Just having a website doesn’t cut it anymore. Those days have been long gone! A website is often the face of the business and the first place that an individual interacts with a business, whether it’s a B2B (business-to-business) or B2C (business-to-consumer) environment. Despite the fact that the first impression of a business is made through the website, there are common business website problems that are constantly occurring.
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If you are planning a website redesign in 2015 there are 4 areas you MUST include to ensure you get the outcome you're really after, more business. I shiny new look and feel will certainly help to build trust with your visitors when they arrive, but if you have no visitors to see it, what's the point? It's an absolute must to have as much focus on your efforts (think SEO, content marketing, social media, sponsored advertising) to get high quality traffic to your site as your efforts to make your site look better. 1 - A Blog In case you haven't heard... you have to be producing content if you want to get high quality traffic to your site. I'm not talking about people searching for your brand name, or people using local search to find a local supplier. I'm talking about new, high quality visitors that need what you provide and search for terms around your offering versus your brand name. That's how you grow your business. The absolute easiest way to generate content on a consistent ...
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Feeling guilty that you didn't read any web marketing resources this week? No worries, we've compiled some of our favorites to give you some weekend reading material. Enjoy! Google Will Now Detect if a Website Won’t Work on Your Device, Warn You Have you ever tried to view a website on your phone and found the experience to be really bad? Yes, you have, don't lie. Google is now helping it's Android brethren by giving you a warning in the search results to let you know if a site won't work right on your phone. For now, they are focused on flash sites. Don't be surprised if that extends to non-flash sites in the future. Responsive design anyone? Thanks to Kellex at Droid Life for the great update. Infographic - Smart Ways To Combine Content Marketing With SEO One of the great things about content marketing is that it doesn't live in a silo. It feeds so many other tactics!! It's great when you get more mileage from a time investment. This infographic shows all of the channels for content ...
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It's not a secret that mobile devices have changed our lives. We're now connected to these devices and find ourselves using them probably more than we would like to admit.
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Start sarcasm... Are you ready to have your mind blown? Hold on to your hats... Lots of people use smartphones and tablets to browse the web! Feel free to take a minute to recover from that astonishing fact. I understand. New information can really be a shock at first. ...end sarcasm. Seriously though, if you were to look at your website's analytics, you'd probably be surprised at the number of visitors to your site that are on smartphones or other mobile devices. If you want to know how many for sure and you use google analytics, here're the steps when you're logged in: Now you need to ask yourself if you want to be friends or foes to the mobile device using people that are viewing your site. Additionally, you need to ask if your competitors are being friendly to mobile device users. The Past Is The Past. The Present Is The Present. The Future Will Be Different Too. Like anything based on technology, the best way to do something last year is not necessarily the best way to do the ...
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Showrooming - The act of examining merchandise or products in a store and then buying it online, often for lower prices. 35% Of All Americans Engage In Showrooming Combating showrooming can be tricky. Regardless of smartphone ownership, 35% of Americans engage in showrooming. Ultimately, this means a whopping $217 BILLION spent online instead of in stores, after the product had been looked at in stores. This is obviously a huge loss for local retailers. The most showroomed stores are big names such as Bed Bath & Beyond, PetsMart, Toys 'R' Us, and Best Buy. In rural areas such as Bradford, PA, it's the smaller stores that really suffer. These are not huge corporations, these are small, family-owned businesses that truly depend on those sales. They tend to provide more value and service than online retailers and can use that to their benefit when trying to reduce the showrooming that happens with their store. Combating In Store Comparison Shopping Mobile devices have made in-store ...
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70% of mobile searchers use click to call... - Google Study (http://p80.us/3b7433) Picture this. You're out for lunch with a friend, planning to do a little Christmas shopping afterwards so you start putting together your list of gifts on your smartphone. While you're at it, you start adding the stores that might have some of the gifts you want to buy. Of the stores, you ask: Are the gifts in stock? How long are they open? Do they have any sales going on? All questions that you could go online to get answers for IF the small businesses have websites that are regularly updated. What we tend to see is that most small business owners barely have enough time to get their normal daily tasks done, let alone update their websites/social media/etc...! Since you are already on your smartphone, it would probably be faster/easier to just call the stores. I bet you don't have them on speed dial, and you're more than likely NOT carrying a phone book with you, so you turn to trusty ole Google! A ...
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When we consult with small businesses and nonprofits, the mere mention of Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC) as an option is almost always met with a handful of wrong assumptions about PPC and why they shouldn't/couldn't/wouldn't think about, including:
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If you are executing digital marketing, congratulations! You are most likely already one step ahead of your competition, and making strides to meaningfully connect with prospects online. But, how do you know if you’re seeing continual success year over year, and improving your metrics?
Without the tools in place to analyze and benchmark your efforts, it is impossible to scale your online marketing and ensure continuous success.
