You know the routine: you spend umpteen hours and precious resources developing your company’s website and the time comes to add the social media icons or “bugs”. If you haven’t already been maintaining a social media presence, you hold a meeting to decide which applications might be useful and the usual suspects get bandied about: … Read More
Web Development
Outrunning the Bear: The Importance of Competitor Analysis
So you’re hiking with a couple of friends in the woods. It’s a nice enough day and things are fairly jovial when suddenly you come upon a mother bear and her cubs. You realize in that moment that you’re in danger, and no amount of playing dead is going to help. Momma ain’t happy and … Read More
Buzz Word Watch: Conversion Rate Optimization
Helping industrial B-2-B marketers keep up with evolving digital marketing methods, terms and technology is mostly what this blog is about. Intermittently, I like to highlight certain SMS projects that I think are interesting or required solutions that some might find helpful, and every once in awhile there are announcements and musings about staff comings … Read More
Content: Defining the King
For the past several years, whenever anyone was in a serious discussion about web or digital marketing, eventually someone would exclaim, “Content is king!”. All sides would nod sharply in agreement, and often the discussion would peter out. What more was there to say about successfully marketing your website? You could have the most glorious … Read More
Digital Marketing is Still Marketing
An odd title this week, but what I’m seeing in the web marketing universe is giving me pause. One might think it’s obvious to most that tools such as social media platforms, Google AdWord campaigns, organic optimization programs, email marketing blasts and a variety of other variably effective electronic methods still require a base knowledge … Read More
SEO’s Secret Weapon: The Meta Description
Most web marketers have accepted that getting a website seen and engaged is an ongoing, uphill battle. At some point in the past, simply having a clean and professional website meant you had done enough to appear current and viable in your marketplace. Your shiny new marketing tool boasted your capabilities and every employee was … Read More
GOOGLE: “Website Responsively” or Else
For some time now, SMS reps have been reaching out to their clients in an attempt to motivate them to make their websites responsive, or coded to respond to any of the myriad devices that prospects and visitors use to access websites these days. Fortunately, many are doing just that (Good show!), and we hope … Read More