Posts by Joseph Riviello
E-Commerce Experts Thoughts on New Instagram Checkout Feature
Facebook is at it again, innovating the social media landscape … this time with its uber-popular platform, Instagram. In a March 19th press release, the company unveiled the new Instagram Checkout feature, an e-commerce extension of the app. Since it’s currently in beta with only 25 companies, not much is known about it, and businesses…
Read MoreWhy You Need a WooCommerce Store
According to a study published by the U.S. Census Bureau’s Department of Commerce, total e-commerce sales in the United States were estimated at $513.6 billion in 2018, a 14.2% increase from 2017. This data has been on an upward trend since 2009. Future projections globally cement e-commerce as the primary shopping method. Now, more than…
Read More4 Tactics Marketing Automation Companies Use to Improve ROI
The most exciting part of doing business in this day in age is how much technology is available. This elevates the potential of what you can do with your marketing since it opens up a world of opportunities. While technology won’t be the magic button that will fix all of your problems, it helps accelerate…
Read MoreThe 3 Tenets of Lead Generation: How You Can Produce Sales On-Demand
Sales are the lifeblood of any business. Without a steady stream of sales, you don’t have revenue. And without revenue, you don’t have a thriving business. In today’s post, we’re going to look at the three tenets of lead generation, and how you can use them to exponentially grow your business. Tenet 1: You Must…
Read MoreZen Agency is Now a Sharpspring Silver Partner!
Zen Agency has earned the Sharpspring Silver Partner Certification from Sharpspring, a leading marketing automation platform. Why Does Marketing Automation Matter? The marketing automation tools provided by Zen Agency as a Sharpspring Silver Partner allows you to deliver the right message to the right leads. Track your content, who is seeing it, and craft an…
Read MoreHow to Create a Successful Law Firm Marketing Funnel
If you were to go back 20 years, you would see that law firm marketing was starkly different than it is today. You would see more billboards, late-night infomercials, neighborhood flyers, and newspaper ads. These days, we have websites, SEO, pay-per-click ads, and social media marketing. The options available to lawyers today give them countless…
Read MoreWhat Is Content Marketing? How You Can Get Started Today
Almost every successful website has one thing in common: Great content. You can have an extremely beautiful website with all the bells and whistles, but if you don’t have content, your web presence is woefully incomplete. You must learn how to start content marketing the proper way. There are no shortcuts: You need good content.…
Read More5 Steps for Creating a Successful Marketing Strategy
Many businesses jump straight into marketing without a plan. This is a big mistake. Going into battle without a strategy will leave you with a poorly spent marketing budget and lackluster results. Often enough, the difference between companies who dominate the marketplace and companies who fail to get off the ground is simple: A clear,…
Read MoreThe 5 Step Cheat-Sheet for Using Youtube for Your Local Business
If I were to ask you, “what’s the #1 search engine?”, you would automatically say, “Google”, and you’d be right. But what if I were to ask you to state the #2 search engine? Some would say Bing or Yahoo, but the truth is that Youtube is the second largest search engine in the world.…
Read MoreWhy Call Tracking Is Critical for Local Businesses
Let’s say you’re a business that’s running different online and marketing channels like SEO, PPC, email marketing and direct mail. You notice a remarkable uptick in sales, but you’re not precisely sure where they are coming from, as you’re using a variety of different marketing methods. If many of your leads contact you via the…
Read MoreHow to Increase Email Sales Through Lead Nurturing
Look at your inbox right now. Are the marketing emails in your inbox sales-only? How often do you receive marketing emails that are not trying to sell you something? You probably don’t even remember the last time a marketing email arrived at your inbox without trying to sell you something. This is because marketers are…
Read More6 Essential Technical SEO Tips for Your Business Blog
One of the most versatile marketing tools that you have available is your blog, especially if you follow our essential SEO Tips. It’s great for building your brand and growing an audience, but people don’t really realize how it can build traffic to your website. When running a website, organic traffic is one of your…
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