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4 Ways to Beat the Monday Blues

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1. Try to say “no” to long meetings on Mondays–unless you have no other choice. (There are four other days in the week!)

2. If there are tasks you have to do each week, spread them out so you aren’t slapped in the face with them every Monday morning.

3. Make a plan to grab coffee or lunch with a colleague or friend on Mondays. You deserve a break and you have to eat! If you can’t get away, at least bring something you love to snack on during the afternoon!

4. If all else fails, block out some time–even a 15-minute block–on your calendar for next Monday. Plan to take a walk or close your office door and meditate. Just give yourself a well-deserved break.

A bonus fifth idea!

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Stay Out of Pain! An Ergonomic Work Space is Step 1

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You’ve probably heard and read about ergonomics before. How many of us really pay attention to the best ways to make sure we are working in a comfortable space–and in the best body position–to keep you from straining your neck, getting headaches, etc.?

How many of us? Not enough.

People who stare at technology all day long are at high risk of being diagnosed with a musculoskeletal disorder. MSDs impact your body from the inside out. Sure, your lower back hurts but do you know that you are feeling pain because your muscles, blood vessels, tendons, nerves and ligaments are all impacted when you sit in the wrong position for too long.

By the way, you don’t have to be sitting to get MSDs. Staring down at your phone all day can cause severe neck and shoulder injury. If your job is to move around all day long–perhaps you are a nurse or a teacher–failing to wear the right shoes can cause serious foot, ankle, leg and lower back strain.

We can talk all day about the injuries employees get when they are not taking steps to protect their bodies, but this is not the time for talk. Take action by making sure your workspace is set up for YOU. If that means getting a different chair, or raising your monitor up higher, trying an ergonomic keyboard or putting a stool under your feet so your lower back is supported – do it!

According to the Athlete Desk, “Anyone who lifts, strains, reaches, pushes, or works in difficult body postures in a repetitive way is likely to be at risk for an MSD. Here are a few examples of MSDs:”

  • Shoulder or rotator cuff injury
  • Carpal tunnel
  • Lower back injuries and muscle strains
  • Tendonitis
  • Trigger finger (stenosing tenosynovitis)
  • Elbow injuries

It’s Time for a Workspace Makeover

The Mayo Clinic says there are several “office ergonomics” fixes that can be easily done in workspace in an attempt to ward off MSDs.

Keep Things Within Reach

Whether you have a spacious workplace or a tiny cubby, there are certain items you use all the time. These might include your phone, paperclips, garbage can or a particular cabinet. Make sure you can easily reach the items you use often within arm’s length. Don’t strain yourself reaching for the stapler! If you can’t have something within easy reach, stand up and walk over to access them. 

Your Phone

A quick note about your phone: whether you use your cell phone for business or you have an old fashioned desk phone AND you type or write a lot while using the phone, use a headset, earpods or put the phone on speaker (if you have a private space) so you aren’t trying to cradle the phone between your chin and neck. Doing this “cradling” trick is sure to be a pain in the neck sooner rather than later.

Your Chair

Unless you are sharing a space with others, it’s important to think about your work desk chair the way you would your bed. YOU need to be able to sit comfortably and safely in it. Therefore, raise or lower, tip forward or back, adjust the arm rests–do what’s necessary to allow you to sit with your feet on the floor and thighs parallel to the floor. The chair must support your back. It should feel good to sit down in your chair. For extra support, get a lumbar back cushion.

Footrest

Speaking of keeping your feet flat on the floor, another option is to place a footrest or small stool under your feet. If you can’t lower or raise your chair or desk, a footrest will give your legs and back the support you need.

Your Desk

You want to be able to sit at the desk comfortably. Make sure there is enough room for your legs (this isn’t an airplane-you don’t have to crunch yourself into a tight space.) If you are tall and can’t fit under the desk comfortably, raise the desk! You can even use blocks to raise it if the desk itself is not adjustable. Also, don’t forget about your footrest! If you need it, make space for it. You may also want to try a stand-up desk that gives you the option to sit or stand throughout the day.

Ah, now we get to some of the most important things you use whenever you are at work. Who among us can get away without using a computer monitor, keyboard and maybe a mouse?

Keyboard and Mouse

“Place your mouse within easy reach and on the same surface as your keyboard,” the Mayo Clinic advises. “While typing or using your mouse, keep your wrists straight, your upper arms close to your body, and your hands at or slightly below the level of your elbows. Use keyboard shortcuts to reduce extended mouse use. If possible, adjust the sensitivity of the mouse so you can use a light touch to operate it. Alternate the hand you use to operate the mouse by moving the mouse to the other side of your keyboard.”

