Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions:

• Why Is The Company Named Three Girls Media Inc.?
• What Kind Of Marketing Packages Do You Have?
• Why Don’t You List Prices On Your Website?
• How Much Of My Budget Should I Dedicate To Marketing?
• Who Will Manage My Account? How Often Will I Hear From Them And Receive Campaign Updates?
• What’s The Difference Between Content Marketing And Digital Marketing?
• What Will My Responsibilities Be During The Campaign? How Much Time Will I Need To Invest As A Client?
• Can’t I Just Post The Same Updates On All My Social Media Platforms?
• When Can I Expect To See Results?
• What Is Search Engine Optimization? Why Is It Important?

Why Is The Company Named Three Girls Media Inc.?

Contrary to popular belief, Three Girls Media was not started by three women, sisters or friends. When she was launching the marketing and public relations business, our CEO, Erika Taylor Montgomery, was sure of one thing: If you want to spread the word about something quickly, who should you tell? Three girls … and the news will spread like wildfire! The name was catchy, and our signature logo drawing of three girls gossiping enhanced the message perfectly.

What Kind Of Marketing Packages Do You Have?

Three Girls Media doesn’t have pre-set marketing packages. Rather, we prefer to have a one-on-one consultation, listen to your brand’s specific goals and needs, understand your budget, and develop a custom proposal specifically for your business. Three Girls Media executes campaigns that include search engine optimization, paid advertisement campaigns, social media management, blogging, email marketing, graphic design, web design and more. Creating a customized marketing strategy for each business gives us the necessary flexibility to best serve our clients with exactly the services that will help them most, at a price they can afford.

Why Don’t You List Prices On Your Website?

Three Girls Media is proud to customize our marketing proposals in great detail to specifically meet our clients’ needs and budgets. There are so many variables that it would be impossible to list the prices for every service we provide. Rather, we offer a complimentary, 30-minute no-obligation consultation with our CEO, Erika Taylor Montgomery, during which she’ll discuss your brand’s specific goals, marketing needs and budget. Following the consultation, we’ll prepare a comprehensive proposal customized for your company that will outline specific prices for each service, as well as a payment plan.

How Much Of My Budget Should I Dedicate To Marketing?

Wondering how much of your annual gross revenue should go towards your marketing budget? A good rule of thumb is 10 percent. However, establishing a realistic budget takes more than just knowing you plan to use 10 percent of your annual gross revenue. How much of it will you spend on social media, blogging or email marketing? What about advertising – are you factoring in how much the various platforms charge for ads? You might want to consider other content marketing tactics like creating infographics or guest blogging, too. Three Girls Media can help you make strategic decisions on how to best maximize your budget so you can achieve your marketing goals. 

Who Will Manage My Account? How Often Will I Hear From Them And Receive Campaign Updates?

One of Three Girls’ Marketing Specialists will manage the day-to-day activities of your marketing campaign. They will be supervised directly by our CEO, Erika Taylor Montgomery, who provides insight and guidance and is integrally involved in every campaign.

Your account manager will usually touch base a minimum of once per week, often more frequently, to keep you well-informed throughout the marketing campaign.

What’s The Difference Between Content Marketing And Digital Marketing?

Digital marketing is an umbrella term that encompasses every online activity that’s designed to create awareness for your brand. Digital Marketing includes:

• Your Website
• Search Engine Optimization
• Search Engine Marketing
• Blogging (on your business’ website)
• Guest Blogging (on others’ websites)
• Social Media Marketing
• Social Media Advertising
• Other Online Advertising (such as Google Ads)
• Influencer Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Video Marketing
• Graphics Created For Use Online
• Podcasting
• Webinars
• Each of these activities are designed to engage with your target audience and encourage them to find, buy and/or consume your product or service.

Content Marketing is an aspect of Digital Marketing. It includes two primary tactics:

• Creating original content for a targeted audience such as social media posts, graphics or videos, blog articles, etc.
• Marketing the created content using a variety of online avenues that may include social media channels, your website, email marketing campaigns and more.

Content marketing should follow the 80/20 Rule, which dictates that 80% of the content should not explicitly promote a brand, but is intended to stimulate interest in its products or services. The remaining 20% should specifically promote your brand’s offerings.

What Will My Responsibilities Be During The Campaign? How Much Time Will I Need To Invest As A Client?

There’s a good reason most of our clients hire a marketing agency – they usually don’t have the time, or expertise, to do it well themselves. So, Three Girls will be responsible for curating or creating, as well as posting or distributing, all of the content for your marketing campaign.

We simply ask that you review and approve everything we create to confirm accuracy, brand voice and personality, as well as alignment with your products and/or services. This can usually be done in 15 minutes per week or less.

Can’t I Just Post The Same Updates On All My Social Media Platforms?

Of course you can, but it’s a really bad idea. Why? If you have fans following you on multiple social media platforms, posting the exact same content everywhere will come across like spam. Without sound social media management, you can quickly lose your audience engagement. 

In addition, each social media platform has its own personality and protocol, so your posts should be customized appropriately and differently on every site.

Although it’s perfectly okay to share the same article, graphic, video or other content on each social media platform, it should be introduced differently and shared on separate days at different times.

When Can I Expect To See Results?

Successful content marketing takes trial and error to find the sweet spot of what resonates with your audience. And once you think you found that “just right” zone, it can change over time along with your customers’ needs. It’s best to give your content marketing strategy a minimum of 6-12 months to see results before you decide to drop or continue with the technique. In fact, Three Girls’ clients that have sustained their content marketing for two years or more have reported that they began to experience the tremendous benefits of a robust sustained campaign. That said, advertising campaigns can provide results much more quickly, often in days or weeks!

 Of course, it’s important to evaluate your marketing strategy throughout the campaign. In fact, it is a great idea to monitor each form of content or ads to discover what your customers are responding to; Three Girls uses this information to tweak your plan to include more of what your audience wants and less of what they don’t.

What Is Search Engine Optimization? Why Is It Important?

According to Wikipedia, “Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine’s unpaid results – often referred to as “natural,” “organic,” or “earned” results.

In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page [on sites like Google, Yahoo! and Bing]), and more frequently a website appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine’s users; these visitors can then be converted into customers. Search Engine Optimization may target different kinds of search, including image search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.”

Search engine optimization is crucial to your marketing strategy; the better your SEO, the sooner and higher in the results your company’s website will show up when a consumer searches on Google, Yahoo! or Bing. There are several ways to increase your website’s SEO, including publishing blog articles frequently and consistently, using high-value keywords throughout your website, using meta descriptions, meta tags, alt tags, geotagging and more. Contact us if you’d like to learn more!