Your social media marketing initiatives must be built on building a dialogue, where YOU speak and listen to your audience and responding to their wants and needs. Get them to talk. Then so can you listen and respond. Is your brand into monologues in social media? It should NOT be that way. You should take […]
4 Warning Signs that Your Website Needs a Redesign
Here at Be 1st Online, we want to make sure your business looks irresistible online. Our experts have compiled a list of 4 warning signs that your website might need a total redesign. 1. Your site takes more than 3 seconds to load If your site takes longer than two seconds to load, you can […]
How Optimizing Your Websites and Landing Pages Will Increase Conversions
It might surprise you to know that a lot of business owners don’t optimize their websites. And when we talk about optimization, we are not just talking about the speed of your website, although that is a big factor when it comes to the impatience of today’s web surfer. In fact, everything on websites and […]
5-Minute Website Workshop
Your website is a vital piece of your business, and we want you to have the most traffic possible going through it every day. That is why we put together these “Must-Haves” that you need to be checking on a regular basis in order to ensure you are gaining the most customers possible. While working […]
The Importance of Customer Lifetime Value
When starting a business, it’s easy to overlook some of the more important details once you start getting a customer base. Most businesses rely on getting as many customers as they can as cheaply as they can. This may have been the way to do things in the past, but now things have changed. So […]
Are You Wasting Money? What is Your Customer Acquisition Cost?
Your Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC is the total cost spent on acquiring new customers (marketing/sales expense) divided by the number of new customers acquired during that particular period. If you invested $1000 in marketing/sales in a one month period and acquired 10 new customers as a direct result of that marketing and promotion, then […]
An SEO Audit is a Must
So, you’re excited to get your business back into the SEO arena… that’s great! However, don’t let that excitement make you miss a crucial step before launching an SEO campaign — complete an SEO Audit first. Forty-seven percent said in a survey that a full SEO audit should be conducted every six months. How often […]
Rise to the Occasion with a Clear Digital Marketing Plan
How much time a day do you spend with technology? According to CNN, the average American spends 10 hours a day in front of some kind of screen. With eight hours of sleep time, that means that more than 60 percent of your waking hours are spent in front of a TV, phone, or computer. […]
Bounce Rate is a way to measure the success of your website. The ‘rate’ is the percentage of visitors who come to your site and then immediately leave (‘bounce’) instead of sticking around to view other pages. Imagine having a storefront and measuring the number of people who come in, take one quick look around […]
How to Leverage Digital Word-of-Mouth Marketing for Your Business
Many businesses seem not to be taking advantage of online word-of-mouth marketing. In fact, some businesses don’t understand how it can be leveraged so that they can take advantage of the huge rewards it brings. One thing to remember when it comes to word-of-mouth is that friends and family will believe what they hear from […]