Your Monitor

Ideally, you want to place the monitor an arm’s length in front of you. You want the top of the screen to be slightly below or at eye level.  If you are using a laptop and this distance disturbs your ability to ergonomically reach your keyboard, consider getting a full sized keyboard and plugging it into the laptop. 

It’s important to make sure that all of the items you use–especially your technology–are placed directly in front of you so you have easy, comfortable access to it.

Remember, this is your personal space and you need it to be designed to accommodate your body. If necessary, speak to your manager or HR about getting you a new desk or other items that will reinforce an ergonomic setup. Your neck and back will thank you!

Great Content and Increased Sales are Always on Trend

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Each year, when we turn the calendar forward, companies get busy churning out “Trends” lists. The message is: this is what’s hot now and what will be even hotter this year. You better get on the trend train or be left behind at the station.

Sometimes, these “trend” lists can feel like they are coming from the proverbial “they,” as in “They are all eating chocolate cake, you should be indulging as well.”

Are you keeping up with the Joneses online?

In digital marketing terms, it’s true that there are always new ways to connect with prospects. But the foundation of clear, informative communication on all your digital platforms never goes out of style. Indeed, one thing that is always on trend: using great content to connect with customers to drive sales up!

When it comes to updating your website, social media platforms and email marketing assets, we think it’s not worth getting overwhelmed with the trends. “What’s Hot” and “What’s Not” change as quickly as Google changes its algorithms.

Instead, Harmonia Media suggests that you focus on human connection. We are communicating on screens and via apps more than ever before. What you say and how you say it, especially online when the recipient might not quite follow or fully understand your intentions, has got to be Priority No. 1.

When it comes to marketing your company, communication, clear and concise, is not a trend. Or, if it is, it’s certainly been on the top of the trendy list since the beginning of time. Whether you are speaking face to face (or over a screen), by phone, by text, on Facebook or LinkedIn or any other platform, conveying a message that is:

A. Understandable to your listener

B. Informative and worth their time

C. Capable of causing the reader to take your desired action

Digital communication is still good old conversation–but in smaller bite-sized chunks that resonate quickly. It should almost go without saying that “quickly,” is quite key. Online, you have seconds to grab attention or be abandoned (or worse, trashed)! If you are being totally ignored, that’s also a content issue.

This is especially true on your website, your main digital hub. Assuming your SEO practices are driving traffic to your website, it’s the job of compelling content to keep potential customers there and poking around until they find what they want and buy it!

Consider the brick and mortar comparison: A person walks into your store and begins to look around. You say nothing. You are standing right there and are completely capable of welcoming them in, asking how you can assist and even leading them directly to what you most want to sell (or to what they just asked about.) But you allow them to walk around and browse. No communication.

Perhaps you get lucky and they find something that interests them. More likely, however, they walk out without having ever touched their wallet. They had no incentive to stay. They might have even been put off by your lack of desire to attempt to communicate.

In this scenario, you lost a sale because you failed to engage with a prospect who was standing in front of you! Just think about how easy it is to lose online prospects when you don’t go out of your way to roll out the red carpet, so to speak, invite customers to browse on your website or engage in conversation on social media.

It’s easy to make these mistakes online if you aren’t fully focused on creating a customer experience that draws the buyer in and brings their attention to the services and products you are selling in a way that makes them have to click and buy!

When you do a search for a particular product, aren’t you most excited about search results that draw you in–answer your question or lead you to a place where you can get what you need? Of course you are!

When you make sure to stay in conversation with your potential customer, from the moment they find you until long after they have purchased your product (think email nurturing!) they will not only remember you but they will also refer you to others. The opposite, by the way, occurs when someone gets to your website and gets frustrated with the experience. (It’s very similar to being ignored in a shop.)

Need some help with content?  If you want to make sure your content provides a great customer experience, we can help. Reach out to Harmonia Media for a free consultation about your digital marketing strategy.

Content Planning: Using an Editorial Calendar

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One question that plagues every social media manager is “What should we post next?” An editorial calendar is a tool you can add to your social media toolbox that will save you and your team time and frustration.

Just as it sounds, an editorial calendar is a lineup–by week, month, quarter, year, whichever you prefer–of topics you want to cover with posts on your social media platforms. There are some things you can add to the calendar without even thinking about them; holidays, for example, are pre-set. If you know your company always has a summer party July 4th weekend and a holiday party mid December, you can pencil those in, too.

