In 1999, you were ahead of the curve if you had a website. Even a simple home page and contact form would have helped you get found by your customers. In 2014, it’s a little more competitive. 100,000 new sites a day are published. You don’t need to be a math genius to know you’ve got your work cut out for you if you’re going to stand out from the crowd. Even a … [Read more...]
The Truth About SEO in 2014
“True SEO is an amalgamation of many functions, and ultimately, they all need to be logical and consistent.” Via SearchEngineLand Yes, yes, and yes. All together now, YES! Especially in 2014, SEO brings together solid web writing (with best SEO practices in mind), meta data, social signals and technical SEO factors like site speed together as a whole. That’s why … [Read more...]
10 Reasons Why Blogging Helps SMB’s
Wonder Why (or How) You Should Blog? Here are 10 Reasons. Would you like customers seek you out instead of the other way around? Imagine, your prospects find you, like you and already want to do business with you. That’s one way blogging can help your small business. In fact, the marketing software giant Hubspot states in their “The 2012 State of Inbound Marketing … [Read more...]
Keep Your Business Strong with Marketing Planning for Small Businesses
Lately, it seems I’m in Groundhog Day, you know that movie where Bill Murray keeps repeating the same day over and over again? Only my version goes something like this: “My business has dried up and I’m freaking out. Can you help?” Usually I find the business in question had one source of marketing that stopped working. For example, there’s the contractor who relied on … [Read more...]
Why Keyword Research Matters
Do you know what a “keyword” is? You might think you do but a surprising number of small business types don’t. Here’s why keyword research matters and what you can do about it. For example, if you’re a pet sitter, you might think a good keyword for you might be “dog”, “Cat” or even “pets”. Makes sense, right? Do you know what happens if you use those terms? You’ll be … [Read more...]
