You’re satisfied with the job your website has done in raising the profile of your business and now you’ve decided to take the next step and start taking orders online. That’s a natural next step, but to do it well, you’ll need to plan strategically and then track the right metrics after the launch. Here [...]
One of the key strategies of effective digital marketing has worked its way into American political discourse as we move into the election year of 2020. The tactic and the buzzword is “micro-targeting” and Google recently announced it would ban the use of this sort of audience segmentation for political advertising. The decision caused a [...]
Your small business has its website up and running and you’ve got a plan in place to produce consistent content. This is great and has positioned you to rank well in SEO. But your efforts will still be for naught if you fail to execute good technical SEO. Technical SEO is basically everything about [...]
You’ve built a successful local retail business with steady foot traffic. You’re looking for a way to take your business to that proverbial next level and e-commerce seems like the best way to go. You’ve got a website up, but it was more for the sake of providing an online presence and credibility than it [...]
“Hello. I’m listening” That was the way fictional 1990s TV radio psychiatry host Frasier Crane opened his talk show when someone called in to talk about a problem. And in our age of social media and consumer demand for increased responsiveness, it’s the mindset that companies need to cultivate if they’re going to reap the [...]
You may be a busy small business owner who has a website, and you understand that content is important, but you just aren’t sure how to proceed because you simply don’t have the time. Your business isn’t big enough to have a full-time content manager, although there are a couple of people on staff who [...]
Customer relationship management (CRM) tools are the fastest growing area of business software and there’s no sign of a letup. Systems like SalesForce and HubSpot are just the most notable examples of this trend and they’re changing the game in how businesses relate to their customers. The new landscape is one that offers both [...]
How do you get them to fall in love with you? You own or work in marketing at a small-to-medium sized e-commerce company, and you know all too well the challenges that business realities pose for you. You can’t solely compete on price, because a larger company could swoop in and take the advantage away [...]
Your organic SEO efforts have paid off. A user has been enticed by your link in Google’s search results. They click...and instead of going to the content that attracted them, they get a big “404 Error-Page Not Found” headline staring them in the face. The user clicks the back button and moves on with their [...]
You’re a local business owner that has developed a steady customer base the old-fashioned way—networking, billboards, etc. You also know the Internet has drastically changed the game and shows no signs of stopping. Making concessions to the modern era, you put up a website. Now you hear many theories about what needs to happen from [...]
