A major shift is underway in SEO (search engine optimization) as Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) becomes increasingly important alongside traditional search optimization. Instead of optimizing primarily to rank a webpage or a keyword and earn a click, marketers are...
What You Need to Know About Organic Keyword Strategy
A hypothetical small downtown bakery was struggling to attract customers through Google searches. The owner assumed people were searching for broad terms like “bakery” and “fresh bread”, so those were the keywords they incorporated into their website. After limited...
Brand Awareness and Brand Recall: What’s The Difference?
Both brand awareness and brand recall are critically important to the success of your local business. Together they move customers from “never heard of you” to “buy from you”. Brand awareness helps a local business become visible and recognizable, and people are more...
Your Website Is Your Storefront. Why Every Local Business Needs a Strong Online Presence.
For any local business, your website is one of the most important marketing assets your business has because it’s often the first place people go to learn about you, and decide whether to trust you. Your website works as your digital storefront, open 24 hours a day...
How Can Live Social Shopping Help Your Local Business Grow
Live social shopping is a fast-growing trend within the ecommerce and social commerce marketing categories. Live social shopping is one specific format within the broad social commerce category where the buying happens during a live-streamed video with real-time...
What Are Custom Sponsorships and How Can Your Local Business Utilize Them?
In recent posts we’ve shared information on the value of event marketing and how to optimize event opportunities. You can find links to these previous posts for background below. Today we’d like to share information on custom sponsorships. Custom sponsorships refer...
Turning Local Events into Powerful Marketing Opportunities
Here in the Monadnock Region there is an abundance of things-to-do. It seems there is always an event going on, in fact there are hundreds of them held throughout the year, both large and small. From the Keene Pumpkin Festival, the Clarence DeMar Marathon, and the...
How Your Local Business Can Leverage Brand Equity
Many confuse the concepts of brand value and brand equity. Toward clarifying, brand value is the quantitative financial worth of a brand to a company, reflecting its monetary impact on the bottom line; while brand equity is the aggregate of customer’s qualitative,...
Can Psychographic Segmentation Benefit Your Local Marketing?
Psychographic segmentation is a marketing strategy that divides a market into segments based on psychological characteristics including lifestyle, values, interests, opinions, social status, and more. The goal of psychographic segmenting is to understand why people...
How To Effectively Use Framing in Your Local Marketing
In a marketing context, framing relates to messaging in a way that highlights certain details to make a product or service more appealing to potential customers. Local businesses can use framing to shape customer perceptions by emphasizing positive aspects to...










