Impact Group Marketing Blog

A great blog post delivers solutions to your audience’s problems in a compelling and straightforward way. Establishing trust with your business is crucial to converting your readers into customers.

Blogging is one of the most effective content marketing strategies because it’s the part of your website you frequently update with new posts to keep readers engaged. Your blog content helps entice potential customers to your site and build your brand’s audience.

Your web pages must load quickly and smoothly if you want to reduce your bounce rate, boost your search engine rankings, and increase user experience (UX). Read more for a few statistics that show how essential it is to optimize your page speed.

The way the church meets, communicates, and spreads the good news of Jesus has changed tremendously over the past 2,000 years – from the hand-written letters of the Apostles to the 140 characters on Twitter. That doesn’t mean the Gospel’s message has changed, or that people need Jesus any less. But how people find and engage with the church is completely different than it was even 20 years ago.

Once upon a time, blogs were a way for people to post about their lives on the Internet, kind of like an online journal. They weren’t even called blogs until 1997 when the term “weblog” was coined. Now it’s essential for businesses of all sizes to blog if you want to grow your following, increase website traffic, and boost visibility in search engines.

A search engine friendly website is a must-have for any digital marketing plan, but frequent website updates are also needed. A recent blog post discussed specifically how blog posts can help boost the SEO of your website. Fresh content also increases your authority potential, gives you more opportunities to highlight keywords, and leads to more frequent indexing with search engines.

Listicle?? What is a listicle – and, is that even a word? Yes, listicle is a term used in journalism and blogging, which “is a short form of writing that uses a list as its thematic structure, but is fleshed out with sufficient content to be published as an article.” Our recent blogs have talked about how to use your own blog posts to keep content fresh on your website and social media posts while also driving potential customers to your website and boosting your SEO. One of the increasingly ...

"Social selling" has taken social media as a means of connecting with friends and family to connecting with potential clients and consumers. Social media has become a part of the daily routine for many people, and we certainly know what selling is, but when you put the two together, what does it mean? We’ll try to answer some basic questions in this blog post.

A digital presence with a search-engine-friendly website is an essential part of a digital marketing plan for any thriving business or organization. Potential customers or patrons are searching for you! In today’s business world, a digital presence acts like the “yellow pages” of previous times. However, “once and done” is not the best mantra for your digital presence.

We mentioned this statistic in an earlier blog post, but it’s worth repeating. Every SECOND, 40,000 people perform a Google search. Many of these people are potential customers searching for your business! A 2016 study found that 95% of all U.S. consumers used the internet to search for a local business at least once in the past year. 53% did so at least once a month, 38% did so at least once a week, and 11% did so every day.