What is Hype?

Lately I’ve noticed consumers of information are very “anti-hype.” I believe this has been caused by market fatigue (too many people making similar outlandish promises), but also because people have told them they should be anti-hype.
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How to Make Branding Pay Off For You

Your brand is your company’s reputation. It incorporates every touch point from within your company and outside of your company. It is how the principals, shareholders, customers, suppliers, and employees interact with the company.
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3 Easy Ways to Start Writing an Ad

When writing sales copy, most people start with the headline. Why? Because the headline is the first thing to appear in the copy. And so the logic goes: Start at the beginning and finish at the end.
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Increase Foot Traffic with Well-Designed Signs

Although they’ve been used for generations, signs are still excellent drivers of foot traffic to brick and mortar businesses. Signs should be a vital part of your offline marketing strategy to drive new customers and sales to your business.
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Mastering PPC: Quality Score, Ad Rank, and Why They Matter

Search engines are really, really good at extracting every last bit of revenue of every search. We’re never going to fully understand Google or Bing’s algorithm or everything that goes into PPC pricing. What we can do is explore the fundamentals of how the PPC marketplace works, what factors we can control and how we can use them to drive down our CPC.
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Mastering PPC: Tips and Tricks for Text Ads

As you head down the road that is ad copy creation, the first stop you want to make is text ads. Text ads are one of the most commonly used ad formats. These ads can be used both in the search and content networks. For this post we’ll be looking specifically at running text ads on Google.
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