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  • 6 Cringeworthy Fall Slogans to Avoid

    6 Cringeworthy Fall Slogans to Avoid

    Cringeworthy Fall Slogans to Avoid Every year as summer ends, marketers and business owners break out the same stale, overused fall slogans and phrases to sell products. While these slogans are easy and relevant, the constant use of them washes out your messaging and can weaken your brand. Our advice: Turn over a new leaf…

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  • 3 Signs Your Business is Ready for Social Media Marketing

    3 Signs Your Business is Ready for Social Media Marketing

    3 Signs Your Business is Ready for SMM What’s up, [small business owner]? Sorry, I don’t know your name … I promise this blog wasn’t written by artificial intelligence (just average human intelligence 😉). Anyway, you’re unsure about social media for your company. Makes sense! Social media covers a lot of ground and can be…

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  • 3 Tips for Compelling Print Marketing & Direct Mail Campaigns

    3 Tips for Compelling Print Marketing & Direct Mail Campaigns

    Tips for Compelling Print Marketing & Direct Mail Campaigns Print marketing may be traditional, but it’s still a powerful option to get your business out there. A lot of companies still get solid leads from print and direct mail campaigns and it doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon. Thinking of promoting your…

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  • A Quick Look at Web Page Optimization [Powerful SEO Series: Article 3]

    Web Page Optimization [Powerful SEO Series: Article 3] This is the third entry in our 8 Steps to Powerful Search Engine Optimization series. You’ve completed keyword research, now it’s time to optimize your web pages. Let’s be fair, “optimize” is a big word that covers a lot of ground. We’re only going to give a…

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  • Keyword Research Tools & Tips [Powerful SEO Series: Article 2]

    [Powerful SEO Series: Article 2] Keyword Research Tools & Tips This is the second entry in our 8 Steps to Powerful Search Engine Optimization series. Check out Article 1 to learn about website audits! You: Who needs keyword research, anyway? Us: Everyone. You: Everyone? Us: Woah … Sorry, about that. Not sure what happened there…

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  • Website Audits [Powerful SEO Series: Article 1]

    Digital Marketing & SEO Website Audits This is the first entry in our 8 Steps to Powerful Search Engine Optimization series. Is your website kinda … bleh? Don’t be embarrassed, it’s a common problem for many companies. If you’re basing it only on looks, you’d be surprised how many beautiful websites have terrible Search Engine…

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  • 8 Steps to Powerful Search Engine Optimization

    8 Steps to Powerful Search Engine Optimization

    Powerful Search Engine Optimization – 8 Steps There’s a lot of negative stuff going on right now, so we wanted to throw some good vibes out on the interwebz. Did that make me sound cool? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Anywho… We’re a digital marketing agency. It’s our job to make people visible online and…

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  • 5 Blogging Tips For Your Small Business

    5 Blogging Tips For Your Small Business

    5 Tips On Blogging For Any Small Business You got somethin’ to say to me? Good, blog about it! Small business owners want loyal customers, but let’s be honest, that’s not as simple as it used to be. People can do fast research on their phones and easily find competitors with higher ratings or cheaper…

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  • 5 Mistakes in Your Ads That Keep Customers Away

    5 Mistakes in Your Ads That Keep Customers Away

    Mistakes in Your Ads That Keep Customers Away It’s not hard to find a place for your advertisements—websites, social media and mailers (to name a few) are all great places for reaching your customers. But is your ad itself ready to be shown to the world? An advertisement is like a cake: it needs to…

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  • 6 Must-Haves For Company Branding

    6 Must-Haves For Company Branding

    6 Must-Haves For Any Small Business Branding 🎵🎵“Whooooooo are you? Who, who? Who, who?”🎵🎵 Mr. Daltrey asked you an important question, dear anonymous blog reader. Who are you? We’re not talking about you as an individual, we’re talking about your business, specifically your brand. Branding is made up of everything consumers experience when interacting with…

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  • Optimizing Your Google My Business For COVID-19

    Optimizing Your Google My Business For COVID-19

    Optimizing Your Google My Business For A Post Coronavirus World Everyone looks to the internet for answers. They’re also shifting their searches to be more localized (e.g., “Grocery store near me.” or “Grocery store in my city.”). To adjust to this reality, businesses need to modify their digital marketing strategies. With the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)…

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  • Digital Marketing For Lawyers

    Digital Marketing For Attorneys & Lawyers Hey, lawyers! Ready to get your name out there and show the world how awesome you are? Good! We’re here to help you dominate in your practice area. Your website will get to the top of every Google search result and leads will be flying in like they’re being…

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  • Encouragement For Our Digital Marketing Clients During COVID-19

    Message For Our Digital Marketing Clients During COVID-19 “In times of a crisis, average companies fail, good ones survive and great ones transform.” – Unknown Author One of our partners, Jeremy Lott (President of Sanmar), shared this quote with us along with some thoughts of his own: “On some days we are average. Most days…

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  • How To Handle Digital Marketing In A Coronavirus World

    How To Handle Digital Marketing Post-Pandemic There’s no sugarcoating it, this pandemic sucks and it doesn’t look like it’ll slow down anytime soon. The good news in Minnesota is that people are doing a good job of staying home and practicing social distancing. The more we do this, the more we’ll flatten the curve and…

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  • 4 Ways to Market a Small Company

    4 Ways To Market Your Small Business You ever look at marketing advice and feel like you’re not the target audience? “Simply put a video on YouTube and get thousands of views and boosted website traffic!” Ok, great. Now all your small business has to do is rent equipment to create a quality video and…

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  • How To Develop A Marketing Plan

    How To Develop A Marketing Plan For Your Small Business You’ve been running your small business for a while, but things are getting more complicated. Maybe you’ve been experiencing more growth than anticipated. Or, perhaps you’re not growing enough and you need to figure things out ASAP. Creating a solid marketing plan can help grow…

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  • 5 Things To Love About Search Engine Optimization

    5 Reasons To Love Search Engine Optimization 🎵“All my life I’ve prayed for someone like you. And I thank God that I, that I finally found you…”🎵 That song’s about SEO. True story. … (Eyes dart back and forth) … Alright, FINE! It’s not about SEO. I just wanted to find a romantic theme for…

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  • Is Pay Per Click Advertising Worth My Time And Money?

    PPC, Is It Worth It? That’s a tough question. I don’t really know you, but if I was a bettin’ man (or woman, or neither…I generally identify as “website”), I’d wager that you’re in charge of a small business. But if you’re making decisions for a large business, this blog is for you, too! Small…

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  • 5 Tips To Not Suck At Social Media Marketing

    5 Tips For Not Sucking At Social Media Marketing Greetings and salutations. Sorry, that doesn’t look as cool in text format as it sounded in my head. I was trying to do a Christian Slater voice but…nevermind. What am I doing here? Oh right, social media advice. Look, social media is fun and all, but…

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  • A Timeless Marketing Strategy For Any Year

    Timeless Marketing Strategies 2020 is almost here! Can you feel it? There’s so much awesome new s#!t happening this coming year. Once the new year begins, your website will instantly fall off the face of Google searches without making these five digital marketing adjustments… Yeah, we got nothin’. We can’t predict the future and neither…

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