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How to Determine Your Internet Marketing Plan Based on Your Revenue Goals

How to Determine Your Internet Marketing Plan Based on Your Revenue Goals

91% of marketers are confident that they're making marketing decisions that will positively impact revenue. Are you one of them? As marketers, we're well-versed in the main goals of internet marketing: to generate leads and new business. Revenue generated from online marketing justifies why we include online channels in our marketing efforts. Some companies use revenue as a jumping-off point to build their marketing plans. This method determines if current marketing efforts should be changed or repeated based on lead generation and customer acquisition data. A tactic like this measures and drives the growth of a business. To put it…
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Social Media Management in Times of Crisis

Social Media Management in Times of Crisis

These are times of fast-changing news around COVID-19. It’s clear that what we are facing — not just as marketers, as friends, and parents and colleagues — is unprecedented. And we’re all in it together. In times like these, people look to each other, and to their communities to figure out how to respond. Over the last, 9 years, we’re very grateful to have built up such a strong community of people who use our products, read our blogs and listen to our podcast, and we believe that it’s important that we all try to navigate these challenges together. That’s…
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Why Playing Games at Work Could Increase Productivity and Employee Satisfaction

Why Playing Games at Work Could Increase Productivity and Employee Satisfaction

Consider this — you're trying to add the final slides to an important presentation, but you can't seem to finish. Secretly, you want a change of scenery. You either want to pull up a game of solitaire on your laptop, or play Words With Friends on your phone. You can't though, because you're at work. Your team or manager may not like it. It's simply not acceptable. You might know the feeling. Despite cultural notions that playing games at work is counterproductive, it's actually quite the opposite. Games can be a great tool to create a better work environment for…
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How to Know the Right Website Builder for Your Business Website

How to Know the Right Website Builder for Your Business Website

A business website is now an important asset for any company, especially in this increasingly digital world. If you want to have a home for your business on the Internet, then you definitely need to get a business website up and running. Luckily, there are plenty of options available online that makes it easier for you to know how to build your website. If you still don’t have a business website, then the first thing you need to consider is which website builder you want to use. A website builder is great for people who don’t want to do a…
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What The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Means For Marketers

What The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Means For Marketers

By now you have heard about the Coronavirus. The sad reality is that it is spreading quickly and will continue to spread for a while. Did you know that we are getting roughly 15,000 new cases a day and it’s growing fast? No one really knows how many people will be infected (or will pass away sadly), but it has caused the global stock markets to crash, which means as a business (or even a marketer), you will be affected. And because my ad agency works with hundreds of companies in all the major sectors and we have 7 offices…
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Why You Should Focus on Location Based Marketing This Year

Why You Should Focus on Location Based Marketing This Year

  In the last decade or so, the reach of business has expanded across the globe, and now it is coming full circle. Small companies that sold their products exclusively in their individual communities were suddenly taking advantage of their ability to reach an audience on the other side of the world, and their revenue and marketing capabilities expanded infinitely. Access opened up for consumers to order local items from businesses hours away with the click of a button. In some ways, we may have expanded out a little farther than necessary, though, as people have recently started to crave…
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5 Brands That Let You Try a Product Before Buying It [What Marketers Can Learn]

5 Brands That Let You Try a Product Before Buying It [What Marketers Can Learn]

Recently, I took a leap of faith, and bought leggings online. I was nervous because of the obvious: I couldn't see the leggings in person or try them on in-store, and I wasn't sure how the sizing worked. I didn't want to pay for shipping and item tax without even knowing if I was going to love my purchase. During the checkout process, I kept thinking about how much I wanted to try the leggings on before I bought them, just to make sure I was making a good choice. The fear of not knowing made me hesitant to spend…
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How to Write Good Instagram Captions: 8 Bookmarkable Tips for Perfecting Your Copy

How to Write Good Instagram Captions: 8 Bookmarkable Tips for Perfecting Your Copy

Instagram marketing is all about the visuals. The quality of your photos will be the differentiating factor when it comes to gaining Instagram followers, getting them interested in your brand and what it's about, and showing off the human side of your business. But the hard work doesn't end once you've taken that beautiful photo and edited it to perfection. The caption of your post is where you can give a voice to that visual content. A good Instagram captions explains what the photo is about, tells your followers to take action, or cracks a joke that makes your content…
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11 ways social data can take you and your business to the next level

11 ways social data can take you and your business to the next level

By now you know that social media is a marketing powerhouse. However, its value is still downplayed because of the historical disconnect between social and bottom-line business metrics. While it’s tempting for businesses to simply “follow the money,” not everything you do on social media translates directly into dollars and cents. Social ROI often comes down to the data you collect and how you use it. Customers, competitors, campaigns, cultural events—today’s marketers have real-time data on it all and still, 39% say they struggle to demonstrate the value of social across their organizations. Social media is brimming with business, competitive…
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Are you sure your website analytics is set up correctly?

Are you sure your website analytics is set up correctly?

When was the last time you did an audit on your website analytics to make sure it’s set up correctly? We run a lot of audits for companies (SEO, website, competitive analysis, etc.) and we have found that issues with analytics are very common. Here are some of the typical issues that you should check for when performing a web analytics audit for your website. 1. Google Search Console not set up When Google crawls through your website to index it, it will provide you with a report that can be found in Google Search Console. It’s an essential report…
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