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Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2017: What It Looked Like and What It Means for E-Commerce Websites

by Ruth Hawk
Monday, December 18th, 2017

By any measure, Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2017 (Also known as BFCM, or simply Cyber Week), was a success. More items were purchased, more total sales were accrued, and profits grew more significantly than at any other point in the history of the week. Here is a look at some of the most important statistics and insights to be gained by e-commerce websites

Holiday Content Marketing Tips for E-Commerce Websites

by Ruth Hawk
Friday, December 8th, 2017

Gearing up for the holiday season means more than just refreshing your web design and web development efforts (Although those are important as well). It also means injecting your content marketing strategy with material that is relevant, engaging, and designed to move shoppers along the holiday sales funnel. To that end, here are a few tips to help you c

5 Tips for Creating Effective Holiday Landing Pages

by Ruth Hawk
Friday, December 1st, 2017

When it comes to holiday marketing, landing pages are an invaluable aspect of your e-commerce website. Not only do they serve as the place where visitors land after clicking on your email links, organic search results, and targeted holiday promotions, but they also serve as the first impression most of these visitors will have of your website. As a re

Web Development Steps to Take to Prepare Your Website for Holiday Traffic Spikes

by Ruth Hawk
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

With Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the entirety of the holiday shopping season on the horizon, now is the time for businesses to make sure that their web design and web development are sufficient to withstand the influx of traffic they are about to experience. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday crowds having taken down the websites of businesses as la

Prepare for Black Friday/Cyber Monday with These Web Design Tips

by Ruth Hawk
Friday, November 17th, 2017

The Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend is hands down the most wonderful time of year for businesses. With Cyber Monday 2016 breaking e-commerce records in the United States, and literally billions of dollars worth of purchases up for grabs that weekend, it is vital that e-commerce websites be prepared to woo the increased numbers of website visitors they

5 Alternatives to AIM for Chat

by Ruth Hawk
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017

On December 15, an era in instant messaging will come to an end with the shutdown of AIM. One of the first popular instant messaging services, AIM offered people a free tool for communicating digitally. If AIM is no longer needed, what alternatives are there to AIM for chat? There are actually quite a few means of communicating that can (and have already

Ways to Measure Content Marketing Success

by Ruth Hawk
Friday, October 20th, 2017

Content marketing holds a great deal of potential for businesses looking to increase brand recognition, profitability, and website performance. For example, it can generate three times as many leads as outbound marketing, while costing 62 percent less. Content marketing also tends to be more organic, and therefore harder to track, than traditional outbou

5 Search Engine Optimization Tips for Website Videos

by Ruth Hawk
Monday, October 9th, 2017

In order to use video to improve your search engine optimization performance (and earn more shares, more views, and more business), you need to spend time optimizing your videos for SEO. Here are a few tips for getting the most SEO juice out of each of your website videos.

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