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February 19

A 12 Month Marketing Strategy Should Include Mobile

Start sarcasm... Are you ready to have your mind blown? Hold on to your hats... Lots of people use smartphones and tablets to browse the web! Feel free to take a minute to recover from that astonishing fact. I understand. New information can really be a shock at first. ...end sarcasm. Seriously though, if you were to look at your website's analytics, you'd probably be surprised at the number of visitors to your site that are on smartphones or other mobile devices. If you want to know how many for sure and you use google analytics, here're the steps when you're logged in: Now you need to ask yourself if you want to be friends or foes to the mobile device using people that are viewing your site. Additionally, you need to ask if your competitors are being friendly to mobile device users. The Past Is The Past. The Present Is The Present. The Future Will Be Different Too. Like anything based on technology, the best way to do something last year is not necessarily the best way to do the ...

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February 18

When Does Social Media Sponsored Advertising Make Sense?

As you have probably seen, you can advertise on nearly all of the social networks. These platform give you the ability to serve incredibly targeted ads and have other advantages that not even AdWords can provide. Let's go over some of the advantages of some of the sponsored advertising advantages through social media. Probably the most significant advantage is the ability to target. It's almost scary.

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February 13

Why You Should Update Your Website Even When You Have Nothing To Say

First, let me preface this by saying that there is always something to say. I would have a hard time believing that there isn't something you could change or add to your website at any given time.

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3 Things To Give Your Web Consultants Before A Redesign

A website redesign is a common component of a new web marketing strategy. It helps to freshen the look and feel as well as better optimize the site for SEO and conversions. We've discussed some business questions that are absolute musts before crafting a web marketing strategy. Now, let's look at 3 things you should have in hand before you hire a web marketing firm for your website redesign.

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February 07

10 Questions To Answer BEFORE Starting Your Web Marketing Strategy

The first step in planning a small business web marketing strategy is getting very clear about your business objectives, because they will guide the strategy that goes into your web marketing efforts. If you have set goals for sales, safety, employee retention, quality, market share, new product launches, etc... you need to ask yourself, your team and your web marketing consultants, how your web strategy can help you reach your short and long term goals. To make sure you are clear on your objectives and get you thinking as a web marketing strategist, here are 10 questions to answer before you define your web marketing strategy. 1- What Business Are You Really In? At first, this question seems like a no-brainer. For example, a company that manufactures cardboard packaging for products may think they are in the "packaging" business. At a VERY basic level, that is true. That's not how their clients view them though. They are so much more to their clients. To their clients, they are the ...

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February 06

What is a Content Management System

When you are having discussions about getting a new website, there is usually some mention of a content management system, or CMS. While not 100% of websites must have a CMS, it is very rare that that feature is left out.

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February 05

A Brochureware Website Is Not Enough

You know those pamphlets, sales sheets, and business cards you hand out to prospects in person? They should not be your website. In this day and age, you will be passed over if you try to get away with it. The design and "feel" of your printed marketing materials can certainly influence the design of your web marketing efforts, but there should never be a direct 'Save-As' from tri-fold to website. It should be a law!

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2 Ways Online Advertising is Improving

With most things in our life, as information and technology become available, they improve. Even advertising...most of it at least. Look at billboards for example. They started out as a single billboard with a piece of vinyl that faded over time. Now we have amazing digital billboards. The digital billboards allow for more creativity from the advertiser, more ad revenue for the billboard owner, and even another side advantage, they are probably safer because you don't have people crawling all over them to change the vinyl!

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Easily Create Landing Pages With c80 CMS

Have you ever noticed how that tough task that you do infrequently seems to keep finding it's way to the bottom of your task list?

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January 31

Paid Search Advertising and the Super Bowl

Everyone hears about the Super Bowl commercials. Rightfully so as plenty of creativity and TONS of money gets poured into these commercials. Not as many people are talking about AdWords and Super Bowl advertising...unless you are a search nerd like me! More of the ad spend for search will be spent before the Super Bowl as opposed to during the game, but there are a ton of opportunities for brands to get in front of a huge audience. What are some of the terms people might be searching?

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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?

Without the tools in place to analyze and benchmark your efforts, it is impossible to scale your online marketing and ensure continuous success.

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