Why should you market your products and services? Simply put, the make-it-and-they-will-come approach to growing a business won't succeed 99% of the time. You have to let prospects know that you’re out there and you have to let them know the right way if you hope to earn leads, sales, or growth. You have to have a marketing team on your side – whether internal or external. You need someone advocating for you to customers, delivering messages that draw them into your product and services effectively and, preferably, cost efficiently.
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Social media’s on the up and up. As more and more businesses grow cognizant of social media’s power with the people, search engines are sitting up and taking notice. Search engines like Google and Bing rank sites on relevancy – on how useful their information is to the public for the services each site purports to provide. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) allows marketers to help businesses gain traction on online search pages, reaching hirer rankings through a number of content and technical strategies. However, search engines are now questioning the validity of their current querying qualifiers and are slowly shifting the weight off of typical SEO tactics and onto social media-reliant rankers.
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Everyone’s on social media, but not everyone’s enjoying the experience. Although Facebook ranked lower in the 2012 American Customer Satisfaction Index for social media networks, Twitter received a disappointing 64 points out of a 100 rating. Not one to be indefinitely outdone, Twitter already has designs on an all-new mobile app that they hope will make the network more relevant and user-friendly for mobile users.
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Keeping a company’s blog fresh is hard. We should know. We add to ours regularly. Each piece starts with an idea that must then be fleshed out by research, original thought, and clear storytelling. It’s a lot to do and without a fulltime writer on staff or contracted with your organization, maintaining a healthy blog is a tall order to fill. That’s where an RSS feed can come in handy. Explore the option of integrating an RSS feed into your website and get all the SEO benefits of a fulltime blog, without getting weighed down by the fulltime focus.
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The madness is over for now as esd and associates, San Antonio’s leading digital creative agency, takes the top spot in the local contest bracket of the Business Journal’s Social Madness contest. But the social media frenzy will begin again next week. More than 4,000 businesses...

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Websites, even the most visual, require words. Why? Non-readers beware: as much as you may skim from subtitle to subtitle and jump from image to image, search engines do not. They crawl quickly, but efficiently, through each and every website they index spotting and ranking the site content based on items like top keywords and key phrases. SEO or Search Engine Marketing is alive and well – so, to make your website its most visible, design your content for both human eyes and the search engines.
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EndoMune is an amazing product helping thousands of people all over the world. Now it’s even easier for people to learn about EndoMune and purchase it on EndoMune’s new website from the convenience of their home. esd and associates, San Antonio’s leading digital creative agency,...

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More than 4,000 businesses across the nation entered their company to win the Business Journal’s nationwide Social Madness contest. The contest, measuring interactions, engagement and direct votes is down to just two contenders in each local division – and for San Antonio at least, esd and associates is one of them. Soon, the entire country will have to weigh in which city will walk away with the grand tech title. Participating local business owners all agree that there’s something to be said for a city that takes the cake in a national contest like this. National rewards often result in bigger and better things for a city and for small and large local business owners.
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