Display ads can be a great way to reach new customers and generate leads for a small business. But if ads are to be successful, you need to make sure that it converts. Here are five tips for creating high-converting display ads that will help you achieve your marketing goals.

Topics: Local Search, Small Business Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Lead Generation, Marketing Trends, Ice Cream Business, Amplify Your Content, Advanced Targeting

Every business owner in the service industry knows the importance of getting the word out there about what their business offers and what sets them apart from the competition. With different mediums such as direct mail or digital marketing available to reach your prospective customers, developing a strategy that best benefits your business is essential. Let’s take a look at the benefits of each of these mediums versus the other to help you strategize for your business.

Topics: Lead Generation, Sales and Marketing, Marketing Trends, digital marketing

Roofing companies often rely on referrals and inbound leads to sustain their business. Unfortunately, having just one or two ways of generating leads leave many roofing companies susceptible to a host of issues that threaten their business. "In Your Neighborhood" flyers provides roofers with a direct mail program that can enhance their companies' outbound and inbound marketing efforts, so that they can consistently grow their business. Here's why roofing companies should consider adding an In Your Neighborhood flyer to their marketing aresenal.

Topics: Lead Generation, Marketing Trends, roofer marketing

I'm sure you've heard the term Search Engine Optimization. Which is the process of getting your site ranked on search engines. A website is not just the face of your business, it's a way to get new customers to your business. But before you can get any new customers through your website, your company (website) will need to rank on search engines. Ultimately your goal should be to get on the first page of Google. Ranking on the first page of Google is easier said than done but to do it, you can deploy two SEO methodologies.

Topics: Lead Generation, video seo, SEO

 

Inbound marketing vs outbound marketing. What is the difference between the two and which one is better for your business?

Whichever industry you work in, you have a choice when it comes to marketing your business - using  the inbound marketing process or outbound techniques. 

Topics: Mobile Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Lead Generation, Marketing Trends, Content Marketing Company

Any business owner or sales person can tell you that: NO new leads = NO new business. Without sales, you don't exist.

Lead Generation is tough for any business, especially when they have little experience or time to execute a proper strategy. Advertising is questionable, cold calling doesn't work and the only certainty is a business needs new leads to survive and grow.

Unfortunately, since most new businesses have little experience in generating new leads, they make the mistake of signing up for online service directories or buying space in one of those coupon publications in hopes that it will help in generating leads. Sadly, only after spending their money on these services, will they realize how poor the quality and consistency of these supposed "leads" are. 

Topics: Lead Generation, SEO

Whether you just started your tree care and tree removal service or have been established in the tree industry for a while, one thing is for sure, it's a highly competitive industry.

In the past two years (since we wrote our earlier post) we've seen an explosion of new tree care service companies popping up (and that's just in the small region of southeastern PA, Delaware and NJ). 

Just Google the word tree service and you'll get multiple pages of tree service companies competing with each other for business in any metropolitan region. 

Topics: Lead Generation, Tree Service Marketing, Marketing Trends, Family Owned Businesses, tree service leads

Strategic Marketing: Lessons from Donald Trump

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last several months, you’ve doubtless fallen victim to the tsunami of media coverage surrounding the most outrageous, bizarre, disturbing, and entertaining personality in recent political history – the star and frontrunner of the Republican primary race for the presidency – Donald Trump.

Topics: Social Media, Video Marketing, Small Business Marketing, Reputation Management, Lead Generation, content marketing, Sales and Marketing, 2015 Marketing, Jobs

Local SEO is a powerful way to promote your business, especially if you are a service provider. Local SEO can help you attract leads and reach potential customers.

Topics: Social Media, Web Design, Local Search, Small Business Marketing, Lead Generation, SEO, Blogging, Google, Rankings, content

Blogging is hard; there is no doubt about it. It’s even harder creating a successful blog as a whole. So don’t give up hope if your blog doesn’t seem to be doing what you need it to be doing because this isn’t a new concept. Seven years ago, Technorati projected that 95% of blogs were unsuccessful because of their authors neglecting them. How can we save our blogs from abandonment?

Topics: Inbound Marketing, Lead Generation, content marketing, Blogging, Google, content