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YouTube for Home Service Contractors: Is Building a Channel Worth It?
YouTube is worth building for home service contractors — but only if you're realistic about the timeline, commit to consistency, and understand that the primary value isn't subscribers or views. It's ranking in Google search results and building trust with local...
Google Ads for Plumbers: How to Get More Calls Without Wasting Your Budget
Most plumbers who've tried Google Ads have one of two experiences. Either it worked great from day one, or they burned through their budget in a week with nothing to show for it. The difference usually comes down to setup. When done right, Google Ads puts your...
Why Home Service Companies Should Blog (And What to Write About)
Home service companies should blog because blog posts rank in Google for the specific questions homeowners type before they call a contractor — and that traffic costs nothing per visit, unlike Google Ads. "Who's going to read a plumber's blog?" is the wrong question....
Your Digital Marketing Agency Was Acquired: 5 Crucial Structural Changes to Watch For
The Philadelphia digital marketing space is moving through a period of intense corporate consolidation. Across the country and heavily right here within Bucks County and Philadelphia, mid-sized marketing agencies are being systematically absorbed by massive national...
Pennsylvania Annual Report Solicitations & Scams: What Business Owners Need to Know Before Paying a Third-Party Filing Fee
TL;DR If you’re a Pennsylvania business owner, you’ve probably received, or soon will receive a letter reminding you to file your Pennsylvania Annual Report. At first glance, many of these letters appear to be official government notices, but some are actually...
How to Get More Customers for Your Home Service Business: 12 Strategies That Work
Getting more customers for your home service business starts with showing up where they're already looking. Most homeowners go straight to Google, ask a neighbor, or check a review site — then they call the first business that earns their trust. These 12 strategies...
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How to Lower Your Google AdWords Cost-Per-Click
It’s easy to bring lots of potential customers to your website using Google AdWords. It’s harder to actually make money from your pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns over time. That’s because efficiency and ROI eventually have to come into play. In other words, if you want...
What Business Owners Need to Know About Keyword Rankings
Even business owners who don’t know a lot about online marketing tend to obsess over their keyword rankings. It’s not hard to figure out why – achieve a high search engine position on Google and you could draw hundreds or thousands of targeted potential customers to...
Why Professional Website Design is Worth the Investment
Is professional website design worth the investment? That’s a reasonable question to ask, particularly if you’re trying to reduce your marketing budget. These days, it’s easier than ever to get (and learn) the software needed to build a business website. It’s no...
5 Tips for Tasty Restaurant Web Design
Restaurant web design is one of my favorite specialties. Not only are there many different kinds of eateries in and around my home city of Philadelphia, but each has a unique story and focus. That means an interesting web design challenge, and something that helps me...
Web Designer Websites: What Actually Matters?
Usually, when a business owner decides to improve their web presence, the first step is to check out web designer websites. Whether they look locally or evaluate creative teams from around the country (or the world), they need to see what their choices are and find a...
The 7 Best Online Marketing Tips You’ll Read in 2018
There are a lot of online marketing tips out there. From the many dozens of books you can read about your website to the hundreds of YouTube clips and thousands of blogs like mine, there’s no shortage of advice for small business owners who want to find customers over...
Why Website Homepage Design Matters
Website homepage design is something no marketer, business owner, or entrepreneur can afford to overlook. You wouldn’t find many web designers who would disagree. But why is it so crucial? When you’re in my job for long enough, you start to realize that all web design...
What the Pros Know About Online Marketing
You read a lot of articles these days about how online marketing “levels the playing field.” There is definitely truth in that. On the internet, smaller companies can compete with larger ones. Overseas businesses can go head-to-head with local vendors. And, companies...
How to Begin a Sustainable Digital Marketing Campaigns
It’s not really that hard to create an online marketing campaign. All you need is a good website, some goals, and a checklist of activities. However, if you want to build online marketing campaigns that are profitable and sustainable, that’s a different matter...
