9 Ways To Reach Pet Owners
Pets are incredibly important to their humans – they are another member of the family. Because good pet owners want the best for all members of their family, they tend to shell out quite a bit of money on their pets – whether for grooming services, veterinarian...
How Third-Party Cookie Elimination Can Affect Your Business
As a small or medium sized business owner in Lancaster County, PA, you’re focused on putting the right advertising in front of the right audiences. So, you’ve likely heard something in the news about third-party cookies being eliminated this year by Google Chrome....
Leveraging Google Search for Your Local Business
When evaluating the types of digital marketing that will be most successful for your small or medium sized business, one thing is clear – local marketing via Google search is more important than ever before. How Has the Algorithm Changed? You may have heard that the...
How to Decide On a Brand Advertising Strategy
As a small business owner or manager, you might need to work a little harder to make sure potential customers in the Lancaster County area are aware of your business. Luckily, there are a number of strategies your business can take to give your name the extra boost it...
How to Diversify Traffic Sources for Your Business’s Website
Have you done a Google search for your product lately and noticed a curious change in search results? Lately, no matter your search query, Reddit posts have been coming up excessively in Google product review search results. As of February 2024, Search Engine Land...
Best Practices to Drive Social Media Shopping for Your Business
These days, you can buy nearly anything you want online — from clothes to furniture, even cars. Online shopping is a booming, multi-billion dollar industry. Thanks to new technology, consumers can view high-quality videos, images, and descriptions of products with a...
How To Attract The Very Best Candidates For Your Small or Medium Sized Business
When you own and run your own business, spending much of your time working toward its success, you realize the importance of building a team of employees who will support your venture with enthusiasm and drive. The process of attracting, finding, and hiring qualified...
How Can Charitable Efforts Benefit My Business?
Charitable giving is always something that can bring value to your personal life — but did you know it can benefit your business as well? Will My Charitable Efforts Make An Impact? As a small or medium sized business owner, you may wonder how much of an impact your...
Social Media Marketing vs. Other Types of Digital Marketing
When working with your marketing agency to strategize a new marketing campaign for your small to medium sized business, chances are the campaign will include some type of digital and/or social media marketing. One common mistake in developing digital marketing...
A Beginner’s Guide to Digital Campaign Targeting
Do you feel like your digital advertising campaigns need a boost but you don’t know where to start? Are your social media campaigns struggling to bring in the results and reach your local small to medium sized business’s needs? Before your ads miss any more valuable...
Google’s algorithm changes: What do they mean for your Lancaster business?
As a local business, you may not have time to pay close attention to the goings-on at Google. However, changes in Google’s search engine algorithms can affect businesses across the globe, including mom and pop businesses right here in Lancaster County. If any portion...
Video Production in Lancaster PA
If you have a small to medium sized business in Lancaster County PA, or in surrounding counties such as Berks, Dauphin, Chester, York, or Lebanon, you may wonder how to secure high-quality videos for your company’s marketing campaigns. Lancaster is not a large metro...
The Importance of Setting Goals and Tracking Performance in Digital Marketing
It goes without saying that all successful digital marketing campaigns start with the digital marketing team settling clear goals. Goal inform the details of the marketing campaign plan (how to get to the goal) and illuminate other objectives to reach. However, if a...
Digital Display Advertising, the Unsung Hero of Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is a constantly evolving field. Since digital marketing agencies already work in a bewilderingly complicated industry, they sometimes find themselves stuck with old habits. However, the dynamic nature of digital marketing means that digital agencies...
How to Drive More Business in the Most Important Fourth Quarter
When it comes to boosting sales, few times of the year offer more revenue sales opportunities than the fourth quarter. Whether customers are thinking about Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Christmas, New...
How to Choose a Lancaster County Digital Marketing Agency
It doesn’t matter if you live in Lancaster or other parts of the country. Businesses everywhere have recognized that the marketing world is changing fast, and digital marketing companies are at the heart of this exciting time. Thousands of companies in Pennsylvania...
