Everything to do with SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
In today’s evolving digital marketplace, disregarding SEO can put your business significantly behind its competition. According to GE Capital Retail Bank, 81% of consumers research online before deciding to buy something. As a result, SEO considerably impacts business selling online and in person.
How much time, commitment, and research do you invest in your customer engagement strategy?
Sadly, too many businesses fail to dedicate enough of all three in their plans. In fact, one survey revealed over 50 percent of companies have no formal customer-engagement strategy in place whatsoever. And even more companies have no idea how many consumers they have lost in the past year from lack of engagement.
Blogging for business is an exciting foundation for most startups, especially if you want to establish yourself as an industry expert.
It’s also a great foundation if you want to establish a reputation and earn money from your blog. Some people even make business blogging their primary source of income.
People often assume that blogging is easy, and that you simply receive a paycheck by writing stuff on the internet. While that’s half-true, the idea that it’s easy to do professional blogging is a major misconception.
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This is the big question a lot of people ask!
Today I’m going to show you a few ideas on how to create great content which will rank in 2020. I will cover how to generate great content ideas, how to do keyword research and how to put all this together to create something new, unique and inspiring.
A business’ true value lies in its email list. While it may sound a bit outdated compared to the huge advent of cloud technology and all sorts of other business tech, email is still a considerable factor in almost every business. Not to mention, a dedicated list of of potential clients or customers is something that business owners could only dream about thirty years ago.
Now it’s common for even small businesses to have an email list with hundreds or even thousands of subscribers.
Small business owners often struggle to maintain high activity around their websites.
With everything that needs attention in your small business, your time needs to be spent wisely, especially if you are forced to take time away due to health or personal issues.
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B2B (Business to Business) models consist of businesses focused on selling services to other businesses to help them support their enterprise operations and growth. For example, a company like Suzuki would need a customer relationship management system to create seamless customer support for their business, which is where HubSpot (another business) would come in and help them install and run the CRM.
We’re all aware of just how far SEO strategies have come over the past five or so years. It’s easy to note when you’re trying to improve organic search visibility, from core search algorithm updates like Penguin and Panda, to the continuous smaller search improvements Google regularly implements. Search has changed.
When I first started working as an SEO manager some years ago, I used to hit high keyword rankings just like everyone else. I implemented techniques and tricks that others had employed with great success.
You could say it was still the final era of the ‘Wild West’ of SEO. But even at the beginning of my career, I could sense that a shift was coming. Google’s algorithms got smarter, more successful at weeding out artificial manipulation, and better at nailing a user’s search intent.
Your website is all set up.
The product is ready to ship.
All offers are polished and ready to hand out.
Yet, no customers come in. Why is that?
In most cases, they simply don’t know how to reach you.
That gives you a few options. Invest in ads, hire influencers, reach out to your audience directly, or… Invest in SEO!
More and more marketers and business owners decide to double down on SEO because it helps create an evergreen source of incoming customers. At the same time, as SEO gets more popular, it also gets more competitive. Thus, it’s important that you choose the right tools to get your SEO up and running.
In this day and age, how do you get visitors to actually notice and react? You combine visionary copywriting and a compelling call-to-action (CTA). Keep reading to learn how to create a clear call-to-action without the cliche hook.
The CTA is the most important content on a webpage, so always treat it as such. Start by asking “what do I want my visitor to do?” When you’ve got your answer, whether it’s sign up for a subscription, download a webinar, etc., it’s time to craft the language.
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