2011 New Years SEM Resolutions to Consider!
With the New Year right around the corner it can often times feel like a clean slate ready to start the new business year on a fresh page. The same applies to search engine marketing and how you go about building your business online. It’s been a strange few years for many businesses which is why 2011 should be the year where you grab your search marketing campaigns by the neck and really work them. Here are some great goals if you are not sure where to start: Increased Blog Writing 2011 is the year to blow the dust of your blog and kick things up a notch. Tell yourself that you will make an effort to increase your frequency of writing every week. A Little Extra Link CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts To Read For December 30, 2010
Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy 2011!!! Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do! It’s a Merry Christmas for e-Retailers This post talked about how the e-Retailers made out this holiday season. Online shopping was up and going strong. Carl's Jr. and Hardee's Launch Location-Based Rewards App Customer rewards programs have been CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Turn Your Website Into a Social Machine
Being social online is the new cool but for many entering the social media space online it is a daunting task. Many businesses still think they are very susceptible to a reputation issue if they say one wrong thing and the reality is you really have to screw up in the social space to tarnish your image if you are not a mainstream brand. Some ways to turn your website into a social machine: Share Buttons By adding share buttons to your website you give your audience the opportunity to share your content and information on a variety of other social networks. Many buttons have the ability to share your information through a large network of social platforms giving you extra coverage. Some good share buttons are CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Pre SEO Tips to Consider – Video Lesson
Here is a new video that gives some advice of things that people should consider as "Pre SEO Tips". Often times I see folks try hard and spend tons of time, money and resources trying to build targeted website visitors (and your should!). But before you should ever even think about driving visitors to your website, you should think about determining your website goals, conversion metric and realistic competition! I hope this Pre SEO Tips Video Lesson is helpful: For more SEO video tips and lessons from Nick Stamoulis, check out the Brick Marketing SEO video lesson archive . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Turn Website Traffic Into Customers
What good is all that website traffic if nothing ever converts into a customer? Would you rather have lots of visitors with no conversions or less visitors with higher conversions? You have to realize that everything starts with your website. Your website needs to be able to funnel the traffic in a way that will create some sort of action. That means conversion aspects in place, up to date design and lots of branding. Here are some ways to turn your website traffic into customers: Live Chat The live chat features out there today are incredible allowing you to see where a visitor is going and where they came from. You can chime in and ask them a question or you could simply wait until someone needs a CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Proactive Reputation Management is Important
Some of the greatest offense starts with an amazing defense. Have you ever heard this quote? It really is a true statement when it comes to online marketing. Companies that tend to wait until they are hit with a brand or reputation management issue in the search engine space will usually find themselves putting in twice the effort to really clear up any tarnished marks. Why should I perform proactive reputation management now? When you take the time to perform reputation management now rather than later you allow yourself to build up a nice wall between you and any negative press that tries to invade the search results for your company branded name. As you fill up the search results with good solid branding information that allows CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
10 Reasons to Create a Business Blog
So everyone keeps telling you to launch a blog and you know you have to do it but do you understand why it is important to launch a blog for your business? If you are not sure why you need to launch a blog here are some important reasons to get you thinking about doing it sooner rather than later. Sure there are lots of blogs sitting around in almost each business space but that is no reason to not launch a blog for your business. Don’t be worried about competing against the other blogs in your industry. Why is it important to launch a blog? Here are 10 reasons to create a blog for your business: 1. More content added to your site which we all CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...









