Many business owners operate under the assumption that having a website for their small business means converting leads by the barrel. This is not necessarily true. If you are having difficulty converting page views into credible leads, you could be making one–or all–of the following five mistakes: Slow loading time Your visitors have clicked onto…
The next installment of an Introduction to Paid Online Advertising addresses display advertising and paid search. 2 – Display Advertising Display advertising, usually placed contextually, displays relevant advertisements to the people who are most likely to be interested in them, and this works because the ads displayed are chosen based on the content of the…
1 – Introduction and Benefits In contrast to unpaid online marketing methods, such as search engine optimisation, paid online advertising refers to any website traffic source that you have to pay for. In today’s increasingly online marketplace, your website is basically analogous to a high-street storefront, and relevant website traffic serves as the lifeblood of…
By now, most small businesses will have created a web presence of some kind, but simply building a website or Facebook page will not leave a recognizable footprint. Every website, blog, or social media property you build will rely on the traffic you can drive to it. Unfortunately, without a coherent plan there is little…
According to the Content Marketing Institute, some 93% of marketers already had a content marketing strategy in place by 2013, and this figure continues to grow as more companies come to recognise the benefits of providing value-adding content to their target audiences. A report by the same organisation also found that 72% of large companies…
With the vast majority of businesses maintaining an email newsletter strategy, email marketing remains enormously popular. It is cheap and fairly uncomplicated, and it presents an exceptionally high return on investment compared to almost every other area of digital marketing. However, given that some 100 billion business emails (many of them spam) are sent out…
Contrary to what the doomsayers might claim, email remains the preferred way for businesses to keep in contact with both other businesses and consumers. In fact, email as a medium for direct communication is actually growing, with more businesses investing in an email marketing campaign than ever before. Small, local businesses can also enjoy the…