I make no qualms about it. I have never felt like I was a strong writer. Working with the written word was never my strong suit in school and don’t get me started on my lack of spelling skills. Had it not been for spell check and Google being invented, I would be sunk! Therefore, I am constantly searching for any application that can help me overcome my writing deficiencies. Without further adieu, here are nine writing assistant apps or websites to help you write better.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | September 14, 2021
Chad is our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
Marketing automation refers to the use of software to automate marketing actions. Marketing teams use such technology to automate repetitive tasks, such as social media ads and emails. Automation of marketing tasks allows marketers to streamline the overall process of marketing.
Marketing automation gives many benefits, including:
- Fast accomplishment of time-consuming tasks
- Generation of more and better-qualified leads
- Multichannel view of prospect behavior
- Alignment of sales and marketing objectives
- Increased lead conversion and ROI
Written By: Adam Bennett | September 13, 2021
Adam is the president and founder of Cube Creative Design and specializes in private school marketing. Since starting the business in 2005, he has created individual relationships with clients in Western North Carolina and across the United States. He places great value on the needs, expectations, and goals of the client.
Recently my son wanted to look up something on the internet. He grabbed my phone up and started to open Safari. I said open Firefox Focus. It’s better for something like this since it eliminates the tracking cookies. After he performed his search, with included a YouTube Video. He proceeded to ask me what was a “cookie.” I did my best to explain, which thankful he seemed satisfied with the answer. Therefore in this post, I want to elaborate a bit more on what they are, including a brief history behind them and how powerful they are.
Since its humble origins in the 1960s, the internet has come a long way. While the worldwide web's original purpose was to share data between computers, it quickly increased in size, space, and capability. It evolved into a source of information, a new means of purchasing, a social area, and an entertainment medium.
Flash forward to the early ’90s, and the internet was a lot less feasible before the Internet evolved into its current form. Each visit was treated as a distinct, entirely anonymous occurrence. However, this did not function well for many sites, particularly e-commerce sites. Because necessity is the mother of inventions, it was vital to provide memory to the web.
As a result, cookies were born. They enabled websites to track who visits them and what they look at. It didn't take long for the advertising business to see the enormous potential of utilizing cookies to customize advertisements.
Now, if you were as curious as my son was about cookies, read on.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | September 09, 2021
Chad is our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
In today’s highly competitive environment between brands and companies, that common ‘lowest offer bait may not be enough to convince people to buy your products or services. Market places are now dominated by content creation that aids businesses to gain traffics for their websites. Therefore, growing a business in a content-dominated space without content marketing is like writing without a pen—you’re merely exerting efforts but achieve no result. Digital problems require digital solutions and one way of solving online marketing problems is by moving closer to what people really need, like what search engine marketing strategy does.
This article is a comprehensive guide about search engine marketing and how it works.
Written By: Adam Bennett | September 03, 2021
Adam is the president and founder of Cube Creative Design and specializes in private school marketing. Since starting the business in 2005, he has created individual relationships with clients in Western North Carolina and across the United States. He places great value on the needs, expectations, and goals of the client.
Vectors are, frankly, awesome, and their flexibility is unmatched! They can be utilized to add flair to your user interface, interest to your hero images. You may utilize them to breathe new life into a tired landing page. They are simple to apply to items and merchandise.
In appreciation of the modest vector image, we've compiled a list of 43+ websites with free vector images and a basic rating between 1 and 5 stars, with five being the best. You'll find a little bit of everything in this list, so you won't have to spend hours searching the internet for the vector image that suits your fancy or project. Let's get started.
Written By: Adam Bennett | September 01, 2021
Adam is the president and founder of Cube Creative Design and specializes in private school marketing. Since starting the business in 2005, he has created individual relationships with clients in Western North Carolina and across the United States. He places great value on the needs, expectations, and goals of the client.
If your business is still stuck with traditional marketing (non-digital marketing), this is a stern warning you need to heed. Traditional marketing does not work anymore in today’s modern world.
Excuse the word, but being traditional in marketing may just be a sign of incompetency, or worse, stupidity.
Online is where most customers are. The latest reports placed the ratio of B2B buyers who do research online at 94%. On the other hand, B2C buyers research online 97% of the time before deciding to purchase.
