A good website is a must for any small business. It doesn’t matter if you sell mittens or mutual fund shares; you need a website through which your customers and leads can find and learn more about you. But, a mistake I’m seeing more and more often is that small businesses are treating their websites […]
For those new to the Internet: Welcome to the Internet! There is a lot of gross stuff on here so choose your Google Image Search keywords carefully. You may also have heard of a term known as “viral,” which refers to a piece of media (videos, articles, images, etc.) gaining popularity to the point that
One of the most common behaviors we witness in our offline customers is that they have literally avoided all forms of online marketing, even those that take just seconds to create. For example, Yelp allows storefront businesses to post their business information and website for free, and registering your business to that website alone can
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Back in the early days of Internet when the entire process was nothing but a series of tubes and nerd forums, websites were designed with basic, terrible technology. But over time the technology advanced, leading to websites filled with flash and fancy graphics and other nifty programming contraptions that made them all pretty and wonderful
There’s an old saying when it comes to attracting visitors to your website: “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.” I’ve never really been certain what it means or how it has anything to do with building a business, but I’m reasonably sure that the saying has something to do with Google Image Search. For those
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Most businesses have a fairly limited marketing budget. Companies look to improve their ROI, but many also subscribe to the idea that marketing has diminishing returns. If you continue to doll out money to the marketing department, you’ll eventually be spending more than you take in. Marketers, then, are expected to make the most with
On the Internet, almost everyone goes for the easy joke. Someone pulls a “that’s what she said” or writes an article based entirely on popular memes and people laugh with their usual “lol” which isn’t real laughter anyway, but an attempt to show they appreciate their friend telling a joke that they likely didn’t find
At the Center for Imaginary Research at the University of Make Believe, it was found that as many as 113% of online marketers have no idea how search engine optimization works, and another 23% doesn’t understand how to do math. The truth about online marketing – and by extension copywriting – is that everything people
There are a lot of fantastic ways to get traffic for your website. I talk about quite a few of them on the blog, but most of the time, these strategies require social media or directory profiles, new methods of promoting your business, and tactics you may not be used to. However, one of my
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One of the biggest challenges a copywriter faces with keyword articles is using grammatically incorrect keywords in the content. This is especially common for small businesses looking to primarily compete locally that need their keywords adjusted for the cities they operate in, such as “Professional Copywriter Brooklyn.” Use that keyword poorly and you’re left with
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This wasn’t actually the post I had planned for today. I had a nice post about finding Elance providers outlined and drafted up, but last night I had an interesting conversation with a client about their social media campaign and wanted to share a few thoughts I had. The Back Story Without getting into any
Google AdWords is not an easy service to get used to. I’ve only used it sparingly in the last few years and only a handful of campaigns have become successes. However, despite the rising cost of ads, the risk of budget issues, and the millions of competitors out there, none of my campaigns has ever
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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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I’m very big on free content. As David Meerman Scott points out in his book “The New Rules of PR and Marketing”, good marketing is not done by telling people why to buy your products – it’s done by convincing your readers that you really care if they are able to solve problems. How do
WordPress is an extremely powerful tool for any business owner, and if you plan on starting a blog for your company, the odds are that you will end up using this free, open-source software package. But, WordPress isn’t exactly instantly web-friendly. You need to do some tweaks and changes to perfect it for your business’s
When you take your business online, one of the first suggestions you will hear is to start a blog. This is after a website, some basic marketing, and a handful of different profiles on other sites like Facebook and Twitter. But, what does a blog entail and how much work will you actually need to
A lot of people create local search profiles, start optimizing, start gathering reviews, and start overhauling their websites but they neglect one simple thing – they forget to check if their data is actually correct in those local portals. It’s a huge problem and even some major corporations have been punished because of it. What
One of the hardest things for any small business hitting the Internet for the first time is social media. Most people have been on Facebook or Twitter personally. They post photos of their vacations, make comments on recent events, and sometimes tell a few gaudy jokes about their friends and family. So, when those same
It’s no secret – the Internet is loaded with people trying to make a buck, and they all seem to have a video camera these days. So, if you’re interested in getting the most out of your own video masterpieces, they’d better do these three things correctly. Keep in mind that these are not 100%
For a long time we couldn’t figure out how useful social media would end up being. Sure, a lot of people use it, but in terms of a business, could it be more useful than the phone book which has long been the currency of cold lead generation in most niches? It took the better
The other day, when I was having a conversation with a long time client about the performance of his site in local search, he said something that made me think. I was trying to tell him that by optimizing your ranking for Google Maps and other local search engines, he was putting himself way ahead
Welcome to Great Leap Studios and thanks for reading. I’ve been working away on this new site for what seems like years (in reality just a few very long months) and am extremely excited to have something new for all of my clients – both present and future. In the coming months, this will be
