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If you’re anything like me, this year has flown before your eyes and now it’s almost 2022. As we approach the end of 2021, the holiday season is slowly creeping up on us all. For some, this is a time full of festivity, but for others, the thought of the new year approaching is all too much.

This season brings about great opportunity for businesses to employ marketing endeavors before the new year. The planning stage however is short, giving little opportunity to organize what will happen and when it will happen.

Holiday retail sales in 2020 reached $789.4 billion in the US, despite the pandemic and between 2018 and 2020, grew by over $66 billion. These numbers are set to continue to grow during 2021, as online shopping demands increase, rising by 6.4 million between 2019 and 2021.

Published in Marketing
Wednesday, 24 November 2021 12:31

How black hat SEO can kill your business

Today, most people begin their information journey using major search engines. Industry research suggests that most users only clicked on sites that appeared on the first page of the search results. You can imagine for many businesses, appearing in the top search engine results has become increasingly important.

What is SEO?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a process that manipulates website characteristics and incoming links to help improve a site’s ranking in a search engine. There are many tools and techniques used in the optimization process, such as Black Hat and White Hat.

Published in Website Development

According to Statista, the US will have an estimated 301 million smartphone owners in 2022. The number of smartphone users will continue to rise as smartphone ownership is significantly higher across advanced economics such as the US, Australia, South Korean, and Japan.

Mobile devices are closely embedded into our daily lives. What once was seen as an exclusive form of telephone service is now a staple item for every individual. When Steve Jobs walked the stage at the Macworld Expo in January 2007, he introduced the world’s first all-touch interface, the iPhone. Who knew that the iPhone would become a key driver in the smartphone revolution? Ultimately, transforming how websites are being built and used.  

Here is why a mobile-friendly website is becoming more important: 

Published in Marketing

As we once again reach the end of the year, we find ourselves again beginning to look ahead. With such drastic changes to the recruitment industry in the last two years due to the pandemic, our marketing strategies have also had and will continue to adapt to these changes. So, when it comes to looking forward to 2022, it is a reasonable assumption that a lot of change is ahead of us. Here are the Top 7 Recruitment Marketing Tactics that could put you ahead in 2022: 

Published in Marketing
Thursday, 18 November 2021 10:11

10 Tips to Improve Your Website Traffic

With the increase in content marketing and decrease in traditional marketing, many organizations struggle with finding new and innovative ways to increase website traffic. There are various different ways to go about increasing your website’s audience, but using old strategies over and over again can cause your business to see negative results. If you are looking to increase website traffic for your business, here are 10 methods that are proven to provide positive results.

Published in Website Development

 

Picture1 As a platform that was once used for sharing photographs with friends and family, the development of new technology globally has seen Instagram develop various new features throughout thelast few years. As the emergence of content marketing dramatically increased in the early 2010s, how we shared and produced content for social media similarly changed. As a platform whose original purpose was to enable us to share photos with those closest to us, how we use Instagram today is completely different. As an influx of businesses trying to find a new way to personally connect with their customers, Instagram created a feature that enabled users to purchase products without leaving the walls of the app, access we did not have just a few years ago.

With the establishment of the shopping feature in 2017, companies that were once sharing their products online—through content marketing—were instead able to sell their products through the Instagram shop. By posting images of their products and being able to tag up to five products on a single image or video post, customers now have instantaneous access to items, brands and products without having to access the brand's website. As research was developed after the shopping feature was first introduced, Instagram found that 80% of people followed a business account in a global community of over 600M.

Published in Social Media

Launching a new product is daunting in a world of digital marketing. There are endless opportunities, and therefore it is important that you feel confident when advertising your brand identity and product. Perfect your marketing plan by ensuring you are reaching your target audience via email marketing, utilizing the power of social media, writing blogs to inform customers and  boost SEO’s regarding your product. 

Published in Expert Marketing Blog
Monday, 15 November 2021 09:39

THE VALUE OF GOOD BRANDING

Investing in good branding is imperative to the success of any business in 2021. It offers customers the opportunity to identify your business with ease and adds value to their shopping experience. The reach of a strong brand is significant. It includes everything from customer service style, staff uniforms, business cards and the premise for which you will base your marketing materials and advertising. The benefits of focusing on building a strong branding strategy are expansive.

Below is a list of five of the many values that a good branding strategy will provide your business:

Published in Expert Marketing Blog
Friday, 12 November 2021 15:12

DIGITAL MARKETING IS KEY TO USER EXPERIENCE

Having a positive user experience is a vital part of every business’s success story. User experience can be defined as the understanding of user needs to help create products and provide meaningful experiences to customers. Customer satisfaction is key for the adequate growth of your business, since it generally can help a business create more revenue and see growth. One of the most important ways to have a message reach your audience is by publishing content that is engaging, but also offering direct value.

Published in Marketing
Thursday, 11 November 2021 13:58

The Importance of Good Content Writing for SEO

It takes a great deal of effort to increase organic search visibility and rankings. If you want to optimize the amount of traffic attracted to your website, you need to get smarter with your content.

The problem faced by marketers is how to effectively increase search engine rankings whist being innovative in the way they do so.

Search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing are usually considered as two separate entities, when in reality, they are very much interconnected and complement with each other. Understanding how to incorporate the two and how they can work in harmony with one and other is the first step in addressing search engine ranking.

So, what is search engine optimization (SEO) content writing, and why is it important? Read more to find out: 

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What is video content marketing? This form of marketing is simply adding engaging videos to your marketing strategy. This is integral to modern day marketing, as videos are a growing social media trend due to their engaging nature and ensuing success in achieving sales. In the digital era, it is essential for businesses to be up-to-date with the most effective and successful forms of marketing trends. Video marketing is expected to be a permanent trend and therefore essential marketing technique for your company’s tool kit. Research exposes that 74% of consumers that view an online video explaining a product end up purchasing it.  It would be impractical in the digital era to not include videos in your marketing campaign.

Published in Marketing

We have all attended a meeting or consult at one point in our lives. At times, these meetings can leave some of us wanting to eliminate, shorten, or even improve the quality of the meeting – especially when the goal of the meeting is not being met. This is no different to a marketing consultation.  

Whether you are an experienced or new marketing consultant looking for tips to help you reach your next level of growth and success, this post will provide you with 10 tips for maximizing your consultancy time. 

Read on further to learn 10 Tips to Utilize Your Marketing Consultancy Time

Published in Expert Marketing Blog
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 11:07

How Finance Services Are Using Email Marketing

There are no two ways about it. Email marketing is one of the most popular, cost-effective and highest performing marketing channels currently available. A recent eMarketer study shows that the average ROI of email marketing is 122%. The ROI of email marketing is approximately four times higher than its next closest competitor. Every study shows us that email marketing is performing well and looks to remain the case for years to come.

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