Welcome to the latest edition of Digital Blend, where we bring you the best tips and tricks from the experts who can help you build a solid digital marketing strategy!
WEB DESIGN
Is it time for a change? - It's important to know when you've outgrown your current website design - here are the major…
The end of 2021 is rapidly approaching, and the holidays will be here before we know it. Go through this checklist now to get your business ready not only for the upcoming holiday season, but the early 2022 holidays as well.
1. Understand when your holiday seasons actually are. We're all getting ready for the…
The internet has all the great information you could ever want on how to build a solid digital marketing strategy, but it's also full of sketchy recommendations and misinformation that can lead you seriously astray. So how do you tell the good from the bad? We'd like to help.
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Your email list is a powerful lead generation tool, so it makes sense that you would want to do everything you can to get as many signups as possible. However, you also need to consider the value that you're providing to all your website visitors, whether they sign up for your list or not. If…
How long has it been since you've revamped your business website? With more time spent working remotely and a renewed emphasis on e-commerce, 2020 is the ideal time to make sure your website is on point. It's not just about updating the design elements, though - your site needs to be generating leads and creating lasting connections between you and your customers.
As businesses start reopening and picking up momentum again, getting the most out of the rest of the year is the number one priority for everyone. If you're trying to pull it all together and get your business back on the road to optimal revenue generation, here are a few things to examine and address…
It takes time and effort to produce quality video content.
So it's disappointing when you upload a video and it gets almost no attention. SEO requires a slightly different approach for video than it does for other content - here are a few ways you can optimize your videos so they'll rank higher in search engine results.
The world is a very different place from what it was a few months ago, and in addition to the personal changes we've all had to make, business are also having to learn how to adapt and survive in an unfamiliar landscape. If you're looking at this new reality and wondering how best to allocate limited resources, here are some things you can do right now to maximize the return on your marketing budget and carry your business successfully through this challenging situation.
Of all the pieces in the online marketing puzzle, SEO is often the most elusive. With search engine algorithms changing almost weekly, it can be difficult to keep up, but the good news is that there's still a set of current best practices that you can use to your advantage. Here are five of the ones you absolutely must have if you want to see your business rise through the rankings in 2020.
In the sixth and last part of this series on growth hacking, we're finally going to talk about the magic word that every small business owner and startup founder likes to hear: revenue.
In the first four parts of this series, we've talked a lot about how to bring in new direct customers. These are people who heard about your business either through your marketing campaigns, or through some other kind of exposure, perhaps on your social media accounts or elsewhere on the internet. This method of acquiring customers can be quite labor-intensive, not to mention expensive, and when you factor in attrition, sometimes businesses find that they're lucky if they get any growth at all past a modest user base.
Now that we've covered the three As of the Pirate Funnel - awareness, acquisition, and activation - it's time to move forward to the R steps. This half of the funnel is where visitors turn to paying customers, and where that customer base grows to the point where your business can thrive. The first of these steps, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, is retention.
