I’ve found, though, that a lot of SMBs are very resistant to this idea that every company is a media company. After all, most didn’t get into business with the idea of becoming a media company. They wanted to sell industrial machine parts, or coffee, or imported home goods, or whatever passion drove them into entrepreneurship.
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.
With all the new tools that web marketers have at our disposal these days it's easy to forget the old standby of direct response, email marketing.
Search engine marketing is great for positioning your business in front of customers looking for your products or services, who don't necessarily know your business name. Social media marketing is great for getting trustworthy, personal word-of-mouth recommendations for your business. For quite a while now, it's seemed like these two great marketing tastes are moving towards a collision.
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