Stop Chasing Information Online Before You Explode

Google Reader Leveraging Technology

Have you ever noticed that surfing the web; although can start out with the right intentions, often leads to hours of evaporated time? I know that as part of your online strategy you need to engage in social media, you need to be aware of what the market is saying about your products and services, you even need to spend time seeing what your competition is doing. However - with all this needed … [Read more...]

Internet Gurus Revealed: The White Lies Your Guru Is Telling You (and how to avoid them)

Internet Marketing Guru

Build a website and new customers will come. Get on Twitter & Facebook and people will be banging down your door to do business with you. Get to page one of Google now and your business will explode with sales. It's what you want to hear right? In a lot of ways it's exactly what the market is pushing for and the more people buy into it, the more failure to succeed marketing online that we … [Read more...]

Why YouTube Could Ruin Your Business

YouTube Account Termination

Building your business utilizing online marketing and resources can be the most game changing marketing you ever do for your business. However, it’s not for the faint of heart. Marketing channels like YouTube, FaceBook, and even Google can bring amazing amounts of exposure and qualified potential buyers to your website. Literally changing your business over night ... well sort of over … [Read more...]

Why Video Marketing Is Important To Your Business On the Internet

Why video is important to your business

As we're coming up on 6 months into a marketing strategy of improving our online presence utilizing video, I thought I would share a few stats that we've collected to emphasize the importance of video to your business. On October 21, 2010 we took a look at our YouTube Channel and decided it was time to get serious. To be honest, I really didn't expect what was to follow in the next six months. … [Read more...]

Improve Your Offline Sales Process By 80%

Improving Offline Sales through Strategic Online Marketing

You've heard of the 80/20 rule. For example 80% of your business is driven by 20% of your sales. This same rule can help improve your sales through integrating strategic online marketing and design strategies. In fact it's actually quite easy to do , when you know where to look. The place we like to start is ... what drives you nuts about your offline sales process? Maybe it's getting to the … [Read more...]

Why You Need To Update Your Website

Strategic Internet Marketing Website Design

A New Strategic Internet Marketing Website Have you thought about re-doing your website? I know for many businesses that this crosses their mind on a regular basis. For some it's due to performance not meeting their expectations - so they look to their site as the evil culprit- not the best reason by the way. For others, they are the leaders in their field (that's us :) ) and through … [Read more...]

3 Reasons Your Website Might Fail

3 Reasons Your Website Might Fail

We are in the process of rebuilding the GILL Media website. But this rebuild unlike the one 2 years prior (yes I said 2 years) has a completely new approach. Our new website puts our Blog front and centre. I believe that websites of the future will be more and more about providing quality information and building a relationship with prospects. If you compare this to a typical website of today, … [Read more...]

Free Internet Marketing Strategies for Your Business

The GILL Media blog is about to take on a whole new look (not just graphically although it will be changing too), and we think you're gonna like what you see. After nearly 6 months of brainstorming, and discussions on the direction we were going to take with our blog, we have decided that educating small business in every way possible was the best solution. Internet Marketing Strategies and Small … [Read more...]

Social Media Optimization – What about it…

If you’re trying to get somewhere on the internet when it comes to marketing your business, there is no way to ignore social media any longer and whether it will play a factor in your online marketing. With over 500 million users on Facebook (larger than most countries) and over 50% of them accessing their home page daily it’s hard not to pay attention to this medium. Twitter having … [Read more...]

The Five Laws of B2B Marketing on the Web

B2B Marketing on the Web

I’ve worked with a lot of B2B focused clients who have trouble adapting to the strategic internet marketing mindset. They think internet marketing is something an expert does to their business – not a process where they work with the team to find their strengths. But B2B marketing on the Web is about translating the methods that work and expanding them beyond your personal sphere. Alone or … [Read more...]