Then, it takes a bit more effort. It’s important to consider your company’s goals for the upcoming period of time. Are you launching a new product or service? Is the main goal hiring more employees? Do you like to tie current news to your posts?

An editorial calendar is an important part of the content strategy process. By determining which topics you want to post about in advance (think quarterly or a six-month calendar), you can coordinate the content strategies for all your platforms. You can post blogs, for example, that match up with the topics you are posting about.

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An editorial calendar is pre-planned, so you know what the focus of your content should be for a month, a quarter and even a year. Many companies set up an annual editorial calendar and fill it in with the known dates worthy of a post. Holidays are a great example. You know you will want to always wish people a “happy” whatever.

Your calendar should also include the best times for your content to be published. This step requires some knowledge about your target audience, too. For example, if your business wants to attract young working professionals, your content might not do well when it is published at 8:30 a.m. People are commuting at this time or already in their first meeting of the day. This audience may respond better to a post during lunch hours because they are available to check their social media.

It’s not unusual to start off with general categories on your editorial calendar and add in specifics as you come up with them. For example, you can decide you are posting three times a week to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Make note of which days of the week you will be posting on each platform.

Don’t get overwhelmed! You can plan topics as far out as you wish; or plan for the week or month ahead. The idea is to use the calendar to make your life easier. It’s a road map to help you keep on track.

Having a calendar doesn’t mean sitting down and writing everything in advance. No one has time to create 20-30 posts at a sitting. But, with a calendar to guide you, you won’t usually have to create content on the fly.

It’s a good idea to remember that having a calendar doesn’t mean “never” having to bang out some content at the last minute. Things change and you may have a comment or new focus at some point in the future. Be flexible!

However, since keeping your social media platforms current requires you to be organized, an editorial or content calendar can help you by detailing what and when you will post–and when you will be posting it. Furthermore, when you and your team sit down to brainstorm topics for the calendar your creative energy will trigger each other to continually come up with better ideas.

More Reasons to Create a Social Media Editorial Calendar – And to Stick with It!

1. Editorial calendars can help you with consistency. Social media posting should be a regularly scheduled thing. You want to be constantly touching your readers to stay in the conversation and keep your company top of mind for clients and prospects.

2. Editorial calendars help you keep the conversation flowing. Posting consistently will increase engagement with your audience, provide you with feedback and give you valuable insight into your audience preferences. You can apply these insights to future content and create a valuable asset to your business.

3. Editorial calendars help you save time! Keeping a calendar will save you from scrambling at the last minute to get a post published. Once you have your strategy, you can establish the type of content that will help you meet your goals on all platforms and your blog.

Don’t let creating content stress you out. Manage your content as well as your time by using an editorial calendar. Or you can take a completely stress-free approach. Talk to Harmonia Media about managing your social media content. We will help deliver fresh and engaging content to your audience so you have more time to focus on your business.

Grow Your Business Bigtime with Email Marketing

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If you are like most people, email is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you can communicate in a hot New York minute with a few keystrokes and the click of a button.

That being said, everyone else can communicate with YOU. This means hours of your life that you can’t get back sorting through emails to find the ones that are meaningful and worth your time.

According to Pew Research, 92 percent of adults who interact online have email accounts. (Fewer have a social media profile–only 79 percent.) But, when you zero in on the business world, these numbers take a whole new perspective. One might even go out on a limb and say that email is synonymous with business. Without it, you are talking to yourself!

Using Email to Win New Business

What does this mean for your business? It means that when you hear digital marketing companies say “email is dead” and that drip and nurturing campaigns aren’t worth your time or money, they are focused on their own agenda–not yours.

Even if the research on email users is inflated, statistics say over 5.5 billion email accounts exist and the number goes up each year. Think about your own time looking through your email inbox. You’re doing it. So is everyone else.

The key is to get good at picking out the important subject lines, so you make your time count. From a marketing perspective, you want to make sure the emails you send fall into the “must read” category, as well.

One more statistic for you. Pew Research reports “six in 10 American workers say email is `very important’ for doing their jobs.” If email is alive and thriving, it stands to reason email marketing is not only effective but, when done well, gets a private audience with your prospect.

With email marketing you can:

  • Get new customers
  • Communicate with clients
  • Promote your product and services
  • Keep your brand top of mind

So, What’s the Problem?

