Articles by Kristen McCormick

Coming up with a new product or service is a lot of work, which unfortunately does not stop once it’s ready—launching and promoting it is the other half of the equation. You could be offering the best new product or service around, but if you don’t promote it properly, you’re…

As far as technology has come, email marketing is still the most effective way to stay in touch with your target consumers. It allows you to stay at the forefront of their minds so that they can take action on whatever you’re offering when the time is right. Just as…

To say that customer reviews are powerful is an understatement. A few sentences in a review can have more influence on consumers than an entire website. A difference of one star—or even a half-star—can be all it takes for a shopper to choose a competitor over you. But in order…

Your Google Maps listing is a crucial marketing tool for your business. It can help you get discovered by new customers, stand out above competitors, and generate more business—all for free. But these benefits are really only attainable if your listing has strong visibility, and just because your business is…

The #StopHateForProfit campaign is one of the latest and largest responses to the current Black Lives Matter movement. However, its call to action—for businesses to pause their Facebook ads for July—creates a challenging situation for small businesses in the midst of economic hardship brought on by the pandemic. In this…

You know that targeted visibility on Google is crucial for your business. And you know that this requires optimizing your website and Google Ads account, but what you may not know is that this also requires optimizing your Google Business Profile. The optimizations are not hard to do, but with…

Your free Google business listing (known as your Business Profile) can do more than you think. When properly optimized, it showcases your best features and makes it easy for consumers to discover, learn about, and contact your business. But in order to properly optimize your Business Profile, you need access…

In an effort to gain more visibility on Google, many businesses create a Google business listing (known officially as a Business Profile). If you’re one such business owner, something you might not realize is that creating a Business Profile does not give you management over it, and you need those…

Every year, we survey hundreds of digital marketing agencies to find out what makes them tick. The resulting State of the Agency report helps agencies orient themselves to the bigger picture and discover new resources. Well, COVID-19 has changed the way we tick, as individuals. And with so many of…