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...
Advertising on Facebook– Why Spend the Money?
Social media plays a huge role in connecting and reaching out to your audience. Even though Facebook has driven some users away with their recent shift to a paid-only format for marketing and advertising, it can still be a very useful marketing tool. One of the most...
Mobilegeddon Is Just Beginning
Question: What is Mobilegeddon? Answer: Google’s recent April 2015 update to rank mobile-friendly sites higher in mobile searches with the launch of their new search algorithm. Question: What’s behind the name? Answer: It’s called Mobilegeddon because many feared the...
Do You Need A CRM System?
Customer Relationship Management Software, more commonly referred to as CRM Software – Is this something you need? It depends. Do you work in sales or marketing? Is it important for you to track your interactions with current and future customers? Do you keep track...
Why You Need A Responsive Site More Than Ever
There are more mobile devices on Earth than people! And that number is expected to continue to grow at this crazy-fast pace. If you want to capture this market share (and why wouldn’t you?) then you need to make sure your website looks good on multiple devices. That’s...
Components You Can’t Ignore for a Sustainable Web Presence
Website Architecture The first thing to ask any developer you’re considering to build a new website for you is this: Are you going to build my website with search engines in mind? While Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing can help a website rank...
Google Is Having a Bad Day
Mid-April of this year, Bing reached their all-time high of the Search market share in the U.S. with 20% of the market share. Both, Yahoo and Google experienced a slight decrease with Bing's gains. These results come from recent analysis of the U.S. desktop search...
Marketing Using the Five Senses
Here’s a marketing test involving research participants that yielded some very interesting results. Marketing professor Raj Raghunathan and Ph.D. student Szu-Chi performed a study of two chickens and here’s what happened. The Test Participants were given two photos to...
Why You Should Be Using Call Tracking – Right Now!
Before you can reap the benefits of call tracking, first you need to understand what it is and how it works. What is Call Tracking Call tracking is a technique used in digital marketing to track which marketing channels generate calls. Call tracking is not unique to...
Give Customers More Opportunities to Spread Word of Mouth with ClickToTweet
When it comes to making your golf course’s social media pages profitable, you’ll want to give golfers every opportunity to say something about your course. Beyond the standard social media share buttons, you can make certain text ready to tweet. When the user clicks...
Tools Tuesday: Cut Social Media Management Time by 90 Percent
If you’re not already using DrumUp to save time on social media management, we highly recommend it. Login with any of your social media accounts, and choose keywords relevant to golf/golf courses. At this point, it gets nuts. DrumUp comes back with articles, videos,...
More Time for Social Media Engagement
Part of monetizing social media for your business is keeping your audience interested with content; part of it is engaging with customers and prospects. The engagement part is really where you want to spend a lot of time. People like to talk about good experiences....
Up Social Media Activity with Hootsuite
What stands in the way of your golf course having success with social media? The short answer to this question is staying active – posting like crazy! Hootsuite can help you do just that, and it doesn’t’ cost anything. It will let you integrate all your social media...
7 Successful Facebook Ads
Facebook is still the first name in social media. Although there may be newer trends in social media marketing, Facebook is still the tried and true gold standard for most people. However, there are a variety of ads that work best if you’re trying to market your...
5 Free Facebook Ads Management Software
Facebook is not just the biggest social media site on the planet. It’s also one of the hottest ways for marketers to get their ads across to a wide variety of people. From national campaigns to local ads, Facebook is the future of marketing. As it stands, Facebook...
Why Choosing Colors for Your Brand Matters
Choosing colors is very important for any business. In fact, it is very important in a lot of ways that you may be unfamiliar with, especially with regard to your marketing efforts. Color is a very important aspect that you need to keep in mind as you choose your...
Email Marketing or Direct-Mail Marketing: Which Works Best for Your Company?
Advertising campaigns, once limited to radio, print and T.V., have evolved to include the internet. Modern technology has introduced the power of the World Wide Web through smart phones and social media platforms. These days, marketers have many methods of advertising...
February Roundup: 20 of Our Favorite Small Business Marketing Tips
Running your own business can be exhausting, and it can be a challenge coming up with new, fresh and fun marketing ideas when you're burnt out. Not only that, but these fun marketing ideas need to be within your marketing budget. Fear not! Here are 20 effective...
“You need to spend money to make money.” How true is that in regard to marketing?
You’ve worked hard, came up with a brilliant idea, and transformed that into a real business. But no matter how good your products or services are, the adage of “if you build it they will come” doesn’t exactly ring true these days. Competition is fierce, and the...
Why should I have a newsletter? Who cares what I’m up to?
When it comes to marketing campaigns, a newsletter isn’t likely the first idea that comes to mind. However, despite its reputation as a “boring” or antiquated tool, newsletters can offer a unique way to connect, communicate with and sell to, your customer base. Heck,...
The Magic of Leave-Behinds: Leaving Lasting Impressions
We’ve all seen them. More than likely, you have several in your house. Take a look around. How many pens do you have bearing a company logo or slogan? Keychains? How many business cards to you carry around in your wallet or purse? If you’ve been to a career fair, then...
Customer Reviews, an Essential Component to your Business Strategy
Customer reviews have become an integral part of marketing, consumer influence and branding. The principal of social proof is alive and well, with over 75% of purchases being influenced by some type of social influence. The opinions of real people who have actually...
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13 Semantic Markup Tips For 2013: A Local SEO Checklist
One of the least-tapped areas of local business website optimization continues to be semantic markup. Semantic markup can increase chances that information from your website will be highlighted in search engine results pages via rich snippets, attracting greater...
Affordable SEO
SEO is critical to the success of a website. After all, you want to attract as much traffic as possible to your site in order to increase your sales. Like the law of supply and demand, once professionally done SEO is established, the price for SEO work will increase...
Creating or updating your website… from square one.
Before you begin your search for a web design company to help you build your site, you must first analyze your needs and requirements. Make a list of primary and secondary goals you have in mind for your website. It is also critical for you to have a fair idea of your...
Getting Started With Affiliate Marketing – A Brief How-To
Affiliate marketing has become one of the most popular ways for home-based businesses to promote their companies. But at the same time, affiliate marketing is a great way for anybody to start a home based business. So as you can see, affiliate marketing works from...
Recommendation for the Chicagoland area
We are very happy to announce that we have teamed up with a local SEO company in Chicago. DuPage SEO matches our own passion for internet marketing and customer response. They are experts in Small Business SEO and website design. If you know anyone in the Chicago area...
The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Consumers
This video presents key findings from "The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Consumers," a study from Google and conducted by Ipsos OTX, an independent market research firm. The findings come from research conducted at the end of 2010 among 5,013 US adult...
Are SEO and AJAX Compatible?
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is not new, but it is becoming somewhat of a buzzword with IT departments and web developers and it can also be a potential source of friction between IT/development and marketing. AJAX is a development technique designed to...
Run your own blog? Think it’s finished? Think again!
The good folks over at Thesis (People who created this awesome theme we are using) came up with 7 tweaks you can do to spruce up your blog. Check out the post below. I have some bad news to break: no matter how many hours you’ve put into designing and creating...
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...