Let’s go right back to the beginning of this blog post. Inboxes are stuffed to the gills hour after hour with marketing emails. It may be super annoying to receive them but companies know that, statistically speaking, email marketing has the best chance of catching the eye of a prospective client.

So, if you can’t figure out how to make your emails stand out from all the others trying to drown it out, there’s a major problem. You’ve created the proverbial “If you shout in an empty forest, will anyone hear you?”

The best way to overcome the pitfalls of tepid–at best–email marketing campaigns, is to make sure you are writing great copy, using attention-grabbing subject lines and crafting calls-to-action that actually tell your readers what you want them to do.

You can grow your business bigtime with email marketing. Don’t waste another minute thinking you can’t.

Just give Harmonia Media a shout and we will put together an email campaign that will help you shower some love on your current customers so they become repeat customers. And, Harmonia will use customized email marketing strategy to drive new business.

Call us, email us or fill out our convenient online contact form and we will reach out to you. Harmonia will help your company rise above the noise of crappy email content so you are seen and heard!

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Want Your Social Media Marketing to Work? Do These 3 Things

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It’s amazing how almost everyone has their phones in their hands throughout the day, many checking in on social media to see what’s happening in their online world.

Why is that amazing, you ask?

It’s amazing because the very people I’m referring to could be using social media for more than personal use. They could be connecting with people and driving new business. Is this you?

Business is highly sociable! Imagine how much you would be interacting with your online contacts if you posted on your business platforms every time you picked up your phone to check your snaps, likes and replies.

Actually, the experts say you have to do the following 3 things (much less work than posting all day long) to have a successful social media presence for your business.

1. Make Sure Your Words Count

Posting for the sake of posting isn’t going to make you a thought leader in your space. It’s important to share quality content with your online peeps. This means not copying and pasting posts from ages ago or between feeds so that your social media reads like the proverbial broken record.

Be innovative, informative and entertaining. 

Look, I get it, it’s difficult coming up with content for a post once in a while, much less daily or even weekly. If you’re not a writer, how can you be expected to pull great content out of thin air? You’re being paid to do whatever it is that you do well. It’s difficult for writers to create pithy content on a dime!

Still, they ask you to supply content. Some tips to get the job done: create “lists” such as Top 3 X or 7 Reasons You Should Never X, find an article well worth reading and post a link with a few lines about why you recommend it or hire someone to write a blog post that you can promote. (If you opt for the latter, email Bari@HarmoniaMedia.com and we can talk about how to raise the quality level of your content!)

2. Be Picky About Your Social Media Interactions

It’s not unusual, in an effort to build a following, for someone to randomly look to connect with people or accept requests to connect. Bad idea. It’s important to make sure your connections are valuable for a few reasons. Here are three.

First, some intern at a company in a different market space than you won’t be able to help you, nor are they likely to be a customer.

Second, when people who need you look you up on social media, they are going to look at your friends, followers, connections, etc. Want to appear impressive? Be impressive by connecting with people who make sense to be a part of your digital world.

Third, the whole point of making connections in the social media world is to be interacting about topics that matter and will help advance your career or increase your sales, etc. If you are following the wrong people (not bad people, just people who can’t get you get where you want to go!) then you won’t have the opportunity to see posts from those who can help you or, better yet, want to engage in business with you or your company.

Again, a great idea might be to hire a company, like Harmonia Media, that can manage your “social media life” and make sure you are connected in a meaningful, prosperous way.

3. Post and Post Again!

This feels like a no brainer and almost so obvious we shouldn’t be discussing it. If you aren’t active (daily if possible!) on your chosen social media platforms you won’t see posts that could be the start of a great conversation, nor will people see anything from you. This is a big risk because consistent posting creates trust and keeps your company top of mind for prospects. If you aren’t there, you can’t be seen, right?

If you do the right things, social media can work its magic and drive potential clients right to your website. Getting lazy will do the opposite. Or at the very least, it will do absolutely nothing for your company.

Instead, make an investment in social media and get in on the conversation. Everyone is doing it. And, if all your clients and prospects are doing it, that’s not only where you want to be, it’s where you NEED to be to grow your business.

Need content, social media or other digital marketing assistance? Contact Harmonia Media for a free consultation at team@harmoniamedia.com or fill out our convenient online contact form.

Why You Need to Upgrade SEO on Your Website

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SEO, or search engine optimization, is a critical piece of the digital marketing puzzle. Without a great SEO strategy, one that gets reviewed and tweaked often, your website won’t come up in searches on Google, Bing or any other browser.

