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Gamification as a Digital Marketing Retention Strategy
Picture a world where customers don’t just buy from your brand; instead, they keep coming back because interacting with you feels like playing a fun game. For example, this is what gamification does—it adds game-like features, like points or badges, to everyday tasks...
Ephemeral Content for Real-Time Digital Engagement
Ephemeral content—temporary posts like Instagram Stories, Snapchat Snaps, or TikTok Now—disappears after 24 hours, creating urgency and authenticity that captivate audiences. Unlike permanent posts, its fleeting nature drives immediate action, making it a potent tool...
Micro-Influencer Networks for Niche Digital Marketing
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, micro-influencers—creators with 1,000 to 100,000 followers—are emerging as powerful allies for brands targeting niche audiences. Unlike macro-influencers, micro-influencers command loyal, engaged communities around...
Blockchain-Based Digital Advertising for Transparency
Imagine a digital advertising ecosystem where every click, impression, and payment is verifiable, fraud is minimized, and trust is paramount. Blockchain technology, known for cryptocurrencies, is making this vision a reality. By decentralizing ad transactions and...
Voice Search Optimization for Conversational Marketing
Voice search, powered by devices like Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri, is transforming how consumers interact with brands. Unlike text-based searches, voice queries are conversational, question-driven, and often local, requiring a specialized approach to...
Fake Google Reviews & Extortion Scams: A 3-Step Plan to Fight Back
You wake up, check your Google Business Profile, and your stomach drops. You’ve been hit with three, five, or even a dozen new one-star reviews, all at once. You don't recognize the names. Then, the email lands in your inbox: "Pay us $200, or we'll post 20 more." This...
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What You Need to Know About Local Search Engine Optimization
Most business owners have heard a lot about local search engine optimization (or local SEO) by now, but we meet quite a few who aren’t maximizing their visibility with buyers on Google. In many cases, they simply don’t know how to take the ideas they’ve learned and...
The Right (and Wrong) Way to Save Money on Web Design
Running a business can be tough. It requires a bit of vision, the ability to make tough decisions, and (especially) an eye for saving money whenever possible. That’s probably why even successful entrepreneurs and managers sometimes make big mistakes when trying to...
5 Signs You Need Better Online Marketing Advice
Do you ever get the sinking suspicion that the online marketing advice you’re getting isn’t quite as sharp, informed, or customized as it could be? That can put the average business owner in a bind. That’s because most aren’t experts in the fields of web design,...
What is the Purpose of Your Web Content?
Your website probably has lots of content, but why does it need to be there? Do the words and images on your page exist as filler, or are they helping you to reach your bottom line sales and marketing goals? A lot of business owners, if they were being honest, would...
Is Your Web Hosting Package Holding You Back?
When was the last time you thought about the quality of your web hosting service? If you are like most of the business owners and marketing executives we work with, it’s probably been a very long time. That’s understandable. The parts of your website that you see are...
5 Online Marketing Techniques That Deliver Big ROI
Online marketing is an interesting field in that it’s continually getting more effective while at the same time growing in complexity. There are more ways than ever before to profit from a strong web presence, but it’s also easier to waste your time and money on the...
How to Zero in on the Perfect Web Design Company
If you are a business owner or executive who is comparing web design companies, we know you’re facing a big challenge. A lot of creative companies can seem similar to one another, and there are more choices than ever before. Things get even harder if you aren’t already an expert in online marketing, as you may run into terms and jargon you don’t fully understand.
Have You Winterized Your Business Website?
Is your website ready for the coming months? All around the country, people are making preparations for fall and winter by covering pools, swapping windows, and changing tires. And yet, few business owners and executives are giving thought to prepping their websites...
Is There Life After SEO Success?
Achieving a top ranking on Google for a number of different keywords can seem like an impossible and almost never-ending challenge. Find out about life after SEO Success.
5 Great Uses for Your Facebook Business Page
Most business owners recognize intuitively that social media marketing today resembles search engine optimization a decade ago. It’s an opportunity to build your brand and bring in customers without spending a ton of time or money.
How Marketing Automation Boosts Your Business
Marketing automation has become something of a buzzword in the web design industry lately, but interest isn’t really living up to execution. In other words, even though lots of business owners are excited about the idea of creating automated marketing campaigns, most aren’t actually taking steps to put them in place.
3 Reasons Business Owners Get Unnecessarily Overwhelmed
Does running a successful business necessarily mean you have to be too busy and overwhelmed all the time? We certainly know men and women who seem to think so, even though we also work with others who run profitable companies while remaining calm, composed, and in control of their schedules.
How to Make Better Plans for Your Business
Does it ever feel like your business is adrift? Do you wish you could make stronger plans that brought you closer to your goals or would be easier to follow through with?
5 Ways to Get More Control Over Your Schedule
If there’s one thing most of our web design clients have in common, it’s a desire to get more control over their schedule. Whether it’s an initial consultation or a regular website review, we often meet with men and women who seem to be moving at breakneck speed from one task or appointment to the next.
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.
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