes membership in Accessibility International, and Sustainability International.

The new customers that you desire, want to patronize businesses that operate honestly and ethically and that care about people and our environment.

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