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Gunnar Hood, a WSI consultant in Oklahoma City and author of our eBook specifically about LinkedIn, shared his experience as an expert with B2B and professional service companies. You can catch up on the recording here. Business Case for LinkedIn and the New Normal The impact of COVID-19 pushed people out of their comfort zones. While uncomfortable, it is also the best way to grow. Because so many in-person meetings, networking events, and tradeshows were put on hold in 2020, LinkedIn became an even more attractive option because it: Boasts 63 million decision makers and 30 mil...  Read Full Article

If you’re in the realm of digital marketing, you’ve probably heard the phrase “inbound marketing” a couple of times. Plenty of marketers emphasize the importance of inbound marketing in their digital strategy. While it’s easy to grasp the basics, inbound marketing can be a tricky but cost-effective process that lets you convert customers organically (and save your advertising budget.) What is Inbound Marketing? Inbound marketing is a marketing methodology that highlights the importance of content creation to attract customers and move them through your sales funnel. ...  Read Full Article

“Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.” - Amy Jo Martin It’s true. by 2023, there will be approximately 3.43 billion people around the world using social media. Because of the vast audience available on social networks, digital marketers have dived into social media branding and marketing, sharing content, sponsoring social ads, engaging with followers and more. Marketers put in all of this effort, but if a social media strategy is disjointed from the rest of the digital marketing strategy, it can mean a lot of spin...  Read Full Article

Pros & Cons of popular Lead generation Strategies (You’ve probably already Heard About) If you’re not yet familiar with these strategies, you have probably seen these buzzwords. They all work great (if done correctly). There are pros and cons for each, and some make more sense for your type of business. Let’s start with the one that gets leads the fastest… Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Google didn’t get so rich by ranking you for free. Over time they’ve shifted the search results to feature the paid advertisements while pushing the organic (free…or “natural” results) farthe...  Read Full Article

Well...this post is going to be a little different than in previous years, isn't it? I guess that's true of most things in 2020, so it's no longer surprising. Usually, when December rolls around, we wax poetic about the joy of Thanksgiving, which carries into the merriment and wonder of the holiday season, culminating with Christmas and New Year's Eve. Then we write our annual marketing predictions post and all is right in the world. We're still going to do all of the above. And we sincerely wish you still find the joy and merriment of years past throughout the 2020 ho...  Read Full Article

4.4 billion – that’s how many blog posts were written today. So how do you and your company stand out in this sea of blog posts? Having a video marketing strategy has become necessary to enhance your marketing campaign efforts. Whether it’s creating awareness or generating more leads, the combination of video and marketing is now more relevant than ever. This strategy gives marketers an attractive and versatile format that can be easily shared online, further accelerating brand growth. What is Video Marketing, and Why Does Your Business Need It? Video marketing has become a sure-sho...  Read Full Article

Now that we live in the digital age, we are exposed to social media every single day. Why? Because social media allows us to communicate and share content quickly, efficiently, and in real-time. When you take a look from a marketing perspective within a business, no matter how big or how small, social media has become a necessary marketing channel that all companies need to tap into at some capacity to be successful. Moreover, if you have a stellar social media strategy, great things will come from it, and you will see the results firsthand. That sounds easy and doabl...  Read Full Article

When Geneva-based Leman Aesthetic Clinic’s (LAC) new website was announced as the winner of the Medical Standard of Excellence Award at the 2020 WMA WebAwards. It was yet another feat for WSI in winning the award for the second year, this time thanks to local WSI Digital Marketing Consultant in Switzerland, Gabor Markus and his team. The WMA WebAwards is an annual international competition that is organised by the Web Marketing Association, setting and recognising the latest industry benchmarks in web design and developments. Participating since 2007, WSI has consistently pe...  Read Full Article

