Google’s Big Push to Improve Online Presence for Local Businesses
Google has launched a new site to help business owners improve their website content and take advantage of Google’s new push for better content. The new Google site has tools to evaluate current data for local businesses so owners can visually see how they stack up....
Google Plans To Penalize Doorway Pages
Google announced an upcoming change in their ranking algorithm for “doorway pages” and are advising users to stop using them. What are doorway pages? They are special pages designed to help a website rank for a particular keyword or phrase that has very little to do...
Viewability Standards for Mobile Ads
Facebook, in conjunction with MRC, IAB and Nielsen are working on establishing viewability standards for mobile ads and hopefully these standards will help to define the difference between an ad impression served and an ad impression viewed. Why is the distinction...
Search Engine Journal Explains the Latest PPC Trends and What You Need to Know
According to SEJ’s report some of the services offered by Google and Bing will impact their pay-per-click (PPC) advertising customers during 2015. Many changes have to do with shifting trends in the search and PPC industries, and will alter the current strategies used...
When Branding Fails
Brands fail, sometimes in pretty big ways and other times drip, by slow drip; but one thing is for sure, it happens more often than we think. Just why do customers lose that lovin' feelin' for a brand and why do loyal customers leave and go elsewhere? As the...
How To Make Your Company Look Big With Social Media
Have you ever thought about how people perceive your company? If you work out of your home many people won’t give you the time of day. But there’s ways you can appear bigger than you really are with social media. Secret Entourage has collected 50 ideas to make your...
Does Website Chat Work?
You’ve all seen them and most of you have probably used them under certain circumstances and conditions. We’re talking about popup web chats, also called live chats. Consider this. What makes you want to begin the chat on some websites and you can’t close the window...
Google Sends Out Warnings For Mobile-Unfriendly Websites
Google now has a new warning message they are displaying on websites that are not optimized for mobile use. How is your site? Have you received a warning like the one below? Hey, it’s not pretty! But we can help. Right now, these messages are really just a warning...
How To Build An Email List
Great, you’ve completed reading our Email 101 blog post and now you want to build an email list. That’s good news because building an email list is one of the cheapest, most cost-effective ways to start communicating with potential customers. If you’ve been doing...
Are You Using a Shotgun or a Rifle to Hit Your Marketing Targets?
At this point in your career as a business person, have you already identified the prospects who are most likely to become good, profitable customers and the ones who will not? Do you specifically know why your customers decide to purchase from you as well as why...
What Does Your (Lack of) Branding Tell Potential Clients?
Branding is a very important aspect in the marketing circle. It has the power to push your business forward, giving you a competitive edge. A strong and well-defined brand will result in an increase in sales, customer loyalty, brand value, and most importantly, the...
Does Traditional Marketing Work in a Digital World?
In a modern, digital world that currently revolves around the use of tablets, smartphones and laptops, it’s very challenging to think in an offline sense. Both traditional and offline marketing still have their clear advantages, but the method of choice for your...
The Difference Between Branding and Marketing
A business operating amidst a competitive industry makes good use of attraction marketing in order to maximize selling potentials. This technique enables a potential customer to see what you are offering them and how it can actually be of benefit to them before making...
Yes, we are still talking about mobile!
In 2008, an analyst at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers made a bold prediction. "Mobile to overtake fixed Internet access by 2014. According to the latest report from comScore, we’re way past the mobile tipping point. It’s not whether mobile marketing is important, it’s...
Top 10 apps for mobile
Here’s the top ten apps for mobile devices, ranging from getting the scoop on local businesses to trying the best new restaurant in town to visiting a new city and looking for the best place to get a haircut. Want to know the closest coffee shop or gas station? When...
“Near Me” searches are on the rise
According to Google their “Near Me” Search feature has doubled this year as people turn more and more to find local businesses with their mobile devices. Google released this information last week when they launched a new mobile ad product designed specifically around...
Twitter Advertising – New Five Step Advertising Interface
In an effort to make setting up and launching advertising campaigns easier Twitter has revamped its advertising interface outlining five major goals for marketers with clear campaign objects and step-by-step instructions. They are: Acquiring more followers - Why get...
Why You Should Document Your Network System
For many of us in the IT world, we enjoy working on computers, building networks, designing programs, and implementing new systems. But when it comes to the “paperwork” side of the business, many of us tend to lag behind and let those tasks fall between the cracks....
Backup Horror Stories
Ask someone to name something scary, and chances are you'll hear about fears of spiders, snakes, or creepy clowns. But in today’s society, with cybercrime on the rise, you’ll probably also find “loss of computer data” on that list of fears. We’ve become so reliant on...
How to Protect Your Data from a Natural Disaster
As 2017 comes to a close, many of us will remember the slate of natural disasters that have hit the country over the last 12 months. From hurricanes in the fall that hit Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and Puerto Rico to wildfires blazing out of control in California,...
4 Ways to Protect Your Company From a Cyber Attack
There is an old saying that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. That is definitely the way it works for cyber security. Unfortunately, many employees in some companies have proven themselves to be the weak link in their network security chain. Staying one...
Hackers Can Easily Steal Your Biometrics to Gain Access to Your Bank Accounts
For years, television and movies have suggested that the future of computer security lies in biometrics. How many films have you seen where someone has used their fingerprints or a retinal scan to open up a bank vault? Of course, for every time you saw this in a...
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Five Questions You Should Ask Yourself About SEO
Fact: Your website needs search engine optimization (SEO) to help your website achieve more. Many try and go it alone in the search engine optimization process and, in the majority of cases, they never see the results they would have achieved if they had enlisted the...
Atlanta Corporate Branding – Make it good and stick with it.
Have you ever wondered how companies like McDonalds, Coca-cola, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Motorola, Sony and UPS came up with their names? Just think, if these companies have some lame or forgettable brand name, would they be as big as they are now? Every company...
90s Web Design: Is YOUR Website Accidentally Retro?
Remember the days of beige PCs, Netscape, Geocities and Tripod? The mid-late 1990s were the playful childhood of the worldwide web, a time of great expectations for the future and pretty low standards for the present. Those were the days when doing a web search meant...
Is PPC Advertising Right for Your Business?
If you want to improve exposure to your target audience and drive more traffic to your website you should seriously consider a Pay per click (PPC) advertising campaign. PPC is an effective way to reach the top positions in Google without spending a lot of time and...
Happy Holidays from the Grafique Team
We hope we put a smile on your face. 2014 has been a wonderful year of growth for us. We’ve added new members to our team and have redesigned our website with a new, fresh face. We hope you like it as much as we do. As we approach the holiday season and the...
How to Prove Social Media Marketing is Profitable
Before you can begin to build your social media strategy your website should be filled with interesting and compelling content (blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and whitepapers). Why is that important? When used properly social media can extend the reach of...
Having Generic Keywords On The First Page Doesn’t Guarantee Sales/Clicks To Your Website
People seem to think just because they have a keyword or key phrase on the first page of Google that it automatically means people will buy their product/service. That isn't the case. Generic keywords, also called short keywords, are words or phrases with a relatively...
Why You Should Outsource Your Marketing
It is already common practice to outsource development, accounting, customer service, and other areas of your business because it’s been found to save money/time on overhead, commitment, recruiting time, training time, and expenses that come with a full-time staff....