Neil Patel, New York Times bestselling author and top web marketing influencer, said, “75 percent of people will never scroll past the first page on a Google search.”

In the same article, Patel joked, “Where should you bury something that you don’t want people to find? Answer: On the second page of Google!” Hahahaha!

Bottom line: Your website needs to rank on the first page of Google. And the only way you’re going to get to page one is by partnering with a digital marketing agency that rocks SEO strategy–organic and paid.

Not yet convinced? Here’s some more benefits of SEO:

Want more high-quality leads? You need SEO.

Search Engine Optimization is the most strategic way to drive high-quality leads. 

Need to measure ROI?

You need SEO.

Worried you’re writing checks that your website metrics can’t cash? When you upgrade your SEO, you can measure, improve and re-evaluate your Analytics. You will always be able to know which keywords worked best, how many people clicked to your site and even how long visitors stayed on each page!

Want to beat out your competition?

You guessed it! You need SEO.

You know you have competition.  I’m hard-pressed to think of a company that makes/ sells a product or service that isn’t available for purchase in all types of sizes, colors, flavors, etc. (Maybe NASA?) If your company’s site has been optimized for search and a competitor’s hasn’t been, it’s fairly clear which website will be getting more traffic. SEO, in this case, is a huge billboard to your website. With a lack of well designed “billboards” from the competition, clients will be directed to you!

SEO Is Always Working

Let’s say you sell high-end cutlery. Customers are not always focused on buying new knives, are they? However, where do you want to be when someone is on the market for some new steak knives? Top of Mind! With great SEO, your website will be a go-to option whenever your customer is ready!

These are only a few of the reasons why every company with a website should invest in best-practices SEO.

Harmonia Media would love to help your website get to Page 1 on Google. Let’s jump on a call to discuss how we can help drive paying customers your way. 

Nurturing Emails Keep Your Company and Products Top of Mind

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(This is the second blog post in a multi-part series about the many wonders of content marketing. Read the first blog, “High Quality Content Supports Sales Teams,” here. The third part of the series will focus on the importance of providing online customers with the highest quality service.)

When I get spun up over someone or something that is getting in my way, my fiance often suggests I act like a goldfish. Goldfish have an average attention span of a measly nine seconds. If you can act like a goldfish, you will be able to “let things go” and move on from stressors quickly.

And, while this goldfish advice may, in the moment, take me from an eight to a 15 on the stressed-out scale, I’ve found it actually works eventually. When I can do it, I slowly drift back to my normal level of six.

And, now, for a really frightening statistic! A new Microsoft report says people actually have less of an attention span than a goldfish. The study says the average Internet user loses concentration after viewing something for only eight seconds! With all the constant more, more, more information coming at us, it makes sense that our brains have to pick and choose–super fast–what to spend our precious time on.

Why should you care about goldfish and attention span averages? Simply put, if you don’t grab the attention of your website visitor/blog reader/online store shopper immediately when they land on your page, they’ll be gone. Poof. On to the next website, likely to one of your competitors.

The topic of making sure all of your content is high quality to delight and intrigue visitors/prospective customers (and keep search engines like Google happy) has been covered many times on the Harmonia Media blog. Check out this article or this one and even Part 1 of this series, “High-Quality Content Supports Sales Teams” for details.

Or, send me an email at Bari@harmoniamedia.com to discuss your website content and how we can keep visitors from bouncing!

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After They Bounce or Buy…

These are two very different groups of people most of the time. But not always. In fact, statistics say people will visit a website many times before making a purchase.

So, if someone comes to your website and bounces fast, they may be the one that got away.

However, if you already have their information from a previous contact, they may just be circling the fish bowl and need some incentive to bite.

You need to lure them back to the hook! Or offer an irresistible Call to Action (CTA) in digital marketing speak!

Either way, if you have email addresses from people who have opted in to receive messages from your company (or phone numbers for texting purposes), you are sitting on a gold mine. (Wish I had a fish reference to use here. Oh, well…. As I was saying….)

Nurturing email campaigns offer an amazing opportunity to get in touch and stay top of mind and be there when people do need what you are selling. Receiving an email from you that makes them laugh or gives them a nugget of good information (news they can use!) is a great way to say, essentially, “Hey, don’t forget about us! We are still here! Reach out when you need us!) You can even include a few links back to your website and maybe one to a buy-now offer.

But, be careful. If you are sending emails to your list that come across as ads, you will get more “unsubscribes” than anything else. People don’t want to know more about you; if they do they will find out on your site or contact you.

