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  • Content Marketingcreate content create customers

    8 Ways for You to Create Content that Creates Customers

    These last few weeks, we’ve been analyzing all of our clients’ content to identify the content that’s driving the most awareness, engagement, and conversions. Every company that hopes to acquire leads or to grow their business online has to have content. With trust and authority being two keys to any purchase decision and content drives those decisions online. That said,…

  • Marketing InfographicsGraphic Design Terminology

    Graphic Design Terminology That Noobs Often Get Confused

    I chuckled a little bit when I found this infographic because, as it turns out, I must be a graphic design noob. But, alas, it’s amazing finding out how much I don’t know about an industry I’ve been embedded deeply in for the last 25 years. In my defense, I only dabble and request graphics. Thankfully, our designers are far…

  • Paid and Organic Search MarketingQuestions for Hiring a SEO Consultant

    5 Questions to Ask Your SEO Consultant

    A client for whom we’ve developed an annual infographic strategy was in our office this week. Like many businesses, they had gone through the roller coaster of having a underpeforming SEO consultant and now hired a new SEO consulting firm to assist them in fixing the damage. And there was damage. Backlighting on many risky sites was central to the…

  • Paid and Organic Search Marketingoops

    Google Search Console Goofed And Sent False Alerts on WordPress

    Sometimes I scratch my head where exactly Google is going with its search console. While I do believe it’s an amazing service to detect malware on sites and prevent those sites from being listed in search results, I’m not so sure I want Google actually scanning sites looking for issues. Case in point was a premature alert that went out…

  • Social Media & Influencer Marketingi love twitter

    An Open Letter to @Jack About Twitter

    Dear Jack, For a year now, I’ve joked that Twitter is like the girl I had a crush on in school that wouldn’t give me the time of day. One time we played spin the bottle in the basement, and she nudged the bottle to kiss the guy next to me that was a jerk. She broke my heart. And he…

  • Sales and Marketing TrainingImpact of Micro-Moments

    The Impact of Micro-Moments on the Consumer Journey

    A hot marketing trend that we’ve begun hearing more and more about is micro-moments. Micro-moments are currently influencing buyer behaviors and expectations, changing how consumers shop across industries. Micro-Moments But what exactly are micro-moments? In what ways are they shaping the consumer journey? It’s essential to understand how new the idea of micro-moments is in digital marketing. Think with Google leads…

  • Marketing Infographicsincrease

    How to Improve Your Sales Team’s Performance

    So many of my friends are great sales people. Quite honestly, I never fully respected their craft until I started my own business and took a stab at it. I had a great audience, solid relationships with companies who respected me, and a great service that they needed. None of that mattered the second I stepped through the door to…

  • Event Marketinglocalist

    Localist: Publish, Manage and Promote Your Events Online

    Marketers are using events more than ever, and the impact is obvious. In fact, marketers rank tradeshows and events as their second most effective tactic after the company website Events help to bring in new leads, convert interested prospects to customers, and better explain a product or service in real-time. However, many marketers struggle to not only leverage events in an…

  • E-commerce and Retailuser generated content

    Why User-Generated Content Reigns Supreme In The Age of Social Media

    It’s pretty amazing to see how technology has evolved in such a short period of time. Long gone are the days of Napster, MySpace, and AOL dial-up dominating the online market. Today, social media platforms reign supreme in the digital universe. From Facebook to Instagram to Pinterest, these social mediums have become integral components of our everyday lives. Look no…

  • Marketing & Sales VideosSnapchat Marketing

    Does Snapchat Really Matter to Marketers?

    In an impromptu poll in our community, 56% of respondents said they had no plans this year of utilizing Snapchat for marketing. Only 9% stated that they were using it and the rest said that they hadn’t decided yet. That’s not exactly a standing ovation for a network that’s skyrocketing in growth. Personally, I find it confusing and still fumble…

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