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There’s No Such Thing as a Boring Industry

Ask anyone in marketing and they will tell you content marketing is crucial to the success of your business now more than ever. Content creation gives your business a chance to come across as an original, fresh and stimulating source for your audience, while presenting industry-relevant information consumers will find useful. While we know how [Read more…]

2013 – The Year of Direct Mail

In the last few years, with the rise of digital marketing, direct mail has been viewed as a less than critical element of an integrated marketing strategy. It has also been perceived by many as nothing more than coupon mailers. However, for small, service-based businesses, targeted direct mail continues to be a powerful tool to [Read more…]

Less Pain, More Gain: Marketing Tools That Will Make Your Life Easier

The world of marketing gets more complex each day: what was once print, radio and TV has grown to include social media, digital marketing and mobile and much more. On top of that, each has their own algorithm, platforms, and trends, and each seems to change at the drop of a hat. How much easier [Read more…]

Factors That Cause Changes in Organic Search Engine Rankings

There are many factors that can affect your page’s search engine ranking. Fortunately, you can control most of them. Although all major search engines keep their algorithms private, there are factors that have remained true over time no matter what changes are made to the algorithms. Certain factors, such as social media presence and online [Read more…]

Twitter vs. Instagram

Twitter’s New Update is Latest Blow in Social Media Showdown If we compared social media to a boxing event, we would have Facebook &Instagram in one corner and Twitter & Vine in the opposing. It seems lately that these partnerships are in a constant battle to keep up with one another in cutting edge updates [Read more…]

5 Reasons You Need Google Plus for Your Internet Marketing Strategy

Google + was created with the intention of going head to head with other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.  Google saw the long game and wanted to capitalize on the social media action. After getting off to a slow start, Google+ is now quickly being recognized as the most valuable social media property. [Read more…]

SEO Advice-Why Does Google Change Their Algorithm?

For those of us in the world of SEO, this seems to happen way too often. Just as we get used to the adjustments that search engines make to improve user experience, they flip the switch on something new. Granted, we all understand that the importance of a great user experience- it’s one of the [Read more…]

5 Ways Pinterest Helps Social Media Marketing

In its 3rd year, Pinterest is still gaining popularity as both an alternative and compliment to other social networking options. With over 48 million global users, Pinterest drives almost as much traffic as Twitter and it’s “pin it” button gets 10 times the clicks of the “tweet” button around the web. The value of this [Read more…]

Why Can’t I See My Paid Search Ads?

So you’ve finally taken the plunge into paid online advertising to help grow your small business. That’s a step in the right direction. Once your billing, campaigns, ad groups, keywords, bids, rules, ads, etc. are all set up and live, you want to see how they look, so you do a live search. But your [Read more…]