As a blogger, you know the importance of creating high-quality content. But what about promoting this content? If no one knows it exists, your hard work will go unnoticed. It is where marketing and business development come in. These essential aspects of your blog’s success will help you reach more readers and grow your audience….
Category: Business Strategy
WordPress Content Management: 5 Reasons to Outsource
WordPress is a content management system that can be used to power your website. It is a trendy platform, and for a good reason! However, managing WordPress content can be difficult, especially if you are unfamiliar with the platform. That’s where outsourcing comes in. By outsourcing your WordPress content management to a professional team, you…
Collingwood “Digital Marketing For Your Business” Workshop – June 19
* this press release prepared by Digital Marketing Consultant Kai Hulshof & Library Technology Coordinator Claire Reyes for the Collingwood Public Library For immediate release Digital Marketing For Your Business Collingwood, ON (May 25, 2017) – SEO, analytics, reMarketing, citations and online reviews. What do these words mean? How can knowing more about these topics…
4 Customer Retention Strategies Any Business Can Use
One of the major factors in choosing any marketing strategy should be the cost of customer acquisition. While common knowledge shows that new customers are 4 to 8 times more costly to acquire than existing customers are to retain, only 30-40% of business focus on retention at least as much as new customer acquisition. On…
5 Best Marketing Books You Need to Read to Succeed in 2017
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” – Confucius In the digital world, we create as much content every twelve months as was created in all of history leading up to it. As a wise man once said, “to the writing…
Online Competitive Analysis: 6 Reasons Your Business Needs One
Unless you are in the enviable position of turning away business because you have more than you want, keeping tabs on the competition could carry considerable benefit for your company. Knowing who your direct competition is and what kind of threat they pose in the market is the best basis for a sound product development…
Why You Should Set SMART Goals or None at All
It’s a new year, so we thought this post would be relevant to pretty much anyone at this point. Setting SMART Goals can be the key to your success this year. Have a read… and set some targets. Good luck in 2017! There’s a lot to be said for setting goals. For one, they tend…
7 Places to Advertise Your Business Online
*One of our clients uses Our Kids Private School and Summer Camp marketing to promote their therapeutic boarding school around the world. We attended a webinar they offered, and this slide about places to advertise your business really captured our attention. We wrote this blog post based on it. When it comes to building an online presence, the…
Show & Tell: Using Product Videos to Increase Sales
Running an Internet business and making regular online sales can be difficult. In person or on a sales floor you have the chance to engage your customer and speak directly to their needs, describing the features and functions of your products and services as you go. Seeing a product or service in action let’s the…
Online marketing basics – Get Online already!
Do you have a website? In business it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that you need a website to run a successful venture in the long-term. Unfortunately some businesses don’t even attempt at a web presence and their sales suffer as a result. Getting placed on business directories and local websites such as government and…