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A new Victoria BC healthcare directory is a one-stop resource for anyone who has been in a traffic accident, is living with a chronic condition, or who wants to improve their…

How to Drive Sales Through Social Media Not all social networks are created equal when it comes to driving sales. Learn some tips on where to focus to achieve maximum…

8 Dangerous (But Common) Misconceptions About Email Marketing This blog post covers all of the common myths and misconceptions that plague the email marketing world, and debunk them once and…

So, you’ve launched your search-optimized web site and are waiting and wondering when all the Google Search traffic will start arriving at your home page? Truth is, unless you extend…

We recently had the pleasure of working with Alison at Kyla Kleaning, a local cleaning services company. While working from Kyla Kleaning it was very refreshing to hear about their…

10 Things That Can Destroy an Email Marketing Campaign Here are 10 ways to alienate customers and destroy an email marketing campaign – read more here. The 6 Top Mobile…

7 content strategy tips to construct awesome product pages & boost sales Want to learn how to use content to make a difference on the bottom line? In fact, content…

Being the “strategy guy”  in a company that provides SEO services (among many other things), I come across some pretty interesting situations when I look under the hood at various…

How to appropriately include product mentions in your marketing These days, providing useful and relevant copy for customers has become a major marketing tactic, but where does marketing one’s own…

10 Top Tips for Using Google+ G00gle+, one of the newest social media platforms, has enjoyed a slow and steady increase in popularity, although it’s not likely you’ll encounter many…

“Why did our PageRank go down?” A newspaper contacted Google after their “PageRank” (a value assigned by Google to websites that measures the relative importance of the site) had dropped…

How traditional PR is stilling failing to succeed The evolution of the Internet and social media has disrupted traditional public relations and marketing. It’s critical to accept that there has…

11 Social Media Automation Mistakes to Avoid  Social media automation can be done right. Just avoid the following 11 awful social media automation mistakes, and you’ll be good to go. Read more here…

8 Biggest Marketing Mistakes of All Time But what happens to companies that make mistakes on a grand scale and cost their company millions in clout or dollars? Learn more here…

Six reasons why your business needs to curate content In the online marketing space, curation is the activity of finding and sharing great content. There’s more information out there than any of…

Having spent millions of dollars on online advertising on behalf of clients, I give a lot of thought to how we can reduce risk and maximize the value of ads…

How To Get More Tweets Tweets that include brief messages (fewer than 100 characters) generate 17 percent more engagement than longer content; content with links yields 86 percent more Retweets…

3 Common Landing Page Flops To Avoid Are your landing pages doing what they are supposed to do? If you’re a business selling a product or service, you need to…

Why Your Business Is Doing Twitter Wrong By making three relatively simple implementation tweaks you can create more engaging tweets, improve tracking, provide better exposure for your Twitter username and…

3 Fatal Marketing Errors To Avoid You work very hard to put together events and webinars, and at the end of each presentation, make pitches for high-priced offerings he desperately…

16 Things People Really Hate About Your Email Marketing Permission-based email marketing is an incredibly relevant and powerful tool for connecting with existing customers and creating new ones. However, as…

Updated for 2012: The Beginner’s Guide to SEO Thanks to ever-changing search algorithms, local businesses always have to re-learn strategies and best practices to make sure their website is set…

25+ tools for real-time marketing Real-time marketing—the ability to monitor, manage and guide your marketing efforts as they occur — is one of the most important areas of marketing today…

The Little Book of Google Maps for Businesses Over 20% of Google searches now contain a location (e.g., “lawyers Victoria BC)), and this number rises to over 40% of mobile…

10 awesome marketing infographics Infographics are a great way to quickly catch the attention of customer and ideally get them to share your content – thereby promoting your business to…

Have your heard of these 5 “local” search engines? Many “local” businesses tend to focus on getting listed on Google Maps and Google Places, simply because it’s relatively easy to…

32 ways to get people to link to your website While many local businesses resort to a variety of desperate tactics to get other sites to link to them in…