Search engine optimization (SEO) is as vast as it is misunderstood. It’s one of the most essential concepts driving digital marketing today and a must-know for marketers who want to see their business succeed online. If you’ve spent as much time as we have researching the ins and outs of SEO, you’ve probably realized that algorithms change often, and the strategies that work for you one day can become almost meaningless the next. It’s enough to drive even the most level-headed of marketing pros up the wall. Still, some things never change when it comes to SEO, and those are t...  Read Full Article

As part of our ongoing series of digital marketing strategy webinars, we have assembled a panel of speakers who bring insights and best practices related explicitly to driving leads and conversion rate optimization in the manufacturing field: Neal Lappe – WSI certified agency and co-author of “Digital Minds: A Strategic Approach to Connecting and Engaging with Your Customers Online”; Marty Greif – WSI partner, with over 25 years as a conversion expert; Steve Condit – WSI certified agency, with 30 years’ experience in manufacturing marketing. You can watch the recording he...  Read Full Article

WSI is proud to announce that for the second year in a row, we have been crowned the Top Agency by the Web Marketing Association. The Top Agency Award recognizes the consistently outstanding development going on at interactive digital marketing firms. WSI outranked its global competition and won the most WebAwards in this year's WMA WebAward competition. Award-Winning Web Designs Overall WSI won 13 awards in the 2020 WebAwards competition including Best Home Building Website, Best Political Website, seven Outstanding Website WebAwards, and four Standard of Excellenc...  Read Full Article

Throughout April and May this year, WSI conducted a free webinar series to share digital marketing tips, tricks, and best practices that you can use to overcome the marketing obstacles you are facing in today's business world. Here is a quick recap, plus the recording from our “Ahead of the Curve” webinar on understanding your target audience in challenging times by Cormac Farrelly from Dublin, Ireland. What is a Buyer Persona? The best definition can be found in our book, Digital Minds: A Strategic Approach to Connecting & Engaging with Your Customers...  Read Full Article

A long time ago, marketing involved a lot of interruption. To get the word out about a product, service, or brand, marketers, and advertisers would place ads in newspapers, between TV shows and songs on the radio, on building and billboards – hoping to catch a consumer’s attention during some other activity. Some efforts were more subtle: paying a celebrity to wear a particular brand, or showing a beloved character in a movie using one specific type of dish soap. Others even more closely resembled today’s content marketing, like educational brochures on a front desk, ...  Read Full Article

So you have an Online Store – now what? The adage “Build it and they will come” doesn’t work when talking about websites, as we talked in part one and two of our blog series. So you will have to invest at the correct level to drive traffic and for many brands or retailers that translates to maybe 8-15% of revenue – it depends on the market, product, and how established the business is. The trick will be to develop a marketing blueprint that builds your organic traffic, forms your loyal customer base while also funding new customer acquisition through paid adverti...  Read Full Article

One thing that the Coronavirus pandemic has cemented for me is that adaptability is the key to success. With no time to prepare, business owners all over have had to suddenly pivot away from tried-and-tested strategies to the unknown and unfamiliar. This shift has led to the growth of e-commerce (check out our multi-part series on eCommerce, A Guide To Getting Online, with part one focusing on business strategy, and part two focusing on technology) and the rise of online meetings, virtual happy-hours, and in-home training. When it comes to transitioning an in-person event to a ...  Read Full Article

We concluded our Ahead of the Curve webinar series with a thought-provoking presentation on Defining Your Post-COVID-19 Digital Marketing Plan. Carlos Guzman, one of our WSI Digital Marketing Consultants from Mexico City, did an amazing job of recapping the strategies and concepts we talked about over the last several weeks. During his session, he shared eleven steps to help guide you through revisiting your current digital marketing activities and making the necessary adjustments for today's marketplace. We know that the company you went into this pandemic with from an operati...  Read Full Article

In this second post in the series about getting online (you can find the first part here!), we are taking a look at the technology platforms and decisions you will need to make as part of that process. You might be surprised that I didn’t look at this first, but in truth, you want to run a business, not become an IT expert. IT will become a more significant part of your world as an eCommerce operator, but if you don’t get your strategy and mission correct first, and have good content, then no platform will save your enterprise. Thankfu...  Read Full Article

