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Improve your Digital Advertising ROI by Augmenting Your Ad Spend

Welcome, fellow digital diehards! Today, we're diving into the exciting world of PPC advertising and how to squeeze every drop of success from your...

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Content Marketing with AI and Integrity

Five Questions to Ask to Ensure Integrity and Success  In a world where productivity and efficiency are prized, AI is like a golden ticket. From...

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Five Years. Five Lessons. What I’ve Learned on My Digital Marketing Journey

If you asked me in high school, or even college, what I wanted to do for a career, working at a digital marketing agency never even crossed my mind....

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8 Creative Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Digital Marketing

ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence programs seem to have everyone in a chokehold these days. Sure, our robot overlords may commandeer our...

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13 Questions Your Digital Marketing Agency Should Have Asked

As strange as it may sound, not every web marketer is focused on their client’s needs. Quite often, they focus on web marketing “results” alone. In...

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4 Unique Challenges of B2B Digital Marketing

Anyone who has been in the business-to-business marketing space for any length of time knows first-hand that it comes with its own particular set of...

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What Is the Best CRM in 2023: HubSpot vs. Salesforce

HubSpot and Salesforce are both extremely versatile and popular CRM platforms that are used by businesses of all sizes, from local startups to...

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Could ChatGPT Change the Future of Marketing?

Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic for conversation lately and for good reason. The technology has made strides in recent years to become...

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4 Types of Information Technology Security Your Business Should Improve Today

If you haven’t looked into the stability and health of your cyber security technology lately, your business may soon be in trouble. Having up-to-date...

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What is Google’s Algorithm and Why Should I Care About It?

If you’re a digital marketing client of TKG, you may have heard me mention Google’s recent updates to their search engine’s algorithm. If that is the...

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How to Spot a Phishing Email: Top 5 Clues to Look For

Our Best Tips for Phishing Email Prevention I was just revisiting a blog post I wrote that covered the 4 types of IT security. Somehow I overlooked...

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5 Best Marketing Automation Tools &  Platforms of 2023

This post was released prior but has since been updated for 2023.

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6 Reasons to Use a Local Digital Marketing Agency

Hiring a marketing agency is a big investment. This is especially true if you’re a small business and you want to make sure every dollar counts. But...

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4 Commonly Misconstrued IT Terms

We get it—IT is confusing. The number of tech-related acronyms seems to increase daily. But as a business owner or operator, you need to know when...

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5 Potential Problems When Shooting Video on Location (And How to Prepare for Them)

Let’s face it—making professional videos can be intimidating. There’s a lot that goes into them, from planning to finding talent and worrying about...

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SEO oh no! 5 SEO Tactics to Throw Away – and What to Replace Them With

Have you heard of black hat SEO? No, it’s not a Marketing Guru donning a dapper hat. Black hat SEO tactics are search engine optimization (SEO)...

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Top 3 Ways HubSpot Helps You Connect the Dots Between Marketing & Reporting

HubSpot is incredibly powerful CRM software that can help you connect the dots between marketing and reporting. Having a good digital marketing...

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How to Find New Employees Using 4 Digital Marketing Tactics

Are you wondering how to find new employees and hire top talent? Upgrading your digital marketing strategy can play a big part in finding the right...

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So, You're Going to Be on Camera

As a videographer, I often take photos or video of people who don’t spend a lot of time (if any) in front of a camera. Being on camera can be...

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Why Toyota's Brand Strategy Set the Stage for a Polarizing 2020 Supra

If you’re into cars and have been on the Internet at all in the last few years, you already know about the recently unveiled Toyota Supra. You...

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Benefits of the HubSpot CMS Hub

Gone are the days of using multiple platforms to host and manage your website. Say goodbye to time-consuming and confusing processes and hello to...

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3 Things You Didn’t Know About HubSpot

3 things you didn't know you could do with HubSpot We all know we can use workflows for basic things like sending a series of emails after someone...

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Digital marketing... it's more important than ever

You don’t have to read this blog post to know the past year was one of the craziest of all time. Just like the rest of the world, we worked from...

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How to Use HubSpot to Align Your Sales and Marketing Teams

Marketing and sales teams have repeatedly run into the issue of misalignment.

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Call Tracking Helps Reduce that Uneasy Vegas Feeling

It is said that nineteenth century retailing pioneer, John Wannamaker opined: “I know that 50% of my advertising is wasted. My problem? I don’t...

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Don’t gamble with your digital marketing

If you regularly read this blog, you may sense that we are fairly particular about how we take care of our partners. Whether they work with TKG...

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Live Chat: A Solution for Custom Manufacturing

Receiving a request for quotation (RFQ) is an absolute requirement of the sales process if your company’s solution or products must be designed...

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Top 10 E-commerce Mistakes and Ways to Improve Your E-commerce SEO

E-commerce websites are some of the most fun to work on from a search engine optimization (SEO) perspective. Why? Because the return on investment...

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SEO Prices for E-commerce Websites

One of the great things about leveraging SEO for e-commerce websites is that it’s easy to draw a direct line between initial investment and return on...

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How much does SEO cost in 2021?

It’s fair to say that search engine optimization (SEO) costs vary widely, based on a number of important factors. In this post, we will give you some...

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6 Affordable Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses

Truth be told, marketing is hard. And for small businesses with a smaller budget, it can be even harder. But a small budget doesn't have to mean...

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7 Reasons to Have a Website for Your Small Business

In an era dominated by social media, it isn’t uncommon to hear business owners say they think having a Facebook page is enough. I’m here to tell you...

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Is SEO Worth It in 2021?

Having been in the SEO industry since before it was called the SEO industry, I continue to get a kick out of how often questions like, “Is SEO worth...

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How SEO Costs Compare to Traditional Advertising

Search engine optimization is one of the most affordable forms of advertising and produces an exceptionally high return on investment (ROI). The...

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Staying Connected While Working From Home: 6 Ways to Improve Remote Communication

At the beginning of the pandemic, the idea of working from home seemed exciting and new. Maybe you would still rather eat rocks than ever return to...

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8 Web Design Tips for An Effective Website

As creatives, we want to believe a good website is defined by the visual design elements used. But, that’s simply not the case. A beautiful website...

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7 Ways to Build Community Through Instagram

Instagram has become an amazing marketing tool for a variety of businesses, influencers, thought leaders and organizations. The more successful users...

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Create Help & FAQ Pages That Actually DO Help

Depending on the nature of your site, Help and FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions) can span a few or many pages. Building up these sections of your...

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How to Choose the Best Digital Marketing Agency

Good digital marketing revolves around one thing: knowing your target audience. In order to create marketing that works, you have to know who your...

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The Benefits of HubSpot and Marketing Automation

We’ve got news. We received word from HubSpot that we are now a Platinum Partner Agency and we couldn’t be more excited! We got a trophy and...

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