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Category: Marketing
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
You're too Busy for Marketing - and We Know Why!
We know why you arent marketing: youre running a business. Your time is literally your money and the money of everyone who works for you, and nothing eats up the hours of the day like running a business. When the buck stops with you, schedules need to be made, books need to be balanced, payroll needs to be in on time, supplies need to be ordered and products need to keep moving out steadily. On top of all that, you still have to deal with daily decisions that cant be planned for. Being your own boss has its drawbacks, and a premium on time is probably the most significant. The problem is your business still needs to market, because marketing wont happen by itself. Fresh original content needs to be posted to the business blog, social media needs to keep turning out fresh, useful information to your followers, and you need to continue to build your brand even as you get business done. How do you do that with all the responsibilities and time constraints you already have? Thats where we
Effective Video Marketing Grabs Attention and Boosts SEO
A television show, movie, video game they all hold our interest. And, while most of us love a good quality program, even the less-than-stellar options keep our attention at times. Incorporating video marketing into your marketing strategy capitalizes on this draw. Why Video Marketing is Important to You Videos hold human attention longer than our usual eight second, similar-to-a-goldfish span. Elevating us to new heights, video marketing interactively engages your audience, raises brand awareness and prompts lead generation. EyeView Digital suggests that landing page videos boost conversions by 80 percent. Increased time spent on your branded page, the trust raised with your audience and capitalizing on our human preference for having material fed to us (rather than reading it) gives video a leg up. But theres more. Check out this HighQ infographic for the stats on why video must be an integral part of your marketing strategy this year. How Video Marketing Fits Your Strategy Incorporating
3 Ways to Think Like Your Customer for Digital Marketing Success
Sometimes, the most valuable things cannot be measured. Gone are the days of a brands marketing strategy being only about the metrics and products or services. Marketing can be an impossible game to play as its based on assumptions. As our CEO Dan Carbone once put it, Its really just guessing and testing. However, the secret to success here can be simplified; Think Like Your Customer. Many businesses know that this is easier said than done, but once you have it down, everything falls into place. Many companies put a lot of resources into finding out their target market, the ideal customer. Some companies, dont put a focus on determining their buyer personas at all. Whether you have or have not pinpointed who your true audience is, understand that knowing who they are and how they behave is half of the battle. You have to put resources diligent effort into understanding who the people are that you will truly help with your business. Once you know who your buyers are, the rest flows naturally,
The Importance of Link Building
Link building is an important aspect of SEO marketing. If you have not yet employed link building strategies in your marketing structure, you are possibly missing out on potential business. Using link building strategies will help you create high-quality SEO marketing campaigns that will help your business thrive. But, first you need to understand what it is and how to use it. What is link building? Link building is a strategy that that gets web pages to link to each other by acquiring hyperlinks from other websites and apply them to your own site. It helps users navigate between different pages on the Internet. They also help search engines crawl between the pages on your website. There are different ways to build links. But, if you can master at least one of them, it can catapult you ahead of your competition.In the United States, the interest for link building has grown 43 percent since 2005. How are links created? Since links are at the crux of link building, it is important to
Create Landing Pages that Convert
Every nano-second on the web counts. Creating landing pages that score leads and sales brings a high return on investment and after all, thats the benefit of online marketing. But what strategies earn you the biggest lead in the game of online marketing? Lets take a look. 1. Know Your Team Strategies which work for one team, fail for others. One jersey does not fit all. Think about it: Your call-to-action (CTA) or goal, reader or user, product or niche are all unique. Your strategy must address these factors. Craft strategies which target your specific audience and reach your goals. At Virteom, our Persona Development helps you identify your buyers for your marketing strategy. Creating campaigns for different buyers and following the funnel with a landing page tailored to them as well not only leads to more conversions, but better-quality leads. 2. Spell It Out Fans in the stands know that cheers and chants that are short and spell things out reach the teams ears and engage the
Chatbots are on the rise -- and that's good news for you
Over the past few years, a new trend has been gaining steam online: chatbots. Theyre a type of artificial intelligence that can hold conversations with people in a realistic and human-like manner. In 2016, chatbots seemed to explode onto the scene as a new interactive marketing and customer service tool and this year, theyre only growing as new uses and environments start cropping up.. how are chatbots used? Typically, business chatbots have been used in a customer service capacity when you visit a website, a chatbot in the corner will pop up and ask you if you have any questions. This type of user engagement has worked well in the past, especially as it helps users save what can be a significant amount of time waiting for a customer service representative to become available simply to answer a routine question. But now, chatbots are moving into an even more personalized realm conducting routine activities for their users, from paying bills to scheduling meetings to ordering online. For
Creating an A+ Blog that Ranks High and Provides Value
