Are Your Local Search Results Haunted? Ghost Listings on Google and How We Get Them Removed When you see businesses outranking you in Google’s local search results, you may think that they have a bigger marketing budget or are working with a great SEO agency. But the truth is that some of those businesses may[…]
Marketing Agencies Double as Fire Departments… Sort Of. Some weeks, we joke that we should apply to the fire academy. Then we remember we’d never, in a million years, make it. We are nowhere near as dedicated and strong as the men and women who serve all of us when we need them most. We[…]
Seasonal Marketing: Get Ahead of the Holidays Before the Holidays Get Ahead of You In the same way that most people start thinking about buying presents for birthdays and holidays and clothing for hot or cold weather just a few weeks before they need them, many businesses think about marketing for holidays and seasons just[…]
How Should I Manage Commenting on Social Media Platforms? You have a valuable topic that you post to your business or nonprofit’s social media accounts. It goes to all the platforms you are active on. You are excited to finally get the message out and then, it happens! You are bombarded with comments. Some supportive.[…]
Do Paid Ads Pay Off? Here are the Basics of Digital Advertising. You search on Google for a local restaurant, and instead of seeing them first you see a similar restaurant at the top of the page marked with a small “Sponsored” label. This is digital advertising in action. You scroll through your Facebook or[…]
We Know Looks Aren’t Everything. So Why Does Bad Design Cost Customers? A new visitor to a website forms their first impression in somewhere between five and ten seconds. Believe it or not, before they’ve read a single word of all that meticulously written content, they’ve already formed an opinion about your business, and that[…]
Does Your Brand Have a Personality Crisis? Have you ever encountered a business with a personality crisis? Their website looks polished and professional, but their social media looks like a completely different company. The logo on their store’s sign is different than the one on their business card. Their emails feel warm and friendly but[…]
A Fake BBB Complaint That Will Try to Steal Your Life Wild Iris Marketing recently received a scam email pretending to be a Better Business Bureau complaint. We spotted it right away, but we urgently wanted to show what the scam looked like, what it’s up to, and what Windows users should refuse to do[…]
Open for Business 24/7 What is E-Commerce and What Can It Do for Your Company? Should you be selling your products online? Maybe a customer called to ask if they could buy something from your website, or a competitor launched an online store and you’re imagining all the business you’ll lose to them. Maybe you’re[…]
Warning! Sophisticated Facebook Verification Scams Are Targeting Business Owners Right Now Please read this post! We don’t often issue warnings unless they are urgent, so when we do you know it’s warranted. A sophisticated phishing scam is actively targeting Facebook business page owners, nonprofit organizations, and marketing teams, and we’ve already seen clients affected by[…]
