Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital for any online business or blog that wants high rankings in search engines. It not only gives you a strong online presence but also helps you generate a lot of traffic to your website. The challenge with SEO is the fact that it is not black and white. Different people have different opinions on SEO and how it should be done. This can be very confusing for newcomers. It makes it very hard to know which steps to take to achieve the best SEO results and......
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E-commerce seems to be expanding without coming to an end. The almost two billion consumers who shop online provide retailers with a nearly endless number of prospective clients. How can you grab their interest? What will e-commerce platform users anticipate from them? According to 99 firms, 80% of US Internet users have made at least one purchasing decision. If you consider the global eCommerce stats, Google has listed approximately 12M to 24M sites, and the global retail sales value has reached $4.13 trillion in 2020. It’s crucial to keep up with the......
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Without a proper marketing plan, it is arguably impossible to achieve optimal growth for any businesses, much less for B2B businesses where the size of the market is fairly small yet the competition is high. With that being said, this guide will discuss the necessary steps required to develop a B2B marketing plan: from figuring out the right channels to measuring their effectiveness. Let us begin. Defining Your Goals Every plan is, in essence, made to accomplish a certain goal or goals. So, if your goal is not totally clear, not......
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Content marketing in a B2B environment can have its unique challenge due to the common misconceptions and perceived limitations compared to the B2C counterpart. For example, the common perception is that B2B content should always be technical and informative, limiting creativity. However, that isn’t always the case, as we will discuss in this guide. Here, we will discuss all the ins and outs of B2B content marketing strategy, and how to generate more leads with it. First, however, let us discuss the differences between B2B and B2C content marketing strategies. B2B......
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Dear Hoteliers, remember those ghost-town lobbies and the revenue drop during the pandemic? Times were tough, but the world is gearing up to travel again. However, it’s not business as usual. The rules of the game have changed and it’s time for your strategy to change too. Let’s explore innovative hotel marketing strategies for this new era. Strategies to refill those rooms and get the cash flowing again. Ready to turn things around? Let’s dive in! 1. Social Media Savvy Do you recall folks endlessly scrolling through Instagram, longing for beach......
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Growth Everywhere is one of my favorite podcasts where Eric interviews successful entrepreneurs, founders, CEO, marketing leaders and venture capitalists. There is a lot of valuable information and insights on how those companies achieved customer and revenue growth and what marketing strategies and tactics they used to get there. I often hear that founders emphasize the importance of content marketing and SEO and how those channels played the main role in company success and growth. In one of the interviews, Eric Siu chatted with Ian Blair who is the CEO of BuildFire. BuildFire is the mobile app......
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Is ranking on the first page of Google and SEO all that important for SaaS and technology companies? Wouldn’t it be easier if I just pay for ads? What’s the value, is it worth the investment and will it help increase the revenue? Those are the questions I’ve been always asked by marketing leaders, company executives, founders and investors all the time. Like it or not, the search engines and especially Google are now very important in so many aspects of our lives and when we are looking for products and services......
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Why SEO For IT and Technology Companies Is Unique? Let’s carefully consider three factors: The number of people using search engines is increasing at a rapid rate, each and every year. There are over 3.5 billion searches being made daily. The search engine results page (SERP) has significantly improved since the early days of the internet. In the past, we only get website results, but now we can get various “rich” and interactive results from featured snippets to embedded results from Google Maps, The search engines—and especially Google—is now a very important......
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I’ve recently listed another great interview with Tim Matthews, who was a VP of marketing at Incapsula (now Imperva). Incapsula/Imperva is a cloud service that accelerates and secures websites of any kind and had $1.5 billion market capitalization at the time of the interview. Incapsula accelerates all the good content and block all the attack traffic and keep websites safe, so they can do what they’re meant to do. Tim emphasized the importance of SEO and content marketing in their customer acquisition strategy and shared some numbers they were able to achieve: Market Capitalization: $1.5 billion Protects: 5,000,000+ websites Number #1 customer acquisition channel: Content Marketing......
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Digital marketing is the promotion of your products and services on the internet. It includes a range of tactics such as content marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing, and online advertisements to reach and engage customers online. Digital marketing plays a significant role in maximizing a brand’s online presence if it is done effectively. Therefore, to get better reach and conversions online, you should devise an effective digital marketing strategy to improve your site’s visibility and raise awareness about your products and services. This blog post will enlighten you about formulating......
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