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SEO 101 for your Web Page

“Why doesn’t my website come up in Google when you type the term [fill in blank with your product]??” If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked that, I’d be a wealthy man!  Every business wants to come up first, or at least on the first page when a search for their […]
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Social Media Updates: The Perfect Length

I don’t know about you, but I like to get the most benefit from the time I spend on social media. So when I found this infographic I was very pleased. It spells out the length of ideal social media update on just about every type of social media, with a couple of extra’s thrown […]
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Most Important Keys for your Website Redesign

The web changes. It changes rapidly. It changes continually. This means your website must change. What worked in web design 3-4 years ago can be outdated and lead to poor performance today. As we all know, smartphones have increased nearly 100 fold from three years ago and so businesses now need to take into consideration […]
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Visuals Make Your Content Marketing Memorable and Compelling

  Now a days everyone is short on time, visual content allows people to quickly look over an article and decide if it’s worth a read. Because visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text content that use visuals get 94% more views. According to HubSpot’s social-media scientist Dan Zarrella, “Tweets with images are 94% more likely […]
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The Science Behind The Viral Share Effect

There are some high quality articles out there that just don’t get the (viral) attention they deserve. How information is presented can make or break it’s sharability, so much so that people might not even get past the title. Short attention span aside, there are some key things that can be done to make an […]
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Using Email Marketing to Sell

In a day when Social Media is the rage, the reality is that email remains as strong, if not stronger than ever, as a business means to educate and sell online. Email is a universally used tool that everyone sits down to check at work or home. Email gets a business in front of their […]
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Do Industry and Competitive Research Efficiently with Feedly

As business owners and marketers we are always busy. We know it’s important to keep up on industry trends. We need to stay current and ahead of the competition. Yet we have limited time. How can we stay current efficiently on industry trends and do competitive research regularly but without it being a time sinkhole? […]
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9 Online Marketing Methods – Part 1

Every business is interested in growing sales and there are multiple online marketing methods to do so. To have the opportunity to increase your sales online means: Getting in front of the right people in the right places. It also means directing them to the right place online with the right message. That can seem […]

Reviewing CoSchedule: A Content Marketers Guide to Organizing your Blog and Social Shares

The challenge of increasing website traffic and growing online sales is very real for every business that is serious about having a online presence that performs and contributes well to the company’s bottom line.  The key is that it needs ongoing attention and effort.  It is never a “set it up and then just let […]

3 Keys to a Strong Digital Marketing Foundation

The 3 Legged Digital Marketing Stool Defined Online digital marketing has evolved and continues to change.  Long gone are the days when having a static, non-changing web page suffices for reaching and marketing to consumers on the Internet. Today’s consumer is using multiple digital tools, and so to effectively reach them means a company should […]