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My Google Home Assistant has heard me ask many things, from “Hey, Google…play Fleetwood Macs’ greatest hits,” to “Hey, Google…add red curry paste to my shopping list.”  And, often, she gets me and complies. Recently, I asked “Hey, Google…which pizzerias have the best ratings?” to which it provided a list of many within a 16Read more

A guy walks into a hardware store. He finds a quarter inch drill bit and buys it. But he didn’t need a quarter inch drill bit. He needed a quarter inch hole. Let that sink in for a minute. People don’t care about your company, your mission statement, your philosophy, or even your product service.Read more

We are a Certified Google Partner, and love seeing what brands are up to with their Google AdWords budget. This is the 16th instalment of a series we call “Critiquing Your Google AdWords Campaigns”. We Google a search term and evaluate the top 3 Google Ads as well as their landing pages for their ability to “Attract” and “Convert” visitorsRead more

Don’t let yourself catch the FOMO epidemic as you take your business into 2018. “Fear of missing out” is real in the fast-paced world of digital marketing. But fear not, we’re here to tell you the 7 hot B2B marketing trends that will grow your business in the coming year. 1. Harness the power of influence marketing. UsingRead more

Do you know what the the primary purpose of your B2B website is? It’s not to get traffic.  It’s not to get inbound links  It’s not even to rank #1 on Google. Those are all secondary goals. The main purpose of your website is to convert visitors into customers. Conversion.  Conversion.  Conversion. Your website needsRead more

We are a Certified Google Partner, and love seeing what brands are up to with their Google AdWords budget. This is the 15th instalment of a series we call “Critiquing Your Google AdWords Campaigns”. We Google a search term and evaluate the top 3 Google Ads as well as their landing pages for their ability to “Attract” and “Convert” visitorsRead more

Increasing customer loyalty is a very important aspect of business today. There are too many choices for customers to go elsewhere on a whim. This is not to say that a company shouldn’t continue to acquire new customers, but the loyal customers are the ones that will name drop you in conversations. They will recommendRead more

There’s a discrepancy, it seems, between the amount of time marketers spend talking and blogging about digital marketing and their likelihood to actually execute digital marketing efforts. From the volume of articles written, conferences attended, and twitter chats participated in, one would assume that all marketers and the brands they represent are completely digitally savvyRead more

A new report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) highlights the importance of Display Rising Stars ads – a collection of six units that include the Billboard, Filmstrip, and Pushdown – “in giving more personality to the brand.” When I first scanned the report, I expected to see statistics about the increase in traffic drivenRead more

I’ll start this post with the disclaimer that the title may be a little misleading. This article won’t argue that businesses can’t benefit from Facebook pages but it won’t kneel at the altar of Zuckerberg either.  The goal here is to shed some light on misconceptions generated by “social media gurus” about the importance ofRead more