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Video: SEO 101 for Business Owners and Executives

Video: SEO 101 for Business Owners and Executives. Learn about SEO at a high level. What is it? Why do it? How does it work? SEO is like making pizza!

20 Easy Ways Your Business Can Add Value for Your Customers

Discover 20 easy ways your business can add value for your customers and why it’s important for business owners, marketers, sales people, and customer service representatives.

11+ Email Marketing Tips for Small Businesses, Startups, and Entrepreneurs

Email marketing is extremely effective when done right. If you’re not doing email marketing (or it’s not working), consider these 11+ email marketing tips for your small or medium-size business or startup in 2021 and beyond.

Google Algorithm Updates in 2021: What Small Businesses Need to Know

Expect these Google algorithm updates in the first half of 2021: Passage Ranking, Mobile-first Indexing, and the Page Experience Update–a group of website benchmarks and signals that will affect your rankings. Is your business prepared?

Definitive Answers From Google to Questions About SEO and the Web

Get Definitive Answers to Questions About SEO, web and ranking. Highlights of Google’s answers from John Mueller, Search Advocate at Google.

What Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know About Content Marketing: A Quick & Comprehensive Guide

Many small business owners have begun implementing a content marketing strategy for their businesses. But what is content marketing? And how can you be successful at it?

The Least Sexy, Totally Free SEO Tools That Can Transform Your Business

Check out these totally unsexy, FREE SEO tools to learn how your site is doing, how you can improve your search rankings, and transform your business.

65 Inspiring Social Media Content Ideas

Check out 65 inspiring social media content ideas. Engage with your prospects and customers, generate more brand awareness.

Small Business Branding Online: 6 Case Studies

Read six mini-case studies about companies whose brands are at risk online. Discover branding solutions and learn how an online brand identity is created.

10 Absurd SEO Lies

Lies! 10 SEO lies you may have been told or believe. Discover the truth about search engine optimization (SEO) for your website. How is your website really doing?

Marketing in a COVID-19 Economy

Most business owners couldn’t predict the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that we’re in this situation, how should your marketing efforts pivot to reflect the times?

25 Worst SEO Mistakes to Avoid in 2020

Read about current, emerging, and classic SEO mistakes in 2020.

Our SEO Process: How We “Do” SEO

How does SEO work? Learn how we “do” SEO, our SEO process, and how we’re different from other local SEO agencies.

Our Website Design Process…and How We’re Different

See how our website design process differs from other web design and marketing companies. Learn about our 8 steps and how we use SEO and writing best practices to help you get found on Google.

A Small Business SEO Case Study

This SEO case study describes a small business owner’s search engine optimization (SEO) journey with Nancy Burgess Strategic Marketing, Inc. SEO is a series of web best practices that enable websites to be crawled and indexed by Google and other search engines. It...

Writing for the Web: Sage Advice for Businesses

Learn strategies for web writing with this business advice, based on solid research.

How Do I Get My Business on Google?

Each month about 24,000 business owners and entrepreneurs ask how they can get their business or website on Google. Not only is it a popular question “to Google” but also it’s a question without a single simple answer.

What Are the Key Components of a Marketing Plan?

What belongs in a marketing plan? It depends who you ask. Here’s what we deem most important.

How to Get Website Traffic: 10 Tips

There’s no point in having a website if nobody finds it. Here’s how to garner website traffic.

Developing a Brand Identity & Website: Case Study

We created a new brand look, feel, and messaging for a company’s website. And we extended it to other marketing tactics.

Generating Leads and Growing Revenue

Read how we generated leads and grew revenue for a large corporation.

Taking a Manufacturer’s Brand to the Next Level: Case Study

We created a new brand look, feel, and messaging for a manufactuer’s brand. We updated their messaging, imagery and website. Then we extended it to other marketing activities.

Instagram for Business 101: The Ultimate Guide

Instagram 101: Learn about social media strategy and Instagram.

Google Trends: 15 Tips for SEO

With the latest Google trends, the search giant made some significant clarifications that can help marketers, web developers, and content writers achieve better SEO results. We’ve updated our Google advice again, offering 15 SEO Tips and Best Practices that are relevant in 2021.