5 Tips for Getting Serious About Online Marketing for 2017

The new year is just around the corner. With that in mind, we’ll share ways to seriously up your online marketing game for your business.

Get serious about your web design.
The cookie-cutter approach just doesn’t get it done anymore. The online competition among local businesses is fierce these days, and the web is definitely not a place for one-size-fits-all design.

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4 Ways to Mix Online and Offline Marketing for Your Business

While we talk a lot about online marketing strategies, offline traditional marketing should not be ignored – especially at the local level.

In this article, we’ll talk about how you can have a unified marketing effort – online and offline – to strengthen your brand and grow your business at the local level.

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Find Out How You Can Use Halloween To Get New Customers

With Halloween just around the corner, businesses large and small have a fantastic opportunity to capitalize and attract new customers. After the long summer months, consumers are reading to welcome in the fall season.

Because Halloween is on a Monday this year, we’ll share a few tips for how you can attract new customers to your business during the work week.

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Choosing the Right Shopping Cart for Your E-Commerce Site

Drawing customers to your business site is one thing. Getting them to check out with a completed purchase order is the overall goal. That’s why choosing the right shopping cart is so important. From providing online transaction management and saving customer information for repeat business, shopping carts play a crucial role in making your customers’ … Read More

Avoid These Mistakes in Email Marketing

In today’s world of marketing, email marketing is an essential component to just about any campaign. With that in mind, we’ll share in this article a few common mistakes that can quickly destroy any chance of getting the recipient to check out a business. Don’t overhype your subject line It’s fine to use the subject … Read More

Finding That Perfect Domain Name

For small businesses in just about any industry, the overriding goals are essentially the same: profitability, customer satisfaction and growth. One of the essentials required in meeting those goals is to have an effective online presence. While it can be easy to overlook, a business’s domain name can make all the difference in the world. … Read More

Bone-Crushing Mistakes to Avoid in Internet Marketing

Internet marketing has little in common with traditional marketing. It really is an entirely different beast. Because of that, it’s very easy for business owners to become frustrated when their Internet marketing investment doesn’t seem to be paying off.

With that in mind, here are a few absolutely bone-crushing mistakes many companies – large and small – make in their Internet marketing efforts.

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Common PPC Mistakes

We’ve talked recently about pay per click (PPC) marketing and how it can help your business take off. This entry is aimed at the PPC DIYer, and is specifically provided to help you avoid some of the most common pitfalls of PPC marketing.

Ignoring Your Landing Page

Before you push your campaign live, you can prevent a lot of unintended harm to your business by testing every bit of plan – especially the landing page.

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Tips for Selecting the Right Cloud Vendor

We’ve written several blogs lately about the advantages of cloud computing for businesses. In this entry, we’ll offer a bit of advice on how to select the right cloud service partner for you and your business.

How Many Businesses Are Actually Using Cloud

A recent survey tells us that about 72% of organizations in the U.S. have at least one of their applications hosted in the cloud. Other key findings from the survey indicate:

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What Are Your Customers Buying Habits?

In our last blog, we shared overall marketing trends to keep an eye on in 2016. In this entry, we’ll hone our efforts to focus on the buying habits and trends of consumers with the help of research carried out by the good people at business2community.com.

Who’s in the Study?

Researchers looked at two populations for their study: 1,002 U.S. shoppers over the age of 18 and 1,005 U.S. over the age of 18 who’ve made an online purchase within the past 6 months.

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