Your Customer’s Journey goes through these stages: Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action. There’s no telling how long they stay in one stage before jumping to the next. Sometimes the progress takes months, and others the jump is almost immediate. Many websites concentrate on the ‘Awareness’ and ‘Interest’ stage without signals toward a purchase while others […]

Are you putting social media to work for your benefit? Follow these 10 strategies to reach social media success! 1. Choose the Right Platforms Every business is different. Make sure you consider both your customers and your business. Find out what social media sites your audience uses most, and think about which sites are the […]

Are you new to PPC (Pay-Per-Click) digital advertising campaigns? Or, maybe the time and money you’ve invested in your PPC campaigns haven’t been paying off? At Be 1st Online, we have run hundreds of successful PPC campaigns. Take our advice: Here are the top 5 PPC campaign mistakes we see all the time that you […]

An optimized website means that it is structured, coded, designed, and has content published in a way that will allow Google to rank it. Why is this important? Well, if Google can read your website correctly and interpret your content then it will understand the product or service that you are selling and so present […]

There are many benefits to doing online advertising over the traditional model. One of those is the cost between the two. Traditional advertising, such as billboards or television spots (commercials) can cost quite a bit of money for a single 30-second spot. Online advertising uses a platform where you are charged by how many times […]

Over 2 billion people in the world are connected through social media, with 20% of the world’s internet users having an active Twitter account. Twitter is a great platform to boost your business. We at Be 1st Online are equipped with the knowledge and resources to help you reach your customers through Twitter. Here are […]

Online reviews are crucial to managing your reputation, gaining trust and confidence. Trust is a key element to gaining new and keeping customers. Do you remember asking for a friend’s opinion about a product before deciding to buy? Didn’t you become more excited after hearing encouraging feedback? That’s how online reviews work. Let’s take a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Any smart business that is keeping up with current business trends will know all about how reputation marketing can affect their business, and how it directly affects things like customer retention, brand awareness, and most importantly, consumer trust. And if you aren’t taking advantage of online review sites for your business, you could be missing […]