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Marketing for House Cleaning and Maid Services: How to Grow Your Client Base
Marketing for a house cleaning business starts with being visible in the places clients actually search — Google, Thumbtack, and Yelp — and then building the social proof and referral systems that keep them coming back and sending their friends. Trust is the single...
How to Get More Google Reviews for Your Home Service Business
The single most effective way to get more Google reviews is to ask — promptly, personally, and consistently after every completed job. Most customers who have a positive experience are happy to leave a review. They just need to be asked and given an easy way to do it....
The 8 Mile Framework: How to Get Your Business Found in AI Search
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how businesses get discovered through AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. And oddly enough, I keep coming back to the movie 8 Mile. I'm a movie buff, and was a disc jockey for 20+ years so I love using movies and music as...
Google Ads for Home Service Businesses: A Beginner’s Guide to Getting More Calls
Google Ads puts your home service business at the top of search results immediately — before SEO has time to work and above every organic result on the page. When someone searches "AC repair near me" or "emergency plumber," your ad can appear within hours of setting...
Marketing for Landscaping Companies: How to Get More Residential Accounts
Marketing for landscaping companies works best when you combine visual content on social media with Google Ads for design searches and neighborhood-level targeting through Nextdoor and door hangers — then convert one-time clients into maintenance agreement accounts. A...
How to Respond to Negative Reviews as a Contractor
A well-written response to a negative review can actually help your business more than the review hurts it. Prospective customers reading your reviews aren't just evaluating what went wrong — they're watching how you handle it. A professional, calm response shows...
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7 Rules of Business Success That Still Apply in the Digital Age
Most of the time, we post articles to our blog that have to do with web design, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and other related topics. Those are our specialties, after all, and the subjects clients turn to us for advice about.
5 Tricks of Top Web Designers
How do the best web designers approach their work? After years of experience in this field, and dozens upon dozens of successful projects, I’m convinced that producing something special is as much about the process you follow as it is the talent you have. In other words, it helps to have some good artistic instincts, but it’s even more important to embrace the right habits.
4 Things Advanced CRM Systems Can and Can’t do for Your Website
Executing a profitable internet marketing campaign can involve a lot of tedious and exhausting details. It’s no wonder, then, that so many business owners ask us about the value of advanced customer relationship management (CRM) systems like HubSpot and Infusionsoft.
Why Website Audits Are an Absolute Necessity
Most website redesign and online marketing projects begin with an online audit. Clients who have never been through this process often wonder whether website audits are really necessary. In many cases, they would prefer to jump ahead to examining new layouts or making plans for fresh social media campaigns.
What Comes After SEO and PPC?
Most business owners and executives who come to us for web design and internet marketing already know about SEO and PPC. That’s because the majority of companies, no matter how small or large, use search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising to drive targeted customers to their websites.
The One Thing You Need to Succeed at SEO
Business owners often ask me what the secret to search engine optimization success is. I get the sense that they are normally looking for some kind of secret technical tip or tactic, but the answer I provide is a lot more basic: patience.
The Hardest Part of Social Media Marketing
In a big picture sense, social media marketing is easy: just set up profiles in all the major platforms, engage with fans, customers, and colleagues, and then watch the resulting traffic arrive at your website and manifest itself into sales.
Why Google Ads Advertising Works So Well
Most of the business owners and executives I meet with are at least somewhat familiar with Google AdWords advertising. And yet, I find that opinions about search marketing tend to be all over the plac
Is it Hard to Create a Website?
Sometimes, business owners and newer colleagues will ask me flat out: “is it hard to create a website?” The answer, in most cases, is “no.” Although there are some things that make small business web design and corporate web design a little more complicated, the...
The Truth About Web Design and SEO
Search engine optimization (SEO) has become such a big part of online marketing that a lot of business owners think it’s part of the web design process. The truth is that it should be, but some digital agencies don’t offer web design packages that include it. In other words, they’ll lay out some pages for you, but will charge extra – or refer you elsewhere – if you actually want to find customers using Google.
Why Web Design Quotes Aren’t All the Same
The process some business owners use for choosing a creative team goes something like this: gather a bunch of web design quotes and choose the cheapest one.
Do You Need a Local Web Design Studio?
Talk to a few business owners – or even web designers who work with clients around a city or region – and you’ll run into some big disagreements about whether location matters. That is, some think it doesn’t matter whether a web designer and a client are a block away...
What to do When Your PPC Campaign Isn’t Working
Pay-per-click advertising is great when you have campaigns that are running smoothly and profitably. However, when things aren’t going so well it can be easy to question everything.
How Can You Tell Different Digital Marketing Agencies Apart?
Sometimes, new clients will tell me that the hardest part of the web design process is figuring out which of the many digital marketing agencies in Philadelphia to work with. Most business owners know they want a website, need search engine optimization, are...
How to Make Local Marketing Work on the Web
It’s somewhat ironic that the World Wide Web – the greatest tool in the history of all mankind for helping people to form global business connections – has now become the primary resource for local marketing, as well. That’s the way progress works, though. Modern...
Why All Web Design Should be Interactive Web Design
Within the creative services industry, there is a lot of talk out there about interactive web design. While interactive web design might sound like just another tech buzzword, it’s actually an important concept. Essentially, it means that your pages and layouts should...
5 Rules for Choosing the Perfect Digital Marketing Agency
If you find yourself searching for a new digital marketing agency to build a website or help you promote your business online, you won’t have to look very far. There are dozens just in my home city of Philadelphia. Most major urban areas have many to choose from. In...
What Does it Mean to Have a Custom Website?
I often like to remind business owners and executives that there’s a big difference between a custom website and a customized template. One has a lot of bottom-line business value, while the other is essentially a placeholder. Of course, there is also the difference...
3 Things Business Owners Should Know About Backlinks
Creating links from other websites to your own – also known as back links – used to be a cornerstone of search engine optimization strategy. Because each link to your pages counted as a “vote” for its quality and authority, you could quickly improve your visibility on...
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...
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