Qamar Zaman

SUMMARY: Running out of ideas for creating engaging posts can make small business internet marketing boring and worthless. Consistent quality posts bring more customer engagement.    Let’s talk today about Facebook posts. Frequency, quality and the types of posts that can help the small businesses to crush their competition on the Facebook.    Small business internet marketing through social ...

SUMMARY: Online PR & marketing expert Qamar Zaman says there are five key questions customers must ask before choosing a press distributor in order to avoid buyer’s remorse.   As with anything one no longer wants to be green to, trying out press release distribution for business promotion for the first time should not be left to the hands of just any service provider. A company’s fi...

What’s Your Business Story? Three Reasons to Tell it Using a Press Release Every business has a story. Whether it’s a tale of a long road to developing the right product to brand, or of the many challenges overcome in securing enough financing to cover startup costs, there are elements in getting started that most business owners don’t know make for good PR. In fact, some marketing strategist...

Three Challenges Online Press Release Distribution Can Help Marketplace Businesses Overcome   Submit 123 PR CEO Qamar Zaman says there are three major challenges faced by marketplace businesses today that can be overcome with press releases via online distribution.   Marketplace businesses are notoriously known for being difficult to get started, but during present times, more and more entrep...

Most business owners are in a hurry of selling their goods. Their high pitched sales blabbering mostly goes wasted as they are not listening to their customers and prospects. They are not understanding their customer’s pain points, needs and preferences and hence, their sales efforts mostly goes to waste. So how to define a good salesman? Well, a good salesperson is the one who tries to under...

Traditionally, a first major step to business marketing has been to strategize the release of a press release to give one’s public relations strategy a boost. However, times have changed in terms of how to make press releases effective. Digital marketing has facilitated an atmosphere where thousands of press releases are disseminated online, leaving journalists in a quandary of how to balance...

Stay relevant Remember the rules of social engagement: Listen, think, and say something relevant. Mention people when you respond to their comments and questions to show that you’re paying attention. Quality, not quantity Rely on social listening to find the right conversations rather than having to sift through all the noise on Twitter. Use a tool like Tweetdeck to stay informed abou...

Dallas, Texas - Vitis Public Relations conducted a survey in an effort to determine which newswires (press release feeds and press release distribution services) were most popular among journalists. Of the 80 journalists surveyed, 37 percent were found to use newswires on a daily basis, while 30 another percent expressed that they utilized press release distribution services on occasion. Th...

Small business owners typically have to wear multiple hats in working for the success of their business, especially when first starting out. According to statistics presented in an Inc. magazine report, in doing so a significant percentage of business owners work twice as much as employees, putting in over 60 hours per week.   Source: Inc.com Report “Business Owners Work Twice as Much as Empl...

These days, the mere thought of Press Release and SEO together doesn’t have any impact anymore to almost everyone in the industry.  After Google has released the Hummingbird algorithm update almost a year ago, search engine optimization has changed a lot.  Good news is, it had changed for the better.  SEO had evolved once again.  The old practices are now considered as spam and black-hat tact...