By Susan Tucker Growing a loyal customer base is important for everything from your brand reputation, to ROI, to marketing costs, to actually taking your small business to the next level. Relationship marketing (also known as inbound marketing) is a method to focus on building up brand loyalty. The focus of relationship marketing is on on […]
From Social Followers to Paying Customers: Build a Lead Nurturing Program
By Susan Tucker As we have witnessed, using social media is an excellent way to attract followers for your company. But, what about paying customers? All your social efforts are useless if your followers are not converted into leads. Building a lead nurturing program can convert your social media followers into valuable sales. Lead nurturing […]
Awesome Digital Marketing Resources for Small Business Owners
By Susan Tucker It’s an ever changing digital world. How is your small business keeping up? I am highlighting a few digital marketing resources I have discovered that will help streamline your time and energy in your online efforts. Trust me, I use these all the time! Image Creation and Manipulation I recently upgraded my computer […]
Email Marketing Must-Haves for Your Inbound Marketing Strategy
By Susan Tucker No matter what happens in the world of digital communication, there is one constant – email marketing. Contrary to annual predictions that email marketing has peaked, the numbers tell a different story. A fairly recent DMA study found that 76% of marketers use more email than they were three years ago. In terms […]
[Infographic] Google's SEO Changes 2003 to Now
This infographic – a collaborative effort of Hubspot and MOZ – shows just how many major and minor SEO changes Google has implemented over the course of the years. Two takeaways are: Keyword stuffing no longer works. Inbound links do not have the clout they once did. What Google is searching for these days is higher quality […]
What the Olympics Can Teach Us About Marketing
By Susan Tucker It’s been in all my feeds- #SochiProblems and #SochiFails abound. Lousy conditions, bugs in food, yellow water, painted grass, wild dogs… sounds like a marketing nightmare, huh? Never before has pre-Olympic chatter been so grim and – quite honestly – disgusting. But, does it matter? We just want to see the athletes […]