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Marketing notes for retail and consumer brands.

Retail and direct to consumer, built on the same fundamentals as a local launch and measured harder. Where a product company should spend first, and what it should stop paying for.

A product company has more channels available than a local business and less room to be wrong in any of them. The fundamentals do not change, demand has to exist, the page has to convert, the number has to be trusted, but the sequencing does, and spending on the wrong channel first is the expensive mistake here rather than spending too little. The hardest part is usually measurement: retail sell-through, marketplace orders and direct traffic each report differently and none of them agree. The posts collected here are about deciding what to fund first, what to stop paying for, and how to read three contradictory reports without picking the flattering one.

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Paid Media What We Would Fix First If We Took Over Your Account in January The same handful of findings show up in nearly every account we inherit. Here they are in order, so you can fix them yourself without hiring anyone. October 13, 2026 · 3 min read · Joe Garraffo

Lead Follow-Up Your Holiday Hours Are Costing You Calls Six weeks where your hours change twice and half the internet still shows the old ones. A customer who calls a number listed as open and gets nothing does not conclude you are closed. October 6, 2026 · 3 min read · Jennifer Marlowe

Measurement Is Your Agency Reporting Clicks or Customers A report full of impressions and clicks is a report about the platform. Five questions that force it to be about your revenue instead, and what a straight answer to each one sounds like. September 10, 2026 · 4 min read · Joshua Falken

Lead Follow-Up Five Minutes: The Window Where Most Long Island Leads Are Won or Lost The chance of reaching a new lead falls steeply and early, and most of that loss happens before anyone in the office has seen the form. What a business can actually do about it without hiring. August 20, 2026 · 4 min read · Jennifer Marlowe

Running a Business Building Next Year's Budget When You Do Not Know What This Year Produced Most owners planning a year have spend by channel and revenue in total, and nothing connecting the two. You can build a defensible number from what you already have, this week, without waiting for better tracking. August 6, 2026 · 4 min read · Nicole Garraffo

Content Debunking SEO Myths Search Engine Optimization and Digital Marketing are industries that have spawned their fair share of misinterpretations and myths. Years of interacting with esoteric rules, invisible algorithms, and surface explanations for website ranking phenomena… it has led to various beliefs and answers for. September 28, 2023 · 9 min read · Staff Writer

Social Media 5 Tips for Advertising on LinkedIn LinkedIn, known for its professional and business-oriented users, provides a unique opportunity for businesses and brands to target a niche audience. As with any platform, however, success on LinkedIn requires a hyper-focused strategy tailored to a specific audience. Here are five key tips for. August 24, 2023 · 3 min read · Staff Writer

Branding Design Tips for PPC Ads and Landing Pages in 2023 Designing PPC ads and landing pages can significantly impact your business, influencing the quantity and quality of leads. Your landing pages and PPC ads form the first impression potential clients have of your company. Creating designs that inspire confidence and comfort is essential, encouraging. August 10, 2023 · 2 min read · Staff Writer

SEO Google Changes E.A.T. to E.E.A.T. In SEO, E.A.T. isn’t about food. It’s Google’s guidelines for quality content and website ranking factors. However, Google recently updated its guidelines and the name so now its “E.E.A.T.”. Besides making the term more distinctive, it’s also adding additional considerations and nuance to how. May 25, 2023 · 4 min read · Staff Writer

Social Media Top 5 Social Media Platforms for Businesses Having a presence on the most popular and effective social media platforms has become crucial for companies to promote their products and services and connect with their customers. With an overwhelming number of choices available today, you may be asking yourself, “which social media platforms do I. March 30, 2023 · 5 min read · Staff Writer

Paid Media Why Do You Need Google Ads? You want to promote your business… but with ads everywhere, it’s hard to decide what to use. Not only are there Google Ads, Facebook ads, and conventional print and TV ads – but you can also find ads inside apps of all kinds and even at the pump while getting gas. With all of these February 23, 2023 · 3 min read · Staff Writer

SEO Navigating the Google Business Profile Dashboard One of Google’s best-known tools for businesses across the world and local marketing efforts is Google Business Profiles. But you might better remember this as “Google My Business.” Though, in actuality, this tool has changed its name numerous times… starting out as Google Local Business Center. December 1, 2022 · 4 min read · Staff Writer

Social Media How to Use Dynamic Creative in Your Facebook Ads As many social media advertisers know, finding the most successful combinations of creative and messaging is essential to running an optimal Facebook campaign. Questions you might ask yourself include: which ad creative size will bring in the most video views? What headline will help increase. November 24, 2022 · 3 min read · Staff Writer

Websites The Pros and Cons of Plugins Over the years, WordPress has evolved from a structure for blogging websites to a full-blown content management system (CMS) that can be used for virtually any type of website – including ecommerce websites. Plugins are a key component that improve the functionality of WordPress websites and. May 26, 2022 · 3 min read · Staff Writer

SEO Featured Snippets: 3 Things that Digital Marketers Need to Know Featured snippets have become an essential SEO factor in increasing traffic to your website without having to pay for ads. This helps businesses stand out as an authority and leader in their industry. If you’ve never heard of a featured snippet, don’t worry. We’ll dive into this more for you below. March 10, 2022 · 3 min read · Staff Writer

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