Many out of state marketing companies offer marketing and SEO services that promise big returns for your business. However, none of these companies are familiar with the challenges that are presented within the Folsom and Sacramento area. Choosing a local company to handle your marketing and advertising has multiple advantages over outsourcing to larger companies […]
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Great Leap Studios hired a very important celebrity to provide in depth, valuable information about content marketing. View the video below, or contact us to learn more about our content marketing and content writing services.
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Though I live and work primarily in Folsom, my work often takes me through Rancho Cordova – a growing community that is quickly coming into its own as one of the primary hubs for new businesses. With costs cheaper than the heart of Sacramento, as well as calmer streets and larger properties, Rancho Cordova is
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Every year it seems as though the terminology for online marketing changes. It was SEO, then SEM, then content marketing, and now inbound marketing. Every time the terminology changes, businesses look for experts to help them with their online marketing needs, and the new marketer does whatever it is they do to help your business
Since 2009, one of the fields I’ve seen the fastest growth of online marketing focus is real estate. It’s a natural fit and the technology has evolved rapidly to provide some of the most powerful tools we’ve yet seen for displaying organic home listings for local visitors. If you are a real estate agent, broker,
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I use this word a lot and I realized this morning while on a call with a client that I don’t always fully describe what it means. So in this post I wanted to take a minute and tell you exactly what I mean when I talk about “engagement” as a metric of success in
In early September, Google implemented their biggest algorithm overhaul in more than 10 years with Hummingbird and no one knew about it for nearly 30 days. Why? What was so subtle about Hummingbird that we couldn’t even tell it was happening? Unlike Panda and Penguin which acted as corrections to existing algorithm data, Hummingbird was
We started work with a new client in July who had been getting about 80% of his traffic from paid sources like Google AdWords for more than two years. They were doing well – their site had grown substantially and they were pulling a solid profit month after month – but it cost them a
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A client called me on a Friday afternoon and asked if I could write a blog post by the end of the day. She wanted to cover an event happening that weekend — not a long piece, just something to get it out there and indexed before the event took place. For me, that was
This post is not about how valuable content is for your business. I feel I’ve made that point pretty consistently the last couple of years, here, here, here, and here just for starters. Instead I want to address the second most common question I get – what type of content is the BEST when it
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I’ll be upfront about where I stand on this: content marketing beats advertising on almost every dimension that matters over the long run. Better ROI, better branding, better long-term value. The case for content over paid ads isn’t close in my view, and I’ve been saying that to clients for a long time. The honest
Those who read this blog or listen to the GLS Content Marketing Podcast may know me as a content guy. A writer and a marketer who does a lot of website development and branding. But I have hobbies like any guy and so a few of my friends and I started a podcast in August
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As a car service and limousine company, you understand how important it is to continuously generate new leads and grow your business. And today there is no faster and more effective way to do so than by building a website that generates a lot of visitors. Great Leap Studios has worked with car service and
A few months ago, I was researching a book for a client about copywriting. I came across a passage about the Zeigarnik Effect – the psychological principle showing that human beings can’t help but want to know what happens next. It applies to just about everything. Cliffhanger endings. Soap opera style storytelling. Half finished photographs.
