Labor Day 2014
Labor Day is upon us! How much do you actually know about labor day? Here are a few pieces of info we thought were interesting. Please feel free to download and share.
Read moreLabor Day is upon us! How much do you actually know about labor day? Here are a few pieces of info we thought were interesting. Please feel free to download and share.
Read moreMost business owners at least know what a website is...hopefully. They can usually tell you what navigation is, a banner/slider/rotator, usually a footer, and sometimes even more specific things on a website. One thing that is not always easily understand is the difference between a website page and a blog post. Because this is a fairly common question, I thought it would be good to address it here.
Read moreThe homepage of your website is like the facade of your office or storefront times 10. If people drive by your actual office, they are going to form opinions about you based on the signs, colors, size, neighborhood, overall aesthetics, etc... but they are in front of your office. In most cases, they aren't going to turn the corner, seconds later, and be at your competitor's office. This is especially true for B2B companies.
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Read moreHoly cow, it's Friday! What a week it's been. We hope you've been on your hustle game, getting better and finding much success in whatever you do. Sticking with that theme, here are some of our favorites from around the web this week. Spend some time getting better this weekend by giving these a read. 5 More Brain Triggers To Drive Conversions On Your Website Or Landing Page As with anything else in life, there are some scientific considerations when it comes to increasing website conversions. This article touches on 5. Number 4 in the list is one of my favorites because I don't feel like it's used enough. Pointing out what you will miss out on if you don't take the desired action (conversion) can be very powerful. Called consumer FOMO (not mofo), fear of missing out can be a great motivator to get someone to download a resource on your site, request a sample or sign up. Article by Jordan Kasteler Most Popular Digital Marketing and Online Advertising Metrics One of the biggest ...
Read moreBlogging and writing educational content for a website is often looked at as a dreaded task. It's on par with many people's excitement to go for a run after work! The problem is, much like the run, you know you should be doing it, but you still don't. If there's one thing that will truly help you start and continue blogging on a regular basis, it's having clear outcomes you are trying to achieve from blogging. I don't mean the general outcome of more website traffic. I mean specific outcomes. Notice I said outcomeS, plural. Increasing website traffic might be one of your outcomes, but you should be more specific than that. When it comes to website traffic, your outcome should be more along the lines of increasing organic search traffic from Google, for a specific list of keywords, by a specific percentage, over a specific period of time. If your outcome is to get more website traffic, you've succeeded if you get 1 more visitor than you did last month. That's not success. Defining ...
Read moreSome of our clients have had some questions about the recent news of SSL affecting SEO. Keep in mind, for a small business SEO strategy, any impact can help. Given that, it is important that we clarify a few things regarding this topic using the least amount of tech talk that I can. Hopefully this will help some SMBs have a general understanding and get the process rolling if they haven't already.
Read moreOn the web, we have a unique opportunity that doesn't exist with traditional, interruption marketing. We can not only generate, but also guide leads down our sales funnel and score them into a qualified lead that sales can work to close. This aspect is often overlooked with small businesses looking to generate leads online. It's just as important to help guide newly generated soft leads down your sales funnel based on where they are in the buyer's journey for your industry. Let's briefly talk about this notion of a buyer's journey and how it impacts the sales funnel. Every consumer, whether B2B or B2C has a common set of steps that they take from the time they identify that there's a problem or desire that they have to the time that they make an actual purchase. Inbound marketing allows us to market to our leads based on where they're at in the buyer's journey. I plan to write more detail on the buyer's journey in the future, but for now this simple explanation will suffice. We can ...
Read moreHoly smokes! It's Friday already! Here're some inbound marketing articles you should have read this week: The 5 Biggest Content Marketing Lies - Inc. This is a quick read and well worth the time. John Hall hits on 5 very common misconceptions about content marketing and does a good job of clearing things up. As a teaser, my favorites are "Content marketing is just a buzzword" and "If you create it, they will come". Author: John Hall 8 Blogging Rules You Should Probably Ditch - Search Engine Watch Still not blogging for your company? That's a shame. You're missing a huge opportunity... Maybe this list of don'ts will help you get started on the right foot. They actually take blogging and make it easier. Already a blogger? Great! You're probably already following what Salma Jafri lists, but it's worth a double-check. Author: Salma Jafri 3 Components Every Value Proposition Must Have - JillKonrath.com With content marketing being such a useful tactic in your inbound marketing strategy, ...
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