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 […]
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 […]
Why do Digital Marketing Campaigns Fail?
Do you recognize any of the following signs? 1. You’re not visible on search engines and if you are visible, no one clicks to visit your website. 2. If visitors do click through and visit your website, they leave almost immediately. 3. You’re getting clicks, and website visitors aren’t leaving your website, but they’re not […]
The Why and How of LinkedIn for B2B Leads
It seems that in social media lists, LinkedIn is always thrown at the end as another, lesser, option to the bigger sites. However, if you are looking to make B2B connections and grow your leads there is no more effective social media platform than LinkedIn! Unlike the other social media channels out there, LinkedIn was […]
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 […]
Is Your Business Anti-Social? Putting the ‘Social’ Back into Social Media Marketing
If you’re among the business owners who are posting and sharing content through Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms, then you’re off to a good start. But if you’re not getting the results you’re looking for, chances are that’s because your social media isn’t actually very social. Posting and sharing content just isn’t enough! […]
Want to Discover the Keyword Strategy of your Competitors?
Are your competitors way ahead of you when it comes to getting leads? Ever wondered how they do that? How come their website ranks so high? Why do you keep seeing their ads at the top of the page? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? There is something that you can do about it. Interested? What if […]
Your Small Business Can’t Afford to Make these Online Advertising Mistakes
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 […]
Top 3 Challenges to Tracking Digital Marketing ROI
Do you have a system to track your Digital Marketing ROI? Do you have a way to quantify how your digital marketing efforts contribute to the bottom line? MarketingProfs reported that 71% of marketing leaders and providers say attributing social and content to revenue is a top challenge to showing ROI. 49% say that aligning […]
Does Social Media Marketing Work?
LinkedIn has 467 million users. That’s a huge audience. Facebook has an astonishing 2 billion daily users. There are 974 million Twitter accounts. The list goes on, and the audiences continue to grow. It’s obvious that if you want to succeed you should be interested in this huge pool of potential clients. Ninety-one percent of […]
