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Graphics Checklist: High-Quality Assets You Need to Promote Your Business
Key Insights Businesses need current and high-quality location, team, event, product, and service photographs and logos to establish trust and authority on their websites and across digital and print campaigns. With a well-thought-out plan of action, building out a high-quality asset library does not have to be expensive, time consuming, …
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How to Prompt Customers to Leave High-Quality Reviews That Influence SEO
Key Insights Businesses can prompt reviews and testimonials that include beneficial keywords to support ranking in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS). Three benefits to providing review prompts: Encourages high-quality, specific reviews Influences more people to find you when searching for degrees, products, services, and experiences you offer Themes in …
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Hot or Not: Content Trends Pre- and Post-COVID-19
Key Insights Business owners shouldn’t let the uncertainty of COVID-19 discourage them from marketing. An empathetic brand tone is important. As people stay at home, online user engagement has increased and brands are being more heavily scrutinized for mistakes than ever before. This creates an opportunity to reach users more …
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What You Need to Know About Website Accessibility
Key Insights Every business is required to implement certain accessibility standards on their websites, not just major corporations An accessible website ensures that people with disabilities can seamlessly use it Many SEO best practices are also a part of website accessibility guidelines Introduction Having a website that follows accessibility guidelines …
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Search Influence to Host Education Marketing Webinar, “Top 7 Ways to Drive Prospects Into and Down the Funnel”
Prospective students are showing growing interest in online learning. Many wonder if now is the time to continue their education rather than competing for opportunities in a shrinking job market. Those once resistant to the idea of online learning now feel comfortable pursuing experiences remotely. Take advantage of these changing …
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#ShowYourPride: Engaging the LGBTQ+ Community Online
This post was updated by Crysten Price on June 30, 2020. It was originally written by a Search Influence alumnus on June 16, 2016. The LGBTQ+ community is a tech-savvy group with a proclivity towards online shopping. This community is a great audience to consider for ad spend targeting. They …
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Google Maps: Ongoing List of COVID-19 Updates
Throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google made updates to help businesses align with the needs of users affected by various local and national guideline enforcements. This piece will collect and explain updates related to managing listings and the ways Google helps businesses reach consumers. Search Influence will update …
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Don’t Miss Out on the Recession Boom in Graduate School Applications
Research by The New York Times, Stanford, and other sources suggests that interest in graduate school will hit new highs in the coming months and years due to the global recession. Instead of looking at how your organization can cut costs by reducing its marketing budget, you should make the …
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Business Continuity Messaging During COVID-19: What You Need to Do Right Now
Now more than ever, the internet is the first and primary source of information about local businesses. The messaging (or lack thereof) that companies disseminate may affect the quality and quantity of their customers when the economy begins to open back up. We’ve seen far too many businesses fail to …
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Google and Facebook’s Small Business Grants: What You Need to Know
This post was updated in May 2020 to include additional qualification guidelines provided by Google. So far 2020 has proven to be quite the year. The news of COVID-19 and the restrictions placed on businesses came with the looming sense of “What’s going to happen next?” Thankfully, you won’t have …
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