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Tips For Marketing Your Products And Services

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Small-Business-Owners
When it comes to business marketing you want to sometimes put your focus on something more singular, and not just on your company as a whole. Most of the marketing you do is likely to get your business name out, but when you have a new product or service that is launched or you want extra attention for, you will do some marketing that revolves strictly around that item.

Sometimes that focus is just what you need to increase product or service sales, or to get someone’s attention. Your business name is still getting out there, but you are also showing current and potential customers that you have something special that you want them to know about, and that it means enough to you to focus on, if only it for an ad or two.

Make A Specific Website For It

You can bet that the lawyers at Morelli Law Firm take on more than just talcum powder lawsuits, but in order to specify to victims that they are there to help for this specific need they have a website set up that is dedicated solely to this one need. You can do that as well, if you have a product or service that you want to bring direct attention to and not have lost in the shuffle of all of the others things your business offers.

Work With Social Media

You can start a page on Facebook for nearly anything. You can make videos and post them to YouTube. You can Instagram photos, Tweet about your day, and even create a board specifically for that one product or service on Pinterest. Do it!

People love social media, they love to review businesses on social media, and if you are advertising specific products and services in creative ways on social media they are going to get noticed. Cross promote from one social media outlet to others, as well. Make memes, create infographics, and do things that are shareable for the most views.

Create An Email And Texting Campaign

Email seems to go by the wayside more these days since social media seems to offer a more direct form of contact between business and customers, but it is still worth using when you can. Offer newsletters or email sign up for coupons. If you want to stick with the times, you can also do this with text blasts.

If people sign up through your website then you’ll know they want to receive these types of messages, but you still don’t want to overdo it. One email or text a week, or even one a month with a coupon, is plenty to peak their interest. Make those blasts about the products and services you want them to notice the most.

Originally posted on September 27, 2016 @ 2:15 am

Supplemental Website Posts That Help With SEO Scores

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understanding seo
Creating a successful website these days requires a different set of skills than was required even a few years back. And the primary reason for this shift is because of the importance of good SEO. In the past, you could hijack search engine optimization processes with word stuffing and paid backlinks. Now, a little more thought has to go into the process.

And that’s why supplementary content has become so important in the scheme of things. It’s not good enough anymore just to have valuable information in text form. Now you have to think about things like semantics and Google penalties. So, what are these supplemental types of posts you can make to help you out with this?

Testimonials

Publishing testimonials is a good start to your SEO project. What this does is add intrinsic natural value to the subject of your website. Because people will naturally be using keywords that are associated with your business as they explain that they had a good experience with you, this will organically translate into a much better score from Google, especially compared to a site that doesn’t bother publishing these kinds of reviews digitally.

Blog Posts

And no matter what your website is about, you should always maintain a blog section. This is not only good for business because it shows people the most current news going on, it also ups your SEO score every time you post, assuming you follow basic SEO rules, like making sure there are at least 300 words, paying attention to headlines and subheadings, ensuring that you don’t overuse anchor words, and all of those details.

About Me and Contact Pages

And you should never forget to make contact pages and about me/us sections. Not only does it tell visitors to your site more about ownership and add to transparency, it also gives you ample opportunity to make use of phrases that Google will look on as adding value to your overall website. You can really dig into SEO phraseology in these sections, while still maintaining a completely natural formatting system.

Social Feeds

You can also use social feeds to populate your website in a way that will help with your SEO scores as well. If you have Facebook or Twitter feeds run directly into your site somewhere, Google’s crawlers will see the text as well as the links and images and add that value to the authority of your site.

Authoritative Explanations

And lastly, if you choose to either have authoritative explanations and language directly near certain terms in order to define them more clearly, or even have a separate section where you can use these phrases, that will also give your site a comparative advantage in terms of quality of quantity.

Originally posted on September 18, 2016 @ 1:57 am

Why SEO Is Important For Blogs, Websites, And Social Media

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SEO, it’s a term you’ve been hearing non-stop, a buzzword, if you will. Bloggers and businesses alike are utilizing search engine optimization in order to make their websites and blogs easier to find. If you aren’t using SEO it’s pretty likely you’ll never appear on the front page of any search engines, and that’s where most people click links.

SEO isn’t just for blogs, though that is one of the most important places to use it. It included keywords, links, and keywords phrases, among other things. You can get more out of you SEO work by using keywords in more places. Continue reading →

Originally posted on August 4, 2016 @ 2:38 am

Are You Using the Wrong Type of Landing Page for Your Site?

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The website is the most powerful and valuable asset your online business has. Out of all the web pages on your site, the landing pages are the most important. They are the ones that will be capturing leads and driving the conversions that generate your company profits.