That places your chances of making sales at about 5% because you are stuck with the old ways, and to think that such a small portion is not yours alone. You have to fight with your competitors, and competition is even stiffer than before.
Written By: Adam Bennett | August 30, 2021
Adam is the president and founder of Cube Creative Design and specializes in private school marketing. Since starting the business in 2005, he has created individual relationships with clients in Western North Carolina and across the United States. He places great value on the needs, expectations, and goals of the client.
I will be the first to admit that in the web and online marketing space, we love our acronyms and abbreviations almost as much as the military and big business. With that being said, what the heck is a CRM? CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.
It is a database that is used to keep track of client actions, leads, and sales opportunities. Logging this critical information gives insights to your sales, marketing, customer support, and financial teams or simply allows you to help keep track of everything and adjust interactions to improve your client relationships.
CRM software is frequently confused with comparable business programs such as content management system (CMS) or customer data platform (CDP) software. CMS software is used to create and publish website content. CDP software gathers consumer data from many sources, such as web forms and social media accounts, in order to evaluate and anticipate customer behavior.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | August 25, 2021
Chad is our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
You may find this shocking, but most new home building contractors and home remodelers aren’t utilizing their websites to generate viable leads. Unfortunately, there is a stark reality between the number of possible leads generated each month and the percentage of contractors that can accurately track marketing ROI.
Cube Creative Design is an inbound marketing agency specializing in helping contractors and subcontractors in the new home construction and remodeling space. While we recognize that not all marketing initiatives can be performed immediately, to help you out, we have compiled a list of three quick marketing techniques that you or anybody on your team can implement in about 30 minutes.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | August 18, 2021
Chad is our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
Local search engine optimization (Local SEO) is a branch of search engine optimization (SEO) that focuses on optimizing a website to be found in local search results on Google (being the primary and the focus for most of this post), Bing, Yelp, Trip Advisor, Waze, Apple Maps, etc.
You may be asking why I need to be concerned with this; I have been here for 10, 20, or 50 years?
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter how long you have been in business. What matters most is can you be found online for what you offer. I often tell clients that I know you have been there for 20 years and are an expert. The problem is the search engines don't, and that's all that matters now. Also, some techniques used in traditional SEO work for local SEO; however, there are other significant differences that need to be addressed.
Therefore sit down and buckle up as we take a journey through Local SEO.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | August 16, 2021
Chad is our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
Let’s face it, as a small business owner; it can be a challenge to develop a marketing plan, let alone a digital marketing plan. How do you know if your plan is as thorough and effective as it could be?
To alleviate some of that anxiety, we've produced this guide to help you the small business. It will walk you through the process of developing a marketing plan that leaves no stone untouched.
Let's take a look at the five most important components of a complete marketing plan for 2022.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | August 10, 2021
Chad is our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
Most home builders and remodelers pay very little attention to content when it comes to marketing their business through a website, blog, e-book, or any other online platform. It is probably because we have a common perception that good content is all about having a good design to attract more audiences. Although a good design and a picture gallery are essential for marketing the business of home building and remodeling. Did you know that you also need good content to rank higher in search engine results?
Content Marketing for home builders and remodelers is a tricky task as your field is highly technical and requires knowledge of engineering, architecture, design, and other technical specialties. Due to the inherent technical nature of your field, it becomes difficult to market your content as your target audience may not necessarily have all that technical knowledge. This blog will talk about the lessons we have learned that can make your marketing content attractive enough to help you get more homeowners.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | August 03, 2021
Chad is our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
No one wants their website hacked. As web developers and website hosts, we do our best to prevent it from happening. However, it seems inevitable that hackers will strike, and even government is not immune. No matter the size of your business, you need to be risk-averse and have a risk management plan in place so that if and when it happens, you are ready to get the website working again as soon as possible.
Written By: Chad J. Treadway | July 26, 2021
Chad is our Chief Smarketing Officer. He will help you survey your small business needs, educating you on your options before suggesting any solution. Chad is passionate about rural marketing in the United States and North Carolina. He also has several certifications through HubSpot to better assist you with your internet and inbound marketing.
