NEWS & TIPS
Main Street Marketing
4 Reasons Your Web and Social Media Efforts Are Failing To Produce Leads
Most small businesses we talk to just don’t have websites that convert. Some of them are pretty but pretty doesn’t pay the bills. Website leads all start with traffic because you have to have the traffic to convert the prospects into leads.
Getting Leads From Your Online Efforts Depend Upon These 5 Key Pieces Of The Internet Marketing Puzzle…
Content – Content is King. Nothing works online without it. Websites, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, and Email marketing will have no effect without it. Prospects and customers are scouring the internet looking for ways to improve their businesses and content is the way to get them interested in your products and services. Once you prove that you are a thought leader, those decision makers will keep coming back, sooner or later they will do business with you.
Small Business Lead Generation – How To Attract The Right Online Leads And Convert Them Into Customers And Advocates…
Companies and people buy different today! An average decision maker does most of their buying research online long before making contact. For companies to be contacted, they had better have a good online strategy to produce and deliver the content that decision makers want during the research phase. The following four strategies are the building blocks where small businesses must focus their efforts to attract the right online leads and convert them into customers and advocates. Attracting the Right Website
Mobile, Local, and Retail Marketing Strategies for Brick & Mortar Businesses That Keep Customers Coming Back…
Brick and Mortar locations who have frequent repeat customers (ie. restaurants, bars, retail stores, salons, fitness centers, hotels, etc.) can use local online marketing and mobile smartphones to their advantage in ways that other companies can't. New technology...
The Best Ways To Use Web Videos And Why You Need A Marketer And Not Video Technician To Produce Them
When you think of corporate videos, do you think about very creative and entertaining videos? We bet not! Those boring old style profile and testimonial videos are yesterdays news and not the way you want your company to use it’s video budget for the the future. The best way to use web video today is to focus on your customer’s problems and to keep them entertaining and educational, always showing your company’s personality in the process.
Marketing And Sales Automation: What It Is And Why Your Company Needs It To Create More Leads!…
Content Marketing is now required to provide ground cover for your sales team. Decision makers are requiring it and will feel that sales people without are just “winging it.” Content creation doesn’t need to be complicated to meet the needs of your sales team. You have a ton of little facts and reasons why businesses should do business with you.
Small Business Tips – Why Mobile Apps May Need to Be Included In Your Online Marketing Strategy…
Mobile apps were once a platform that only large corporations could afford but now they are affordable to all small businesses who want to provide better experiences and service to their current customers. Mobile apps tend to help small businesses with their current...
Animated Explainer Videos: How They Clarify What Your Solutions Can Do For Your Customers…
Explainer videos are short online videos used to explain your company’s product or service. Explainer videos are extremely popular to those trying to understand a product or service in 30-90 seconds. They are also very popular with companies because they increase conversions at a crazy rate compared to normal blogs or page content. These animated explainer videos allow for unlimited creativity and allow easier edit if they need to be update for some reason.
The Future Of SEO As Google Continues Their Quest To Give The Best Answers To Specific Questions…
Not getting found online can break a business in this day and age. Optimizing your website and social media channels are the way you get found online. The way you optimize your website and social media channels is to provide educational content to those in need of it. This content needs to be in many forms (blogs, audio, video, etc.) and integrated through social media with the intention to convert into customers those who are reading the content. With that said, anybody who tells you that SEO is dead is just “Loony Tunes.”