Pick the Best Marketing Medium for Your Business

by Daniel Hadaway

If you’re planning to begin marketing your business online, there’s a chance you’ve got a plan laid out for all the different types of marketing you’d like to utilize. It’s important to note, however, that while most businesses will see success from all online marketing channels, different types of online marketing lend themselves more favorably to specific vertical markets.

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Want Your Paid Search Ads to Perform Better?

by Daniel Hadaway

In September, Google announced a new factor for landing page quality score that they will be considering when serving up paid search ads. This new factor is whether or not the website for the advertiser is mobile-optimized.

If your website is mobile-optimized, Google is more likely to show your ad higher up in the paid search listings. Google will be determining the quality of your site’s mobile experience based on several factors including: Read the rest of this entry »

Writing Copy that Sells

The Vertical Response E-mail Marketing blog has a great article on writing e-mail ad copy that sells. They share some great, easy-to-implement tips for getting more out response out of your customers via e-mail.

The tips provided actually would work equally as well for blogging, or even website copy… So be sure to check it out!

Have a look for yourself at the link below:

Writing E-mail Marketing Copy That Sells

Styling Web Links and How it Applies to You

Smashing Magazine has a great article on best practices for styling web links. It’s really a great read, so be sure to check it out.

After reading through the article, we realized that many of the principles driving these best practices are excellent principles for your business to follow in its online presence.

Here are a few of the best practices discussed and how they relate to an effective web presence:

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Better User Experience with Storytelling

Smashing Magazine is a great blog for those of us interested in web design. They just posted the second part in a series called Better User Experience with Storytelling.

The article covers great storytelling not only in web sites, but in industrial design, product packaging, architecture and more.

It’s a great read and definitely worth your time.

Check it out here and view Part 1 here.

Get a Cool Summary of Your Website

If you have a website (and chances are you do), and you’d like to get a good technical overview of how it’s doing, you owe it to yourself to check out WooRank.

WooRank is a free website analysis tool that gives some great info on your  website that you may not have already known. In fact, you can enter any website address at all and get a free report instantly – great for checking out the competition.

While the information isn’t as detailed or as extensive as what an actual person or paid service would give, it’s still a pretty neat overview of a website, and can give you some clues as to what you might need to improve.

Check it out here: WooRank