The Web Design Checklist: Choosing the Color Palette

The Web Design Checklist: Choosing the Color Palette

This is the first post in the Web Design Checklist series. Our world is dominated by color. Because of its omnipresence, psychologists have debated the impact that color has on the mind and the emotional state. And there is an impact. Everyone has their subjective associations to certain colors—someone may find the color red to convey…

Do You Make These 5 Stupid Content Marketing Strategy Mistakes?

Do You Make These 5 Stupid Content Marketing Strategy Mistakes?

Everybody makes mistakes – that’s the nature of business. But, smart business owners learn from the mistakes of others so they don’t waste time and money making mistakes on their own. In our years of analyzing the market, we have seen plenty of content marketing strategy decisions that have gone right and wrong. These are…

Beyond the Sale: Why Email Marketing Should be an Evergreen Strategy

Beyond the Sale: Why Email Marketing Should be an Evergreen Strategy

The subject line will help to get your emails opened, but the actual content of the email will determine whether or not you will secure a sale. The average person’s inbox will have loads of different emails, and many of them will either sit unopened, be discarded, or get marked as spam. In 2014, sending…

Inbound Marketing Strategy and Why It Matters

Inbound Marketing Strategy and Why It Matters

The World Wide Web has dramatically changed the way we do business. It equips online business owners with the tools they need to focus their marketing dollars on highly targeted customer bases. This is where inbound marketing strategy shines the most. “Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.”- Seth Godin How an Inbound Marketing Strategy…

How to Fix Your Email Subject Lines to Improve Your Open Rates

How to Fix Your Email Subject Lines to Improve Your Open Rates

Email marketing is far from dead. Sure it may have been easier 5-10 years ago. There were fewer regulations, and the average inbox wasn’t a messy swamp flooded with over-the-top marketing messages and borderline spam emails. When you engage in email marketing in 2014, you are vying for your prospects’ attention while other companies and…

A 5-Step Process to Increasing the Lifetime Value of Your Customers

A 5-Step Process to Increasing the Lifetime Value of Your Customers

Note: This is Part 2 of the “Know Your Metrics” series Let’s say that there are two companies in the same niche. They sell the same type of product. The two companies are, for the most part, very similar. They both calculated the LTV (lifetime value) of their average client. But there is a stark…

Why the Lifetime Value of a Customer Is the Most Important Metric You Need to Know

Why the Lifetime Value of a Customer Is the Most Important Metric You Need to Know

Note: This is Part 1 in the “Knowing Your Metrics” series Want to know the difference between a true digital marketer and a pretender? Ask the marketer to pull up some figures. Tell him to show you his treasure trove of data for the campaigns. Tell him to explain his average customer profiles. Tell him…

The Local SEO Checklist: What You Need to Do to Get High Rankings

The Local SEO Checklist: What You Need to Do to Get High Rankings

For some business owners, there is a barrier-to-entry when it comes to their online marketing methods. Traffic has been, and always will be, a big cause for consternation. The process of landing a coveted spot on the first page has often been confusing and unattainable, with a never-ending list of requirements and methods to get…