Do millennials ever put their phones down? No. In fact, 24% of millennials attached themselves to their smartphones less than 5 minutes after waking up. An even more astounding 52% of millennials start using their smart phones just after being awake for 5 minutes. Throughout the rest of the day, these digital obsessed millennials are likely to check their smartphones...
Could this be the end of coupon mailers and Sunday ads? The year 2015 has shown an immense positive correlation between digital advertising and in-store retail sales. Digital advertising is expected to influence 64 cents of every dollar spent in retail stores, or $2.2 trillion, by the end of this year. This figure has grown considerably since 2012, where digital advertising...
As a business owner, you may have asked yourself- What is the point of blogging? What do I blog about? Do I HAVE to blog? Yes. Not only do you have to, but you want to. As of May 2015, there were more than 47 billion Web pages indexed on Google. Instead of letting the 47,000,000,000 other pages intimidate you, educate...
The weeks leading up to Mobilegeddon put many businesses into a frenzied panic as they tried to make their website mobile responsive or optimized by April 21st in order to avoid the wrath of Google’s new algorithm. Now that April 21st is behind us, many companies might be asking, “so what happened?” According to Google, there was a 4.7% increase...
Think you've pulled out all the stops for your SEO campaign? Go bigger! You may have the basics: inbound links, a blog, optimized keywords, and many more strategies in place to boost your organic search rankings. While these are effective, take an extra step to set your business apart by creating a video. The video can be anything- a biography...
Online reputation management consists of monitoring, improving and maintain the publicly available online information about your business. As the internet becomes more mobile, on-the-go and fast-paced, it becomes much easier for your customers to research the good and the bad about your company. Not only is it easier for customers to find reviews about your company, it is also extremely...
As a business, you may have asked yourself many times, how do I connect with my audience? Social media is an effective way to help businesses connect on a personal level with their customers. Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter allow contact directly from business to customer and essentially puts a face to the business and encourages upfront communication...
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a incredibly powerful digital marketing strategy. The more organic traffic to your website, the more leads, and better site navigation means more leads turning into business. No website is the same, so it can take many different combinations of statistics and information to gain the most insight on how to run the best SEO...
Your mobile optimized site is complete! You’ve beat the April 21 Google deadline and your mobile site is ready to ensure your customers the most user-friendly website experience of their lives, right? Not so fast. Now it is time to make sure your site visitors are properly redirected from your desktop site to the mobile optimized site. Redirect scripts are...
Mobile Websites. You’ve heard the hype, you’ve seen the Google announcements, you know that mobile sites are not only recommended but soon-to-be mandatory on April 21st if your business wishes to maintain a successful Google search ranking. Now that you know your site has to be mobile responsive or optimized within the next month, you may be on your way...
“If you lose money for the firm, I will be understanding. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless,” said Warren Buffet. Reputation management has become a necessary component to many successful businesses in the internet age where any customer can say anything about their experience with a company's product or services. A company’s reputation can be permanently tarnished with...
You've heard it here: mobile devices are the hottest platforms for effective digital marketing strategies. Not sold on the mobile marketing trend yet? This may change your mind, because for the first time ever, not having a responsive or optimized mobile site can negatively impact your businesses' success. Starting April 21, Google will be penalizing websites that are not optimized or responsive to...
You have probably heard a lot about new digital marketing trends for digital devices. It seems like every week a new research study proves which digital device customers prefer for shopping and browsing. With all the trends, statistics and competition among devices, it is easy to get overwhelmed trying to keep up with the dozens of ways to attract a customer...
When was the last time you walked, drove, sat or went anywhere without seeing handfuls of people with their faces glued to their smartphone screens? Between distractions like internet browsing, social media, emails, texting, and phone calls, how can you capture your customer's attention? Get to know them individually. Understand their consumer habits. Become an integrated part of their lifestyle. Marketing...