Everything Your Lancaster County Business Needs to Know About Social Media Right Now
When it comes to social media, it pays to stay up-to-date. That's because all types of social media are changing quickly, and what worked well last year might not perform as well this year and beyond. Lancaster County businesses and organizations need a way to keep...
Digital, Traditional, or Both? Why Your Business Needs a Multi-Channel Media Campaign
If you're like most marketers in Lancaster County, you are spending a lot of time thinking about which media platform is best for your business or brand. Should you invest in newspaper advertising? Is it time to launch a digital campaign? What about local magazines?...
E-commerce: Now Your Business is Always Open
Many small businesses are limited by their location. They are limited to the customers that live or work near them. They are limited by the hours in a business day. The cost of additional staff and additional operating expenses may make extended hours undesirable....
LNP Media Group can be Your Agency’s Digital Expert
Agency-to-Agency Digital Services & B2B Digital Marketing There are hundreds of advertising and marketing consulting agencies in Central PA. If you're one of them, you know that it's hard to stand out, challenging to find qualified staff, and difficult to convince...
Contextual Targeting: Discover why Consumers and Advertisers Prefer Relevant Content Placement
As long as there’s been advertising, some form of contextual ad placement has existed. Any businesses or organizations that have run ads in newspapers, in magazines, or on television have been placing ads in ways that ensure they are surrounded by relevant, credible...
LIVE Virtual Marketing Events to Guide Your Business During the Covid-19 Shutdown
LNP Media Group hosted four marketing seminars to help local businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. The seminars were attended by over 60 local businesses, and were led by Dr. Renee Tacka. This page contains links to a recording of each seminar, plus the slide...
Mastering the Marketing Funnel
If you've ever thought about creating a formal marketing plan for your Pennsylvania company, you've probably run into the term "marketing funnel" or "marketing sales funnel." While almost all modern communications plans use some type of marketing funnel, this is not a...
Email Marketing for All Types of Businesses
Why should your company be doing email marketing? First and foremost, because people are very engaged with their inboxes. According to Pew Research, 90% of Americans use the internet and email. People can check their work and personal email accounts multiple times a...
OTT, CTV, & the Future of Video Advertising
Whether they’ve been in marketing for a few years or a few decades, today’s advertisers have seen a lot of changes. With so many rapid developments in the way programming is produced, marketed, delivered, and sponsored, it’s hard to keep up. Media, digital...
An Easy-to-Understand SEO Overview: Search Engine Optimization
If your Lancaster County business wants a successful online presence, SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is critical. Search Engine Optimization describes all of the strategies and tactics deployed to encourage search engines to rank your page highly against relevant...
What You Don’t Know About Advertising on LancasterOnline
Lots of people are confused by the array of online advertising options. And it seems like a new one pops up every month. Even experienced digital marketing experts can get overwhelmed trying to keep up with all the changes in online platforms and advertising tools. In...
How To Create A Small Business Marketing Budget
Creating a marketing budget can be tough. Small business owners know that marketing is a crucial aspect of success, but determining the right amount to spend and what services to spend on can be difficult. The goal is always for marketing to provide a net gain,...
Content Marketing: How To Utilize This Increasingly Effective Marketing Strategy
Content marketing is steadily becoming one of the most effective forms of digital marketing. With lower costs and higher rates of effectiveness, content marketing has become a staple of many advertising campaigns. Content marketing comes in many forms including video,...
Millennial Who? Marketers Move on to Generation Z
In the past few years, many businesses have focused their marketing efforts on reaching the millennial generation. Today, the youngest millennials are finally entering the workforce making way for the next generation of influencers, Generation Z (Gen Z). According...
Integrated Marketing: 4 Steps to Improving Your Strategy
As marketers, the team at LNP Media Group is always looking for ways to reach the right audience, one that will benefit from and welcome our advertisers’ messages. We think about who your customers are and what their habits might be. It’s likely that your audience is...
