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E-Commerce Essentials: Strategies for Boosting Online Sales

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E-Commerce Essentials: Strategies for Boosting Online Sales

Maximize e-commerce leads and sales through marketing. Wondering how to initiate the process of increasing online sales. In today’s digital world, e-commerce is the driving force behind retail success. Initiating or intending to enhance online traffic and achieve successful e-commerce transactions? This guide is your key to thriving in the competitive world of online sales. In this blog, we’ll explore proven strategies and innovative approaches to help you create a compelling online presence, optimize your marketing efforts, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Boost your online sales and shape the future of e-commerce together.     Importance of Online Marketing Sales Online marketing sales are crucial for businesses in today’s digital age. They play a significant role in a company’s overall success and sustainability. Here are some reasons why online marketing sales are important:  Global Reach  Online marketing allows businesses to reach a global audience. With the internet, you can connect with potential customers across the world, opening up new markets and opportunities for growth. Cost-Effective Online marketing is often more cost-effective than traditional advertising methods like print or TV ads. This is especially important for small businesses with limited budgets.  Targeted Marketing Online marketing allows for highly targeted advertising. You can reach specific demographics, interests, and behaviors, ensuring that your message reaches the most relevant audience.  Measurable Results Digital marketing provides detailed analytics and metrics. This means you can track the performance of your campaigns in real-time, allowing for quick adjustments and optimization.  Personalization Online marketing allows you to personalize your marketing efforts. You can send tailored messages to different customer segments, increasing the chances of conversion.   Competitive Advantage In many industries, your competitors are already utilizing online marketing strategies. To stay competitive, you need to establish a strong online presence and engage with your target audience effectively.  Building Brand Awareness Online marketing helps build brand awareness and authority in your industry. Consistent online visibility can lead to trust and recognition among consumers. Customer Engagement Online marketing enables businesses to engage with customers through various channels like social media, email marketing, and content creation. Engaging with customers can foster loyalty and repeat business. The Best Digital Marketing Insight and Advice To succeed in digital marketing, it’s imperative to thoroughly understand your audience, create diverse and high-quality content, optimize for mobile users, prioritize SEO, engage actively on social media, personalize email marketing, make data-driven decisions, conduct A/B testing, optimize paid advertising, implement remarketing strategies, maintain a user-friendly website, stay updated with platform algorithms, ensure brand consistency, adhere to legal and ethical standards, and commit to continuous learning for adaptability.   What is E-commerce?  E-commerce, short for electronic commerce, refers to the buying and selling of goods and services online. It encompasses various types, including online retail, business-to-business transactions, business-to-consumer sales, consumer-to-consumer exchanges, mobile commerce, social commerce, and subscription-based services. E-commerce has grown rapidly due to its convenience and global reach, transforming the way businesses and consumers engage in trade and commerce. What are the key concepts of e-commerce? Key concepts of e-commerce include establishing an online presence, managing digital products, ensuring secure payment processing, prioritizing security, optimizing user experience, utilizing marketing and analytics, complying with legal regulations, and addressing customer support. These concepts collectively enable businesses to operate effectively in the online marketplace, delivering a seamless shopping experience while adhering to...

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The Impact of Voice Search on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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The Impact of Voice Search on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

In recent years, voice search technology has taken the tech world by storm. It’s a game-changer that allows users to interact with computers, smartphones, and other devices using spoken language instead of traditional typing or touch interfaces. This innovative technology leverages speech recognition and natural language processing (NLP) to understand and interpret spoken queries, making it possible for users to perform a wide range of tasks, simply by speaking to their devices.

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Mobile-First Design | Mobile Web Optimization

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Mobile-First Design | Mobile Web Optimization

Mobile-First Design is about optimizing the mobile web and creating apps that perform exceptionally on small screens yet remain impressive on larger. With responsive design, your content effortlessly adapts to various devices, ensuring a seamless experience for users, whether they’re on a smartphone or a desktop computer. Speed is the key – mobile-first development optimizes performance to keep users engaged, preventing frustrating loading times.