You might be in the East Coast stuck in your house with snow up to your roof, or you might be in the West Coast lounging in the sun avoiding going indoors. Either way, is your mobile phone in your hand? If not, is it more than three feet from your hand? Most likely not. The population's addiction to...
Looking for a Valentine’s Day gift that will win your sweetheart over? Look no further than your favorite digital device. Valentine’s Day is known not only for love and romance, but also for business and consumer driven behaviors: shopping and advertising. According to momentology.com, data from recent years shows that couples are not the only consumers driven to spend this...
How many display ads do you think you are exposed to in one day? Tens, twenties or even hundreds? Believe it or not, the number falls closer to the upper levels of the spectrum. Between the countless billboards, magazines, television and internet ads we pass by hundreds of times a day, it is apparent that display advertising has made a...
As mobile internet use continue to skyrocket among the large population of digital device users, it becomes more difficult for brands to maintain their websites to keep up with the ever-changing and developing new devices. While having a user-friendly site is a benefit to web users, it can be a burden to web developers and business owners who struggle...
At only 2 weeks into the new year, there have been plenty of new tips created on how to make 2015 your most successful year yet. But reading lists on top of lists about what your business should be doing but isn't doing yet can be intimidating and overwhelming. It takes time for you and your consumers to adapt...
As smart phone usage increases rapidly in America, the technical abilities of new phones become more and more advanced to add convenience to their users’ lives. The smart phone population realized that their phone is essentially a mini desktop computer that allows them to fulfill any task on the web without the constrictions of desktop computers or even Wi-Fi. Despite...
The end of another holiday season also marks the end of a new year and the beginning of new opportunities in 2015. Although you might have a list of important resolutions that you promise to keep this year, the fact is you may only keep them for 2 weeks, or through the entire month of January if you’re lucky. ...
The Omnichannel Experience may sound like an action movie you would see in an IMAX theatre, but this concept is a new marketing trend that is expected to explode in 2015. The omnichannel marketing experience is a term that describes the seamless, cross-channel shopping habits that consumers have latched on to this holiday season and are expected to stay latched...
Millennials, or the generation born between 1980-2000, have inherited a reputation of being “entitled,” “enigmatic,” and even “slackers.” Unfortunately, it is not only the millennials as a whole who are underestimated and underrepresented, it is the women within the 16-34 age group who are the most misunderstood, despite their huge buying power. Small businesses seeking the attention of women...
It's a fact: Google loves content creators. And the more credible, keyword rich content on your site, the better Google ranks your website. So how many pages do you have indexed in Google? It's easy to check! Step 1: Go to Google.com Step 2: In the browser field type "site:http://insertyourwebsite.com/" (no spaces, don't forget the colon!) Step 3: Google it! And voila! The...
The 1950’s were called the Golden Age of Television, when the TV launched the population's addiction to the small screen. More than six decades later, the population is starting to shift their addiction to an even smaller screen. According to a new report from Forrester Research, online ad spending will surpass TV ad spending for the first time as soon...
Desktops computers soared to popularity in the 1990’s and became a household item, like a microwave, or a television. In the 2000’s a new normal revolutionized on the go technology with mobile phones. The evolution of mobile phone technology ultimately lead to the status quo of the smartphone, which are ultimately monopolized by Android and Apple. Easy access to...
Are you looking for ways to organically increase the traffic to a website? If so, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) will improve the overall structure of a website which will help drive traffic. How? An SEO specialist has many different ways to optimize a website. Below are 5 examples taken straight from the "Search Giant" itself, Google. 1) Create unique and accurate...
Before you start a search engine marketing campaign (aka Pay-Per Click) it’s important to do a bit of homework first. As they look through their Google Analytics, they see clicks+cost with an overall increase in traffic. Putting these items together, increased traffic with clicks implies ads are working, right? Not necessarily! Your customer could potentially be losing revenue from really expensive...
