SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the practice of tailoring web content to maximize a website’s visibility, particularly in organic search engine rankings. There are many strategies and tactics available to help you improve your website’s ranking, but overall, a successful SEO strategy takes time, dedication, and consistent updates. In this blog, we outline five simple but often overlooked details that …
How to Use Push Marketing Effectively
Push marketing is an advertising strategy used to get your product or service in front of potential customers, rather than drawing customers in (pull marketing), which can take time and patience. Frequently push marketing is most associated with traditional advertising mediums, generated to raise awareness and reach as many people as possible even if they don’t have a desire or …
Three Tips for Defining your SEO Strategy
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of refining and enhancing your web content to improve your website traffic quality and quantity. Similar to most digital tools and platforms, an SEO strategy relies on an ever-changing landscape of automation and scripts designed to improve the user experience over time. Are your eyes already glazing over? Take a deep breath and …
5 Tactics to Get to Know your Audience Better
How well do you know your audience? You’ve likely defined a target audience that best aligns with your business strategy (if you haven’t, check out our previous blog, “3 Steps to Defining and Finding your Target Audience”), but are you keeping up with their changes in tastes and behaviors? It’s essential to keep a two-way communication line open between your …
Best Brand Voices on Social Media (According to PTE)
Creating a loyal social media following takes more than just sharing content. It requires a consistent brand voice that engages the audience and makes them want to see more. In addition to consistency, adding value to your posts through knowledge and humor are two great ways to create a deeper connection with your audience. Need some inspiration? The PTE team …
3 Questions to Ask Your Content Development Team
You’re probably already aware that a thoughtful messaging strategy is imperative to communicate with your target audience. This isn’t a “spray and pray” approach – just putting the message out and hoping the right people receive it. Strategic content development tactics are crucial to creating conversions. There are some vital factors that can help your content reach, engage, and eventually …
3 Targeting Strategies to Increase Your Marketing ROI
Effectively reaching your target audience is key to a successful marketing campaign. Rather than running ads in various places and hoping that they find their intended audience, your marketing dollars are better spent on specific messaging strategies intentionally directed at particular audiences. Read on to learn more about three targeting strategies that we’ve found to make our clients’ messaging more …
How Companies Are Promoting Sustainability
While companies have been “going green” and promoting sustainability for years, the demand for corporate environmental responsibility is at an all-time high and doesn’t appear to be slowing down. This focus on sustainability has been driven by headlines focused on climate change coupled with changing consumer behaviors from Millennials and Generation Z. Ahead of Earth Day, we took a look …
3 Steps to Defining and Finding your Target Audience
Before you craft a messaging strategy, you have to know who you’re talking to. This is why defining your target audience(s) is a crucial first step to every marketing plan. Once the audience is defined, you can better define your message strategy and the avenues used to reach these individuals – based specifically on their preferences and behaviors. Following this …
3 Tips on Taking the Perfect Photo for Social Media
It’s evident that photos and videos have taken over social media. Long gone are the plain-text posts about someone’s day eating ice cream with their grandmother. Facebook realized this trend in 2019 when it added its status backgrounds to allow your text to stand out among the sea of digital photos and videos. With the constant overload of content in …