Consumers are growing less patient for commercials and sales pitches. But they want to hear or read a story. Sharing a compelling brand story can be difficult if you’re looking to improve your brand image – maybe it’s time to start at the foundation and build up. It starts with where you and your customers spend the most time. We wrote about managing your ...
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Find Your Voice What’s your favorite way to receive information on the Internet? For many people, it’s interactive content. Consumers increasingly are becoming more sophisticated. It’s no longer enough just to create a message and share it with anyone you can. Consumers want to interact with and experience your message. They don’t want to read or hear your message. They want to share with ...
Hey Siri, why should I optimize my website for voice search? The growing use of smart speakers and voice assistance programs has led voice search to become one of the fastest-growing ways consumers interact with the Internet. A 2019 study found that two in five respondents said voice-activated devices are essential to their lives. It is estimated that in 2020, about 50% of searches ...
9 Hot Digital Marketing Trends for 2020 2019 has been a big year for digital marketing, and 2020 promises to be just as important. Changing technology and consumer habits mean digital marketers must adapt their efforts, embracing new platforms and trying new strategies. While it’s impossible to know all the new directions the digital world will take in 2020, several projections can be made ...
Safe and secure Keeping your website secure protects visitors while improving your rank in the search engines. A new report breaks almost every day about an online security breach that has leaked access to usernames, credit cards and all kinds of other private information. Encryption can help prevent this and it’s critical if you take credit cards or other forms of payment on your ...
Reach for the top It’s good to be first. That’s often true in marketing, and it’s especially true when it comes to your rank on the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) in Google and other browsers, like Bing. With search engines, if you’re not first — or at least within shouting distance of first — you’re likely to be buried under the noise of ...
You’ve built a great digital marketing plan based on a well-thought-out strategy, realistic goals and good market research. You roll out the campaign and wait for the action to begin. But it doesn’t. Where are the results and what’s going on with performance, you ask? How long is this going to take? The short answer: It depends. An effective digital marketing campaign can sometimes ...
The Internet opens your business and your brand to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. With just a simple website, you have the potential to reach more consumers today than at any time in human history. The world is at your virtual doorstep, waiting to see what you have to offer. If they can find you. The Internet can connect you and your business ...
There is no silver bullet or magic easy button with digital marketing. Not all businesses are alike, and not all digital marketing strategies work the same. The most effective plans are customized to your industry, your business and your customers. It takes takes research, testing and time to fully understand your customers’ shopping and buying behaviors and learning the most effective ways of reaching ...
In the wild west of digital marketing, pricing digital marketing services has not standardized yet and it’s all over the map. Unfortunately, the pool of digital marketing talent is all over the map too; some good, some bad and some just downright ugly. Since digital marketing is best measured as a combination of cost and performance, it’s best to evaluate digital marketing agencies in ...