Custom audiences are one of the best-kept secrets of Facebook’s paid advertising platform. They allow you to reach people with who you already have a relationship with – and isn’t it easier to convert those with whom you’ve already made a connection with? Using Custom Audiences, you can create groups of Facebook users based on their email addresses, phone numbers, Facebook user IDs or app user IDs (note: “Website Custom Audiences,” based on people who have visited your website recently, …
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Digital marketing, in the simplest form, is leveraging internet-based platforms and resources to reach consumers. Successful digital marketing strategies are based on a sound understanding of consumers and their behaviors, and it requires a broad set of marketing skills to fully leverage the opportunities that the digital landscape presents.
Let me guess, you’re an honest person. Genuine, helpful and frank. You work hard to write good copy for your website. You avoid sleazy sales talk. You ignore marketing drivel. But could it be that a dash of sales hype sneaks into your copy, turning off prospects and dampening your conversion rates? It happens. All the time. The web is full of insincere prattle. Here’s a list of words that you might want to ban from your web copy because …
For many B2C businesses, social media marketing has always been the best option for B2C companies to reach out to consumers, with Facebook being the platform of choice. However, with Facebook’s constant algorithm changes, the efficacy of brand pages are on the steep decline – it is estimated today that only 3% of those who like your brand page will see your new posts. As digital marketers, we have to continually look for new ways to engage and with over …
This guide is aimed at anyone interested in Search Optimisation, Social Media and Inbound Marketing. Whether you are completely new to Digital Marketing or a seasoned practitioner, this guide will provide you with a wealth of knowledge that covers the entire optimisation spectrum. Controlling Internal Link Juice Controlling Internal Link Juice is an important SEO tactic. Link Juice is the amount of ranking juice passed by a link from one web page to another. It is important to control the …
Trying to find a quick-fix guide to low conversion rates? Good news is you’ll find plenty of help online, with scores of tutorials and expert opinions with opinions on optimizing your landing page. However, if you’re looking for the magic sauce or a proven formula, there isn’t one. Landing page optimization is not a set of best practices. Rather, it is a long step-by-step process, which needs to be followed for optimum results. And this is a mistake most novice …
That little, unassuming box, usually found on the lower right hand corner of your website, holds a lot of potential when it comes to increasing your website conversions. Yes, you have guessed it right. We are talking about Live Chats, an innovative technique of digital marketing that can almost double your conversions if done properly. Though the option of Live Chat sits quietly at the bottom of the screen and often hides in plain sight, it means a great deal to …
As you delve into marketing your small business on the digital front; be it on Google Ads platform, Facebook or Instagram, you want to ensure every dollar is spent trying to reach out to the best potential customer. Furthermore, you might want to start small to do a litmus test online – and that eliminates testing out with a digital marketing agency or outsource it to a professional, which often peg their services to a retainer contract with hefty fees. …
Google’s Webmaster Guidelines provide general design, technical, and quality guidelines. Below are more detailed tips for creating a Google-friendly site. Give visitors the information they’re looking for Provide high-quality content on your pages, especially your homepage. This is the single most important thing to do. If your pages contain useful information, their content will attract many visitors and entice webmasters to link to your site. In creating a helpful, information-rich site, write pages that clearly and accurately describe your topic. Think …
Generating business leads in Singapore is quite simple, but local business owners are still struck in the good old marketing practices, and do not take their business on the web as importance. Why is this so? When the web started back in the 1990s, a lot of business owners in Singapore had their business website up. It was expensive back then just a simple 5 to 10 web pages only would have cost over SGD$3000. But their websites are not …
If you are like most people in today’s age, you have more than one way to search the internet. From web-friendly phones to tablets, there is a growing amount of people searching for products and services on their mobile devices. However, most websites are not made with mobile search engine optimizing in mind. A lot of companies think that it is an ‘extra’ when looking at a total strategy game plan for their SEO and unfortunately they could not be …
Speed of your Website A slow website will always be very detrimental to your visitor’s experience. It can play a major factor in your bounce rate. The days of dial-up are over and people don’t have the patience they used to. If they are stuck on a page waiting for 5 seconds while it loads they are most likely to simply hit back and pick the next search engine result to find what they are looking for. In my experience, …
After a grueling meeting with your business partner, you finally decided that you need to market your product or service online. Your market research says that your target customers are techy savvy customers who spend a lot of their time on the Internet. Problem is, you do not have a big budget like those corporations who spend millions of dollars on advertising cost. So, what do you do? Google AdWords may just be what your business needs. This is Google’s …