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Drive More Leads With Landingi’s Landing Page Builder for WordPress
While most marketers simply insert a form on a WordPress page, that’s not necessarily a well-optimized, highly converting landing page. Landing pages typically have several features and associated benefits: Minimal Distractions – Think of your landing pages as the end of the road with minimal distractions. Navigation, sidebars, footers, and other elements can distract your visitor. A landing page builder…
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3 Best Practices For A Better Experience For Considered Purchases
Whether it’s a young couple buying their first home, new parents purchasing life insurance, or soon-to-be empty nesters securing a loan for their college student, considered purchases are big ticket items that involve a high degree of financial and emotional risk. They require time and forethought, and for most consumers, plenty of comparison shopping. 81% of Americans say they rely…
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How to Drive Business Success with the Power of Competitive Intelligence Research
You are a business that can’t wait to take the markets by storm with your cutting-edge products and robust services. But wait—you’re not the only player in your market segment. In today’s hyper-competitive markets, staying blind to your competitors’ moves is a surefire recipe for falling behind in the race to gain market traction. So, how do you see through…
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Great Marketing Is About Context, Not Contacts
Pop quiz. How valuable is a customer’s contact information? Answer… it depends. Without knowing what matters to a customer, contacting them with useless information and offers is an exercise in futility. This is something that spammers never figured out. Spam is a volume play that blasts the same message to an unfathomable number of people in hopes that a tiny…
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The Gold Rush for Top Level Domains
If you’ve not heard all the noise about TLDs, you probably aren’t a billion dollar company (that’s sarcasm). Personally, I despise the fact that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has put these up for sale out of the reach of any average small business. It costs $185,000 to apply and $25,000 per year to maintain a…
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Why and How to Set Up a Gravatar Account (Even If You’re Not on WordPress)
Maintaining a consistent online presence is vital. Whether you’re providing guest posts, contributing to forums, or signing up for online communities, your profile picture says a lot about who you are. Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) provides a simple, efficient way to manage your profile image across multiple platforms. While natively integrated and often associated with WordPress, Gravatar is a versatile…
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Top 3 Marketing Mistakes New Businesses Make
Why did you start your business? I’ll bet the farm that “because I wanted to be a marketer” wasn’t your answer. However, if you’re like the hundreds of small business owners I’ve worked with you probably realized about 30 seconds after you opened your doors that if you didn’t become a marketer, you weren’t going to be a small business…
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Checklist: A Comprehensive List Of 40+ Steps To Successfully Launch A New Website, Online Store, or Do A Site Refresh
Whether I’m launching a website on a new domain or relaunching a client website, there are a number of steps that I take to ensure that the site is properly launched and fully accessible to users and search engines. I will mention some examples of plugins or applications in the following article, but this is not a platform-specific article. This…
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LinkedIn Expands Company Page Functionality
While Facebook has largely abandoned pages for organic reach, it appears LinkedIn is taking the opportunity to help businesses drive social engagement with the addition of some great new features in company profile pages. Communities are core to the success of every business. Employees, partners, customers and job candidates comprise a community, and together, can help drive your company’s growth…
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How To Add Your Agency To Manage Your Google Business Listing
We’ve been working with several customers where local search visitors are critical to the acquisition of new customers. While we work on their site to ensure it’s geographically targeted, it’s also critical that we work on their Google Business Listing. Why You Must Maintain a Google Business Listing Google search engine results pages are broken up into 3 components: Google…
