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A new year is a great time for evaluation of current strategies and practices in many areas of our lives. If you’re part of a small business or organization, take some time over the next few weeks to think about your marketing strategy goals to ensure that you’re ready to start the new year.

Today, as always, the primary role of marketing is to attract visitors, convert them into potential leads, assist sales personnel in closing them as clients, and keep them coming back. But in our current landscape, customers are moving away from consuming traditional media and are depending more on the digital world. And so, we must ensure that we’re utilizing the most impactful online marketing technology to reach our customers where it really matters. While there are many tools in the digital marketing landscape, we’ve narrowed it down to 7 fundamental ones for your 2019 marketing strategy.

Most of the time, users get a feel for a website in terms of usability and usefulness within seconds after it loads on their screen. Those critical seconds can determine whether a prospective user, client, or customer, will remain on the site and take a closer look at what you have to offer.

We're excited to announce the launch of a new website for the Black Wolf CDL Training Center in Bryan/College Station. Black Wolf offers flexible, professional CDL Training programs during the week and on nights and weekends. They are new to Bryan/College Station and also offer 50 hours of 1:1 driving practice (not observing, driving). For more information about the CDL Programs, please visit their website at http://www.blackwolfcdltraining.com.

Evolve Impact Group recently launched a new website for Chasing Tails Mobile Veterinary Services in College Station. Chasing Tails is a unique veterinary practice offering house call veterinary services, mobile vaccination clinics and pet sitting services to Bryan/College Station and the surrounding area. More information about their practice can be found online at http://www.collegestationveterinarian.com.

This past week, Facebook announced that they now have over TWO BILLION users. To put this enormous number in perspective, that’s about 27% of the entire world population. In the United States, 79% of American adult internet users have a Facebook account. Also impressive is how frequently social media sites are accessed by their users. 78% of Facebook users log on daily, and 55% of those daily users log in more than once a day. Usage of other social media sites is quickly growing as well. 32% of adults with internet access have an Instagram account, 31% use Pinterest, and 24% are Twitter users.

One of the most frequent questions our team hears from small business owners is, “Why do I need you to build my website? Can’t I do this myself for free?” Becky Chumley, Evolve Impact Group’s Director of Digital Marketing, explains it like this...

In each of the following scenarios, how likely are you to rely on an internet search, at least in part, to help find the right business for the job? Your hot water heater isn’t working. A new driver rear-ends you on the way home from work and you need a reputable body shop. You and your two pit-bulls are looking for a pet-friendly apartment complex. You want to take your new fiancée out for a nice dinner while on vacation. More than likely, for each of these situations, Google is a part of the solution.

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.