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Last month, Google released a completely revamped algorithm, replacing the existing one for the first time in more than 10 years. That’s a big deal. Even Panda and Penguin, which affected millions of sites, were revisions not complete overhauls. So this new release – dubbed Hummingbird by Google – is huge. But it’s not quite
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Facebook is something of a seesaw when it comes to marketing value. At first it was a pointless endeavor for businesses, then it was the next coming of the Internet. Then it was a cash-sink and then again, the source of the best ROI online. It’s hard to know exactly what you can get out
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There is one area where I have long slacked off – at least until relatively recently. I rarely, if ever asked clients for reviews. I’d do amazing work to be sure, but I never bothered asking anyone for a testimonial or a quick review on Google or LinkedIn. In fact, I would often be happy
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Most marketing firms focus on things like lead generation, brand recognition and conversions. These are all very good numbers. If your branding or content marketing partner is boosting your numbers in any of these categories, they’re earning their fees. But one of area of the business that is frequently overlooked is retention. How do you
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I had a funny thought this morning. Do call centers advertise? I figure everyone advertises to some degree, right? But what about a company that essentially is an advertising firm? Do they pay for outside advertising or do they just rely on their own services to contact potential clients? I imagine it depends on the
For some reason, marketing firms, even ones with amazing blogs, tend to treat money and budgets as taboo. You don’t talk about it because it’s unprofessional or it pre-disposes potential clients towards or against your services. I don’t like that mindset because let’s face it, money is one of the first and only things on
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One of the biggest challenges for us as a content marketing company is to develop a focused plan for B2C companies that provide big ticket products and services. The message needs to be hyper-targeted to a very specific mindset, both in terms of what will trigger a purchase and what will lead to a search
Quick question – how did you find this page? You probably searched for something like “window cleaner marketing” or “SEO services window cleaner” in Google. And this post showed up, if not first, near the top and you clicked on it, because it matched almost exactly what you were looking for, right? Content marketing and
Three months ago a close friend of mine asked me for a favor. He needed to get more traffic to his company’s website. They couldn’t afford to hire anyone so he was asking as a friend, just for a bit of friendly advice. “What one thing can we do that will have the biggest impact?”
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One of the best forms of content any company can generate, add to their website, or solicit is a testimonial. In terms of raw value, a single testimonial is worth a thousand articles and yet so few companies have a good system in place to followup with recent or current clients to get those testimonials.
One of the most common questions I get from new clients is what do I need from them. It varies and we can do quite a bit without client input – research is part of what we do and we’re very good at it. But at the top of the list for suggestions and requests
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A few months ago, I came across a blog post by a marketer on a site I can’t quite remember, but he had a brilliant idea that had really paid off for his company. Content blitzing. He and his staff wrote 100 blog posts in one month and published them at a rate of 3-4
About 8 months ago, Micah had a great idea: Let’s create a podcast. We spent months plotting and planning and trying to come up with the best podcast we possibly could. The end result was a whole lot of waiting and no recording. So last week we said “let’s do it” and finally recorded Episode
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San Jose and the surrounding cities are a haven for modern technology. Many of the world’s most renowned software development companies and hardware manufacturers are based in San Jose, and many more are founded in that city regularly. Yet as someone that has spent a lot of time in San Jose, I’m amazed how little
There are several different types of content. Keyword articles, for example, are articles that are primarily used in article marketing and placed in directories to boost your immediate and long term SEO. Content articles are generally added to your website. Blog posts are blog posts, etc. Each and every type of content is designed to
The holidays are a great time for non-B2B sellers. Customers purchase food, clothing, toys, electronics, and countless other products as gifts or for themselves with their holiday bonuses, credit cards, and savings. The holidays are one of the most profitable periods of the year for thousands of companies. That’s why companies invest thousands of dollars
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One of the basic tenets of SEO is keyword density. You place a specific keyword (or keywords, if you’re feeling frisky) several times in an article at a specific density (usually between 1% and 4%) so that search engines read your content, identify the keyword, and rank your content higher than other, similar content based
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Recently I spent some time in Merced, California; a city with a population of 80,000 that most Californians don’t know exists. Merced was at the heart of the housing bubble. A new UC opened up while home prices were inflated, and dozens of developers created brand new mansions expecting an influx of new homeowners only
As an SEO company, we often have to write about topics that we’re not that familiar with. While we have written about nearly every topic imaginable in our years of combined experience, every once in a while we’re presented with a topic with which we’re not familiar. If you have a business selling horn warmers
I got my start in content writing, so I’m always excited when the next topic on my list is content writing related. This time around, I want to talk about writing an article to promote your business. A lot of you need to do it – or at the very least find someone to do
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