Digital Ad Targeting: 3 Ways For Small Businesses To Break Through
Today’s world is more digitally interconnected than ever before. With all of the different types of media available, the challenge for marketers has become how to best reach consumers and deliver a message that has impact. One of the most effective ways to do that is...
3 Pieces of Advice That Marketers Have for Accountants
Accounting used to be a field where business owners could rely on the loyalty of their clients to sustain their firm’s profitability in the long-term. Today, 79 percent of consumers say they would take their business to a competitor within a week of experiencing poor...
Why Brand Empathy is Your Business’s Best Marketing Strategy
Brand empathy has been around for a long time and will only become more important as our technological world evolves. So what is brand empathy, why is it important for your small business, and how can you work brand empathy into your business’s marketing strategy?...
Business Marketing: 5 trends to plan for
If you’re getting started on your business’s marketing plan, knowing and understanding the latest consumer trends is the first step towards developing a well-rounded strategy before it’s too late. Marketing isn’t just about how you send messages to your customers, but...
3 cost-effective ways to advertise this holiday season
If you’re a small business owner, giving your holiday advertising a boost is one of the best ways to draw in new customers and increase profits this year and for years to come. Your business’s advertising budget may not be large, but there are still plenty of...
LNP Newspaper Supports Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Breast Cancer has affected our friends, families and employees. One in eight women in Pennsylvania will be diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. Each year it is estimated that over 246,660 women in the United States will...
10 Tips for Attracting Black Friday Shoppers to Your Small Business
Business owners are always trying to maximize their sales during the busiest times of the year, none more so than Black Friday weekend. Black Friday marks the peak of one of the biggest retail weekends of the year; according to the National Retail Federation, an...
Video Marketing Strategies for Businesses
Video is becoming the preferred way to consume information, especially on mobile devices, and this is important news for small business marketers. As consumers spend more and more time watching video online, they begin to expect the sight, sound, and motion it offers....
3 Tips To Boost Back-To-School Sales
An integral component of a well-rounded back-to-school marketing plan involves reaching your target audience at the right time, repeatedly, through various ad channels. As can be expected, notebooks and backpacks are still commonplace for any back-to-school list, but...
How to Get in Front of the Lucrative 50+ Demographic
Adults over 50 years of age are a prime audience for many businesses, including retirement communities, financial planners, insurance agencies, health care providers, retail shops, travel agencies, restaurants, and many more. Older adults have disposable income and...
10 Ways to Stretch Your Ad Budget
No matter how big (or small) your ad budget is, you probably struggle with making the most of your marketing dollars. While outspending your competition is ideal, not every business has the resources to match competitors’ budgets. What can you do to stretch your...
How to Market to Lancaster Millennials
How To Reach This Elusive But Lucrative Market. Are you one of those marketers who still think that Millennials are just teenagers glued to their smart phones? Think again. Millennials have come of age, and with a spending power hitting trillions of dollars,...
Digital Marketing from the “Newspaper?”
Digital marketing has become a critical part of most marketing plans. Platforms like Facebook/Instagram offer unmatched audience targeting, paid search advertising reaches specific customers who are ready to buy, and geofencing reaches mobile audiences within narrow...
5 Ways Real Estate Uses Digital To Attract Sellers
Digital marketing is one of the most effective ways to grow your business. By investing in digital marketing, you can reach a growing customer base at a fast pace. Has your real estate business dipped into the digital world yet? Start reaching more sellers with these...
5 Ways to Reach Pet Owners
Pets are important to their humans; they are another member of the family. Whether it be for grooming services, veterinarian services, toys, apparel, boarding, etc., pet owners shell out quite a bit of money on their pets. Pet retailers have been finding new,...
Cocktail Marketing: A Bar and Club Owners’ Guide to Digital Marketing
Bars and nightclubs require a slightly different marketing approach than other types of businesses. When it comes to marketing and advertising, bars and nightclubs need more of a social approach. Luckily, there are a number of digital marketing approaches you can take...
College Marketing: The Changing Faces of Higher Ed
Whether you’re the professor or a student at a college, you understand that higher education is constantly facing changes. One of the biggest challenges higher education has to take on is the way it reaches potential students. Through today’s technology and available...
