Spectrum Communications & Consulting Inc. Blog: June 2013
When it comes to your company's Internet marketing, is it best to allocate time and money to your search engine optimization efforts or your pay-per-click advertising? Which is better for your business? PPC is a fantastic surface-level way to get your business in front of potential customers almost...
A bad Yelp review is like a hard punch in the gut. Only the pain doesn't go away. It lingers horribly in the pit of your stomach while your face illustrates the agony you're going through. Everyone can see it. Receiving a bad review on Yelp is extremely frustrating for a small business owner. Beside...
Powerful advertising platforms such as Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter have made online marketing for small- and medium-sized businesses convenient and effective. As the Internet continues to burrow deeper into the lives of American consumers, business owners continue to capitalize -- taking m...
Whether you know it or not, responsive website design (RWD) is the future of your website. A site built with RWD will adapt its layout to the device it's being viewed on -- a desktop, laptop, tablet or smart phone -- making it easier for visitors to read and navigate a website without having to cons...
Do you use Google? Do you use Google for work? Could potential customers use Google to find your business? Then read on. The more you know about Google -- you know, what makes it tick -- the better you'll be at using it personally and professionally. The better you'll be at making Google work for yo...
The following questions should be directed toward whoever handles your company's PPC campaign(s). Whether it's an in-house team or an outside agency, you should make these inquiries as soon as possible. Why the urgency? Mainly because pay-per-click advertising is incredibly time-sensitive. An improp...
A pay-per-click ad should only target people who are ready to make a purchase immediately. To help advertisers do so, Google created negative keywords. Negative keywords increase PPC profits by cutting the number of irrelevant visitors (clicks) you pay for. For example, if you’re running ads selling...
As of last month, Yelp has 1.1 million claimed local business profiles -- a 58% increase over Q1 of 2012. The site, which has 100 million unique visitors every month, is the fastest growing directory and review service on the planet. In other words, it's something you want to be a part of. Claiming...
We've all seen them: The late night get-rich-quick infomercials. The early morning breakfast cereal ads. The mid-afternoon local services commercials. You hear them on the radio. You watch them on TV. They're all different -- advertising vastly different products in very different ways. So what do t...
