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Digital marketing & website development lists of ideas, links and resources

1

Target audience

Your target audience is the group of people highly relevant and in need of your product or service that you tailor your marketing towards.

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House list

Your house (or retention) list is an email list that a business has built manually over time. It's often the highest quality of email lists and is valuable to your marketing and sales efforts.

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Focus on your audience

Your audience sees enough sales-y posts. Focus, instead, on engaging with them in a real, personal way.

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NFTs and crypto

You might not think that these relate to your business, but they might. There are many companies producing technology that does cross over various industries and can be leveraged by regular businesses.

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Redirect

You can create a redirect on your website to send users who try to visit a specific page or path on your site to another internal or even external page.

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08/06/22

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HTML emails

You can build your email purely with HTML and some publications may require that you send them an HTML version of your campaign to send.

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LinkedIn

Yes, LinkedIn is making a comeback as their monthly users continue to grow and more and more businesses are reporting positive lead generation figures.

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Yellow.place

Yellow.place is a platform to help users search for local businesses.

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No image

Would your ad work better without an image? Try it with and without and see what produces more results.

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Image or video

Would an image work better in that container or a video? Which one commands more attention and leads to more conversions?

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Button icon

Would adding an icon to the button help to get more clicks?

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Quality interactions

With the excess of automation and chatbots, focus on real, conversational and quality interactions that you can have with your audience and customers.

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Whitelist

Whitelists help your email to always appear in your recipients' email inboxes. It requires that the email address be manually added to the list by the recipient however. It's a good idea to make sure your clients and email recipients add you to their whitelist.

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Multiple campaigns

While a page having 1 goal or call-to-action is typically preferred, maybe there are times when you should consider the primary goal and then a secondary goal as well in case the first one doesn't convert.

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Disable double-optin

When populating an email list, it's often a good idea to have the email platform send a double-optin email to make sure that the email address is valid and confirm that the user wanted to sign up.

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Hotjar

Visual recordings and heatmaps of your visitors' actions on your website.

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08/03/22

17

UX

User experience (UX) design refers to the practice of testing and modifying your website or application to ensure that it provides the best possible experience to the user.

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Social selling

Used in tandem with social listening, social selling is the practice of responding to users who are discussing your brand or related products or services online.

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AI in digital marketing

Use artificial intelligence to predict what your prospect might do next and ensure your campaign or promotion is there when they need it.

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USdirectory

USdirectory is a platform that helps users search for local businesses online.

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08/31/22

21

1-step or 2-step

Typically, it works better to reduce the amount of steps that the user needs to take. But would it work better if you made it 2 instead? For example, on the first screen you could ask a simple yes or no question, and then just the form on step 2. Sometimes cleanliness and simplicity help the user to not feel overwhelmed.

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Tuugo.us

Tuugo is a business directory for companies located in the US.

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backlinks

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08/31/22

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Testimonial

Try adding a testimonial to your offer to make the user feel more confident about signing up.

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24

Add numbers

To your copy, consider adding numbers - specific or general. For example, "We've served over 2,000 clients" or "2,174 clients can't be wrong!"

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Promotion or Information

To get users to sign up for something like an email newsletter, you could try to offer a promotion or discount, or you could try offering an exclusive piece of content instead.

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Change lead magnet

To capture an email address for a lead, you may offer some sort of lead magnet. You could try changing it to something different (e.g. checklist, template, infographic, ebook) to see if it improves your conversion rate.

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Title tag

The title is an HTML tag that can be set on an individual webpage to set the text in the browser tab for the page. It is also used by search engine's to set the header of a search result.

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Time on page

The time on page refers to the amount of a time that a visitors remains on a webpage before moving away or closing the tab.

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Thank-you page

The thank-you page is often where users are directed after submitting a form. Sometimes, this could be referred to as the "thank-you message" if the user is not redirected to a different page.

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08/05/22

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Subject line

The subject line of an email is the line that is shown prior to opening the email. It's important that it is eye-catching but relevant.

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08/06/22

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Search network

The search network refers to the group of websites that have enabled Google Ads to appear on their sites.

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Robots.txt

The robots.txt file is a text file that websites should contain to communicate how web crawlers are to use your site - free to crawl, only allowed to crawl certain page, or not allowed to crawl at all.

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Metaverse

The metaverse (Facebook's new digital platform) is a cyberspace of digital content, interactions, virtual reality and marketplaces. It's still very new (and vague), but worth looking into for possible ways that your business can leverage it.

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Link profile

The link profile refers to a website's backlinks and the sites they're coming from. If a site's link profile contains other high-quality sites, then it will be looked at more favorably by search engines then if it contains low quality, spammy sites.

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Conversion path

The conversion path is the series of events that led a user from awareness of your brand to converting or committing an action on your website or social media accounts.

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Buyer's journey

The buyer's journey is the process that a user goes through from awareness of a product or service to the actual purchase. It often includes 3 general phases - awareness, consideration an decision.

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Acquisition source

The acquisition source of a user is where the user came from when first visiting your website. This could be a social media post, a search engine, coming to the site directly, paid ads, another website or something else.

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08/07/22

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Technical SEO

Technical SEO refers to the optimizations made to the website's server and code to make webpages more search engine-friendly.

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Google My Business

Submit your business, get verified and come up for local business searches.

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backlinks

source

08/31/22

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Turbify

Submit and manage your business on multiple online platforms and directories.

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backlinks

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08/31/22

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Spoke

Spoke shares business information and activity.

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backlinks

source

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Spam

Spam is unsolicited email that is sent or received.

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08/06/22

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Removing placeholders

Sometimes form inputs have placeholders to help you know what can be entered. Does your campaign work better with or without them?

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SAAS

Software-as-a-service (SAAS) refers to software that you can subscribe to on your computer or online that will help you to perform valuable functions such as productivity, sales, CRM, websites and more.

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Audiense

Social media platform that identifies trends and potential customers, helping with targeted ads and prospecting.

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paid

social media

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prospecting

08/03/22

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Sprout Social

Social media management platform, posting and analytics.

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paid

social media

08/03/22

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Loomly

Social media management platform with built in calendars and workflows.

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paid

social media

08/03/22

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Social listening

Social listening is the process of listening to users online (typically on social media) who discuss or ask questions about your brand or related products or services.

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Snippets

Snippets typically refers to small sections of code that are added to websites to enable advanced functionalities such as tracking and analytics, lead generation or other functionalities.

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Smarketing

Smarketing is the collaboration and alignment of the sales and marketing teams toward a common goal such as growing revenue.

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