If you are a small business owners, you’ll want to focus your marketing efforts in the middle and bottom funnel. Strategies in these two areas will give you the best bang for your money. Small businesses with small budgets, this approach will get you and keep you ahead of the curve. And blowing your whole budget with a mass media approach is the quickest way to bankrupt your business. It…
If you’re among the business owners who are posting and sharing content through Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms, then you’re off to a good start. But if you’re not getting the results you’re looking for, chances are that’s because your social media isn’t actually very social. Posting and sharing content just isn’t enough! However, how do you put the ‘social’ back in social media and take your social…
What makes an effective web design? Is it the visual elements, or is it the functionality? Truth be told it is a combination of both. As Steve Jobs once said, “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Websites with great usability and function tend to perform better on Google than those just with beautiful design. We want to show you 10…
Wouldn’t you like to know how what your customers are thinking? How are they going to act? Well, you can! You just need to track how your current customers are interacting with your business. You or someone on your team needs to be continually answering the following questions in order to get to know your potential customers. How many customers are you getting every month? Even in the craziness of…
Make your business visible online, and you will get a larger share of customers. Operating a small and local business doesn’t mean you cannot increase your customers and scale. Get a Website. Don’t you have a website yet? Where have you been all this time? From plumbers to dentists, the local handyman to big engineering firms – they have websites. Your website will be your 24/7 storefront. Make sure that…
On-the-go mobile users who are near you and who are searching for a product or service on Google at this very moment should find your business. But are they? Are you visible in Google’s ‘Local Pack’ and expanded results? Increased foot traffic, phone calls, or visits to your website should mean more customers for local business owners like you. That is why optimizing for local search results should be important….
You have created the perfect search engine optimization for your website. You have done everything right, everything you were supposed to do. But why are you not seeing any new traffic? On average it takes between 6-9 months for SEO to begin to become effective. But you don’t have to just sit around and wait during that time, you can use Google Adwords! 1.Google Adwords Skip the wait, Google Adwords…
Any smart online digital marketer will tell you that your website is the most important aspect of any successful online business. And any successful website covers every angle when it comes to the customer’s journey on finding exactly what they need, whether that be a product or service that the business is offering. Do it wrong, and that customer will go to another website where that business is doing it…
You do your best to give your customers great service, but does everyone else know that? Keeping up your business’ good reputation online is just as important as its credibility offline. Here’s some things you can do to make sure the first thing customers see when they look up your business is a business worth visiting: Make sure your business is listed – Whether it be on niche review sites…
Digital marketing generally means getting the word out online about your brand and getting customers to see why they should buy from your business. But in today’s hyperconnected world, your customers can also shape the reputation of your business online in (nearly) real time. This is very important as 77% of consumers read online reviews before making a decision. While talking about how good your products and services are is…