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The All-In-One Marketing Booster
Are you a business owner struggling with marketing for your company? Cant find the time or dont know how to create your own content for your website? We understand that one of the biggest issues business owners face is with content creation, and that is why we developed the All-In-One Marketing Booster at Virteom! What is the All-In-One Marketing Booster? This marketing plan allows us to create content for you and boosting your marketing to help you obtain new leads and strengthen your current customer base all-in-one! Video Creation Statistics show that e-mails are more likely to be opened if they have a video embedded in them; 200-300% more likely in fact! Additionally, you have an 80% higher chance of conversions on landing pages.These statistics show that video is an effective form of communication from a business to its customers. It is much more consumer friendly and more engaging! Video creation is the first step of our All-In-One marketing plan. All you have to do is schedule
Sure, Your Website is Pretty But Does It Tell a Compelling Story?
Of course, design is an important part of a successful website but the fact of the matter is that the story you tell on that website is what matters the most! Your customers want to know why YOU are the business that it going to help THEM. Over the last 20 yearswe have been building websites and what we have noticed is that everyone is more concerned with how their site looks rather than the value that it is providing. But, trying to keep up with a pretty website is a vicious cycle. The Three-Year Death Cycle If all you are worried about is a pretty website, youre going to want to change it every couple of years to keep up with the times. But, every three years you go back in to re-beautify your site and yet it still doesnt bring in any leads. At Virteom, we refer to this as the Three-Year Death Cycle. Amazons Website Take a look at Amazons website. It is one of the most cluttered, no-frills websites around, but what it excels in is providing value to its customers. This is one
Hybrid Blogging and How it Promotes Your Business
Hybrid Blogging is the focus of our Sonic Marketing Boost here at Virteom! What is a Hybrid Blog? Everyone knows what a blog is. Its basically an article on a specific topic, maybe a picture or two thrown in for reference. But there is nothing really capitating about a traditional blog anymore. These days, we consume most of our information through video, whether its on the tv or the internet. A hybrid blog is a combination of a short video and an article which recaptures the information from that video. Why Hybrid Blogs? Hybrid blogs are a revolutionary way to share information with your customers without the hassle of writing your own content. Not only do you get the ease of sharing what your business is about and what makes it unique, but these hybrid blogs can make your website rank higher on SEO platforms such as Google! In addition, hybrid blogs are overall just more consumer friendly! Content that is accompanied by a video is much more digestible for viewers and more captivating.
Dan Bishop of Bishop Construction Shares His Sonic Marketing Boost Success Story
The Sonic Marketing Boost is one of our newest and most effective boosters that we offer here at Virteom. The way this service works is you, or someone from your company comes into our recording studio for only one hour to record six short videos which are then used to produce six individual blogs. We then post the blog along with the video to your website and all of your social media platforms. This is an efficient and cost-effective way to drive customers to your website rather than your competitors. Moreover, it makes you more personable and allows your prospective customers to feel like they know you before you even meet! Dont Just Take Our Word for It Dan Bishop of Bishop Construction has been a long-time client with Virteom. We built his website, created his content, and weve been managing his Sonic Marketing Boosts for a few years now. According to Bishop, our Sonic Marketing Boost was exactly what his business needed. Though he does admit he was a bit apprehensive at first,
How Discovery With Virteom Helps You Define Your Business
Building a website can seem like the most stressful element of your business. However, it does not have to be! Virteom is a technology and marketing firm that specializes in developing websites and applications for all types of companies. Working with Virteom makes developing your site a piece of cake. We have a variety of different boosts and packages to really customize your experience, but we always start with a client discovery. What is Discovery? Our Discovery consists of an executive pre-brief, leadership cross analysis, persona development, and site map creation. These steps help us streamline your experience at Virteom and allows us to develop the product you want! Executive Pre-Brief The executive pre-brief is the first step of our process where we take all of the leaders in your company, and we individually have them fill out their answers to our discovery questionnaire. Leadership Cross-Analysis Once everyone has their responses in, we then do a cross-analysis of on each
Big Tips for Ranking Number 1 with Search Engines
Ranking number 1? Is there such a thing as ranking number 1 on search engines anymore? In the good old days search engines had no way to identify you as an individual so we all saw the same results when we searched for things. Nowadays there is no such thing as ranking number 1. Search engine results are now profiled by the individual. Around when search engines started offering free services like email and smartphone operating systems, they started tracking what you searched for on the internet. This allowed the search engines to start to identify you as an individual. Thats when ranking number 1 on search engines died. For example, if I search for the word candy on the internet my results may show chocolate bars, while yours may show sweet sugar-based candy. Now my example may be extreme, but I hope its driving the point home that search engine users are profiled and what shows up as number 1 in your search results may not be the same for everyone. how do I rank number 1? You might
2018: Year in Review
Have you heard about hybrid blogging? Hybrid blogs were created to engage our customers in what were doing: it gives you a behind the scenes on how we make it all happen. In this video, Ted and Dan discuss the improvements weve made in 2018 that will have an impactin 2019. Watch or read the transcription below! Do you want to have a great 2019? Do you want more customers? Now is the time to start setting your marketing and sales goals, and creating a plan for success. When it comes to planning the year ahead, we want you to think about the following things: Your budget How you spent your money last year How youre going to get noticed above the competition. Standing Out from theCompetition in 2019 Were bombarded every day with so many marketing materials: images, social media postings, advertisements and videos how do you break through the noise? Virteom has therecipe to stand out and weve got the tools and some technology to help. How does Virteom stand out from the crowd? To
Why is Branding Important to My Website?
