Branding

Spring Cleaning: What's Hiding In Your Website's Content?

When was the last time you looked at your website? Not just glanced at the colors, layout, and photo on the home page, but really looked through the content. Unless your sole job is to monitor your organization’s website, it’s likely been months or even years since you’ve carefully sifted through your content: what it says, where it says it, and most importantly, what it doesn't say at all?

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3 Ways to Prepare Your Facebook Page for the New Timeline

If you have a Facebook page for your business or organization, and haven't already updated its layout to the timeline format, you will be soon. By the end of this month, Facebook will be pushing all Facebook pages (not to be confused with profiles) that haven't converted yet into the timeline design.

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Free Tips for Writing Your "About" Page

Your “About” page is often the first page a visitor clicks into after arriving at your site. So this page is a good opportunity to tell new visitors what makes you unique.

When writing this page, consider some of the questions or comments you already hear from your existing and potential customers, and then try to proactively answer them in the content of your page.

Along with this information, think about including the following:

Blogging: A Different Kind of Business Communication (Part 1 of 3)

Somewhere between the detail of a full book and the brevity of a 140 character tweet, is the blog.

Blogs are different than just about all of the other writing you've done (or outsourced) for your company, and they carry different expectations than your standard web content. One of the unique qualities of a blog is that companies can disseminate news and information in a tone that’s different from the rest of the copy on their site.

Standing Out Among Your Competitors

One of the questions asked by many website owners interested in ranking better is:

What keywords are my competitors using?

To begin with, it doesn’t matter as much as you may think.

Your Website On Phones, Tablets, and Other Mobile Devices

The final sales numbers from 2010 made it official: mobile devices now play a bigger role than ever before when it comes to how people view your website. The evidence shows that smartphones have surpassed PCs in sales, but the need for mobile-friendly sites goes back long before this recent report.

Increase Branding with PPC Advertising

Why pay for traffic in search engines' paid listings, if you can achieve high organic rank - the gift that keeps on giving with traffic, leads, and sales?

First, to digress a bit and to speak to an area near and dear to our hearts, high organic rank isn't really free anymore.

With more and more business turning to online marketing, and in large part to search engine marketing, the competition for the first few listings of the search engine results is only growing. The sites ranking at the top of the results for competitive terms are paying in some way - either directly paying a search engine optimization/marketing company or paying with their own time and resources.
See our blog post "Search Engine Optimization: Not As Exciting As Magic" for much more on this topic.

But, now on to our main point:
Why would you need paid search advertising once you've achieved high organic search engine rank?

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Three Reasons You Should Blog

There's a 100 percent chance you've read at least one blog in your life. (It's what you're doing right now.) Easier, faster, and cheaper than building a full website, a blog is a convenient way for individuals to establish their own online presence.

But it's not just a fun way for self-appointed authors to recap the last American Idol over their lunch break. Blogging has opened the door for businesses and organizations to disseminate useful, relevant information to their customers (existing and prospective) in ways that no other media traditionally offered.

Know Thy Audience

Broadcasters, entertainers, marketing geniuses, and savvy professionals in just about every industry have remained loyal to a particular maxim since time immemorial:
Know thy audience.
Whether giving a speech, writing an article, or even picking up the phone, the value of knowing who you're addressing can never be overstated.Broadcasters, entertainers, marketing geniuses, and savvy professionals in just about every industry have remained loyal to a particular maxim since time immemorial:
Know thy audience.

Whether giving a speech, writing an article, or even picking up the phone, the value of knowing who you're addressing can never be overstated.

Color and Branding: What Your Scheme Says

You know color makes your marketing materials more appealing and exciting. The colors that represent your company do a lot more than add visual interest, though.

Your color scheme informs people what your company stands for through visual color associations.

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