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How Facebookโ€™s Custom Audience Feature Can Help to Deliver Insanely Targeted Ads

It could be argued that the Holy Grail of paid traffic is delivering the perfectly targeted ad. The ad that goes to the right type of prospect, and the copy of the ad is totally relevant to that prospect. Facebook ads have been friendly to this ideal. Advertisers have been able to target people based…

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How Often Should You Send Out Emails?

Marketers are constantly teetering between too much and too little. When embarking on an email marketing campaign, the frequency of your email delivery is a question that hovers over many marketersโ€™ heads. Itโ€™s a struggle to strike the right balance; itโ€™s tough to know when itโ€™s โ€œjust enoughโ€. Want to know the reason why? Itโ€™s…

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How to Implement a Better Marketing Plan in 2015

We are nearly 2 months into the new year, and now itโ€™s time for action. Every business is looking to dramatically improve their marketing ventures. Businesses have begun to plan and allocate their budgets, and are starting to put these plans into effect. In 2015, there are certain digital marketing channels that you should definitely…

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Five Web Design Elements that You Should Split Test

Much of conversion optimization comes down to testing various elements to see what works best. You compare Item A vs. Item B, and you see what wins out. You should be constantly conducting split tests to weed out any weak elements of your web design. What may work in theory may not work once you…

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3 Steps to Ensure Long-Term SEO Success

Depending on your strategy, search engine optimization can be the cause for either frustration or celebration. Itโ€™s tricky, as there are so many traps that you can fall into, and itโ€™s easy to get swayed by the near-endless amount of tactics and tips that float around the internet. But itโ€™s like trying to drive cross-country…

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The 3 Keys to Building Trust in Your Local Market

When people think of marketing, they think of the some of the most basic things. Things like the website, the traffic, social profiles, advertisements, videos, and emails. Those are all obvious, and it is absolutely recommended that you nail down all of those aspects for your marketing campaign. But at the heart of almost any…

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WooCommerce Vs. BigCommerce: Which One Wins Out?

E-commerce has revolutionized the way we shop. Brick and mortar retailers have been looking to haul their shops online, and there are many options for businesses that would like to do so. Some of these options include using WordPress or an all-in-one hosted solution. Particularly, there is WooCommerce (a shopping cart plugin from WooThemes), and…

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The Deadly Sins of SEO: Over-Optimization of the Anchor Text

Note: This is part 1 of our โ€œDeadly Sins of SEO Seriesโ€ When a new Google algorithm update gets unleashed unto the public, search marketers tend to cringe in fear. A great deal of SEOs have been hammered by updates that crushed their rankings. Rankings that may have taken months, or even years, to attain…

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The 3 Steps to Mastering the Modern Press Release

In years past, companies used press releases so that a journalist could notice it, and that a piece of the release would get published in some news publication. Today, most of those news publications are extinct. Just like other forms of media promotion, the press release has made its home online. And the good thing:…

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How to Refine Your E-Commerce Copy to Sell More Products

Your product descriptions can make or break your conversions. Because your prospects cannot pick up and touch your products like they would in a traditional brick and mortar retailer, the way that you describe your products becomes essential. You need to convince your prospects that they need to buy from you, and the best way…

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How to automatically apply a WooCommerce URL Coupon when using W3 Total Cache

The WooCommerce URL Couponsย is a great extension that allows you to set up a unique URL (ex. https://zen.agency/trysave20) andย automatically apply product or cart discounts without the need for your customers to enter an actual coupon code. Using the page redirect option, you are able to redirect customers to a page after visiting the unique URL….