Educational Content Will Generate Website Leads
Inbound Marketing is about taking traditional marketing and kicking it to the curb. It's about the end of annoying, intrusive and interruption based marketing. It's about marketing that will generate website leads that you can actually close into sales. Last week I wrote a post about the role of SEO in Inbound Marketing. As a quick refresher, if you don't have HIGH QUALITY traffic visiting your website, your other online efforts are going to be fruitless. Without high quality traffic, you speaking to either an empty room or a crowd of cats with no interest in what you're saying. Let's assume you have high quality traffic visiting your website. You are kicking butt on the Attract phase of Inbound Marketing. That traffic means nothing if you can't generate leads from it. The good thing though, is that if you are generating HIGH QUALITY traffic, you have a much better chance of generating leads. Start With Content Versus Commitment The visitors to our website are just that, Visitors. ...
Read moreGoogle Partners Connect Event Overview
We are happy to be hosting another Google Partners Connect event at our office on October 15th, 2014! A Google Partners Connect event is an opportunity for business owners to hear how they can grow their businesses online directly from Google! They stream the event live from the Googleplex in California (maybe someday they'll ship us all out there). We've hosted couple of these events in the past and attendees have always left happy, educated, and motivated. This is not a public event, it will be streamed only by Google Partners, so be sure to RSVP with us or your local Google Partner soon.
Read moreThe Role of SEO In Inbound Marketing
We all know we want more traffic to our websites, right? That's a common, baseline objective for any website. More traffic should mean more people requesting quotes, etc...? Yes and no. More low quality visitors means less action on your site. More high quality visitors means more action on your site. Our focus is always getting high quality traffic through SEO, Pay-Per-Click and other traffic generating techniques. Although I think many small businesses incorrectly stop at the Attract phase of Inbound Marketing, it's still one of the most important aspects of Inbound Marketing. SEO Is A Cornerstone of Inbound The role of SEO in Inbound Marketing cannot be understated. For your site to convert visitors into leads and to nurture leads into closed sales, you first have to have a steady stream of high quality visitors that are looking for an answer to their problem(s), that you provide. How do you think most of your ideal buyers go about finding solutions to their problems? They open a ...
Read moreCurated Goodness - A Few Articles You Should Check out
How to Turn a New Fan into a Lifelong Follower
Read moreSEO Checklist for Starting Work With a New SEO Provider
Prepare this checklist when choosing a new SEO provider. Whether you are coming from a previous Search Engine Optimization (SEO) provider or starting work with your first one, follow this SEO checklist so that you can provide them with accurate details that start them off on the right foot!
Read moreGoogle Panda 4.1 - What it Means for Small Business Websites
With all of the talk of Pandas, Penguins, Pigeons you might be bit confused. You may be even more confused if you Googled these things and came across a website that explains them in a fashion that is just too difficult to understand. Don't get frustrated. This information is important, but I'd like to explain it to you in a very basic way.
Read moreBuyers Have Changed - Your Marketing Better Follow Suit
It wasn't too long ago that both B2C and B2B shoppers bought in a radically different way from how they buy now. If we wanted to research a product or service before buying, we went to the provider and asked questions. If we wanted to get an answer from the owner of a company, we went through a sales representative. In fact, if we wanted any information, we had to ask a sales representative. Who had the "power" in that situation? Not us! That's for sure. The sales rep was the gatekeeper and we had to get everything from them. That situation has shifted completely. Buyers have changed. Today, the buyer doesn't even consult a sales representative until they have nearly made up their mind. They have all of the information they need to make a buying decision when they finally speak to a sales rep. Where do they get this information? Surely they talk to friends and colleagues, but most often, they start by doing research online. Today's buyer looks to Google, social media and other online ...
Read moreA Story of a Successful Use of Facebook for Public Relations
Using Facebook in a PR situation.
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