Why Some Companies Struggle With Social Media Marketing
Business owners and executives love the idea of social media marketing. It’s not hard to imagine why: not only do they enjoy using social sites like Facebook and Twitter in their own lives, but social media runs on time and attention rather than money. In other words,...
3 Low-Cost Digital Marketing Strategies That Work Wonders
I sometimes think of online marketing as a kind of dieting for business owners. There are a lot of parallels between the two. In the world of weight loss, people crave instant solutions (like low-fat frozen yogurt and exotic menus) that don’t require them to give up...
Do You Need Custom Web Development?
The business owners who come to see me for new websites sometimes have confusing ideas about custom web development. Some are convinced they absolutely need it because another designer told them they do; others are just as sure it’s not required because they think...
3 Social Media Marketing Rules You Shouldn’t Break
Social media marketing is a relatively new way to reach out to customers. And, social media platforms are popping up and gaining popularity all the time. Anyone who has been around long enough to remember MySpace, or wonder what Snapchat is all about, will know...
Why Is Web Page Development Important?
When meeting with business owners for the first time, I often bring up the topic of webpage development. That’s not something clients are always familiar with, so I explain it has to do with the coding and programming that takes place behind the scenes (or “under the...
How Web Design and Web Development Differ
Do you need a web designer or web development? Is there even a difference? These are questions I hear quite often. Part of the confusion comes from the fact that many people, even within the industry, tend to use the terms interchangeably. Combine that with the fact...
Why Simple Website Design Can Be Effective
I don’t think people talk about the benefits of simple website design enough. That’s too bad, because it’s becoming more and more important with each passing month. The growth and complexity of modern web design is both a boost for my industry and a problem for...
How Small Business Website Design Is Different
To those outside of the online marketing industry, all websites can seem pretty similar. In fact, it might even look as if building a page for one organization is essentially the same as creating a layout for another. Those of us who make our living in this business...
Should You Copy Cool Website Designs?
Sometimes, business owners come to me with examples of other websites they have seen and want to duplicate. Or at least they want to copy certain elements from a cool web design they have come across. Is that a good place to draw inspiration? I have had business...
5 Modern Web Design Tips
I’m often asked about the state of modern web design. It’s a topic that comes up in consultations with business owners, conversations with colleagues, and even interviews I give with the media. Sometimes, up-and-coming web designers will inquire about the latest...
How to Write PPC Ads That Work
Lots of business owners struggle to write effective PPC ads. Many of them don’t enjoy writing in the first place, and the pressure of squeezing their sales message down into a few characters that will only be viewed briefly can feel like an overwhelming challenge. If...
Do Web Design Awards Matter?
There are dozens of web design awards given out each and every year. Some creative agencies (like mine) proudly display the accolades they’ve received, leading potential clients to ask: do web design awards really matter? There isn’t necessarily a straightforward...
The 3 Crucial Stages of a PPC Campaign for Search Advertisers
For those trying out pay-per-click (PPC) advertising for the first time, getting started can seem as simple as choosing a few keywords, writing ads, and watching the results pour in. For veterans and industry professionals, though, building a successful PPC campaign...
Why It’s Not Enough to Design a Website
These days, it seems like anyone can design a website. Spend a few minutes looking around the web and you’ll come across dozens of different custom web design companies. In addition, you’ll see ready-to-use templates, part-time freelancers, and even overseas vendors...
Can Spending on a Website Actually Improve Your Bottom Line?
Most of the business owners who come to us want a new website, but frankly hate the idea of spending a portion of their marketing budget on a new custom web design. We can understand – few businesses outside of the Fortune 500 have extra dollars to burn. However,...
How Great PPC Services Pay for Themselves
To some business owners, paying for PPC services can seem like a double whammy: not only are you taking money out of your marketing budget to bring visitors to your website, but then there is an additional fee for the company supervising the accounts. How can that be...
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