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We get it. We’re business people like you. We too look for ways of getting the most out of our marketing dollars.  Have you noticed the increasing number of marketing vehicles available to you? Offline, online, social, Pay Per Click. Confusion and doubt sets in. Then a salesperson or email arrives announcing that they have the answer. You buy their solution only to find that it wasn’t effective. So how do you ensure you don’t waste your money again and again? Coming from the world of website development, we see ways of using your website to help remove the guess …

We get it. The Internet is an exciting place with emerging technologies and new ways of reaching your prospective customers. Each week we have clients ask us about a new digital marketing vehicle they’ve just read about or stumbled upon.  These shiny new tools often promise to magically solve their revenue targets.  When our clients ask, we answer with these 5 words: “Are your prospective customers there?” How many times have businesses tried new vehicles like Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest only to be disappointed? How much time and money was invested because someone told them it was the next big thing?  If you start with those 5 words –Are …

YouTube is now the second most powerful search engine next to Google. YouTube results are starting to be returned by Google. How are you using YouTube to your businesses advantage? Link YouTube videos on your blog. (Google loves Blogs.)

In an internet marketing consultation session this morning, I reviewed a client’s website contents with them. What I noticed was a common occurrence that is subtle, yet has enormous implications. The client forgot that they were talking a single real-live human being who, like themselves, had their one head and 2 eyes glued to their monitor screen. The client’s communication was similar to what you might find on a brochure, speaking to the masses rather than to one person. It wasn’t personal and it actually distanced themselves from the visitor. If people don’t feel connected to your content, they will simply …

In traditional branding terms, in the long run a brand is just a name. In the short term, the brand needs a unique idea or concept. It needs to “own” a word in the mind, ideally first in it’s class (think Amazon, eBay etc.). After time that uniqueness disappears.(Esso verses Petro Canada, Seven 11 verses Mac’s Milk etc.). Branding does take time. With the Internet’s constant birth of the new, I’m in full agreement with putting your company in the title tag if the purpose is building branding. Repetition as well as seeing that company’s name together with the other …

Although we are extremely happy from the many calls we receive from frantic business owners whose web designer has gone out of business, disappeared or plain ignored them, I starting to become disturbed. Bad experiences with web designers give the web design business a bad name. People don’t know who to trust. Please business people of the world listen up. Use a professional web design company that does web design day in, day out. There are too many variables and changes in the website/search engine world to use what I call “a dabbler”. It’s your business and a website is …

Do you ever do research on the web? Ever research real estate on the web? Do you judge a home on what you see in on the Internet? Do you think if you were buying a business that you might be inclined to do some internet research on the business you were considering? What would you think if the website was horrible? Whether someone is buying your business or considering your products/services, you only have one chance to make a first impression on the web. Design your business website so that it’s always a good reflection of your business. If …

People now use the Internet for research in such large numbers. (Don’t you?) If you have a business and don’t have a website presence, how do you expect people to find you? That’s like not having a phone number in the phone book. It doesn’t have to be a large website as long as it’s professional and has the information your target audience is looking for. We recently did a small site for a company that does landscape design and garden “renewals” Simple, inexpensive and it does what it needs to, no more, no less. www.perspectivelandscapes.com Times have changed in …