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Why Data can (and should) drive your Content Marketing Strategy

Let’s face it – writing a blog post is not easy. It takes time, research, thought, and effort. Why would you waste those resources creating something that no one will want to read? The same is true for an email blast or e-newsletter. Why would you waste your time writing articles and designing an email [Read more…]

The Low Cost Adwords Strategy No One Talks About

You are probably familiar with what Adwords is and how it can help generate leads or sales for your business. As Adwords advertising has become more popular the cost of it has gone up, particularly over the last 5 years. However, compared to many other forms of print advertising and other media, Adwords is still [Read more…]

How to Respond to Negative Online Reviews

Your customers have access to many different review sites such as Yelp.com, YellowPages.com and even your Google + and social media pages to leave a testimonial about the service they received at your business. According to this survey by Nielsen.com, 70% of consumers say online reviews are among the most trusted source for information, and [Read more…]

Marketing Your Business Without Spending A Lot

Emily Adams, our content marketing specialist, recently wrote an article about free or low-cost ways to market your small business. This article includes advice on how to build your brand, grow with social media and develop a good website. From the article on wework.com: “Marketing your business online is now more accessible than ever before. [Read more…]

Anatomy of a Great Facebook Post

There may not be a formula to great Facebook content, but there are certainly things you can do to make your posts more successful. Take a look at the example below: The image will be the first thing that people notice. Posts with images perform better than posts without or posts with link thumbnails. Make [Read more…]

How To Set-Up A Google Content Experiment In 5 Steps

You may have heard that in online marketing it is important to continually test things for different angles and different ways of presenting information in order to improve conversions and generate more leads from your website.  That’s a pretty universal concept in any kind if Direct Response marketing, whether you are talking about Direct Mail, [Read more…]

The Importance of Online Presence

A solid presence on the web is critical to the success of a business in our digitally evolved world. But with so many opportunities to reach your customer online, how do you know where to focus your marketing efforts? You could invest time and money developing a flashy website – but it won’t do you [Read more…]

Pinterest Launches New Analytics Tool

Pinterest, the bookmarking social network, announced Tuesday that a new robust analytics tool is now available to businesses. Within the new analytics dashboard you can now see number of users who engage with your pins, pins that generate the most impressions, user demographics, off-network data for social plugins and more. This is a major upgrade [Read more…]

Four Easy Ways to Boost Online Reviews

On July 24, 2014, Google rolled out their new algorithm update, named Pigeon by Search Engine Land, which ties deeper into Google’s local web search capabilities. This means the search engine giant is putting more value on brands that have online reviews on local review pages such as Google+ and Yelp.com. What does this mean [Read more…]

Negative SEO Attempting to Extort Website Owners

While the recent attempts by organizations to blackmail/extort webmasters and website owners are not necessarily new, they might be new to many of you. We wanted to take a moment and help you understand what is going on out there in cyberspace, including some ways you can combat these threats. Essentially what is happening this [Read more…]