15 things customers hate about your website Why do so many websites feature elements that visitors (that is, potential customers) absolutely hate? Poor user experience can cause high page abandonment…

What businesses benefit most from creating mobile websites? Thanks to the continued and sustained exploding growth in consumer adoption of tablets and smartphones, there is an uptick in “mobile first,…

Here’s a collection of the best online marketing links from the past week. If you have any you would like to share with us, please let us know! 8 Frequently…

Everything you ever wanted to know about online marketing for Local businesses In the era of the Smart Phone, and when more and more people are using the Yellow Pages…

Interested in Mobile Marketing with QR codes? Let’s start with a few of the basics… A QR code (as pictured) is a “scannable” graphic that links smartphone users to a…

The 17 R’s of Savvy Mobile Marketing (Infographic) Many businesses are still asking what mobile marketing is, which means they’re probably also struggling with how to use it to generate…

One great thing about working with a software companies is that I get to use their products and call it “work.” muvee is a great company that we work with…

Mobile SEO growing in importance as web economy set to double by 2016 A recent study indicates that by 2016, there will be 3 billion Internet users around the world,…

I noticed today that MailChimp offers a QR code to link to a mobile version of your subscribe form. Pretty cool if you’re at a trade show and want to…

In a presentation last night at the Vancouver Island Tech Park I waxed rhapsodic about Bit.ly and harped on the importance of tracking. After uploading my presentation deck to SlideShare…

Top 10 social media campaigns of 2011 Everyone says your business needs to adopt social media marketing in order to succeed, but sometimes it’s difficult to gauge success. For some…

5 ways to generate excitement using social media Many local businesses create blog posts, videos, and other bits of enticing content to engage community and actually provide customers with useful…

If you opened a retail store next to a major intersection, would you bother to put up a sign so that folks could see what you sold and what the…

How to come up with content ideas (and get visitors to your business website) Creating regular, “fresh” content such as blog posts and online videos is a key tactic aimed…

This is the first blog post we’ll be doing in a series of posts aimed at answering questions which come up regularly with new clients. The following description may take…

How to measure your online influence “Social media marketing” is all the rage these days, but how do you measure success (and make sure your making use of your limited…

5 tips to help customers find your local business online How do searchers go about their search for local businesses? Do most searchers use local modifiers (such as the name of…

5 considerations in planning your small business 2012 ad budget Thanks to a continued, and unrelenting shift online advertising and mobile search, advertising best practices for businesses continues to change at a…

5 simple steps to creating a Facebook business page With 500 million users, and providing the ability for businesses  to reach potential customer by demographic and by geography, Facebook can…

How mobile content should differ from “desktop” content In order to keep up with the competition and connect better with customers, more and more businesses are launching mobile sites. But…

As a business owner do you find yourself excited by change or threatened by change? If it’s the latter, it’s time to reconsider, especially in regards to Google Places. Google…

I get asked often what the big deal about Twitter is in a business context. Truth be told, for a huge number of Twitter users, it’s of little value as…

The Sands Turks and Caicos hotel is a company we’ve gotten to know well through a partner company and they have been recently honored at the Turks and Caicos Hotel…

The Hartling Group on Providenciales is a company we’ve come to know through a partner company we’re working with. The Hartling Group is one of the early real estate development…

We’re pleased to announce that we now have online marketing services specifically for videographers available. These services are being announced today at WEVA 2009 in Orlando Florida and are available…

We’re pleased to announce we’ve been booked for speaking engagements and seminars with a number of business groups including WEVA (Orlando Florida, Sept. 15), HOST (Victoria BC, September 10) and…

Want to beat your competion online? Here’s a great tip. Before you launch ANYTHING on the web (whether it be a site or a marketing effort), identify what your goal…

JumpStartWeb Launches Internationally with Small Business Marketing Services JumpStartWeb.com to offer personalized and practical online marketing solutions for small businesses. Victoria, BC (April 2, 2009) PlusROI Online Marketing Inc. today…