Are Google Ads Worth It?
If you’ve worked with a marketing consultant before, you probably have heard of Google AdWords, now google ads. But, are google ads worth it?
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How Much Do Facebook Ads Cost?
It can be quite challenging to plan your Facebook ad budget if you’re getting started with advertising. How much should you allocate?
Amazon Product Listing Optimization
Amazon Product Listing Optimization can increase revenue for Amazon sellers. Here a few tips on how to sell more using SEO fundamentals.
Facebook Shops: An Overview
Facebook Shops allows your business to set up a store and sell products directly through Facebook and Instagram. The industry-disrupting element of Facebook Shops is that consumers can now browse for products, add items to their cart, complete the checkout process, and receive their goods in the mail—all while never having to leave Facebook or Instagram.
Should My Company Hire a Consulting Firm?
With the speed of change in business increasing at a seemingly exponential rate, the idea of outsourcing pieces of work within a company makes more sense than ever.
SunCity Advising Announced as a 2021 Local Excellence Award Winner by UpCity!
For more than a decade, UpCity’s mission has been—and continues to be—to help businesses find B2B service providers they can trust.
How to Use Business Twitter Accounts
Learn how to use Twitter for Business. If you don’t have an account set up, find out why you should and learn how easy it is to get a professional look and feel for your company.
16 Marketing Messages for A/B Testing PPC Ads
There are many types of marketing messages that can be used to generate conversions within paid online advertisements. From choice architecture, to “FOMO,” each marketing message appeals to ad viewers senses in a unique way. Here is how to use 16 of the marketing messages for A/B Testing PPC Ads.
3 Ways to Get Android App Downloads
New Android apps can often struggle to get downloads in the early stages. The Google Play Store involves numerous algorithms working to put relevant apps in front of the right people. In this guide, we discuss optimizing your app store landing page, running Google Ads app campaigns, and taking advantage of Google Firebase.
5 Ways to Measure App Performance Using Google Firebase Analytics
Google Firebase can complement your app in multiple facets. The highly valuable analytics software allows you to build a better app, improve upon your app’s quality, and effectively scale. Here are the top 5 best ways to measure app performance with Google Firebase analytics including overall metrics, tracking, audiences, events, and funnels.
Granting Access to Facebook Ads
One of the biggest entry barriers to using Facebook advertising is simply learning how to grant, or receive, the required access to a Facebook Ads account. Difficulties include understanding the difference between a personal and business account, complicated nomenclature of Facebook ads structure, and other technical issues. Here’s how to grant access to a Facebook Ads account.
Small Business Coronavirus Checklist
There is a lot of information circulating about how to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus on your business right now. This can make it tough to navigate what business owners need to do.
SEO Case Study: GetDismissed Organic Traffic
SunCity Advising shows a 1,486% increase in organic traffic over a 15 month period. Other results included 7,209 new keywords ranked on Google and a 300% increase in monthly average sales.
How to Grant Access to Google Ads
Under no circumstances, should you ever grant any person or company access to your Google Ads account directly through your login information. Remember that your Google Ads account is connected to your Gmail account, shared drive, and any other Google product that is connected with your account. Let’s take a look at how to correctly grant access to a Google Ads account.
Marketing a Business During a Sales Slowdown
Usually when we discuss a sales slowdown, or a complete pause, there is some form of seasonality involved. Things have changed with COVID-19, so make sure you spend time on the right marketing activities.
Google BERT: Google’s Biggest Update in 5 Years
According to Google, the BERT Google algorithm update is the most significant search engine change of the last 5 years. Designed to better understand language searches, BERT is expected to impact 1 in 10 search queries.
What is E-A-T SEO?
Here comes another SEO acronymn: E-A-T. What does E-A-T stand for? Expertise, Authority and Trustworthiness. These are critical SEO metrics and Google is now focusing on for every indexed website. Here’s how you can get your website E-A-T SEO ready.
5 Best Practices for Google Maps and SEO
For local businesses looking to acquire customers online, using Google Maps and SEO is one of the best channels that are available.
Why Measure Website Click Through Rate
If you are familiar with search engine optimization, then you’ve likely heard of “click-through rate.” This metric can be used as a metric in comparing online paid advertising campaigns, organic search results, and more. Let’s define click-through rate, delve into why it should be measured, and find out how it can be increased.
How to Create A Press Kit in 9 Steps
Companies looking to stand out and provide key pieces of information to media, investors, press releases are spending quality time on content creation for a press kit. Imagine being able to send one link that has every piece of valuable information anyone needs to know about a company in seconds.
How to Write a Great Meta Description
When it comes to search engine results pages, (SERPS) meta descriptions have typically been neglected as an unimportant element of search engine optimization.
How to Advertise on Pandora
With nearly 80 million current Pandora Music users, there is a plethora of advertising options available to you that make targeting your intended audience a breeze. Let’s take a look at how to advertise on Pandora, how much these ads cost, and which ad types to choose for your business.
A Guide to Huffington Post Submissions
Looking for a spark to boost your website traffic? Try submitting content to the Huffington Post.
“This Page Didn’t Load Google Maps Correctly”
Many website owners use the Google Maps widget on their contact pages to show maps of their exact location for potential and current customers. If you do, this is how to fix it if it’s not working correctly.
Google vs. Bing: How to Optimize Your Site
Google’s 74.5% control of the world’s search engine market is huge, but Bing is still immensely influential, averaging between 5-10% of market share. In the United States, Bing and Yahoo actually hold approximately 30% of the search engine market.
