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August 01

How To Start Using Twitter As A Small Business

Most small businesses that we work with have not taken a social media step beyond Facebook. Most have only used Facebook because they are using it personally. Many have created a Facebook business page for their company but rarely, if ever use it. Facebook is not always the best place to focus, but because they already "know" how to use Facebook, that's where they start. Twitter is often overlooked by small business owners because they don't use it personally. If they were already on Twitter and had "figured it out", chances are they would have a business Twitter profile as well. This post aims at removing the "figuring it out" step that so many business owners put off.

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August 01

Google Pigeon Update - Affecting Local Search

If you aren't involved in marketing or the search world, you probably haven't heard much about the "Pigeon Update" which was an update to Google's search algorithm, primarily affecting local search. The update took place roughly 1 week ago (24th of July), so by now you may have noticed a difference if you pay attention to your web metrics.

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July 30

Effective Inbound Marketing Is NOT A Project

The majority of our clients are small businesses with no full time marketing staff. In fact, many do no marketing at all. That's why when they look to redesign their website and improve their SEO, they look at it like a project. They think they will give it their focus for a couple of months and it will be behind them, "running" in the background, "hopefully" generating leads for them. Like most things in life, effective inbound marketing, the kind that generates leads and helps to grow a business, is not a project that you do once, and then set it and forget it until the next time you decide to focus on it. Effective Inbound Marketing Is Not A Ron Popeil Product Inbound marketing should be an ongoing effort that is on any business owner or executive's regularly reviewed processes. Why? Because you won't always be able to rely on those core clients that pay your bills. When one of them goes in a new direction and picks your competitor over you, do you want it to be because they did a ...

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July 30

Myth Busters: Content Marketing Edition

Do a quick Google search of “content marketing” and you will surely be bombarded with facts, statistics, personal stories, how-to’s, and countless claims by “professionals” about the wonders of content marketing.

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July 25

Curated List of 4 Great Web Marketing Resources This Week - with Images

Here're some truly great web marketing resources we came across this week that can help you kick some marketing ass! Curl up in your hammock, grab a beverage and your smartphone, and gain some knowledge this weekend!

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July 25

The Effects of SEO Still Takes Time

SEO, or search engine optimization, is a tactic used to gain visibility in search engines without paying for ads. The effects of SEO take time and it should be tied to a strategy in an effort to achieve an overall goal or objective. SEO often has phases that look something like this:

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July 23

4 Simple Web Marketing Metrics To Measure

One of the biggest differentiating factors between web marketing (inbound) and radio, TV, newspaper, billboard, print, (outbound/interruption) etc... is the availability of EXACT data on how your marketing is performing. This can also pose a challenge though. With so much data available, it's easy to get lost in the weeds. For small businesses, just knowing 4 simple web marketing metrics will keep you well ahead of your peers when it comes to measuring performance and adjusting to improve. Are there many, many, many, many more metrics that you could/should measure? Absolutely! My point here is that most small businesses don't even know these 4 simple web marketing metrics for their efforts. Start here and customize/add to them over time. 1 - Organic Search Traffic To Your Site - SEO Traffic When we ask most small businesses how their search traffic is performing, most of them don't even know where to look to find that out. They know their site isn't performing for them, in that they ...

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July 18

Curated List of 4 Great Web Marketing Resources This Week

Feeling guilty that you didn't read any web marketing resources this week? No worries, we've compiled some of our favorites to give you some weekend reading material. Enjoy! Google Will Now Detect if a Website Won’t Work on Your Device, Warn You Have you ever tried to view a website on your phone and found the experience to be really bad? Yes, you have, don't lie. Google is now helping it's Android brethren by giving you a warning in the search results to let you know if a site won't work right on your phone. For now, they are focused on flash sites. Don't be surprised if that extends to non-flash sites in the future. Responsive design anyone? Thanks to Kellex at Droid Life for the great update. Infographic - Smart Ways To Combine Content Marketing With SEO One of the great things about content marketing is that it doesn't live in a silo. It feeds so many other tactics!! It's great when you get more mileage from a time investment. This infographic shows all of the channels for content ...

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July 18

Social Media Allows You To Fish With Multiple Poles

In my last post, I compared web marketing without content to fishing without bait. Everyone would agree that fishing without bait is not very smart. Everyone SHOULD agree that web marketing without content is not very smart.Let's assume that we can all agree that we need content to make web marketing effective. What's Your Bait? So what should you be using for bait? Ideally, your content would be a good mix of larger content assets like ebooks, webinars, and resource kits along with smaller content assets like blog posts, new pages on your site, videos and social media updates. If you're just getting started with content marketing, your first step HAS to be setting up a blog and writing a post at least once per week. We've discussed in the past that adding blog posts increases your SEO surface area and gives you the ability to speak directly to your best buyer with your own personal message. A blog is easy to setup and leads to the next fishing analogy... Social Media And Content Is ...

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July 17

Following Up With Online Leads

So you're all about capturing online leads through your website, right? Sure you are. Leads are great! But here's the thing...do you have a procedure in place for following up with those online leads? If not, the majority of those leads you get (or want) will be wasted. That's right, completely useless! In fact, research shows that a whopping 71% of internet leads are wasted. We don't want that to happen to you. Let's explore this situation so you can avoid this pitfall.

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How to Audit your Online Marketing

If you are executing digital marketing, congratulations! You are most likely already one step ahead of your competition, and making strides to meaningfully connect with prospects online. But, how do you know if you’re seeing continual success year over year, and improving your metrics?

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