If you’re a local business in a particularly competitive category, have a limited marketing budget, and/or limited domain authority; you may want to consider incorporating long-tail keyword tactics into your search marketing strategy. A long-tail keyword strategy is...
Best Practices for Balancing SEO and SEM
As we’ve shared in previous posts (links below), search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) are powerful and essential tools for local marketers aiming to reach customers in the area. SEO increases visibility in local search results, enhances...
Can Personalization Benefit Your Local Marketing Efforts?
Personalization in local marketing significantly enhances customer engagement, loyalty, and revenue by tailoring interactions to individual preferences and behaviors. This approach allows businesses to deliver more relevant content, improve customer experiences, and...
Is Cost-Plus a Viable Pricing Tactic?
Cost-Plus Pricing, also known as markup pricing, is a pricing strategy where a company determines the selling price of a product or service by adding a fixed percentage (the markup) to total costs. This strategy is straightforward and ensures the company covers its...
What Happens When You Stop Investing in Advertising?
There are numerous reasons business leaders may decide to stop their advertising: Difficulty measuring return-on-investment, budget limitations, market saturation, lack of time to develop, manage, and monitor campaigns, or possibly a shift in focus toward customer...
Is Guerrilla Marketing for You?
Recently, Chappel Roan, a grammy-nominated American singer and songwriter known for her drag queen-influenced aesthetic launched a guerilla-style marketing campaign for her song “The Giver” by placing posters around queer bars that resembled job-seeking flyers with an...
Simple Retargeting Strategies to Help You Bring Back Lost Visitors
Retargeting is a digital advertising technique where businesses target individuals who have previously interacted with their brand online. It’s a way to re-engage potential customers who demonstrated interest, but may have left without completing a purchase or other...
Do The Old Rules of Effective Advertising Design Still Apply in a Digital World?
“Everything changes, everything stays the same.” It is true that marketing in the modern age has changed drastically, shifting from the traditional approaches to a more digital and personalized approach. Changes related to social media, the use of data analytics, and...
What Are Predictive Analytics and How Can Your Local Business Use Them?
Consider a local restaurant here in the Monadnock Region. Imagine that restaurant uses data on customer behavior, sales patterns, customer reviews, surveys, and social media to optimize menu offerings, inventory, and staffing. By analyzing historical data on which...
The Rise and Fall of Book Advertising
By Julia Badders Nowadays, advertising is everywhere. From radio ads, branded T-shirts and your takeout coffee cup to the advertisements that support this publication. In a modern world that prioritizes profit and growth, advertising can at times be inescapable and...










