Advanced SEO Techniques, Tactics, Strategy With marketing budgets overwhelmingly spent on Facebook ads and Google ads, and conversion rates falling, it makes perfect sense to maximize free, organic-originated traffic. And there’s just something healthy about the word organic! Forget about free though. Organic is about a truer, more trusting relationship with new prospects and current…
Solving the Marketing Gap Challenge There is a scarcity of affordable, top-level marketing talent in the US with the ingenuity, depth, and energy to take on your tough projects. Agencies are under big pressure trying to get more from their in-house staff, but a lack of talent, drive, and affordability is forcing them to outsource…
Professional SEO Services Few things digital are more sexy or profitable than a top ranking on Google. That lofty spot endows your company with credibility, significance, and a promise of satisfaction to customers. Leads, sales and revenue are here too. A new report from Conductor revealed that 57% of all sales happen via Google searches. …
Digital Marketing Audit — Essential Insights Most business owners cite a lack of insights as one of the weakest aspects of their work. They don’t know what works and what doesn’t. They can’t figure out why their performance is lagging and where the issues really are. Often, it takes an external, objective view to assess…
Industry Expertise is a Definite Advantage in Marketing When digital marketing agencies market their services, they promote the technique, process and work involved in marketing for clients. They make a big deal out of the team effort, scheduling, and delivery of slick content. This encourages clients to stop thinking and spend bigger to reach customers…
What Excites Your Visitors? Have you gone zip lining, hang gliding, sky diving, water sliding, roller coaster riding, white water rafting, mountain biking, or some similar adventure activity? I’ll bet you had fun. We all love the thrill of feeling good — of experiencing something new, fresh, novel, unexpected and elevating. That’s why adventure travel…
Subscription SEO Services Can you receive advanced level SEO services and corresponding results via a subscription-based account? You might say no, that SEO is too complex, creative and challenging to serve up on a subscription basis. And what agency in their right mind would offer something so wonderful for clients? The tech and marketing sphere…
Real Estate Marketing Services This summer of 2022 might generate more home listings and certainly 2023 will see more homes for sale on the market. In one recent survey, 6 out of 10 homeowners had intent to sell. The reasoning is simple. 2022 is the price peak for a number of reasons. You can help…
SEO Fees & Salaries 2022 New research shows SEO continues to create the lion’s share of web traffic for companies of all sizes and that the lion’s share of sales also flows out of search engines. The overall value of search engine optimization has never been better given search engine usage trends. And this has…
Fighting for Small Business in 2022 Big businesses have enjoyed a smooth path to revenues the last 30 to 40 years, but not so much small companies. Business and financial rules that seemed tailor made for corporations, have left small businesses teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Now through two years of pandemic recession something…
SEO for an Awakening Travel Market As the recovery begins in earnest in the US and Canada, hot and travel business owners have a lot of decisions to make on how to approach the reviving travel and accommodation market. It’s easy to gloss over strong preparation and fail to build the necessary strengths to establish…
12 AI Marketing Companies You Need to Know Most small businesses haven’t ventured into the realm of AI Marketing, but new solutions are arriving that will make it more affordable. The AI software solutions marketplace is filling with more apps, tools, software, and platform solutions each day. Along with the software applications and platforms, there are…
Who Offers the Best SEO Services? There are websites or digital agency reviewers who offer their quick answer to that question. In reality, client’s needs are very unique. Best is relative to a company’s needs, goals and capabilities, so a generic answer is ridiculous. I hope you got a chuckle out of the title graphic…
Moving Your Business Forward in 2022 It’s been a tough two years through this recession. While big corporations have enjoyed almost guaranteed sales, most small company owners like you have been forced to put their businesses on hold. We’re almost through the pandemic and it’s time to begin preparing for a return of customers and…
AI and SEO Success Algorithm hackers and advanced SEOs have been trying to reverse engineer Google’s search ranking algorithm for 20 years without a lot of success. And what an amazing and very profitable discover that would be. AI’s incredible advanced data processing ability means it could conceivably test millions of variations against Google’s core…
Hiring Consultants vs Agencies The market for digital marketing agencies and SEO consultants is extremely crowded and it makes choosing the right provider a time consuming choice. See the comparison below. The goal is to focus in on key skills, abilities, and the energy the provider possesses. Filtering out distractions to obtain clarity is the…
Hiring a Branding Consultant It wasn’t too long ago that pundits were saying branding is dead. Quite to the contrary, it seems brands of all kinds are doing well, from Google to Tesla to Coca Cola. Yet, if a brand is conceptualized and developed poorly, then it may drown in a sea of undifferentiated digital…
How to Evaluate Marketing Agencies I’ve worked for at least 4 digital marketing agencies throughout the US and Canada, and believe me, they have their limits. Some were good at what they did specifically, in particular industries they knew, and provided good value. Others however were skewed by strange goals and business models. For instance,…
Most Important Questions your Digital Marketing Audit Answers Not even the best marketers really know what their next move should be until they’ve done their research. And research is simply a process of finding the right questions to ask yourself and your marketing team. If you’ve never enjoyed the insights from a digital marketing audit…
Content Strategists For businesses to truly succeed, marketers must reach and engage customers online using text, graphics and video. For businesses to win audiences, their online content must be brilliant. Competition is intense. It’s unlikely you’ll find a general content strategist with all these skills, experience and aptitude listed below. Accept this as a general…