A landing page is where a potential customer lands on after clicking on a link seen in an advertisement, a promotional post, or a blog entry. You may use your company’s homepage as a landing page. You may also have dedicated landing pages for different products or offers.

How the landing page is designed and optimized plays a major role in how effective it is. It is equally important to note that there are different types of landing pages. The kind of landing page to use will depend on the purpose of your landing page.

For example, are you using a dedicated landing page to get email subscribers, promote a product, or get user feedback? A single template will not suit all three of these vastly different kinds of needs. If you use the wrong template, the landing page will not be as successful. Read ahead to find out the types of landing pages available and which type suits your needs the best:

Minisite Landing Pages

Is the main purpose of your landing page to drive conversions? Then you need to use a minisite web template. A minisite, as the name suggests, is a stripped-down version of a regular homepage intended to prompt visitors to become customers.

A minisite template allows you to capture the attention of visitors with a prominent headline. Unlike most landing pages, which tend to be minimalist, minisite themes have components to show off advantages, summaries, and social proof. This type of web layout is best suited for realtors, law firms, medical services, and similar businesses that need to build trust with visitors immediately.

A potential caveat of minisite landing pages is that some themes have many components and therefore load slowly. Your landing pages need to be easy to navigate and lightning fast. So, take your time to find a speedy and appealing theme for your minisite landing page.

Launch Landing Pages

This type of landing page is specifically designed to announce product launches. There’s a distinct advantage in dedicating a landing page to product launches instead of announcing them on your homepage. A product launch landing page is specifically optimized to collect emails of interested users, and perhaps even to increase preorders.
Unlike other types of landing pages, product launch pages are short and very pointed. The copy on these landing pages is clear, concise, and all about the upcoming product. This level of focus is necessary to entice visitors and to get the public buzzing about the next release.

Contest Landing Pages

Creating a landing page for a contest, where a customer is asked to perform an action in return for something, is tough. If your contest pages have been unsuccessful in the past, it is most likely because you used the wrong type of landing page. Contest landing pages are designed to compel users to take an action.

Contest landing pages are very short and have strong call-to-action buttons. They are optimized to drive users to give their emails, home addresses, or something similar before entering a contest to win something. These landing pages also prominently highlight special promotions your business is offering.

Not all landing pages work the same. For example, if you use a minisite landing page layout to promote a contest, your conversion rates will be significantly smaller. If you want the landing page to be as useful as intended, you need to employ the right type of landing page as mentioned above.

Originally posted on September 29, 2016 @ 10:43 pm

Marketing Tips For Increasing Business During Winter Months

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The winter months are a strange time for businesses. The holidays bring in a lot of business for certain retailers, while for others, the holidays are a time when companies are forced to count their losses. Of course, it depends on where you live in the world, but the winter months can be described as fickle at best. Sometimes they’re cold, sometimes they’re snowy, and sometimes the Christmas cheer is a little below the bar.

As a business, you run the holiday season. Your attitude and what you do during the winter months determines how excited the rest of the world is going to be about the holidays. When you embrace the season and start offering products and services that enhance the winter experience, people will be more apt to celebrate with you by purchasing from you. It’s your responsibility to up your marketing game so that business not only increases during the winter months, but so that it propels you into growth beyond the Christmas season. Here are some tips for creating a buzz for your business around the winter season:

Highlight Your Amenities

Every business out there is doing the same thing as you, especially during the cold season. They know that business will be up and down, so they’re doing everything possible to keep the trend high. If you want to be seen as a business with credibility during the winter months, capitalize on the amenities you offer customers.

In your campaigns, both online and offline, create a buzz around the fact that you’re offering amenities and services nobody else is. Talk about how clean the air in your shop is thanks to your air purification system; talk about how great your employees are because they’re trained by the best; talk about how you offer free hot chocolate to everybody who comes in the door. Gimmicks work. You’ve just gotta find the right one.

Holidize Everything

If holidize isn’t really a word, it should be. It’s actually more of an action verb. If you want to increase your business during the cold season, you best be capitalizing on the holidays like nobody’s business. People eat that stuff up. The skies may be gloomy and they might be crying white, fluffy tears of hell in your eyes, but when push comes to shove, the holidays represent a lot of positive things and people are all about it.

If you make the season a big deal for your business and you market the crap out of it on all platforms, you will have people coming in the door and being excited simply because you’re excited. Christmas cheer is contagious. Remember that. Also, people are more apt to spend during the holiday season…as long as for the cause.

Originally posted on September 26, 2016 @ 8:00 pm