Aug
16
It is a common practice today for companies both large and small to have websites and e-commerce platforms. Many wonder why their sites aren’t doing as well as they had assumed they would and wonder how to get more traffic. Building a functional website is not enough to entice online sales. Instead, there must be a robust digital marketing strategy with a strong emphasis on SEO or search engine optimization. Many people ask exactly what is SEO and how it works? SEO or Search Engine Optimization are the...
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Aug
11
When speaking with our clients about starting a business blog, we hear a number of reasons why they don’t have one. Interestingly, many of those reasons are really myths. These are the top 3 blogging myths we’d like to dispel: Myth #1 – Setting up a blog is time-consuming and expensive A simple business blog can be set up online in a few hours and there are a number of easy to use, free blogging platforms to choose from. If you are short on time or don’t want...
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Jul
28
As it is becoming the norm to reach customers and prospects through various digital channel, so is the increase in focus and spend in digital marketing. Especially with target audiences shifting from one or a group of identical individuals to a more broader audience having their own opinion and input into decision making. marking budgetsIt can be a simple targeting a husband and wife differently for the same product or at a larger scale targeting C-level individual to manager-level employees. One of the great things and what gets...
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Jul
26
There are quite a few articles out there that discuss various tactics and ways for marketing and sales to align and work better together. Let’s take a moment to step back and examine WHY this is so important. By understanding why it is important and what we can gain by truly aligning marketing and sales in the same process – the HOW should be easy. I recently attended a fabulous marketing conference (shout out to Marketing Profs) at which I heard the same old statistic: the average B2B...
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Jul
21
Yesterday I was asked if I consider myself a growth hacker? I pondered the question for a moment and answered Yes. Though I do not necessarily call myself a growth hacker but I do leverage marketing and the product selling side in order to help companies build both awareness and user (customer) growth via digital and social channels. Lets take a step back to really understand this latest tend in Growth Hacking. What is growth hacking? According to Wikipedia, Growth hacking is low cost approach to leverage marketing...
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Jul
19
Staying ahead of the competition with the use of digital marketing can be a challenge especially for small local businesses. Since local businesses tend to be smaller in size it can be difficult to know where to begin and the value they will obtain from spending the time and effort building a digital presence. However, with the majority of customers are using the web find companies and products, determining the best way to reach these digital customers is very important. The truth is that digital marketing for small...
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Jul
14
When most companies begin discussing digital marketing one of the items that arises is where should this “new” digital marketing person or team sit within the organization. And then the debate begins. Should they sit on the web team? marketing team? a new separate digital team? This is often a difficult discussion because depending on the role of the individual digital marketer, they could sit anywhere. The questions comes down to what is the goal of the role?.. and how will they be measured? As digital marketing is...
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