Email Marketing

Email Copy Mistake No. 2 - Overly Formal Style

Writing email copy in an overly formal style creates a sense of aloofness and separation between you and your reader. Your goal is to sound natural, human and approachable.

Read more...

Local Search

Local Search Tips For Beginners

If your business model is all about attracting local customers then you need to start thinking about local search as a way to drive traffic to your website and to your phones.

Read more...

PPC (paid search)

Use Keywords in Adwords Copy Headlines

You can improve your click through rate with better adwords copy writing. Let's start at the top!

The most important part of your Google Adwords copy is the headline. Five times as many people read the headline that read the description lines or display URL. Your headline must capture the browser’s attention or else your ad won’t get clicked on.

Read more...

Content Marketing

Getting Video Content in Search Results

Did you know that viewership and user generated videos has gone up nearly 48% from 2008, and you can bet it will go up even more next year.

Marketing with content is a great way to draw traffic to your site through organic search. All the major search engines have complex algorithms for crawling sites, analyzing the text based content, indexing that content and using it to deliver relevant search results for users. But...

Read more...

SEO (organic search)

Website Writing: Meta Tag Description Is Advertising Copy

clicking-a-mouseWrite your page description meta tags as if they were advertising copy... because that's exactly what they are! Get more clicks and more traffic with this simple technique.

Read more...

Direct Mail

Planning for Direct Mail Success

direct mail planningDirect mail marketing requires planning to succeed. Here are 11 key points to consider BEFORE you create your first mailing.

 

 

Read more...