Content is incredibly important on your website for a variety of reasons. Not only does content help your prospects and customers find what they need, it gives search engines the information necessary to decide how to rank you and when to serve up your website as the best result to someone searching. Sometimes WHERE you place content can be just as important. People and search engines need to Continue Reading
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Content Marketing Essential: Google Alerts
As a marketer or business owner, Google Alerts are essential - especially for content marketing. Google Alerts is a free Google tool that sends you email alerts of the latest relevant results, based on the search terms you specify. Why set up Google Alerts? Google Alerts provide content marketing ideas, competitive research, customer insight, and so much more. Once you start using Google Continue Reading
Do Not Require People to Share as Part of Your Facebook Contest
Not so fast! Sharing isn't always a great idea. Since we could walk or talk, we've been taught that sharing is a good thing. When social media entered the marketing scene, we couldn't encourage sharing enough. After all, it's word-of-mouth marketing that propels social media and sharing is a huge part of telling others what you love, endorse, and trust. It seems then that asking someone to "share" Continue Reading
The Magic of Marketing Automation
What is Marketing Automation? At its core, Marketing Automation is really all about doing more and better marketing with less effort. How is this possible, you might ask? To answer this, let’s go through an example to help illustrate how marketing automation works. The Magic Explained: A Laundry Analogy Let’s say you spend 10 hours a week doing 15 loads of laundry between sorting, Continue Reading
Trouble Hiring? Give This a Try!
With the unemployment rate low and ample skilled trade jobs to fill, many people in manufacturing, healthcare, and other specialty industries are ramping up their hiring efforts to reach potential candidates. Throwing more advertising dollars at the problem isn't necessarily the solution if other critical elements are not ready. Yes, Facebook, LinkedIn, & Indeed ads are a way you get the Continue Reading
TRICKY! Who is that bill from? What is it for?
Some online business directory companies use questionable business tactics to get your business. Pay attention to the invoices you receive and make sure you're paying for services you've requested and agreed to receive. This is advice that can be applied in many aspects of life, but today we're talking about bills that you might receive from business directory or online listing companies. Watch Continue Reading