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Importance of Content Marketing, Building a Strong Brand, and Establishing your Presence.

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Importance of Content Marketing, Building a Strong Brand, and Establishing your Presence.

It provides valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain an audience. Instead of bombarding you with sales pitches, it offers engaging blog posts, videos, social media content, and more to solve your problems. This strategy builds trust and loyalty over time, leading to increased brand awareness, website traffic, and profitable customer action.

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5 Essential Plugins for Every WordPress Site

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5 Essential Plugins for Every WordPress Site

Every designer has their starting-line rituals when building a new WordPress site. After reviewing our portfolio of recent projects, it became clear that these 5 plugins were an essential part of that ritual for the designers at Tower Agency.

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VIDEO: How To Troubleshoot WordPress

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VIDEO: How To Troubleshoot WordPress

Understanding how to solve problems with WordPress and where to find the solutions is half the battle. We have compiled the resources you should use when troubleshooting, some of the errors that will lead to these resources and where to find them on the internet.

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CSS Tips and Tricks for WordPress

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CSS Tips and Tricks for WordPress

In this article you will learn basic css tips for an intro in WordPress development and design. These are common our team uses on new designs, please contact Tower Agency for more assistance.

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Digital Marketing Portfolio Update

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Digital Marketing Portfolio Update

We’ve been busy and that means portfolio updates! The past few months have been a very exciting period of growth for our small digital agency as we have been incorporating new agents into the mix while bringing on some very exciting projects. I would like to introduce you to our wonderful new clients and am happy to announce that they also love us back. We pride ourselves on customer service and a happy client means we did two things right: The project was completed to both party’s expectations. Successfully learned about client needs, found viable solutions, and executed properly. Brenda Heckert Her quirky personality is shown through jokes, pictures, and videos to help casting directors see the fun nature she brings to the set. Exemplified by her saying “It costs an Arm, a Leg, and a Thigh.” By adding a blogging component to the site she is able to increase community engagement across facebook, twitter and other social sharing sites. Read more Nualgi America Nualgi is a new brand that uses microscopic technology to produce Diatom growth in aquariums, thus removing nuisance algae. Tower Agency was brought in to expand this brand to the new products Nualgi Ponds and Nualgi Bloom, as well as maintain the brand of Nualgi Aquarium. Read more Utah Coffee Expressions An entrepreneurial couple in Utah contacted us to fix their e-commerce site that had been in development for over 6 months in the Phillipines… Quickly the Tower agents got to work to diagnose the issues that were being caused with the site and a lot was miss-communication between the developers and the client. The simple tasks had become overly complex pieces of development that were unfortunately not using the WordPress content management system properly. Read more Shoreline Construction The original Shoreline site had an image gallery and a basic description of the company. We added a personality with high resolution images to better represent the high quality work produced by this home construction company. A beautiful new website was created to showcase the work performed by this construction company and further position them as a top developer of Nantucket Style beach homes. Read more Sheets at the Beach Vera Bailey built a dominant regional reputation with her top quality rental products and amazing service. Tower Agency stepped in when an outdated website began to make operations difficult for both her and customers. Read more Jeff West When Jeff West decided to transition his focus from retail to interior design, the Tower team created a powerful way to stay connected with fans and customers. For years Jeff West Home was a regionally acclaimed source for traditionally hip furniture, unique home goods, and products from local artisans. Read more As we grow we will add to our client portfolio. Thanks for reading and we look forward to sharing more digital marketing success...

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Ditch your Secretary, Google Now is here!

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Ditch your Secretary, Google Now is here!

