BroadVision Marketing Blog

Most business owners focus on the home page of their website and understandably so. But there is another page that is the next most visited on your site.

For some websites, such as e-commerce sites, there may not be a perceived need to have an "About Us" page, but even these businesses can benefit from these ubiquitous yet overlooked pages. In fact, according to Neil Patel in a post he published at HubSpot, 

Topics: Optimization, Landing pages, web marketing tips, website, company page, about page

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Getting found on the Internet is an obvious goal. And using local SEO strategies is key. But getting visitors to hang around once they find you is priceless.

Topics: CTA, call-to-action, website traffic, local internet marketing, website, homepage, local SEO

According to data from Tony Haile of Chartbeat,you have 15 seconds to capture the attention of your website visitors. And what's worse, his data indicates that on average 55% of people who click onto a site spent fewer than 15 seconds actively on a page. If they happened upon an article page, a blog page perhaps, then the percentage was a bit better, over 65% of visitors stayed longer. 

Topics: website traffic, website, internet, infographic, homepage

Mark Twain channeled the frustration of many artists when he wrote, “Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” from Mark Twain’s Notebook, 1902-1903.  Michael Kahn wrote this line in Photography, Copyright, and “Derivative Works”in November 2009. The quote applies to those who want to control the use of their work as well as to those who think that with the advent of the internet current copyright laws are archaic. As inbound marketers we have learned the inbound marketing tip concerning the "article appeal rule" that states that pictures make a huge difference. Our blogs, our social media, our websites all need big dynamic pictures. So where do we get them and what does Mark Twain have to do with it?

Topics: BroadVision Marketing, Petaluma CA, inbound marketing, inbound marketing agency, website, photo

Colors compose a secret language that only the human subconscious – and savvy inbound marketers – can understand. There's a reason the walls of your local fast food restaurant are orange, red and yellow. These are colors that subconsciously excite you and stimulate your appetite. There is a science behind the calming shade of green of your favorite coffee shop’s cups and why there's so much red in casinos. The language of color is a huge advantage in the world of marketing.

Topics: color, BroadVision Marketing, Petaluma CA, inbound marketing, inbound marketing agency, website

Topics: neuromarketing, inbound marketing agency, BroadVision Marketing in Petaluma CA, website, internet marketing

You have spent a lot of your marketing budget setting up your website. Your homepage looks real good and reminds you of the old newspaper ads of old. So why aren’t people converting using it?

Conversion about keeping your customer focused. A homepage full of your products is the opposite of focus. Even if you only have one service for sale, your homepage is full of details, again the opposite of focus.

What you need are specific “landing page” that you can manage and optimize in controlled isolation. Technically a landing page is any page on your website that customers arrive at or land on.  It should be created as a stand-alone page, as a promotion specific site.

Topics: marketing, Using Different Media, Marketing and Advertising, landing page, Customer, website, Facebook, Social Media, Marketing Principles, Business, Blogging

Keywords—you know you can buy lists of them or buy help sorting out what yours are—but what are keywords really, what‘s the deal with them,  and how can you figure out which ones to use?

Defining keywords, keywords define search

People use keywords all the time. When you put what you are searching for in Google or the other search engines, you are using keywords. Search engines go through enormous data bases and send you results by listing sites that apply to the words you “googled”.

Topics: Google, Web search engine, WordPress, Uniform Resource Locator, Keywords, Kevin Sinclair, website, Marketing Plan, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Marketing Principles

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What do you do to see how your website is doing? I have read about Google Analytics, various ROI statistics and Alexa numbers. I don’t remember who suggested using Alexa numbers, but I liked the idea of simplicity. So without too much research I got an Alexa toolbar where the Alexa number of any website shows up and I began collecting data for five websites.

Topics: Alexa Internet, Alexa Toolbar, WWW, Internet Explorer, Google Analytics, Toolbar, website, clients, Marketing Plan, Social Media, Marketing Principles, Blogging

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At a Chamber of Commerce meeting recently someone mentioned that they were using niche blogging, but you didn’t have a chance to ask what that was. So what is niche blogging?

You already have a blog set up for your business, but what would happen if you set up blogs that could be used in your business from different angles. In other words what if you took a vertical move and created more than one blog that crossed several industries? These multiple approaches are called niche blogging and are a way to greatly expand your influence.

Topics: Chamber of Commerce, Niche blogging, Social network service, blog, website, Marketing Plan, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Business, Blogging