Why Email Marketing Campaigns Achieve ROI’s of $40 or More

Every person using the internet has an email account.  Think about that for a moment.  Sure, people are mindlessly scrolling on Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok throughout the day. Still, every single one of those people has an email box they...
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A Whole New World: How Consumer Behavior is Changing Television Advertising

Television advertising is an effective medium for promoting products and services.  Since many friends and family watch television together, viewing commercials together allows for collaborative discussion and group decision-making.  In fact, many big decisions such as whether or not to...
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How Geofencing Marketing Strategies Work

Are you thinking about building a geofence around your business?  It sounds pretty techy, but it’s really quite simple.  Geofencing uses GPS technology to identify mobile device users that cross over into a predefined zone.  In essence, it’s building a...
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Five Ways You Can Achieve Higher Performance With Your Teams

Managers and supervisors can spend thousands of dollars attending conferences and completing training programs to learn how to achieve higher performance from their teams.  Yet, there are straightforward strategies any leader can use to make a significant difference in the...
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iOS 15 Privacy Settings Implications for Email Marketing Campaigns

In September, Apple plans to release iOS 15.  This new version promises Apple phone consumers many new features, including an expanded Wallet app functionality, extended Safari browser capabilities, a new “focus” mode to hide apps the user doesn’t want to...
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Why You Should Rely on Marketing Professionals to Help Guide Employee Communications

Many businesses seek expertise from marketing professionals to craft messages for customers, stakeholders, and the public, but have you considered using a marketing agency for internal employee communications?  Good internal communication can boost employee satisfaction, keep employees engaged and productive,...
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Can Corporate Training Be More Effective With Less Hands-On Support?

Examine modern corporate training programs, and you’re likely to uncover heavy procedure manuals, hands-on and e-training, regular supervisor feedback, and even testing.  Are all these necessary for employees to learn how to do their jobs effectively? In 1970, tennis professional...
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The Name of the Game for 2021 Business Success is E-Commerce

Are you optimizing e-commerce sales in your business?  In the first quarter of 2020, the percentage of total households in the U.S. that purchased at least one product online in the last 12 months leaped from 15% to nearly 35%. ...
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Why We Use WordPress to Optimize Web Presence

We use WordPress to develop websites for our clients because we believe it is the best way to establish and optimize web presence so potential clients can find you easily.  With many options now available in the marketplace, here’s an...
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Do You Know How “Google My Business” Can Bring More Customers to Your Door?

With Google dominating the search engine market (92.24%), implementing more ways to help your business rank highly is critical in today’s world.  More and more consumers rely on Google searches to find businesses and products to meet their needs, and...
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3 Questions to Increase Employee Engagement

Regularly meeting with each of your team members is essential to help understand what’s going on at the job site, communicate your expectations, and steer the ship towards meeting organizational goals and objectives.  However, many managers struggle to lead effective...
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How to Optimize Your Content Marketing

If you could hop into a time machine and travel back to the 1970s, you would be challenged to find any marketing expert claiming articles are an investment in your business.  But today, content is exactly that.  When consumers are...
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Don’t Lose Your SEO Ranking By Ditching Your Website

Have you ever gone to the grocery store to pick up a few things and you can no longer find your favorite BBQ sauce because the brand updated all their packaging including the logo and the names for the different...
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Is a Chatbot Relevant to My Business?

A popular buzzword in the e-commerce community is “chatbot,” but what is this technology, and is it relevant to your small to mid-size business? The chatbot evolution exploded a few years ago.  In 2016, only about 5% of companies used...
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Are You Uncovering the Right Problem to Solve?

Consider this common business situation.  The past two quarters’ profitability numbers came in far lower than projected.  Management is called into a boardroom for a special marketing strategy huddle.  The question on the whiteboard is: “What are three products we...
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Why Investing in a Professionally Built and Managed Website is a Smart Business Decision

Years ago, business owners invested significant resources in a physical storefront.  To get noticed, a business needed a brightly lit sign close to a well-traveled street, an accessible parking lot, and a clean and attractive entranceway.  Marketing staff focused on...
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To Zoom or Not to Zoom? That is the Question.

As we near the one-year mark of living under pandemic protocols, one technology that has touched nearly every person is video conferencing.  Remote workers use it to connect to the team, sales representatives have mastered it to eliminate travel, students...
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What Really Makes Networking Effective

Networking.  The overwhelming majority of business leaders and owners flinch at the thought of it.  Another group gets really excited about it, but may not be achieving as much as they can from the process.  Regardless of where you fall...
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Attract Customers’ Attention with Engaging Video Content

If you’re not using video content to promote your brand or advertise your product, you’re missing the attention of many customers.  Packed agendas and multitasking have left humans with shortened attention spans and a desire to consume information that entertains...
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How the Third Party Cookie Phase-Out Affects Your Marketing Strategies

Cookies may sound like delicious tidbits of information, and for the electronic universe, they certainly are.  Unbeknownst to many consumers of the Internet, every visit to a website likely results in baking a dozen or more of these “cookies.”  Recently,...
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