The Power of Why in Marketing Your Business
English poet and author, Rudyard Kipling, suggested the use of six questions – as a model for better thinking. Here is Kipling’s witty poem called, Six Honest Men: I have six honest serving men They taught me all I knew Their names are What, and Where and When; and...
Google My Business – What Does It Mean for You?
Google has been working hard on the launch of their new product, Google My Business, designed for small business owners in order to increase their visibility within Google Search, Google Maps, and Google+. Google provides services to two important groups, paid...
Three Business Lessons from Target – When a Giant Falters In the Market
What Not To Do – Courtesy of Target In November, 70 million Target customers were violated when tech criminals stole trusted personal information when they hacked into Target’s computers. Many feel Target blew an opportunity to build trust with their customers....
Online Marketing Has Changed the World, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Not too long ago, small mom and pop stores couldn’t compete with the big guys through traditional offline marketing. People went to the big name stores advertised in magazines, television commercials, billboards, and flyers. We thought big name brands meant quality,...
Penquin 2.0 Has Landed – Did You Get Affected?
Recent news on Penquin 2.0 shows that most of the sites that were affected were porn and gaming sites. A few big brand sites were hit as well, which further proves that no one is immune; sites like salvationarmy.org, dish.com, and REEDs jewelers. The official release...
Penguin 2.0 Is Coming – What Does This Mean For Your Business?
With the latest news about Penguin 2.0 coming out soon, many are hypothesizing and trying to plan ahead for their websites. What will this update include? Is my business safe? Every website owner should be asking themselves these very important questions. The best...
Are Meta Descriptions Important? YES!
Meta descriptions have evolved over the years and there has been many debates as to whether or not they are important. I can tell you unequivocally that they are VERY IMPORTANT! In the past the rules for meta descriptions were to include your keywords (and in some...
Atlanta’s Leading Local SEO and Website Design Company Gives Back to Paulding County
Salute America 2013, Paulding County’s second annual air show gets a new look. Grafique, an Atlanta based local website design and internet marketing strategy agency, redesigned the official website for the Paulding County second annual air show, Pauldingairshow.net....
Best Practices in Contemporary Web Design
Some websites look like they're a historical archive or what you would have come across when you first started to surf the 'net back in the 1990s. Those sites made much use of table-based graphics, employing onsite builders to create a look that was usually...
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....
Google Promoting Mobile-Friendly Websites
Starting on November 18, 2014 Google started to add a “mobile-friendly” label to mobile search results which they expect to roll out globally over the next few weeks. What makes a site ‘mobile friendly’? According to Google, a page can qualify for the...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving is a time for feasting, football, and family, and sometimes frustration. After shopping in long lines, missed flight connections, lost luggage, recipes that flopped, and relatives who can get under your skin, who couldn't use a few laughs on Turkey Day?...
Google Likes Long Form Content
The mantra ‘Content is King’ has not changed but the desired length of the content may have. Google understands how easy it is for webmasters to slap together a 400-word blog post and then optimize it for a keyword or two. Google is looking for and rewarding sites...
Twitter’s New “Buy” Button
After months of reports and rumors, Twitter unveiled their first commercial product – their “Buy Now” button. Twitter is testing through a small sampling of merchandiser partners how well the “Buy Now” button will work. This is the firststep Twitter is taking toward...
Five Best Halloween Apps
Looking for the best Halloween apps? We pulled together a group of what we think are the best Halloween apps of 2014. 1. First Words Halloween by Learning Touch LLC Price: $1.99 Download from iTunes Download from Google Play This app comes with rave reviews. It was...
Why Being Easy To Find Online Is So Important For Service/Repair Companies
If you try out for a part in a movie and stay in the bathroom during the auditions, you’re not going to get the part. The same holds true for Service and Repair companies on the Internet. If you can’t be found, you won’t get the call. When a water pipe breaks in your...
Why Proofing Your Online Content Is So Important
Nothing screams “shoddy work!” more than typos, grammar errors and sloppy formatting, especially online where the content is so visual. Strangely enough, proofing is often the most overlooked step in the writing process. Today, 90% of B2C marketers use content...
Get in tune with your prospects using Answer The Public
Knowing what questions your prospects are asking about your niche can help you produce better content, and help you rank better in search engines. For a while now one way to do this was to type in a keyword, and take note of what would come up in Google suggestions. A...
How to Research your Competitors with iSpionage
If you’re thinking about starting a Pay Per Click campaign, or you’re looking to improve your organic ranking in search engines, the place to start is competitor research. Looking at the keywords your competitors put money into, or rank for, can help you be much more...
Get More Engagement From Your Social Media Photo Shares Using Canva
By and large, image posts perform best on nearly every social media network. The need to be able to quickly design an image to help reach your audience is more necessary than ever. If you don’t have a team handling your social media marketing, you can make more than...
Finding content for your social media pages a struggle? This week’s tool can help.
After a while of keeping your audience engaged, perhaps having a couple of successful posts, you start to realize that finding good content to share on social media is a constant up-hill battle. It’s not easy to get or keep your business relevant on social media....
Find Out What Works On Top Performing Facebook Pages With SumoRank
It’s high time we introduce a tool that will help you make sense of Facebook metrics, to improve overall Facebook marketing efforts. We all need to know what days are best for posting, what times are best for posting, what type of content is best received by our...
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Atlanta’s Leading Local SEO and Website Design Company Gives Back to Paulding County
Salute America 2013, Paulding County’s second annual air show gets a new look. Grafique, an Atlanta based local website design and internet marketing strategy agency, redesigned the official website for the Paulding County second annual air show, Pauldingairshow.net....
Best Practices in Contemporary Web Design
Some websites look like they're a historical archive or what you would have come across when you first started to surf the 'net back in the 1990s. Those sites made much use of table-based graphics, employing onsite builders to create a look that was usually...
Blog Unleashed: Tips for a Terrific Site
Google Panda and Penguin have unleashed much havoc across the blogosphere, hammering bloggers in a variety of wages. Some of the complaints include a drop in web traffic, disappearing SERPs and a monumental fall in PageRank. You may be doing everything right to update...
Marketing Should Help Your Business, Not Hurt It
It goes without saying that businesses can’t survive and thrive without a marketing strategy. How will people know about your goods or services if you don’t display your business in some way? Unfortunately, far too many businesses market their company in the wrong...
How to Manage Your Growing Small Business Communication Needs
Your small business has left the confines of your garage or spare bedroom and has since branched out to its own physical location. You may not have hit the big time yet, but you certainly have proven that you have what it takes to manage a larger and more profitable...