Posts Tagged ‘marketing’
Why You Must Optimize for Conversions Before Awareness
When marketers plan their campaigns, the objective is usually to achieve one of two goals: increase brand awareness or maximize conversions. These two styles of marketing work together but they’re distinct from one another. Awareness marketing involves establishing a reputation within your niche, differentiating yourself from competitors and bringing people into the top of your…
Read MoreWhy Your Sales Funnels Aren’t Converting, And What To Do About It
Over the years, I’ve seen a number of perfectly good sales funnels fail… in fact, people often come to me and say that their marketing must be the problem – because they’re just not making sales. The truth, however, is that in order to make money in your business, you just need two things: An…
Read MorePPC 102: Seven tips to improve your paid search campaigns
Once you’ve got the basics of PPC down, how can you improve on those efforts further? Here are seven tips to take your campaign to the next level. We recently gave eight tips to help beginner search marketers get their first campaigns off the ground, with our article ‘PPC 101: Eight tips to get started‘. This…
Read More7 Best Online Proofreading Tools for Writing Error-Free Blog Content
No blogger ever wants to allow any errors in their content. We do our best to have our articles and other content 100% error-free because we do not want to be viewed as some illiterate rednecks. While we know that allowing a single spelling error by accident does not make you an illiterate redneck, we…
Read MoreConcentrate on Visitor Experience to Increase your Sales Pipeline
Keeping your sales pipeline healthy reduces the worry for businesses that they are not receiving enough income. There are trends throughout the year that can affect the pipeline so how do you keep it topped up at a satisfactory level the whole year? Focus on the Visitor Experience Your company has put effort into marketing…
Read MoreHow to Conduct Quality Link Building
No matter how often Google updates their algorithm in an attempt to devalue backlinks, they still remain essential for a sound SEO strategy. Keep in mind that there are definitely right and wrong ways to go about it. Buying links and getting fake reviews are a thing of the past. These days, search engines don’t…
Read More5 Myths About Your Clients and Social Media That You Should Forget Right Now
When it comes to social media marketing, any small business can utilize their online presence for lead generation. But, if social media marketing is so easy to leverage, then why do 65% of companies state, according to Hubspot, that lead generation and traffic is one of their top marketing concerns? It’s because many businesses aren’t…
Read MoreTips for Building and Managing Your Online Reputation
If you want your business to be successful in today’s world, you simply can’t ignore online reputation management. It is so easy for your customers to provide feedback on your products or services, so you need to make sure you have a good handle on what they are saying and how to respond. A negative…
Read More7 Must Have Elements of Every Small Business Website
In this post – 5 Steps to Restart, Recharge and Revive Your Marketing Right Now! – I introduced an aggressive initiative to help any business owner struggling to stay on plan with their marketing for the year. The idea is to take the mid-point of the year and get a fresh restart. In post #1 of 5,…
Read MoreProof Email Marketing Converts Leads Into Customers
As a small business, lead conversion can mean a lot of things to different people. Most likely you can think of a handful of things yourself. Someone signed up for your newsletter, clicked on a call-to-action, opened an email, visited your website, filled out a form or downloaded an ebook…. That’s all great stuff. It’s…
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