When you start your own business, the planning phase requires you to focus on many different things at one time. One of the most important aspects of building your new business is having an effective marketing strategy and the branding of your business. Your branding is a key factor in helping your company get recognized so you can achieve success. For the branding of your business to be successful, it must carry through all of your materials. The themes need to clearly run through your website, printed materials, and social media accounts. To accomplish this continuity and have your brand be recognized, the colors, logos, fonts and other important features need to be consistent throughout everything. Why is Branding Important to Your Website? In our technology-driven society, a business website is often the first exposure potential customers have to a business. It is also quite often the first place people go to learn about a company or to make purchases. So, it is crucial that the
What is Hybrid Blogging?
When you promote your business, it is imperative to set yourself apart from the competition. Developing an effective marketing strategy is vital to the success of your business, and doing something different will help increase interest in your company and improve the likelihood of conversions. There are many different ways that you can promote your business, and it can be difficult to know where to start. Working with a skilled marketing partner can help you use all your outlets efficiently and direct you in different ways that will set you apart from your competition. One way to do this is with a term coined by Virteom hybrid blogging. What is Hybrid Blogging? Blogs are essential for todays businesses. If you think about it, majority of the pages you land on after Googling something is a blog. If youre a current Virteom customer, then youve probably heard CEO Dan Carbone talk about blogs and SEO in terms of frogs andlily pads. (You know, he gives you his whole spiel to think of your
Virteom Launches Redesigned Ingot Metallurgy Forum
This month has been a very productive month here at Virteom. Weve had 4 websites go live! The first of the August website launches was Ingot Metallurgy Forum (IMF) (ingotmetallurgyforum.org) -- IMF is a forum for technical discussions on producing steel and alloy ingots. IMF is headquartered here in Lorain, OH, but its reach is nationwide. The case of the MILK-CARTON DEVELOPER IMF came to us in need of routine website maintenance. The developers they were previously working with were not as responsive as they needed. Since the organization has two events each year, they need to keep the website up-to-date with information regarding their meetings. They reached out to Virteom for assistance! Since we are a full-time web development firm, were able to respond to inquiries quickly, and keep their members in the loop. GIVING YOUR SITE A FRESH LOOK In taking on the maintenance of their WordPress website, we found that they would do better working within our custom-built content management
Month: February 2019
Big Tips for Ranking Number 1 with Search Engines
Ranking number 1? Is there such a thing as ranking number 1 on search engines anymore? In the good old days search engines had no way to identify you as an individual so we all saw the same results when we searched for things. Nowadays there is no such thing as ranking number 1. Search engine results are now profiled by the individual. Around when search engines started offering free services like email and smartphone operating systems, they started tracking what you searched for on the internet. This allowed the search engines to start to identify you as an individual. Thats when ranking number 1 on search engines died. For example, if I search for the word candy on the internet my results may show chocolate bars, while yours may show sweet sugar-based candy. Now my example may be extreme, but I hope its driving the point home that search engine users are profiled and what shows up as number 1 in your search results may not be the same for everyone. how do I rank number 1? You might