The following guest post comes to you courtesy of Jessica Donnovan. In this post, Jessica reviews three important factors in your PPC / SEM effort that might be limiting your ability to convert leads into sales. If you ask any entrepreneur or business owner, there’s a very good chance that they are capitalizing on the […]
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Today’s guest post provided by Shara Clark, who markets and writes about global language school Glovico. In this post, she analyzes how to approach tweeting in multiple languages – why, how, and even a little bit about when. An estimated 13% of the global population speaks English. As a global marketer, that leaves you with
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The following guest post has been contributed courtesy of freelance writer Becky Wilcox. She covers some basic items to keep in mind when working to build out your overall presence online. Take one look at practically any sector of business these days, and it becomes increasingly clear just how important the Internet has become in
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Marketing Sherpa recently released another solid chart of the week, this one focused on form fields for lead generation. The chart summarizes the list of fields that marketers designated as the most important for lead generation forms. And if you’re investing in digital advertising campaigns, you really need to get the forms right, lest you waste
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If you own and manage a website, which all businesses should do these days, you need to be sure it is properly written, configured, and optimized for the search engines to crawl and rank it. There are multiple options for handling your SEO: Put in the time to learn it yourself and hope for the
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Today I write this blog post with a heavy heart. Just last night, we returned from a trip back home to visit my family. Normally, a trip like this is filled with joy and laughs, sharing stories, and general goodness. This time was different. You see, 2012 has been a tough year for all of
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Enjoy today’s guest post from Tom Koh. Tom is an SEO enthusiast who runs his own internet business and is sharing some of the more unattractive SEO ploys he has run into during his time doing so. SEO can sometimes have a bit of a bad reputation. While good SEO is of course a perfectly legitimate
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The content management system (CMS) landscape is beyond fragmented. There are literally hundreds (possibly thousands) of CMS options available. My personal favorite is WordPress, the CMS platform we use for the Return On Now website and blog. It is also the most frequently used blogging platform today. Plugins: Why They Matter Bloggers love WordPress for
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Social Search is a huge priority for Google, so it should be for you as well. They have gone to great lengths to make progress in figuring it out, because their own future depends on it. If you are still struggling to enhance your SERP placement, the following are some tips you can use to
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On October 2, 2012, Marketing Sherpa released one of their popular “Charts of the Week.” This one is focused on what the top media are for driving leads on behalf of your company. Below you can view the chart for yourself. Keep in mind that the respondent base was a mix of B2C and B2B
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