Many small businesses do not have the budget for Paid Ads online - but that shouldn't stop you from maximizing your free, organic search results. Here are 12 tips to lead you in the right direction to get those coveted first-page organic search rankings. Some of these are pretty simple, and others require a [...]
From 'National Hamburger Day' to 'World Emoji Day' to 'National Leave the Office Early Day', there's no shortage of fake holidays created for marketing purposes. While many of these days have their perks (who doesn't love a day centered around hamburgers?), many of these holidays don't relate to your business's services or products. When [...]
Getting Hacked Sucks! If you have ever had your website hacked, you know that feeling - the dreaded fear of vulnerability and the humiliation of defeat. In my 20-year career in digital marketing, I have felt that feeling a few times. The funny thing is that the majority of web hacks are not personal. [...]
A marketing calendar (paired with a content/editorial calendar) is a crucial part of your digital marketing strategy. It serves as a roadmap for the months ahead to ensure your content is optimized to meet business goals, capably targeting the right audience, and that your contributors, stakeholders and distribution channels are working in concert. A [...]
Voice Search Is Taking Over Almost one-third of the 3.5 billion searches performed on Google every day are voice searches now, with personal assistant devices leading the way. ComScore estimates, that by 2020, half of all search queries will be voice-based. The advances made in recent years in the fields of natural language processing, conversation interfaces, [...]
Our slogan is Stupid Simple Marketing. It means that marketing is easy, why complicate things? You learn about the customers, then you find ways to get your message in front of them in meaningful and convincing ways. That's it! Do those 2 things consistently and aggressively and you can't lose. When discussing digital marketing, [...]
Don’t be so humble: you’ve spent a lot of time developing your website’s marketing strategy, right? Between developing social media posts (and outsmarting that tricky Facebook algorithm), choosing quality web hosting and branding your website, and learning the ins-and-outs of SEO, you’ve spent countless hours — and probably a pretty penny — getting internet crowds to notice your [...]
Are you reading this from a mobile device?Based on the following statistics (and walking into any Starbucks) -- I'm willing to bet you are.Inbound marketers have been following the upward trend of mobile marketing for years, but it's reached a point that all marketers can't ignore it anymore.Optimizing for mobile and creating a mobile marketing [...]
Social, email marketing, paid ads, SEO — with so many marketing channel choices, where should marketers focus their attention and spend? Understanding how to allocate marketing resources requires context and research. Fortunately, there’s some great data out there on marketing channel ROI. This infographic pulls together industry studies and surveys on how marketing channels [...]
Among the numerous companies I've founded and the thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners I've met from around the world, I've discovered this one thing we have in common: We all struggled to come up with a great name for our new company.If you’ve never named a company, you’ll soon realize that the task [...]
