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Getting A New Website? Here’s What to Ask For
Does your website need an upgrade? Before you say “No, my website’s good,” it’s not enough to just have the basics of a good site – there are plenty of good sites out there. A great site has the right elements in place to make it a lead magnet. Besides being good-looking, your website should increase customer numbers and generate revenue, or it’s n…
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The IP Impact: Using Geo-Targeting to Zero In on Customers
Regardless of the size and scope of your business, there will be times when you want to market to certain geographical locations. This is true from big, global brands right on down to a mom-and-pop shop that serves a single neighborhood. The good news is that search engines are already in this game – having found ways of making search results more …
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7 Signs Your Business’s Social Media Needs Outside Help
At first, it seems easy – and because of social media’s personal nature, many businesses prefer to take care of their social media marketing in-house. Then there are the concerns about cost and entrusting their corporate image to outsiders. But no matter how much you may want to do everything yourself, you could be doing your business more harm tha…
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4 Pay-Per-Click Rules You Can’t Ignore
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has grown in importance over the last few years – it offers businesses a chance to compete against bigger and more established rivals on a more equal footing. Plus, PPC can generate immediate results, unlike SEO or social media marketing. But it’s not all about putting the highest bid behind a particular keyword and …
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How To Win The SEO Waiting Game
Regular, engaging content, a well organized site and a healthy sprinkling of keywords will rocket you to the top of search rankings in no time, right? Wrong. Although the elements of a great search engine optimization (SEO) strategy are well known, getting a highly coveted top 10 ranking can be a slow and frustrating process, taking months at best.…
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How to Run a YouTube Ad – and Best Practices for Creating the Content!
Video marketing is having a moment…a moment that’s going on three years. Video content was the fastest growing method of advertisement in 2012 according to the strategic marketing agency, Insivia. And it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down. This is likely due to the unrivaled success associated with visual ads. Insivia’s research goes on to suggest…
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Give Your Conversion Rates a Boost with Better Landing Pages
Even if your keywords and ads are getting people to your website landing pages, if you can’t get them to convert, it won’t matter how your other efforts are performing. In fact, conversation rates are more likely to be improved through a well-planned landing page than through a shiny new ad. An ideal landing page will captivate the user as soon as …
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Get More Mileage Out of Your Social Media Contest Winners with These Tips
Running low on social engagement? One of the most useful tools in a marketer’s arsenal for stirring up activity among their target audience is to run a social media contest. While announcing the contest winner is fun and exciting, the benefits don’t stop there. If executed properly, you’ll be able to capitalize on the many opportunities for engagem…
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Don’t Get Penalized – Optimize! Google to Favor Mobile Sites with New Algorithm
When it comes to search engine optimization, the only thing constant is change, and this has been proven once again by Google’s recent announcement that a sweeping algorithm adjustment will take place on April 21st of this year. The purpose of this algorithm change is to address the phenomenal growth in mobile traffic on the ubiquitous search engin…
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Every Day's a Party: Repurpose Holidays into Social Media Content Gold
Recent industry statistics have shown that two-thirds of shoppers rely on social media to find the perfect gift. What does that mean for you? It means there’s an eager stream of visitors who are actively using social media to help guide their holiday buying decisions, year in and year out. Take advantage of these spikes in social media traffic with…
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The Battle of the Bounce: MailChimp vs. Constant Contact
Wondering what you should do with that email list? While email marketing isn’t the newest method on the block, your email opt-in list remains one of the most powerful assets to foster genuine engagement and generate highly targeted leads for your products or services.
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How Brands Can Use Instagram to Generate Ecommerce
Brands and retailers have been seeking out the best way to tap into Instagram’s colossal database of over 300 million users, 60 percent of whom are between 18 and 35 years old. Up until quite recently, advertising ROI on Instagram has been convoluted at best. Even so, according to a recent report published by online marketing research firm L2, 93 p…
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