Do you ever find yourself frustrated with the requirements Google sets for websites? You think you finally get to a point where everything is perfect, and then Google goes and changes things again. Welcome to SEO! It's like a minefield. You have to be aware of the direction you are going and wary of where you step. It's important to establish a solid base and move forward from there. Let's discuss some good starting points.
In my more than 20 years of employment, I have learned some key things about my own level of productivity. I've learned that in the morning I'm almost never very productive. I get a second (or third or fourth) wind as the day wears on. Sometimes I need a change of scenery. Sometimes I need to close the door and sometimes I need to invite others in to bounce ideas.
More often than not, I need a place that allows me to focus on what I need to focus on without the distractions of phone, email, people, etc. In fact, as I write this blog post, I'm not at the office. I'm away at an undisclosed location to focus.
As professionals who have distinct business goals and desire a certain amount of engagement, how do we approach our Twitter audience in a way that lines up with these goals and doesn't associate us with those on Twitter whom everyone dreads?
We have exciting changes happening at Tribute Media, and one of them involves the Tuesday Tips that you receive in your inbox every week.
In an effort to make things easier and to create a better experience for you (and for us), we are implementing Tuesday Tip emails that give you that much more each week. We all love free stuff, but what do we love more? Free stuff with our free stuff. That is basically what we are doing for you in the future.
Instead of giving you "Tuesday Tips" as they have been previously known, we will be sending you our favorite and most informative blog of the previous week on Tuesdays. With that, we will send you links to blogs within our emails that fit the topic of the main squeeze. Free stuff with your free stuff. You're welcome.
Short answer: A Buyer Persona is the most pivotal part of your marketing strategy. They will play a role in absolutely everything you do in marketing as well as drive your future success as a business. At this point you’re probably asking, what is a Buyer Persona and how can it help me?
In the days of interweb infancy, the action of purchasing products online was often accompanied by visions of shady characters ready to steal your credit card information. This image, however, has changed in recent years to become a fully accepted part of the buying process for a vast majority of consumers. How did this come to be?
Email marketing can be a business's best friend. Keeping in touch with your customers and promoting special events and new product releases are just a few of the perks email marketing can provide. But that same medium of communication can quickly turn into a "frenemy" (you know, a friend/enemy).
I hope you won’t be surprised when I tell you that, as a web designer, I like it when things look really, really good. What was that cheesy ‘80s commercial quote?
Creating relevant and compelling content isn't as simple as randomly choosing a topic. There are very specific steps to take to successfully create content that reaches your target audience. I happened to learn these through experience. I like to call it:
Recently, we have heard many concerns about Facebook's new response time indicator on business pages. This is a big deal when you pride yourself on being responsive. There is no reason for alarm. There is a simple solution that doesn't require you to be on Facebook 24/7.
