The right marketing strategy can grow your business leaps and bounds, but it can be difficult to decide how to get the right strategy. All businesses struggle at some point with the in-house marketing vs agency debate. There’s only so much time and budget to go around, so where is it best to spend? And why? Handing the marketing torch…
Previously known as Google Local and Google Places, today’s Google My Business has undergone many changes. Google adds new features to businesses listings with each new evolution, and Google My Business posts are another feature improving searches for businesses and users. If you don’t know how to use Google My Business posts, now is the perfect time to start. How…
They’re “sponsored posts,” “featured content,” or highlighted with the phrase, “from our advertisers.” Odds are, you’ve seen these advertisements, but you might not have known you were looking at an ad. They’re Google Adsense native ads, and they fit into a website’s content so well users sometimes can’t tell the difference. What do these clever ads mean for your online…
Google answers billions of questions every day. Beginning in 2014, the search engine made answer-hunting even easier with “featured snippets.” Featured snippets provide a quick answer in a highlighted box at the top of search results, no clicks required. Most of us have seen a featured snippet, so we know how they affect a search engine results page (SERP) for…
As much as you may try to envision how your users interact with your website, you can never really know unless you conduct user research. You can know who uses your website by checking your website demographics, you can know how many people click on a certain page by setting up Google Analytics, but you can’t know why and how…
Do you know how to reach your audience? Do you know what they think about, what they respond to, and what they want to see? Knowing how to reach your audience means knowing what they need and what they respond to. This also means breaking through a ton of clutter from the many other companies competing for your customers’ attention….
When it comes to the content on your website, what you say can be just as influential as how you say it. Your text is written and the message is ready to be published, but what fonts will best compliment your brand? Just like graphics, photos, and color palettes, the typography on your site can be used to convey tone…
From blogs to landing pages to ads, the right keywords help customers find your content. To know what keywords your customers are searching for, it helps to know how to use Google Adwords Keyword Planner tool. This tool, available to anyone with a Google Adwords account, gives you a long list of data to help find broad or long-tail keywords….
Are you getting your audience’s attention? Are your marketing efforts actually getting new leads? You can’t know the answers to these questions unless you know how to measure success. One of the most important measurements to monitor your marketing process is lead conversion rate. Lead conversion defines a change from a lead to another buyer stage. This could be a…
There are many CRM systems to choose from, but the right CRM systems can make sales processes more efficient and organized. By automating activities, analyzing data, aggregating trends, and conveniently placing information, the main benefits of CRM for the manufacturing industry are time- and cost-savings. A properly organized CRM system will be constructed around your unique sales process, and make…
