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Category: Marketing
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
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
Month: October 2016
Virteom Launches Bishop Construction
Virteom is excited to announce the launch of Bishop Construction LLCs new site, bishopllc.com! For over 34 years, Bishop Construction LLC, located in Wickliffe, has been a trusted and experienced contractor in Northeast Ohio. Providing a full range of services from remodeling to new construction, Bishop Construction LLC is committed to providing superior craftsmanship for customers in the Greater Cleveland area. WHY WE LOVE THIS SITE Bishop Construction LLC is all about making your home or business look and feel good, and thats exactly what we at Virteom set out to do for their new site! With full-width images of Bishops construction work, coupled with modern parallax sections and a new sleek design, Bishops new site shows off the companys fun vibe and quality stand-out work. One of our favorite sections of the new site is the projects page! Bishop Construction LLC wanted to highlight images of their past commercial and residential work to engage new customers. They were also
Don't Just Build Websites, Build Smart Sites
A website is more than a place to find a phone number or email. Its more than product and service details. Its more than a place to boast about your company employees, history, and experience. Its more than an extra for your business or marketing, its a necessity. Websites are not what they used to be, they have to be both a foundation and driver of your web presence growth. Thats why Virteom creates Smart Sites. With technology advancing at warp speeds, traditional websites are quickly losing ground. Mobile devices and their streamlined, quick responding, draw-us-back app technology call for websites to join the cutting edge, modern front runners or dwindle into antiquity. Are websites fighting a losing battle? We believe not. SEO, bandwidth, browser technology, screen sizes and user expectations continually change around us and lead into a better future. It is time to recharge our creative thinking caps and utilize the technologies at hand. Traditionally, websites retrofitting
Virteom Launches Consolidated Precision Products
Come check out Virteoms latest site, Consolidated Precision Products, cppcorp.com ! With locations all around the world, Consolidated Precision Products has a home base in Cleveland but is an internationally recognized company specializing in high-precision, geometrically complex aerospace systems, components and subassemblies. CPPs new site was built by Virteom on the Wordpress CMS. I know what youre thinking, What? Wordpress? Yeah! We do that too! When customers come to Virteom for a new site build we like to give them all the options when choosing their CMS. For some customers the choice is easy, we built our Virteom CMS from the ground up, and know all its ins and outs. But at the same rate, some companies have a technical staff member who have worked on a certain CMS before, and will be maintaining the site moving forward. This was the case for CPP. wordpress VS the virteom cms Wordpress and the Virteom CMS have many similarities; ability to add plugins [also called modules],