TrueReview: Collect Reviews Easily And Grow Your Business’ Reputation and Visibility

Friday, February 26, 2021 0

Reading Time: 3 minutes This morning I was meeting with a client that has multiple locations for their business. While their organic visibility was horrible for their site, their placement in the Google Map pack section was fantastic. It’s a nuance that many businesses don’t fully understand. Regional search engine results pages have 3 main sections: Paid Search – denoted by small text that states Ad, the ads are typically prominent at the top of the page. These spots

Marketing Infographics

Video Marketing Trends for 2021

Thursday, February 25, 2021 0

Reading Time: 2 minutes Video is one area that I’m really trying to ramp up this year. I recently did a podcast with Owen of The Video Marketing School and he motivated me to put some extra effort in. I recently cleaned up my YouTube channels – both for me personally and for Martech Zone (please subscribe!) and I’m going to continue to work on getting some good videos recorded as well as do more real-time video. I built

Social Media Universe: What Were The Largest Social Media Platforms in 2020?

Thursday, February 25, 2021 0

Reading Time: 2 minutes Size does matter whether we’d like to admit it or not. While I’m not the greatest fan of many of these networks, as I view my interactions – the largest platforms are where I spend my most time. Popularity drives participation, and when I want to reach my existing social network it’s the popular platforms where I can reach them. Notice that I said existing. I would never advise a client or person to ignore the

Social Media Marketing 101

Thursday, February 25, 2021 0

Reading Time: 3 minutes How do I get started on social media? This is a question that I continue to get when I speak on the impact of social media on a business’ marketing efforts. This infographic from Venngage walks a business through setting up and developing their strategy for marketing via social media. And there are some good tips in here for the established marketer as well! Choose Your Social Networks – Look for unique industry groups and

Search Marketing

How To Increase Search Ranking By Finding, Monitoring, and Redirecting 404 Errors In WordPress

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 0

Reading Time: 5 minutes We’re helping an enterprise client right now with implementing a new WordPress site. They’re a multi-location, multi-language business and have had some poor results with regard to search over recent years. When we were planning their new site, we identified a few issues: Archives – they had several sites in the last decade with a demonstrable difference in their site’s URL structure. When we tested old page links, they were 404’d on their latest site.

Generational Marketing: How Each Generation Has Adapted To and Utilizes Technology

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s pretty common for me to groan when I see some article berating Millennials or making some other terrible stereotypical criticism. However, there’s little doubt there aren’t natural behavioral tendencies between generations and their relationship to technology. I think it’s safe to say that, on average, older generations don’t hesitate to pick up the phone and calls someone, while younger folks will jump to a text message. In fact, we even have a client who

Content Library: What Is It? And Why Your Content Marketing Strategy Is Failing Without It

Reading Time: 6 minutes Years ago we were working with a company that had several million articles published on their site. The problem was that very few of the articles were read, even less ranked in search engines, and less than one percent of them had revenue attributed to them. I’d challenge you to review your own library of content. I believe you’d be surprised at what percent of your pages are actually popular and engaged with by your

Moosend: All The Marketing Automation Features To Build, Test, Track, and Grow Your Business

Reading Time: 3 minutes One exciting aspect of my industry is the continued innovation and dramatic drop in cost for highly sophisticated marketing automation platforms. Where businesses once spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (and still do) for great platforms… now the costs have dropped significantly while the featuresets continue to improve. We were recently working with an enterprise fashion fulfillment company that was ready to sign a contract for a platform that would cost them over half-a-million dollars

How I Damaged My Reputation With Social Media… And What You Should Learn From It

Reading Time: 7 minutes If I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting you in person, I’m fairly confident that you’d find me personable, humorous, and compassionate. If I’ve never met you in person, though, I fear what you might think of me based on my social media presence. I’m a passionate person. I’m passionate about my work, my family, my friends, my faith, and my politics. I absolutely love dialogue on any of those topics… so when social media

accessiBe: Using Artificial Intelligence To Tackle Site Accessibility

Reading Time: 3 minutes While regulations for site accessibility have been around for years, companies have been slow to respond. I don’t believe it’s a matter of empathy nor compassion on the side of corporations… I truly believe that companies are simply struggling to keep up. As an example, Martech Zone ranks poorly for its accessibility. Over time, I’ve been working to improve both the coding, design, and metadata needed… but I can hardly keep up with just keeping