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Secrets to Creating a Visual Brand Identity That Sets You Apart
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
8 Key Areas You Want to Keep Your Visual Brand Consistent Have you ever wondered what your social media followers think about you? Is it possible you are sending mixed messages to your prospects? This ...
7 Crucial Elements to Building an Effective Personal Brand
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
How to Gain More Income, Influence and Impact Through Building a Personal Brand It used to be that if you had a logo and a website you had a business brand. But today's consumers demand ...
Combining Online and Offline Marketing to Build Business Credibility
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
How to earn new clients for your small business with these brand-boosting suggestions I hope you enjoyed our recent series of articles and videos focused on what you can do to build your client roster ...
How an Ideal Client Avatar Helps You Better Connect with Your Website Prospects
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
When visitors come to your website they want to know if you understand their issues and can help them. I have found many businesses falter when it comes to connecting with potential customers. They write ...
4 Easy Ways to Get More Referrals Without Feeling Aggressive
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
Non-Pushy Examples on How to Use Word of Mouth Marketing to Grow Your Business Word of mouth marketing works. In fact, referrals are often one of the key factors influencing someone to work with you. ...
10 Ways to Attracting Clients Through Kindness
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
Why Being Generous in Your Business Will Result in More Loyal Customers Have you ever noticed feeling compelled to do something for those who have helped you– even if they haven’t asked you to? That's ...
Online Marketing Plan Essentials – 3 Ways to Drive Qualified Traffic to Your Website in Droves
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
Part Two: You Have a Website; How Do You Attract New Clients? In last week’s article, we talked about setting up the tools you’ll need to evaluate your website traffic in response to your online ...
Website Planning: Why Strategy Beats Design Every Time
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
What to Do First Before Designing Your Business Website I see it all the time. People are excited about their business. They set out to hire a web designer. They share their vision for their ...
5 Useful Decision-Making Steps to Buying Your Next Business Program Sold at an Event
By Susan Friesen · 6 years ago
How to Avoid Making Impulsive Purchases from Success-Promising Gurus I recently attended a 3-day business conference in Vancouver. There were about 500 people in attendance, all business owners and entrepreneurs who where there to network, ...
Yes or No: The Sharing Prices on Your Website Debate
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
Why displaying fees on your website may provide an advantage over your competition Many small businesses use their web presence to generate leads to feed into their sales process. Each page has a purpose with ...
Customer Service Strategies in a Digital World
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
How to get your social media presence set up right so you can deal with customer complaints like a Pro. With social media being so prevalent, users often take to their favourite channel with their ...
Why Twitter Ads Boost Business & How to Create Them
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
An Insider’s Guide to Increasing followers, gaining website traffic, and much more with Twitter advertising Last week we showed you all the basic elements of setting up and using Twitter. Now that we’ve looked at ...
How to Use Twitter Social Videos to Boost Your Business Visibility
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
How to Use Twitter Social Videos to Boost Your Business Visibility Why Incorporating Video on Your Twitter Account is Good For Social Marketing Last month I shared several articles and video eTips on the use ...
Do Your Users Interact With Your Videos?
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
Beyond Engagement: How interactive video marketing brings another dimension to the user experience We’ve been talking about video marketing a lot lately. It’s important and increasingly so. What you make, where the user views the ...
How Video Establishes "Know, Like and Trust" With Your Target Audience
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
Tips and Strategies on Using Social Media Video Marketing to Get Your Business More Leads, Faster In last week’s article, I talked about the importance of incorporating video into your business marketing strategy. One of ...
Why Ignoring Video Marketing is Hurting Your Business
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
6 Compelling Benefits to Jumping on the Video Bandwagon while the Momentum is Hot Have you noticed seeing a lot more videos on Facebook lately? Not only have there been a plethora of Facebook LIVE ...
The Ugly Truth: Why SEO Isn’t Driving Better Website Sales
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
7 SEO-Related Strategies You Can Do Now to Increase Website Conversions It’s been said you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. This is certainly true when it comes to ...
How Meta Tags Influence SEO and Website Ranking
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
Why Business Owners Need to Go Beyond Just Adding Content to a Web or Blog Page If your business has a website (of which I hope so!), then it’s important to think beyond just writing ...
Basic Search Engine Optimization Principles for Entrepreneurs
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
How Keyword Rich Content is Directly Related to SEO for your Business Ever wonder what SEO really is but were afraid to ask? SEO is an acronym for "Search Engine Optimization". It’s the umbrella term ...
7 Effective Strategies on Marketing Your Business Locally
By Susan Friesen · 7 years ago
When I was studying for my business degree and before eVision Media was formed, I was in need of an outlet to be around other like-minded women. Years previous I was a member of the ...