Author Archives: Ryan Lundin

You know that online marketing is important. You want to increase your digital footprint, improve your page rank, create fresh content that your audience enjoys, increase sharing on social media, manage your online reputation, and much more. What you don’t know is exactly how you should approach these tasks. What's most efficient, and what fits your company the best? Do you want to keep everything in-house and let your employees handle it, or should you outsource and hire professionals to do it on your behalf? As important as online marketing is in 2020, this is a big decision for your company, so let’s explore it a bit further.

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Search engine optimization (or SEO) is a crucial marketing strategy that you should employ for your business. The process entails boosting your brand’s online visibility by appearing as one of the top websites that answer your target customers' queries on search engines like Google and Bing.

Most companies either hire an in-house team for digital marketing or they outsource the task to agencies. You may already have an SEO strategy in place, but as with everything in business, you have to check your marketing plans from time to time to ensure that the tactics you have continue to produce a return on your investment.

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Measuring an eCommerce website’s performance in today’s information-rich online marketplace is a daunting task for small to mid-sized business (SMB) owners. With so much raw data at their fingertips, many fail to extract the proverbial golden nuggets that facilitate wise decision-making.

Resist the urge to become buried in a mountain of figures and, instead, focus time and energy on some of the key performance indicators below. Using these strategies can not only help make better use of resources, but can also free up time to focus on the core qualities which make your business a success.

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As today’s teens, college students and young adults abandon traditional social media sites such as Facebook, newer, more popular platforms stand ready to benefit. Snapchat, in particular, is an agile, wildly popular social media platform that younger users appear to turn to in record numbers.

Fortunately, reaching out to this rapidly expanding user base just got a lot easier thanks to Snapchat’s recently launched, three-step ad creation tool. This tool may serve as a cost-effective solution for small to mid-sized businesses with limited resources to gain momentum efficiently in a shifting online marketplace.

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Small businesses are more reliant on marketing than ever before in history. Without marketing, they would have little means of setting themselves apart from competitors. Marketing is an endeavor that is largely driven by creativity – pouring more money into it is not guaranteed to bring better results. Even the most expensive marketing campaign can backfire, causing a negative return on investment. In fact, some of the biggest marketing campaigns of all time owe their success to the strength of the idea alone. And to prove our point, we present to you a list of creative marketing strategies you can use on a shoestring budget. Try them out, and help your business grow.

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