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We won’t always tell you what you want to hear, but we will always share what we know. It’s a mantra we call real talk, and it guides our honest approach to marketing and web design.

Are Backlinks So 2015 SEO? How Backlinks Have Become a Key SEO Factor . . . Again
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Are Backlinks So 2015 SEO? How Backlinks Have Become a Key SEO Factor . . . Again

In the past, backlinks were the cornerstone of SEO strategies. Websites vied for the highest number...

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Why Upgrading Your IT Infrastructure with New Hardware and Operating Systems is Essential
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Why Upgrading Your IT Infrastructure with New Hardware and Operating Systems is Essential

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, keeping your IT infrastructure up to date is not...

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6 Local Advertising Strategies for Promoting Local Businesses
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6 Local Advertising Strategies for Promoting Local Businesses

Whether you’re a local business or a larger company looking to break into a local market, digital...

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8 Reasons Why Managed IT Services Is Better for Your Business Than Break-Fix IT
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8 Reasons Why Managed IT Services Is Better for Your Business Than Break-Fix IT

When it comes to IT management, businesses often face a choice between two distinct approaches:...

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TKG's Winning Combination of Lead Generation and Management
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TKG's Winning Combination of Lead Generation and Management

With over 30 years of experience across various industry verticals, including manufacturing,...

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Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Nephew to Market Your Business
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Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Nephew to Market Your Business

When it comes to marketing your business, the temptation to save money and rely on a tech-savvy...

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CEO’s Checklist for Hiring a Digital Marketing Agency
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CEO’s Checklist for Hiring a Digital Marketing Agency

Hey there. My name is Dennis Galbreath, and I am a Digital Strategy Manager at TKG. I’ve had the...

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How to Build the Best Digital Marketing Report for Your Business
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How to Build the Best Digital Marketing Report for Your Business

As a Digital Strategy Manager at TKG, I firmly believe that proper tracking and measurement are key...

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What To Avoid When Looking for a Digital Marketing Agency
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What To Avoid When Looking for a Digital Marketing Agency

Are you looking for a solid digital marketing partner? It's important to know what to look for, but...

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Are You Ready for Native GA4 Year Comparison Data?
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Are You Ready for Native GA4 Year Comparison Data?

Can you believe that it has almost been a year since the marketing world was turned upside down and...

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Marketing Trends to Ditch in 2024 and Effective Tactics to Replace Them
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Marketing Trends to Ditch in 2024 and Effective Tactics to Replace Them

New marketing trends come along all the time, replaced by new and better tactics that yield...

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How to Build a Strong Online Presence for Your Local Small Business
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How to Build a Strong Online Presence for Your Local Small Business

In today's digital age, having a strong online presence is crucial for small businesses. With the...

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What is Account-Based Marketing: A Strategist's Guide with TKG's Growth Flywheel
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What is Account-Based Marketing: A Strategist's Guide with TKG's Growth Flywheel

As a seasoned Digital Strategy Manager at TKG, I've seen firsthand how Account-Based Marketing...

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Driving Innovation: The Fusion of Technology and Automobiles
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Driving Innovation: The Fusion of Technology and Automobiles

In the fast-paced world of automotive repair, staying ahead of the curve is essential. With the...

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3 Ways I Used AI-Generated Voice Audio Without Compromising Human Connection
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3 Ways I Used AI-Generated Voice Audio Without Compromising Human Connection

With the easy accessibility to AI tools today, you have probably noticed that AI-generated audio...

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How a Mix of Traditional and Digital Marketing Might Be the Key to Success
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How a Mix of Traditional and Digital Marketing Might Be the Key to Success

In a world of ever-changing trends and technology, businesses often find themselves torn between...

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Beyond the Basics: 5 Signs Your MSP Truly Cares About Your Business
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Beyond the Basics: 5 Signs Your MSP Truly Cares About Your Business

In the dynamic landscape of modern business, having a reliable Managed Service Provider (MSP) is...

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The Best SEO Checklist for 2024
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The Best SEO Checklist for 2024

Your website is basically nothing without search engine optimization (SEO). You can build a...

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Marketing Trends for 2024
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Marketing Trends for 2024

Welcome to the new year! Your optimism for 2024 is still sparkling in your champagne glass, and the...

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Top 10 Reasons Business Owners Need to Invest in an IT Partner
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Top 10 Reasons Business Owners Need to Invest in an IT Partner

In the dynamic and digitally driven business environment, the role of Information Technology is...

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How to Cut Through the Noise on Social Media with Professional Video & Photo
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How to Cut Through the Noise on Social Media with Professional Video & Photo

We live in a digital age of constant scrolling, where everyone is vying for our attention. So, how...

