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The Do’s and Don’ts for Responding to Online Reviews

While reviews are often a business owner’s least favorite reading material, it is vital to your brand reputation to understand the best way to respond to online reviews—both the good and the bad. Quite a bit of material is already…

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Social Media for Small Businesses in 2019

Last week, our Vice President Bob Clarke gave a workshop on social media for the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce's Business Boot Camp. He covered the basics of various social media channels, the audiences you can reach via each channel,…

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Three Big Strategies to Improve Your Copywriting

Perhaps you are looking to become a copywriter, or get your foot in the door with a digital marketing agency via content marketing. You will probably be asked to submit a writing sample—but grammar and spelling mistakes can be a…

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Five Tips for Visualizing SEO Data

There are plenty of tools out there that enable digital marketers to analyze a website’s search results and rankings. However, demonstrating and visualizing that data to clients could very well be considered an art form. Understanding the story the data…

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Comparing PPC Ads vs. Organic SEO

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising vs. Organic SEO The search engine has evolved significantly since the days of AltaVista and Ask Jeeves. Now, Google searches account for 74.28% of all desktop web searches, and 80.82% of all mobile searches. With voice searches…

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5 Reasons Why Brand Guidelines Are Important

Brand Guidelines communicate a variety of things about your brand, both internally to your organization or business, as well as externally to your partners, affiliates and the general public. What components a brand guidelines contains is not standard across the industry, but the most discernible organizations utilize brand guidelines as a resource for everyone to understand how to represent their brand.

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The Modern Day Pop-up: Tech, trends, and best practices

Ugh, I hate pop-ups. When most people hear the word “pop-up,” they think of old-school gray boxes with bright icons and buttons flashing “You WIN! Click here!”. It is no wonder then, that when asked, no user enthusiastically embraces the…

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Our Best 404 Pages

What is a 404 error page? A 404 page is also known as an “error page” or a “Page Not Found” page. This page indicates to the user that they have reached the domain they requested, but the URL path…

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Does My Business Really Need a Blog?

Do people even read blogs anymore?

Yes! Blogging is still popular in 2018. While trends on the internet are always changing, people will always be seeking quality, well thought out content that is informative, entertaining or answers a question or problem the reader may have. Answering common questions in an entertaining way can build a platform for telling your company’s story to a large audience of potential customers.

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Three Principles That Actually Lead to Conversions

The main point of having good website design is to get conversions. A conversion is when your website viewer does your desired action. Getting viewers to actually take action can be difficult but following these three principles will lead to…

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