There is no doubt that these are unprecedented times, and while my grandmother might have remembered the ‘Spanish Flu’ living through a pandemic like this is a new and scary experience. However, if we look at the impact of SARS on consumer behavior in China, then we can get an idea of what might happen post-COVID 19 – SARS catapulted China forward to be the leading online economy. eCommerce has been growing quickly and steadily for the last 10 to 15 years as the data from Statistica shows. Still, I believe one of the significant impacts of COVID-19 will be to accelerate...  Read Full Article

The WSI Ahead of the Curve webinar series continued in May with an informative session on web analytics. This time, WSI Digital Marketing Consultant, Andreas Mueller-Schubert, joined us from the beautiful Napa Valley region in California, USA. During the presentation, he showed how he uses data and analytics to help pivot and adjust his clients’ digital marketing strategies. In addition to sharing several tools and tips that you can use to leverage data in your decision-making process, he also talked about the concept of SMART goals. Many of our webinar attendees had...  Read Full Article

Stripe launches in Cyprus Stripe  is now generally available in Cyprus. This means Stripe can now support businesses in 39 countries (29 in Europe) with their complete payments platform, enabling them to sell to customers around the globe. This launch was built almost entirely by the teams of Stripe's European engineering hub, that’s everything from new integrations with financial institutions to extending support for Stripe’s products. The inclusion of Cyprus,the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Malta is launch is the result of feedback from a number of businesses ac...  Read Full Article

Due to overwhelming demand, our digital marketing educational webinar series, Ahead of the Curve, has been extended until the end of May. This past Wednesday, we hosted our 7th webinar and covered the topic of search engine optimization (SEO), and specifically How to Optimize Your Digital Presence During COVID-19. During this session, WSI Digital Marketing Consultant, Mark Jaimeson, based out of Ottawa, Canada, shared his seven SEO recommendations and strategies for thriving in this new "normal". We’ve included a quick recap of Mark's seven tips below, along with the f...  Read Full Article

If you’re a regular  reader of our digital marketing articles, you’ll know that WSI has been in the digital marketing space for quite some time – 25 years to be exact!  So, when the Coronavirus pandemic hit, we knew we had a responsibility to share our digital marketing expertise and help businesses around the world navigate through COVID-19. One way we are doing this is through our Ahead of the Curve webinar series, which aims to share digital marketing tips and best practices on key tactics that can help you overcome the marketing obstacles you’re facing to...  Read Full Article

I think it’s fair to say that none of us imagined we’d be where we are today. Nor did we foresee the impact COVID-19 would have on businesses all around the world. We know your business has been affected in one way or the other, and we’d like to help you navigate through this crisis, so you are positioned to come out on the other side stronger. Over the next few weeks, WSI will be running a free webinar series to share digital marketing tips, tricks, and best practices that you can use to overcome the marketing obstacles you are facing today. Based on some of the rec...  Read Full Article

Graphic design matters - a lot. I’m sure many of you would agree. A company’s image can rely heavily on their graphical elements. Look at companies like Apple, Nike and Amazon. Their logos alone encapsulate each brand’s vision and personality. Each is unique in its own right. What’s more is that their brand design never fails to carry over into other consumer-facing channels. From their social media handles to their online ads, outdoor billboards, flyers and packaging, their brand image is consistent, attractive and identifiable. Impactful design is the kind of stuff...  Read Full Article

While it might seem like a lifetime ago, back in January we wrote about Google’s move to de-clutter the first page of search results. And just 8 weeks later, we’ve seen Google make even more substantial updates that SEO pros should be watching intently. To quickly recap, the clean-up we discussed two months ago aimed to streamline a searcher’s online experience by de-duplicating search results. URLs in position zero with a featured snippet would no longer appear anywhere else on search engine results pages (SERPs) as they had previously. This update was great for u...  Read Full Article