You’ve diligently developed the right keywords. You’ve invested time in researching and writing content for a landing page, blog or eBook to align with those keywords. You publish it and, before long, it ranks at the top of search engine results!
Still, you’re disappointed. Even angry. You feel...
Read More
Startups may need time to grow from seed funding to fully profitable, but they can’t afford to waste any time on the journey from “Who?” to “Oh, I’ve heard of them.”
There’s usually no getting around starting off as a “Who?” in most of your potential customers’ minds. Startups, by their very...
Read More
With many of us spending more time on our smartphones than ever before, there’s no shortage of business cases a company could make for developing its own mobile app. Strangely enough, though, customer service is often not one of them.
It’s not that companies are creating apps without thinking...
Read More
Lots of companies spend their time responding to lucrative requests for proposals (RFPs), but Kathryn Bennett suggests they could win more of them by asking themselves a few questions first.
The director of RFP Excellence at Canadian-founded Loopio — which provides software to assist with proposal...
Read More
You could lose money if someone were to steal your products rather than purchase them. Having someone make off with your office supplies would be irritating, but you could probably replace them. Having someone make off with your data, however, could put you out of business entirely.
Keeping up...
Read More
The strategic use of data could be one of the biggest contributors to a small or medium-sized businesses’ growth, but many firms don’t realize that not all data was created equally.
More than a year ago, for example, Google announced it would be phasing out what’s known as the third-party cookie...
Read More
“Where did the morning go?” you might ask just before lunch, when it seems like you’ve done nothing but answer email messages.
“Is it that time already?” you think to yourself as another meeting is about to start, leaving you with no time to finish whatever task you had just started.
“I guess...
Read More
You might have already recognized some of the reasons to have a frequently-asked questions (FAQ) page on your website, but this is probably the biggest one:
The most frequently-asked questions often go unasked.
When customers arrive on your site — whether through a link on social media or from the...
Read More
It almost sounds like a riddle: When people have to work together, the first thing they need to do is figure out what works.
Whether employees are sitting next to each other or dialling in from home, in other words, nothing will get accomplished unless everyone is crystal clear on the...
Read More