Sales and Marketing
How to Optimize Your Content for Google Answer Boxes
Oh, answer boxes. Position 0 for the majority of its existence has been mystifying as Google seems to reserve this spot for websites that just happen to get lucky. However, as more answer boxes are…
Offseason SEO for Local Businesses
Landscapers, swimming pool service companies, golf courses, ski resorts. What do they all have in common? Their businesses and activity is dictated by the season. Each of these businesses, and others, have entire months when…
5 Best Practices for Amplifying Influencer Content
Thought leadership is all about wielding the power of influence through valuable content that resonates with your buyer personas. Creating a truly valuable content, however, is only half the battle. No matter how great your…
7 Proven Ways to Use Digital Signage in Your Small Business
You’ve probably been to your local fast food chain and noticed that they’ve switched to digital signage for displaying their featured menu items. And if you stop by big stores, you would notice that most…
Small Businesses on Instagram: How to Use the Platform
Instagram’s user base is growing at speed passing the 600 million follower mark back in December 2016. Since it was first introduced five years ago, it has overtaken Twitter to become the social media’s rising…
8 Ways to Market to Customer Emotion as Well as Logic
The average business person fights a customer culture shift, rather than looking for it. For them, change means new risk and extra costs, but it also means new opportunity for growth. In fact, some of…
6 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website in 2017
Making a strong identity in the digital world is never easy. You might have a website with a simple design, which is functional and attractive, along with the content. But the crowd does not turn…
The Customer Buying Process is Not About You or Your Competition
I’m tempted to paraphrase the old Carly Simon song, You’re So Vain. Too often we think our customers’ buying cycles are about us, at least a choice between us and our competitors. We may be…
9 Basic SEO Tips to Increase Traffic to Your Site
When it comes to SEO, you want to be as effective as possible. This is especially the case if you have a small business you want to successfully start. Search engines like Google use algorithms…
Why SMS Marketing Works When Email Doesn’t
Let me say this right up front. I hate email marketing… I really hate it. Why? Because it doesn’t work. Really, it doesn’t. I recently had the opportunity to review the email account of a…
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