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In The Disconnect in PPC vs. SEO Spending, Rand Fishkin demonstrates that "SEO drives 75%+ of all search traffic, yet garners less than 15% of marketing budgets for SEM campaigns. PPC receives less than 25% of all search traffic, yet earns 80%+ of SEM campaign budgets," then asks: "Why does paid search earn so many more marketing dollars?" Read More

Is it a good idea to cut your prices when times get tough? When money is tight, it might seem that lowering your prices would be the thing to do. Customers are bargain-hunting, and you may think lower-priced competitors will eat your lunch unless you offer an even better deal. But it's not always that simple. And sometimes lowering your prices Read More

Will existing franchise owners be able to get loans to add equipment and grow??? Read More

Companies can and do prosper during times of economic turmoil. Take a lesson from brands whose Depression-era advertising strategies were key to their survival. To begin, not all was doom and gloom during the Great Depression. It was a time when those who knew what they were doing made great economic strides, and the very nature of the Depressi Read More

Small Business Trend's resident franchise expert rates some popular franchise search sites... Read More

B2B marketers establish conversions - or desired actions - throughout their customers' buying process. These actions may take place online, on the phone, or live at a specific location. Regardless, many occur at the local level. Local search enables marketers to capitalize on these interactions and differentiate your firm based upon one very impor Read More

The key to properly applying this model to landing pages is to make sure that there's continuity and flow to support a visitor's progression through each of the steps. None of the steps can be skipped, and all of them must happen in sequence. That's not to say that equal emphasis should be placed on each within your landing page, or that visito Read More

Why isn't that great content translating into more sales? Let's look at three common copy mistakes that keep your readers from becoming customers, and how you can turn that around. Read More

As more and more marketers and salespeople grapple with how to segment their leads and personalize their messaging, the question of demographics is asked. If you've created an emarketing campaign lately, you've likely been asked, what's the customer profile you're targeting? Read More