As a small business owner that relies on foot traffic for your business, you may wonder if your website is really doing anything for you. Sure, you understand in general that a website is important—if nothing else because you’ll look out of step with the times without one. But since you don’t have an e-commerce [...]
If you run a local business, it’s possible you haven't paid much attention to Google Analytics, the free tool that measures your website traffic and gives you insights into the actions people take on your site. Most small business owners have to wear a number of different hats and when your business isn’t built on [...]
During uncertain times, marketing is often the first budget to get slashed. And right now throughout most industries, CMOs are being asked to do more (or at least, as much) with less - meaning less staff and reduced budgets. A recent Gartner survey of 260 U.S. marketing executives reported that 76% expected a decrease in [...]
There’s a perception that social media exists only for B2C companies. It’s an understandable perception, but it’s not true, and the owners of B2B companies that buy into it turn perception into reality. There’s no reason to leave the landscape of social media only to the sellers of consumer products. When you do B2B social [...]
Certainly keywords are an important part of every SEO strategy. Keywords help Google understand the relevance of your web page as it relates to the search query of users and Google uses those keywords to display relevant results to web searchers since Google can’t “read” web pages like humans. Because of this, we marketers incorporate [...]
We’ve arrived at a point where we think machines can do everything. When it comes to content marketing, this belief has taken root due to some pretty amazing developments in marketing personalization. Who hasn’t seen an ad appear on Facebook or another website targeting your personal tastes, location, and other preferences? Some say the Internet [...]
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 [...]
Prediction is difficult, particularly when it involves the future. - Mark Twain It’s that time of year again. It’s the season when SEO pundits predict the Google-trends that, when strategically accounted for, will define a marketers’ success or failure. Spoiler: a review of SEO predictions from the past decade will reveal many of the same [...]
Does it make sense to hire a content writer? Maybe, but first we should decide if content marketing is worth it. Check out these stats: Content-driven Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is 15% less than paid CAC Companies with blogs get 67% more leads than companies without blogs Inbound marketing close rates are 8 - 10x [...]
