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How to Optimize Your Referral Program and Boost Your Sales
How to Optimize Your Referral Program and Boost Your Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing Referral marketing looks like the elixir of marketing. You are making your customers refer their friends to your business at no extra cost. Doesn’t that sound great? If you are a business owner, I know…
Read MoreStudies: digital, particularly cellular, driving trillions in offline retail spending
The $354 billion in 2016 e-commerce gross sales is small potatoes in contrast with offline retail spending: over $four.5 trillion in response to US authorities figures. However what’s additionally bigger than e-commerce is offline spending influenced by the web — between $1 and $2+ trillion, relying on the estimate. Based on a brand new…
Read MoreSimple Tips for Sleuthing Your Site Performance Using Google Analytics
Editor’s note: Google Analytics is one of the most critical evaluation tools to aid your web-based content. This back-by-popular-demand post has been updated to continue detailing how to measure up for maximum effect. How do you measure up when it comes to measuring the impact and value of the content you are publishing? Fortunately, for…
Read MoreHow to Use Content to Get Your Audience to Trust You
Why are online reviews so prevalent regardless of industry? It’s because we, as consumers, need to be reassured that whatever we’re paying for is going to deliver on its promises. Integrity is at the heart of this. An honest business that stands by its principles is one that deserves to be trusted. But you can’t…
Read MoreUnderstand How Content is Influencing Buyers: A Primer on Attribution Models
“Whoever owns your attribution model owns your budget” – Lars Hirsch, principal product manager, sponsored products, Amazon In marketing, “attribution” refers to a set of user actions that contributes to a desired outcome, (i.e., a conversion) and assigning a value to each of these events. It helps you understand which combination of events in which…
Read MoreCan you guess what’s inside the box?
Today’s post is a little different. However, it will explain how to create a cycle of ongoing, repeat sales. Let’s begin. I want you to imagine you have a very special box, which you place on a table in front of a prospective client or customer. You explain that the contents of this sealed box…
Read MoreLive Content is Rising in Popularity
Live Content is Rising in Popularity written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing At the beginning of 2016, everybody was talking about how big video will be and how important it will become for every small, medium business or even enterprise. And as we can see, the video has become a big…
Read MoreHow to Use Content Marketing to Improve Your Local Search Ranking
Struggling to get your business to rank high in local search results? Every smart marketer knows that local SEO is the next big thing in digital marketing. The higher you rank in local search, the better your chances of attracting relevant customers to your business. So if you’re ranking low in local search, it’s a…
Read MoreFetch and Horror: 3 examples of how fetch and render in GSC can reveal big SEO problems
In May 2014, some powerful functionality debuted in the “fetch as Google” feature in Google Search Console — the ability to fetch and render. When you ask Google to fetch and render, its crawler will fetch all necessary resources so it can accurately render a page, including images, CSS and JavaScript. Google then provides a preview…
Read MoreA simple checklist to prep for the Google mobile-first index
Hopefully, all of you learned from “Mobilegeddon” in 2015 and “Mobilegeddon 2” in 2016 that the updates Google makes to improve the smartphone user experience for the majority of Google searchers are not the end of the world. Not even close, in fact. Still, I have seen a lot of articles focused on this topic in…
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