Why Your Small Business Needs a Responsive Website Design
As mobile devices become more and more a part of your customer’s daily life, now is the time to evaluate how your small business website displays on tablets, smart phones, and even computers.
Recent reports have shown that smart phone and tablet usage combined to account for 60% of total digital media time.
12 Ways to Quickly Make Your Site Mobile-Ready and Responsive
There are a million reasons why your business’ website needs to be responsively designed, the least of which is Google’s inclusion of this factor in their algorithm. The most important reason is to ensure your current and potential clients and customers are having an optimal experience with your user interface regardless of what type of device they are using. Read More
Tips For Converting Your Small Business Website to WordPress
Over the years, chances are that your business has evolved. Whether it is new products or services, additional locations, or perhaps you need to sell online (and not just at your business location).
Has your website kept up with the growing demands of your small business?
It’s not uncommon for our clients to come to us with a website that was developed 5-10 years ago. Sometimes they are hundreds of static HTML pages, flash based sites, Java sites, ASP sites, or even sites created with “Godaddy Tonight” (yuck!). For the most part, these sites not only look like they are 10+ years old, they are a nightmare to update the most basic elements and can have slow loading times.
Does this sound familiar to your business? Read More
8 Super Easy Ways To Handle Your Extra Slow Website
Having a slow website can be detrimental to your business. Not only will potential customers end up bailing before they purchase, but your organic rankings can also take a huge hit. In fact, if you are using Google Analytics, you can get website speed data and more.
As technology increases, so does the expectation on the speed at which things work. Like your website. If it has been awhile since you ran an audit on your website load times, it might make sense to contact me.
For those “do-it-yourself” types, let’s go over some super easy ways to handle your extra slow website. Read More
X Problems with Your Paid Advertising Campaigns
Utilizing paid advertising campaigns, also known as search engine marketing (SEM) can have great impacts on your business. Impacts that can be both beneficial or detrimental to your bottom line.
How do you know if you are doing things that are right? Better yet, how do you know if you are doing something wrong and what can you do to fix it?
If your paid advertising campaigns are being derailed by sloppy management, bad decisions, or just not knowing what you are doing; you are probably costing your company thousands of dollars each month.
So how can your business avoid wasting marketing dollars on bad SEM practices? Let’s take a look at XX problems with your SEM campaign.
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Believing These 6 Myths About Google+ Keeps Your Business From Growing
As a business owner, you more than likely have heard some discussion around Google+. Chances are you might have heard some good things as well as some bad things. Some of what you heard might have made you skeptical from getting your business involved on Google+.
However, by ignoring Google+, you could be preventing growth of your small business. Who wants to prevent business growth?
I’m willing to bet it’s not you.
But how do you separate the Google+ truths from the myths? With stats of course! I’ll reveal 6 myths about Google+ that keep your small business from growing. Read More
9 Foolproof Email Marketing Tips for Small Businesses
At the core of nearly every successful small business digital campaign, you often find email marketing leading other initiatives. While I have talked at length on the importance of email marketing to small businesses, I wanted to provide you with some foolproof tips for your email marketing initiatives.
Before we get into these tips, it is important to note that they will not work if you are purchasing email lists.
With that said, let’s take a look at some of my favorite small business email marketing tips and how you can use them to get the most out of your company’s email marketing efforts. Read More
How to Get Your Small Business Started On Social Media
So your business has made the decision to make a splash with social media? Great! Or is it? Hopefully, your small business is making this decision for the right reasons and not just because “everyone is doing it, so we need to do it as well.”
Even with your personal social media accounts, you know it can be a huge time suck. Will social media for small business owners mean the same for your business?
In order to get a better understanding on the implications of social media and your small business, let’s take a look at some of the key things you will need to consider when starting a social media plan for your company.
Are You Purchasing Email Lists? Find Out Why They FAIL to Deliver!
There are numerous ways to generate leads for your business. From search engine optimization, search engine marketing, social media, content marketing, email marketing and more. Depending on the nature of your business, some channels might work better than others.
Over the years, one lead generation method tends to outperform the others.
Email marketing.
Email marketing typically provides great return on investment. Do you know why?
6 Remarketing Tips For Small Business Owners
It’s not often someone gets married after a first date, and the same analogy can be made about your website. Top of the funnel prospects aren’t typically going to buy from you immediately. In fact, they will probably look you over and then see if they can find someone better (your competitor) and see how you stack up.
But how do you stay top of mind to people who have visited your website after they have left?
Life happens and chances are that they might never come back to your site. Your previous efforts (SEO, social media, etc) brought them to your site, but for whatever reason you were not able to close the deal on the initial visit.