Ok, I am sure your secretary has many perks, but on-the-go updates synced with your life is just too much to ask from a single human being.     Today, Google Now is available as a chrome extension, thus completing the full circle in my digital life. I’ve been using the Google Now card system on my phone since I upgraded to Android a year ago (iPhone prior). It notifies me at perfect times when I should be leaving the house, what the latest Red Sox score is, who I am scheduled to meet, and much more timely information. “Timely” is the key word in this statement. The purpose of this product is to get the information precisely when you need it. Five minutes early or late would just not be as useful. Getting information at the RIGHT time is everything Google hopes to accomplish.   Semantic Web is Upon Us All your information, all your data, all locked up and there for you to access fluently wherever you may be. This is the semantic web. This is Google Now. This is the future. Based on a card system like the screen shot graphic from www.engadget.com, you can decide what information you want displayed in a simple, concise manner. Tailored based on your internet habits, Google chooses your cards initially and will sync up live to what is occurring in each category.   The Future is Not Siri “She” may answer a few questions and she may be able to bring up your flight details. But she is not integrated with your google account and most likely will not let you know the exact time you should be leaving your home to catch the flight. This is the future, the ability to integrate perfectly in your life without ever asking. And that, that is freaking scary.   What the Heck is Google Now? I like my Secretary! Google explains it as the right information at the right time. “From knowing the weather before you start your day, to planning the best route to avoid traffic, or even checking your favorite team’s score while they’re playing, Google Now brings you the information you want, when you need it. Google Now works in the background so you don’t have to. Your information is automatically organized into simple cards that appear just when they’re needed. Because Google Now is ready whenever you are, you can spend less time digging and more time living.” From Google Now Landing Page Need support? Straight from the Googles, learn how Google Now, Cards, and Location services work in chrome.  Google Now Support   Get Google Now for Android & iOS Chrome has just released the extension for Google Now to integrate with your web browser. If you are not already using Google Now on mobile you can download it here.   Product Integrations It is expected that this list will be forever expanding, but for the time being Google Now works to give you the right information at just the right time for Flights, Hotels, Events, Travel Sites, Restaurant Reservations, Movies, and Real Estate. Notable companies include, Rotten Tomatoes, Zillow, Stubhub, Booking.com, and a few airlines. Learn more about Google Now Integrations   Have you ever used Google Now? Did you know that your android device is...

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Copy + Paste to Eat for a Day, Learn to Code and You’ll Eat for A Lifetime!

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Copy + Paste to Eat for a Day, Learn to Code and You’ll Eat for A Lifetime!

Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer code. I just signed up to support this wonderful organization started by twin brothers in Silicon Valley. They bring up a great point and support a mission that will only become more necessary as we go further into the digital world. Personally I didn’t learn a line of code until after college, but have since become intrigued and now dive into html/css3 for altering WordPress sites. Did you know that 9 out of 10 US K12 schools do not offer computer programming classes? And that Forbes magazine ranked a degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon College as the best paying degree in the USA in 2013? There are six ways you can help spread the word about code.org Code.org | Non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer science education 1) Help us promote computer science education Find out what you can do locally to turn around these shocking statistics. If you’re in the US, support the Computer Science Education Act. 2) Ask your local school to teach computer science Your local school can teach this self-serve intro course, partner with us to bring computer science to your entire district, and inspire students with these videos. Check our map to see if your school teaches computer science, and if not, ask them to. 3) Teach locally as a volunteer Host an Hour of Code or a longer self-serve intro course at a local school or club. Or sign up as a volunteer to hear about mentoring opportunities from local teachers. 4) Buy a t-shirt or hat to spread the word We have some pretty awesome shirts, and 5% of proceeds go to charity. 5) Donate money to Code.org We’re a very lean and mean organization, and we appreciate your help. 6) In the US? Tell Congress that you support the Computer Science Education Act Ask your representatives to support it, too. The members of Tower Agency, Inc. sincerely hope you will spread this philanthropic message, buy a t-shirt or support this movement in whatever way possible. Maybe you can even take a short course at code.org or play one of their fun games. Either way, thanks for reading and have a great day.    Infographic by...

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