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...
What Exactly is a Hashtag?
If you’re new to social media, you might be wondering what all the talk is about hashtags. You’ve probably seen them in Twitter and other social media sites. They’re those short links with the pound sign (#) in front of them. If you’ve ever wondered what they are or...
Why Call Tracking is So Important for Your Business
Do you want to be able to record a phone conversation, know the phone number of incoming calls, the geographical location of the caller, the name and address of the caller, and the time of inbound calls? Do you also want to identify which ads, search keywords, web...
The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding
Chart created by http://nativeinstyle.com/ According to a very interesting article written by Gregory Ciotti of Help Scout, “the idea that colors such as yellow or purple are able to evoke some sort of hyper-specific emotion is about as accurate as your standard Tarot...
Pay to Play. The End of Free Social Media Marketing
Is the future of social media going to be ‘pay-to-play’? Well, at least for Facebook that’s going to be the case. The Times reported “The Free-Marketing Gravy Train Is Over on Facebook.” What does that mean for people who rely on Facebook for marketing purposes? The...
What are brands for?
Before asking what brands are for, you need to understand what a brand is. If you search the Internet for “What is a Brand?” you‘ll get a pile of definitions like: At its core, a brand is a promise to consumers Visual + Verbal + Experiential = Brand Perception Brands...
Google Authorship is Dead – For Real This Time
Google Authorship was created by Google as a way to connect content to an author by use of an author signature. The author’s signature was used to score the author based on trust and authority signals pointing at the author’s content, and that score was then used to...
Yet Another “Is SEO Dead?” Article
In a recent article in Forbes, written by Steve Olenski, called 7 Reasons Why Your Business Should Invest In SEO, he points out some really interesting facts. Read full article here. He says,” Google the term “Is SEO dead?” and what comes back in return is over 44...
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...
Why Negative Keywords Are So Important For Your Campaign
Even if you’ve never developed an Adwords campaign, chances are you have a pretty good idea how Adword works. If not, here’s AdWords 101 in two sentences: AdWords works like an auction, and the way you get your ad in front of interested audiences is by bidding on...
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...
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Covers the Cyber Threats Facing Hospitals
You would think that the last place to learn about the latest cyber threats facing the healthcare industry would be the television show "Grey’s Anatomy." But a recent episode of the hit show focused on a topic that has become a legitimate issue at hospitals...
Is Your Printer Spying On You? Yes, It Might Be
Ask any IT specialist what the most aggravating part of their job is and it probably won’t be foreign hackers or incompetent users who think they know more than they really do. No, chances are that their biggest nightmare is a little device that most of us take for...
Equifax Has More Than One Bad Day
One of the biggest problems with all of the media attention given to corporate hacking is that after a while it almost becomes blasé. We become so used to hearing about yet another online invasion that has left customer data in jeopardy that we almost start to think...
6 Marketing Challenges that Can Make or Break Your Business
Generating profit with your business largely depends on your marketing strategy. An effective marketing strategy will go beyond making sure the orders are fulfilled and your bills are paid so that you can live comfortably. Whether you are handling the marketing on...
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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...