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Smart Start Recap: Navigating the Complex Landscape of IT & CRM Platforms
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Smart Start Recap: Navigating the Complex Landscape of IT & CRM Platforms

TKG's Smart Start series proves to be valuable when navigating the IT and customer relationship...

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The Synergy Between Demand Generation and Lead Generation: A Vital Strategy for Growing Companies
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The Synergy Between Demand Generation and Lead Generation: A Vital Strategy for Growing Companies

Greetings, esteemed marketers and business growth aficionados! I'm Dennis Galbreath, a Digital...

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Importance of Preserving Your Brand Through Consistency
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Importance of Preserving Your Brand Through Consistency

Market leaders are true to their brand. Your brand is the foundation of your digital strategy and...

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Top 4 tips to make the most of your trade show follow-up
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Top 4 tips to make the most of your trade show follow-up

That’s a wrap. Now that your trade show is over, and you’ve packed up the booth, what’s next? Here...

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The Struggle with Organic vs. Paid Social Media
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The Struggle with Organic vs. Paid Social Media

An Honest Conversation with Two Small Business Owners This year, Search Engine Land found that...

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Unpacking Twitter's Rebranding to “X”: A Missed Opportunity for Strategic Cohesion
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Unpacking Twitter's Rebranding to “X”: A Missed Opportunity for Strategic Cohesion

In the ever-evolving landscape of social media, Twitter has stood as a leader, shaping...

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Barbie World and Branding: Changing for the Better
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Barbie World and Branding: Changing for the Better

For years, Barbie has been a brand that has been struggling to keep up with a changing world. Sales...

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Wix ADI: Is It Worth the Hype?
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Wix ADI: Is It Worth the Hype?

In the world of AI, website development has never been easier. But will it really deliver the...

Kelsey Hochstetler 0
The Importance of Branding in Digital Marketing: How to Build a Strong Brand Online
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The Importance of Branding in Digital Marketing: How to Build a Strong Brand Online

Your brand is more than a logo and a product. To create a successful online brand, all you need is...

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Improve your Digital Advertising ROI by Augmenting Your Ad Spend
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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...

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Content Marketing with AI and Integrity
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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...

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

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8 Creative Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Digital Marketing
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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....

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13 Questions Your Digital Marketing Agency Should Have Asked
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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,...

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4 Unique Challenges of B2B Digital Marketing
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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...

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

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Could ChatGPT Change the Future of Marketing?
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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...

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4 Types of Information Technology Security Your Business Should Improve Today
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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...

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

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

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5 Best Marketing Automation Tools &  Platforms of 2023
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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
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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...

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4 Commonly Misconstrued IT Terms
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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...

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

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

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

Jennifer Gross 0
How to Find New Employees Using 4 Digital Marketing Tactics
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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...

Geoff Karcher 0
So, You're Going to Be on Camera
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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...

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

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Benefits of the HubSpot CMS Hub
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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...

Jennifer Gross 0
3 Things You Didn’t Know About HubSpot
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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...

Jennifer Gross 0
Digital marketing... it's more important than ever
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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....

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How to Use HubSpot to Align Your Sales and Marketing Teams
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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
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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...

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Don’t gamble with your digital marketing
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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...

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Live Chat: A Solution for Custom Manufacturing
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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...

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

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SEO Prices for E-commerce Websites
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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...

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How much does SEO cost in 2021?
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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...

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6 Affordable Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses
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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...

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7 Reasons to Have a Website for Your Small Business
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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...

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Is SEO Worth It in 2021?
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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...

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How SEO Costs Compare to Traditional Advertising
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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...

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

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8 Web Design Tips for An Effective Website
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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,...

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7 Ways to Build Community Through Instagram
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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...

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Create Help & FAQ Pages That Actually DO Help
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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...

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How to Choose the Best Digital Marketing Agency
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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...

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The Benefits of HubSpot and Marketing Automation
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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...

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Be Not Afraid! Ease Your SMB Into Inbound Marketing With These 5 Tips
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Be Not Afraid! Ease Your SMB Into Inbound Marketing With These 5 Tips

This is an extension of tips provided for the CIO article “13 ways to make your inbound marketing...

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3 Popular Email Marketing Mistakes That Make No Sense At All
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3 Popular Email Marketing Mistakes That Make No Sense At All

For many people, email marketing is a numbers game. They send over a huge number of emails just to...