It’s All About Location: Geo-Fencing
What is it? Geofencing sends a message to consumers’ mobile devices after they enter a predefined geographic area, whether it’s around your business, near a related venue, or even at a competitor’s location. When a prospect enters the chosen perimeter, their...
Charitable Giving: A Marketers Guide
Donating to worthy causes can be as beneficial for the givers as it is for the receivers. Businesses that support non-profits can increase customer loyalty, boost brand awareness, and even garner more sales. With so many reasons to give, this may be the right time to...
Food and Spirits Marketing
Tis the Season! What’s the first thing that comes to mind when the holidays are near? Food! Food might even be higher on the “favorites” list than holiday shopping and gift giving. Lots of Lancaster County foodies celebrate the cooler months by whipping out their...
Instantly Amplify Your B2B Marketing
How to Leverage the Power of your Database Building databases is a lot of work. Businesses spend years gathering emails from newsletters, customer cards, trade shows, email campaigns, sales calls and more. Businesses work hard to build a meaningful list of customers...
What’s the Future for Lancaster County’s Daily Newspaper?
Five Key Commitments Make the Difference In conversations with neighbors, friends, and business associates, our colleagues at LNP Media Group are often asked about the future of LNP, Lancaster County’s daily newspaper. Given the rapidly changing media environment for...
Cause Marketing for Local Businesses
Doing good in Lancaster County can set your business apart, win customers, and grow business. Did you know that 90 percent of customers report they would probably switch to a brand with similar products or pricing if that brand supports a good cause? Consumers today...
Recruiting New Employees with Targeted Digital Campaigns
Human resources and employment professionals today have a big challenge: finding and recruiting new employees. Unemployment rates are low across the country, and they’re especially low in Lancaster County. Most people who want jobs have them, so recruiting means...
5 Surprising Ways to Grow Grocery Sales
Major local survey uncovers what grocery shoppers really want. LNP Media Group surveyed over 1,500 Lancaster County grocery shoppers to find out what shoppers in this area like and dislike about the grocery stores already in our county. The bad news? The bad news for...
It All Adds Up: 5 Tips for Financial Marketing
Discover how to stand out in a crowded industry. For any business, getting noticed can be challenging, For banks, credit unions, mortgage companies, and financial planners creating awareness is critical. After all, financial services companies don’t offer ordinary...
Digital or Traditional: Which Media Works Best for Seniors?
Are you marketing to adults 50+? You may think that traditional marketing, such as newspaper and print, is the best medium for your target audience. After all, it has powerful benefits: you get broad reach, you have well-developed audiences, you can ensure exclusivity...
Learn Exactly What Tech Terms Mean!
Sometimes digital vocabulary and talking technology with vendors and agencies can be intimidating. Even among experts, terms can have slightly different meanings. We use this digital dictionary at LNP Media Group to make sure all our teams and partners are using the...
5 Tips for Marketing to Lancaster Foodies
How to attract attention in a foodie county: Lancaster County has always had a special relationship with its food. After all, we’re rooted in a strong agricultural economy: We boast the oldest farmers’ market in America and we’re spoiled with hundreds of farm stands...
Digital Tips for Real Estate Marketers
Rethink digital to attract more buyers and sellers. Real estate professionals are busy people. Between prospecting, open houses, working through negotiations, and constantly moving housing inventory, it can be difficult to find time to get it all done. Realtors need...
4 Smart Ways to Reach Lancaster County Brides
Try new strategies to reach this lucrative audience. Lancaster County offers brides a wide range of on-trend wedding options. From customized engagement rings to reality-TV worthy cakes, engaged couples can get overwhelmed with choices. So how can your business stand...
4 Ways to Get More Clients for Your Tax Business
Build your business for tax season. Tax professionals feel the pressure of an April 15th filing deadline, but so do consumers. If you’re trying to grow your tax business in Lancaster County, the first months of the new year are a great time to build your customer...