Gone are the days when having an online business presence was just a matter of throwing a static webpage together and letting it do the work for you - today's consumers (and especially those from younger generations) are accustomed to the internet being a place for dynamic interaction. In terms of lead generation, this means that in order to stand out in a sea of available options, you need to be perpetually demonstrating why your product or service is special. Here are three ways you can start engaging with your audience in real time, to show everyone exactly what you're made of and why they should want a piece of it.
If you've been anywhere near the internet in the past five years, you probably already know just how important video is, and how much it has become a part of the online landscape. As internet (and especially mobile internet) speeds have become faster, the barriers that kept video from dominating in the past have fallen away. People are now watching over one billion hours of YouTube per day, live video streaming is possible even from mobile devices, and the marketing world has caught on to the importance of these shifts.
The first two months of 2018 are already over, and that has provided enough time to see just where the digital marketing road for this year is starting to lead. As we head into spring, here are four things to keep in mind as you prepare your business to have its best-ever year this year.
The SEO game is becoming increasingly sophisticated over time. The earth-shatteringly major Google algorithm updates are coming fewer and farther between, which is great. The trade-off, however, is that the smoother, more subtle changes to how search engines work mean that your approach to SEO also needs to be smooth and subtle. It also needs to be dynamic - gone are the days when you could just set things a certain way and forget about it for a while. To keep on top of today's search results, you need to be constantly re-evaluating your techniques, so here are some things to keep in mind over the course of 2018.
As a business owner, you're always trying to give your customers the best experience. You can't be perfect at pleasing everyone all the time, though - each customer comes to you with different expectations, and it's impossible to predict what all those expectations might be. What you can do, however, is learn how to handle feedback in a graceful way, so that you can turn any negative customer experiences into a positive. Here are five ways to do just that:
Collecting information about online visitors is nothing new - businesses have been doing this for many years as a way to learn more about what their customers want, and how best to serve them. What is evolving with new tech, however, are the ways in which that data can be interpreted and channeled in a useful manner. With the big data technologies that are emerging in 2018, small businesses have more power than ever to adopt an online marketing strategy that not only brings in the right customers, but gives those customers an unparalleled personal experience. If you're new to the idea of big data, find it intimidating, or simply don't see how it can help your strategy, here are a couple of key points that will point you in the right direction.
