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Robert Carnes

Marketing Copywriters: Why You Need One and What To Look For

Effective copywriting elevates your entire marketing game. That’s why a strong marketing copywriter is like a superhero.

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Website Insurance: Why Your Business Needs Web Maintenance

Does your company have website insurance? Wait, is that a thing?

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The Basics of Business Online Reputation Management

Reputation management is the process of monitoring and engaging with online reviews and other third-party reflections on your business. These various platforms form your online reputation—a reputation that should be actively watched after and managed.

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8 Tips for a More Effective Website 404 Error Page [with Examples]

When done effectively, your website’s 404 error page can be an opportunity to redirect people and maybe even make them smile. Here are a few simple suggestions for how you can make the most of an error page with some great examples from across the web.

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6 Best Practices For Creating And Posting Video Content To YouTube

How do you effectively share videos on YouTube and your other digital channels? We’ve compiled a few of our best practices to guide your video creation efforts.

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6 Best Continuing Education Sources For Digital Marketers

Whether or not you studied marketing in college (or even went to college), all marketers should be perpetual students. There is no end to your education for several reasons. But the good news is that there is also no shortage of areas where you can learn.

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How We’re Improving Our Brighter Web Marketing Meetups in 2023

As we enter 2023, we’re changing things up again with our meetups. No matter if you’ve never been to one before or have attended several, here’s what you can expect from our new-look marketing meetups moving forward.

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Which Digital Marketing Platforms Should You Start Working on First?

Don’t try to do it all at once—or at least not right away. Build up to full marketing capacity. That starts with setting your priorities and focusing on one thing until you’re proficient at it. That means picking one marketing platform to optimize at a time.

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How Do We Build More Ethical and Humane Digital Marketing?

How does a humane perspective impact our practices? Why is it worth it to try being humane? Let’s examine these questions and more together.

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6 Steps Every Small Business Can Take To Better Storytelling

Every business has a story because every business has people. By people, we don’t just mean your team, but also your customers, potential customers, and business advocates. The stories you tell shouldn’t be about your organization, but these audiences. By sharing their storiess, you invite them into a larger narrative and show the role your business plays in improving their lives.  Storytelling is much easier said than done. That’s because organizational stories reach far beyond just the telling. In order to share these impactful narratives, your business much take the time to collect and craft stories into a meaningful experience for the right audience. Sound confusing or daunting? It doesn’t have to be. There are plenty of businesses who use this same method (whether they realize it or not) to attract and serve customers every day. Your company can do the same by following these simple steps. 1. Listen For […]

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Why Digital Marketing is a Science Experiment (And How to Conduct One)

Is marketing more art or science? We believe it’s a beautiful and confounding mixture of both. There’s certainly a high level of creativity and subjectivity to effective marketing. However, there’s a fair amount of science, too. That’s because digital marketing is a perpetual experiment.

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The 7 Types of Website Traffic Sources (And How To Increase Each One)

The internet is vast and treacherous, which means we rely on a number of ways to navigate to the right content and sites. Therefore it should come as no surprise that people come to your website from a variety of places.

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Why Digital Marketing is Vital to Your Advocacy Group’s Mission

Effective digital marketing is one solution to nonprofit overcrowding. Just having a website or social media account alone won’t fix the problem, but not having either will certainly cause your organization to fall behind.

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5 Ways Nonprofit Organizations Benefit from Digital Marketing

Most people think of and treat nonprofit organizations differently from the average business. But they still can’t afford to ignore digital marketing.

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The Best Way To Hire a New Marketing Person At Your Business

Hiring the right marketing person for your business can bring huge value, but it also takes plenty of time and preparation.

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