Ready or not, the holiday season is upon us. While some of us are already planning on procrastinating holiday shopping until Christmas Eve and some of us are still in denial that it isn't July anymore, the most avid shoppers have had their credit cards ready since the first leaf of the season changed. But this year, instead of...
What was once only available to premium members of Linked In has now reached the masses: customizable backgrounds, similar to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Give your profile a professional punch by uploading your own in a few easy steps: Step 1: Create a 1400 x 425 background that is under 4 MB in .jpg, .png, or .gif. You'll notice that...
Generation X, the middle population of 65 million Americans ages 34-49, are frequently recognized as being squished in between the older, dominant Baby Boomers and the young, free-spirited Millennials. And boy does Generation X love their mobile technology and social media! Despite blatantly targeting every new tech trend to be marketed towards millennials, it's Gen Xers that spend the most...
Take a peak at your Google Analytics. If you are seeing your website traffic is at an ALL time low in the past month you may have been struck by the Penguin, or Googles’ third update to its algorithm. Colloquially known as Penguin 3.0, this update launched on October 17th (according to Google Webmaster Hangouts) and has caused many...
Snapchat, the “now-you-see-me-now-you-don’t” photo app, has caught the attention of the tech world because of its rapid success, occasional controversy and most of all, its devoted audience of users. “What the heck is Snapchat?” you might be saying in your head right now… Snapchat is a photo service that allows users to take pictures or videos, known as “snaps” of themselves...
I had a client the other days ask a question about his website, asking if it would be a "do-follow" site. This question is SO CLOSE to being a legitimate question, but also kind of funny. Here's why: Essentially you have two terms: "dofollow" and "nofollow". This tells search engine spiders to crawl, or not crawl, a website. The...
Retargeting web visitors is a common best practice to maximize conversions and invite back potential customers to your website. Our clients often ask us to help retarget (or remarket) their web traffic. Retargeting technology uses a pixel (lines of HTML code), which creates a cookie to track site visitors. But how the heck do you install that pixel? Wordpress doesn't...
The Results are In! See who won the RPS Tournament: For approximately 1.4 Million Years, the noble sport of Rock Paper Scissors has been used to decide our lives’ most IMPORTANT DECISIONS. Friendship, Marriage, War, Sandwich Ownership… man and lady kind’s deepest choices have all been overseen by the impartial game of Rock Paper Scissors. “I get it,” you say with...
In 2013, time spent with digital media among US adults surpassed time spent with TV for the first time ever. The shift is being driven by Mobile. Time spent per day with major media:
Nearly seven in 10 marketers say Googles Product Listing Ads (PLA’s) perform better than paid search ads. Performance of Products Listing Ads (PLA’s) in relation to Paid Search, Q1-2014. Slightly Better than paid search- 43% Much better than paid search- 26% About the same as paid search- 14% Much less than paid search- 8% Google is seeing a shift in revenue sources as a result...
Scratching your head when it comes to the jargon of online marketing? Well LOL and WTF no more. Here's some common acronyms and what they mean. Got something to add? Be sure to leave a comment! CPM means Cost per thousand. So why isn't it CPT? The ‘m’ is a Roman Numeral that stands for 1000. CTR means Click Through Rate,...
When marketing online or with mobile, men and women can't be treated equally. Check out the compelling infographic below which speaks to gender trends in social media and advertising and how it affects men and women differently. Some interesting points: Women send text messages more often than men More women look for support in social media Women are less likely to respond...
Online marketing can feel overwhelming. There are a lot of acronyms: CPM, CPC, PPC, SEO... when really all you care about one acronym: ROI, your return on investment! There are a lot of places to be online from Pay Per Click, to organic search, Google, Yahoo, and Bing search engines, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube... what business owner...
Small business owners know that the cost of operating can be downright expensive. Whenever there are programs out there that can help eliminate costs, while still maintaining a professional image, you should take advantage of them! Here are the websites that top my list: MadMiMi.com “Simple and beautiful email marketing” – Mashable. MadMimi gives you customizable email templates that are not only...
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