Your Complete Guide to Growing Through Instagram
Instagram has become a powerful social media tool that allows us to deliver our brand’s message to our target audience. This guide encompasses everything you need to know to grow your business through Instagram.
How to Remove Bad Reviews from Yelp in 8 Easy Steps
Has a negative Yelp review ever brought down your business’s credibility? One negative review—valid or not—can sink your business. Learn how to remove bad reviews from Yelp.
How to Write a Press Release
A press release and press kit can put your business on the map and establish opportunities to add new customers. It gives you the ability to highlight your business and target media outlets for exposure. The focus of the press release should have a specific market in mind beyond the media and should include specific keyword topics for SEO.
Improve website rankings and pagespeed with Google Lighthouse
We compared Pagespeed Insights with Google Lighthouse in order to determine which google speed test is more useful. Then we will delve into how to make the most of this new Google SEO audit tool and what else you can do to boost your Pagespeed.
Press Release Distribution
For your press release distribution to be a success, we found that two performance indicators must be considered. A successful press release strategy requires syndicating your content to the right outlets and delivering relevant content to a targeted audience.
How Many People Use Twitter?
We know how many monthly active users Twitter has, but how many of them should a business expect to get if they set up a page? Get all kinds of information about how many people use Twitter & important metrics if you are using a Twitter business account.
Digital Marketing Trends: Is Your Strategy Adapting?
Substantial digital marketing news from both Google and Facebook indicate that 2018 will be an important year for businesses to realign their marketing strategies. Emerging channels such as WhatsApp Business provide exciting new opportunities for businesses to connect with their target markets.
Aligning with Google Search Trends
Google is exploring new platforms to develop for their search engine. SEO strategies must target emerging google search trends like mobile search, augmented reality and web crawlers to remain competitive.
Advertising with Facebook WhatsApp for Business
Digital advertising trends are constantly evolving and repositioning. Stay up-to-date on shifting platforms and how to target your businesses channel advertising optimally. Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp is expected to make a major impact in the sector.
Paid Digital Advertising Trends
Paid digital advertising trends come and go, but the fundamentals don’t. Maximized reach + elevate brand awareness + increase top-line. This is a simple three-step process for search engine marketing (SEM) and the most popular and suggested ways of implementing a strategy.
SEO Best Practices: Long-Term SEO Strategy
A Long-Term SEO strategy is only as effective as the reporting and analysis behind it. Once you feel satisfied with the technical and creative on-page SEO implementation, as well as the domain strategy behind your website, you can start tracking the results.
Net Neutrality: Small Businesses Better Pay Attention
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), on December 14, voted to end net neutrality. Find out what it means for your small business.
Customer Acquisition Strategy
The availability of dozens of marketing channels and content strategies in the digital space has created a paradox of choice for business owners and marketing managers.
Marketing Message Delivery
The digital age has upended the way marketing managers and business owners engage with the traditional sales funnel. The “Funnel” no longer captures the shifting reality of the Customer Decision Journey.
Customer Segment Analysis
In 2018, worldwide social media engagement is expected to reach 2.5 billion people. They way that customers are interacting with brands is shifting to mobile and social.
SEO Best Practices: Tactical SEO Approaches
The second entry in our Long-Term SEO strategy series is focused on the Implementation Phase of SEO, including strategies behind content creation, technical and creative on-page SEO tactics, domain focused SEO strategies and the importance of backlinking.
Free Website Report Offered by SunCity Advising!
Free website report for businesses using industry-leading reporting tools. A report for your website provides data on how well your website is performing.
SEO Strategy Development
SEO strategy development is a long-term plan that can deliver huge business results. SEO improvements require an investment of time with an evolving plan.
WordPress Plugins for Beginners
WordPress plugins help website owners maximize both website versatility and available features without sacrificing performance. Find out how & what to use!
Search Engine Algorithms Made Simple
According to statistics released from Google itself, results on “page 1” receive 95% of all website traffic and 32% of that traffic lands on the first result.
Beginner’s Guide to Content Management Systems for Websites
A content management system, popularly referred to as a CMS, is a popular format for the creation and formatting of digital content.
The Art of SEO
The Art of SEO | Four experts in search engine optimization share guidelines & innovative techniques to plan & execute a comprehensive SEO strategy.
SEO Case Study: Strategic Sequencing to Offset Budget Constraints
SunCity worked with ABC Co. to create a list of target keywords related to their product. They sold both B2C and B2B directly and also wanted to explore relationships with distributors.
SunCity Book Review: Blue Ocean Strategy, Value Innovation
The book combines theory with practical tools and case studies that allow the reader to explore the myriad ways of creating value for customers.
Website Building SEO
So you have a business idea. You have done some research on who will buy your product or service (I hope) and realize you could make some money doing this.
Growth Hacking
Growth Hacking: A new generation of megabrands like Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Twitter haven’t spent a dime on traditional marketing.
What could the LinkedIn Acquisition by Microsoft Mean for Your Business?
Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash, a 50% premium to the closing price Friday (as a note the stock was down 42% YTD at Friday’s close).
SUPERINTELLIGENCE: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us?
Staying Motivated
Life is a marathon… sort of. Except in life nobody set up water every mile, strangers don’t cheer you on the whole way, and you don’t get a medal for finishing. Other than that, it is very similar.
Thinking Fast and Slow
A great look at judgement and decision making by Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman. He guides you through the complexities of human choices with formulas tied to illustrative examples.
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth.
The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create.