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20 Digital Marketing Hacks to Grow your Business
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20 Digital Marketing Hacks to Grow your Business

Hack. Marketer’s keep using that word but I'm not sure it means what they think it means.

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Create A Winning E-commerce Strategy
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Create A Winning E-commerce Strategy

If you’ve not been paying attention to the steady rise of e-commerce, it would be easy to say that...

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Preparing for the Transparency
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Preparing for the Transparency

Facebook is notorious for making changes to business pages with notifications that are easy to...

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What Do Theatre and Marketing Have in Common?
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What Do Theatre and Marketing Have in Common?

This comparison is not as apples-to-oranges as one might think. Outside of working in t

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25+ Things You Should be Doing to Increase Audience Engagement
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25+ Things You Should be Doing to Increase Audience Engagement

One of the most important jobs your website can do is facilitate engagement with your a

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Buyer Personas and the 6 Reasons You Need Them
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Buyer Personas and the 6 Reasons You Need Them

Ever feel like your marketing campaigns resemble Adele singing her hit song, ‘Hello’? You know the...

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11 Ways to Get Maximum Efficiency from Your SEO Team's Efforts
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11 Ways to Get Maximum Efficiency from Your SEO Team's Efforts

Everyone knows Deadpool. Scratch that. Everyone who's not living under a rock knows who

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13 Reasons Why Your E-commerce Site Is Failing
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13 Reasons Why Your E-commerce Site Is Failing

Before we dive into strategy, lets start with some assumptions about your ecommerce site:

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Inspired Marketing: Lessons from nature
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Inspired Marketing: Lessons from nature

I can’t say I know it all. Not even close. But that excites me. It means every day, every...

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Accessibility: Usability for all
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Accessibility: Usability for all

I spent a vast majority of my third-grade year in a wheelchair because of a trampoline accident. To...

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UX Party Essentials
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UX Party Essentials

I’m not saying your website is lame. But, if it was your party invite to the world would people...

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Teamwork’s New Brand: The highlights and the bloopers
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Teamwork’s New Brand: The highlights and the bloopers

Branding and web design are two of our favorite things here at TKG, so when they collided in a...

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Telling Your Story with Images
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Telling Your Story with Images

Let’s play a quick game of “Would You Rather?”.

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Top Ways an SSL Protects Your Website Security and Search Authority
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Top Ways an SSL Protects Your Website Security and Search Authority

There’s nothing worse than putting sensitive information into a site and not knowing if it’s safe...

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The Importance of Site Speed and How to Optimize Yours
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The Importance of Site Speed and How to Optimize Yours

Is there anyone out there who enjoys waiting for a website to load? For me, the seconds seem to...

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Why Users - Not Search Engines - Should Be Your Top Priority
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Why Users - Not Search Engines - Should Be Your Top Priority

Let’s be honest with each other. SEO is important, even though it can feel overwhelming and...

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How-To Guide: Daily Facebook Community Management
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How-To Guide: Daily Facebook Community Management

When it comes to social media, it’s important to be – you guessed it – social with your audience....

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Benefits of Digital Advertising
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Benefits of Digital Advertising

If you’re doing anything on the web with your Ohio or North Carolina business, you probably know...

Linda Beck 0
Why Email Marketing Should Still Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy
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Why Email Marketing Should Still Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy

You may have read some articles that say that “no one reads their email anymore” or that “email is...

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Building a Digital Marketing Strategy (And Why It Matters)
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Building a Digital Marketing Strategy (And Why It Matters)

You wouldn’t build your house without a blueprint, would you? Sure, contractors know how to put up...

Molly McDougal 0
What a Veteran Taught TKG About Teams
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What a Veteran Taught TKG About Teams

The Karcher Group might have started as a few people in a basement, but from the beginning, we’ve...

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What is SEO?
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What is SEO?

SEO stands for search engine optimization which is a fancy way of saying 'helping websites show up...

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Your Digital Partner (Even if You're Not a Client)
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Your Digital Partner (Even if You're Not a Client)

As we enter our twentieth year in business, it's safe to say we've heard it all when it comes to...

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Five Types of Content and Where to Use Them
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Five Types of Content and Where to Use Them

A few years ago, we said content is king when it comes to marketing. Today, content is no longer...

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User Experience is More Than Just a Buzzword
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User Experience is More Than Just a Buzzword

Have you ever visited a website, downloaded an app or bought a product and had no idea how to use...

Molly McDougal 0
5 Reasons Your Social Media Efforts Aren’t “Working”
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5 Reasons Your Social Media Efforts Aren’t “Working”

We hear it all the time: “We’re pouring a lot of time/effort/money into social media, and it’s just...

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