marketing

Marketing 101

affordable website design

Marketing Tips and Ideas: When starting out marketing your business, you need to determine who your target market is. Only when you know who your customers are can you market to them effectively. Here’s an easy way to figure out who your target market is: Make a list of five of your best customers. Leave … Read more

Three Great Marketing Tips

marketing tips

Here are three great marketing tips to help turn visitors to your website into buyers. When it comes to marketing a website there are lots of strategies that work and some that do not.  SEO (search engine optimization) drives customers to your website. Once you get people to your website, you need effective marketing on … Read more

Email Deliverability

Email Deliverability

What is email deliverability? If you send out an email newsletter, you should be concerned about email deliverability. Have you ever sent an email to someone and they never received it? This can happen to all of us. We want to make sure our emails are getting to the people on our mailing list and … Read more

What’s in a Business Name?

new business

How to Name Your Business: Your business name is very important. Here are some great tips to consider when choosing a name for your business: Choose a name that tells people what they will receive. i.e. Pat’s Dog Grooming. With this name, the customer will know that Pat is a dog groomer. Do not use … Read more

Great Customer Service is Essential

affordable website design

Great customer service is essential to growing your business. Word of mouth is one of the best ways to get new customers. It can also quickly hurt your business if you have a customer who is vocal about their disappointment. Here are five tips to help you to provide great customer service: Hire friendly, helpful … Read more

Excellent Promotion Ideas, Part 1

affordable website design

Excellent Promotion Ideas, Part 1 Below are some great ideas you can use to promote your business. This is part one of our promotion ideas. 1. Create scratch tickets that your customers can scratch. They win a discount of 5%, 10%, 20% 50% or whatever off their next purchase. 2. Have calendars printed with your … Read more

Ten Ways to Improve Your Email Marketing

affordable website design

Ten Ways to Improve Your Email Marketing: When done correctly email marketing can be a great tool to help your business to grow. Not only is the content important but how you design your email can make a big difference as well. Here are some good tips to help you improve your email marketing and … Read more

How to Improve Your Customer Service

affordable website design

How to Improve Your Customer Service: Customer service is an great opportunity to exceed your customer’s expectations. If you provide excellent customer service you will keep the customers you have coming back again and again. They will tell their friends and recommend you to them, so you will have more customers. When it comes to … Read more

Online Contests are a Great Marketing Tool

affordable website design

Online Contests are a Great Marketing Tool: Online contests are an easy way to find new customers and keep connected to your current customers. Online contests are quick to set up and are affordable to run. Here are the most important things you need to know before you run an online contest for your business: … Read more

Photos are Great Marketing Tools

affordable website design

Photos are Great Marketing Tools: The images you use on your website, your blog, your social media posts, your articles and in your email are very important. Social Media posts and articles with images get 94% more views than those that don’t. What many people don’t realize is that the images themselves, when suitably tagged … Read more