The TNT Report Podcast: Marketing Tips, News, and Tools for Small Business. This podcast provides a weekly compilation of curated information for small business owners, entrepreneurs and marketers to grow their business and online presence.

 

The podcast starts with a story about nine ways that social media contributes to business growth, while this week's tip is about how to use trending conversations and popular hashtags to build your brand.

 

In news, the global box office revenue in 2021 was down 50 percent from the pre-pandemic era; Starbucks is planning to phase out its iconic coffee cups; while Supreme Court Bar members push permanent livestream audio. In other news headlines, Twitter tests a Shops feature; White House briefs TikTok influencers on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; while few politicians have appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, data shows that they should be targeting his fans; CD sales rose for the first time in 17 years; while nearly a quarter of Americans get their news from podcasts.

 

This week's tools are two Chrome extensions - HTTPS Everywhere and Wikiwand – while our "Friday Freebie" is the “Ultimate Guide to Small Business SEO and Local Search” from Yoast.

 

And our "bonus" content this week – are title tags a Google ranking factor?

 

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