With a lot on your mind, you pour your heart and soul into blog post after blog post. You post all the new events, awards and recognition your company gets. Isnt that quality? No fluff topics. No sales pitchy posts. Just trustworthy, heartfelt content. Unfortunately, even this noble foundation leaves many blogs unread. To create an A+ blog that ranks high in search engines, your content needs to provide value and speak to readers by doing the following. Feed Your Audience What It Wants Great content means little if it only has meaning to you. To draw readers in, you need to give audiences what they want to read. Look for trending topics, provide solutions to reader problems and answer their questions with your blog posts. Become a resource for your current customers and readers and future ones! To accomplish this, you need to do your research. Use Google Trends to find up-to-date topics based on search volume. Look to Quora, LinkedIn Answers and other such sites to identify
The Consequences of an Online Ego and Not Addressing the Customer
Set Your Pride Aside! There are certain mistakes that instantly kill the purpose of a marketing campaign and excessive boasting is one of them. A boastful and self-centric online presence highlights a lack of understanding of what customers want. So, while marketing may be all about putting a word about who you are, what you do and how well you do it, too much boasting can destroy your online image altogether. How do you get customers to choose you without talking about your capabilities and accomplishments? Bragging Ends up Costing More Than Youre Getting Businesses need to understand that the purpose of branding is to highlight the value their service/product holds for the customer. It should be about What You Will Get rather than What We Do? A simple change of subject can make a world of difference. Blowing your own horn is a sign of ego and customers arent attracted to big-headed brands anymore. One of the worst mistakes companies can make is putting no focus on building a connection
Why You Should be Blogging About Your Business
Everyone knows what blogging is, but not everyone realizes how truly valuable it is to a business. Business owners of all types and sizes can reap many rewards just from blogging. Take a look at all of the way blogging can help your business. Drive traffic to your website Driving traffic to a website is important for any business, no matter how niche. The presence of a blog creates the opportunity to write compelling and relevant content that will draw people to it. A blog is a great marketing tool when it is used properly and it can easily become the foundation for social media platforms as well. You can post links that lead people to your blog so they can easily browse through your website. Increase your SEO SEO has not gone by the wayside. It is still an integral part of increasing your viewership on search engine pages. The more you write about your business, you will naturally increase your use of relevant keywords that will come up in Internet searches. So, simply continuing
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7 Things Business Owners Need to Know About SaaS
Software as a service (SaaS) is something that you need to utilize for your business. Moving into 2018, SaaS is a growing industry that business owners all over the world are taking advantage of. You can grow your company, automate operations, increase your marketing efforts long-term with shorter-term input, and keep financing costs low with vendors. Today, well look at the 7 things you need to know about SaaS. As a business owner, understanding software as a service can bring you to prosperity and profit. But first, lets tackle what SaaS means today and how to use it profitably. What is SaaS? Its a type of product -- think of it as software delivery -- where all you need is the internet and place to browse to take advantage. This is not something new, but does stand to take over what used to be extensive hardware, heavy internal investment, hosting, IT, and more. All of those things ( more) will be taken care of by your SaaS vendor, the expert on the software because they do more
2013 Update to Virteom Core System
Free Virteom Upgrade for You! Its been one year since Virteom opened its doors and we couldnt have done it without you. To show our appreciation we are going to upgrade many of our modules for you at no cost to you. This will just automatically happen and will be done without disruption to your website or platform. Some of the upgrades include the following... A more enhanced navigation system. Since the advent of blogs, webpage names have gotten ridiculously long. Weve changed the format and some of the features have been enhanced to allow you more flexibility and options as you manage your content. Updating the content management system to allow more stability with foreign and unwanted code. Updated the daily lead report by removing some unwanted redundancy in how the reports on a daily basis. Added a filter system to the Daily Lead Aggregate to allow you to zero in on your prospective customers by filtering down to the amounts of clicks, views and search terms entered. This will
Closed Loop Recycling Launches
Virteom launches website Closed Loop Recycling. Closed Loop Recycling was looking for something more than just a simple website launch, they were looking for a way to integrate an ongoing marketing plan for their organization. Pairing up with Virteom, Closed Loop was able to run both an online marketing campaign with their offline trade show initiatives. Being able to effectively communicate to their attendees before during and after the trade show was key to driving their success. In then end they created 700 leads in 4 days. So how did they do it? It was a combination of how and when they sent out their 20,000+ email communications through Virteom, how they tracked those leads using Virteoms lead tools and the creativity of their team to know how to effectively communicate to their audience. Through a combination of having the right people on the floor at the tradeshow and a proper communication mechanism reinforcing their initiatives became key to their success. They measured this
Ecommerce site Jennyspopcorn.com launches
Virteom launches new eCommerce website for Jennys Popcorn. Not only does Jennys sell something delicious, but they are in for a treat themselves. A website that is powered by Virteom and the eCommerce component will allow Jennys to effectively measure their online store and marketing initiatives all in one spot. If youve ever visited Jennys Popcorn you would instantly know that these people are very busy popping popcorn. To find the time to market their business effectively can be a struggle. Isnt that true of most medium sized businesses? Virteom will help Jennyspopcorn grow their online presence quickly and effectively. Jennys popcorn came to Virteom because they knew that we were the experts who could create a safe PCI compliant environment for their customers. They also knew that they could offer a better service to their customers by having Virteom connect their shopping cart directly to Fedex to create real-time shipping for their customers. This would provide their shoppers