You don't have to be a mad scientist to conduct experiments. In fact, if you own a local business, conducting marketing experiments can be a great way to find new ways to promote your business.
S.O.S. Syndrome is when a business owner lets exciting new tactics and tools (“shiny objects”) and/or relatively small, niggling site maintenance tasks (“specks”) distract from the real goal of his or her internet marketing program. When this happens pretty much every month, you either don't get the business results you signed on for because you sent your web marketing experts chasing after S.O.S's instead of letting them do the work they pitched, or your agency isn't willing to keep letting you get a 2-for-1 deal on their time. So, how do you avoid S.O.S. Syndrome?
Things have been really busy here at Makespace this spring, with several client website launches. One critical milestone that clients usually struggle with is content strategy. Obtaining website copy from web design clients can be a difficult process, partly because clients often underestimate just how much content is needed to create a robust, search engine friendly site that will position them well in the search engine results pages (SERPs) for their most important keywords.