They want to know that you understand them, that you feel their pain or problem and have a solution that will ease it or solve it.

Let me repeat that in another way. Whatever you sell, be it a product or service, you know competition for customers is quite fierce in the marketplace. How will you stand out? The best way is to make customers feel that you understand their needs and that your product or service will help them overcome their challenges. You want them to immediately say to themselves: “THIS is what I need!”

It’s about the customers, not your company. Get it? It’s kind of like “if you build it they will come”–as long as you don’t hit them over the head with the bat.

Email Nurturing Funnels

The bottom line, you need to identify the type of people in your email database. Can you group them by the product they purchased or what they inquired about previously?

If you can do this, create email marketing funnels that speak to particular pain points. For example, if you sell nutritional supplements and you offer weight loss products as well as protein shakes for athletes, don’t mix up your messages. Anyone interested in weight loss will likely not be buying a high-calorie shake anytime soon. And, vice versa.

If you aren’t able to separate your audiences into email marketing funnels, focus on more universal topics in your eNewsletter and add a few links to attract various parts of your audience.

Why You Need an Email Nurturing Campaign

It’s cheaper to keep her, that’s why. It’s far easier to sell to a customer who has already purchased from you than to acquire a new lead and convince them to buy. (Besides you are doing the latter with other digital marketing strategies anyway. Right now, we are talking about staying in touch with existing customers!)

If you are feeling overwhelmed at the thought of creating email nurturing funnels, why not consider allowing Harmonia Media to do the heavy lifting? Contact us now for a free phone consultation.

No obligation other than to tell us your pain points so we can figure out the best solution within your budget. Email team@harmoniamedia.com or call (800) 531-3704.

High Quality Content Supports Sales Teams

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If you dig up an old college business book, you would likely find plenty of information about “sales and marketing” teams–how they work hand-in-hand to advance company sales goals.

More recently, however, and certainly since the dawn of the Digital Age, the two groups have been a bit more segregated. One seems responsible for meeting bottom line goals and the other has the job of “getting the word out” and making sure branding sticks.

Need help with branding? You’re not alone! Many companies rely on the “hope” strategy (as in, let’s hope people find us online.) Hope doesn’t work.  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and great content are the digital strategy you need to get your brand out there

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While both sales and marketing teams do have many different methods of reaching goals, marketing–specifically content marketing – has the job of, let’s say, “leading the horse to water.” (It’s the sales team’s job to make them drink.)

That being said, high-quality digital content, important for both Google and User Experience (UX), has to veer into the sales lane quite a bit when it comes to actually convincing a website visitor to take action. That’s why all those “buy now,” “click here,” “download this” buttons are examples of what digital marketers refer to as “calls to action.”

Simply put, great content intrigues and offers information and insight into more than just the product but how the product solves the customer’s problem. Content also does more than simply inform; it has to connect with the prospective customer so they want to buy from this particular website, now…as opposed to continuing their research and possibly making the decision to buy on the competition’s website.

So, content helps get the customer to the transaction, sales closes the deal, but there’s one more part of the puzzle that is extremely important. And, funny enough, it circles back to great content once again. (They don’t say “Content is King” for nothing!)

Customer service and strong customer nurturing are both critical to keeping customers happy. According to Superoffice.com, “customers no longer base their loyalty on price or product. Instead, they stay loyal with companies due to the experience they receive. If you cannot keep up with their increasing demands, your customers will leave you.”

But, how does a company keep customers “happy” when everything is transactional? Long gone are the days of “face to face” sales for the most part–certainly as it relates to online shopping.

This is where the three pathways converge. The content marketing team and customer service can support the sales team, digitally and by phone/chat, respectively.

In the next segment of this multi-part blog series, we will focus on how nurturing emails keep your company and product top of mind for customers. Look out for it next week!

In the meantime, Harmonia Media is looking for companies, like yours, that want to improve their user experience online and nurture their prospects and customers so they not only remain loyal but they brag about you to their friends and family.

If you are willing to jump on a quick consultation call–FREE of Charge–to see if there are ways we can help you grow your business online, click here and fill out our convenient online contact form. 

Budget-Friendly Web Companies Exist

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Why are we giving this to you for free? Because goodwill and sound advice go a long way in this ever-changing business world. And we hope once you get a look at your website’s “back end,” you’ll consider jumping on a call and finding out how Harmonia Media can help you increase web business.

If your website isn’t driving the customer traffic you want (or that it used to), you owe it to your bottom line to find a new digital marketing company that will steer the ship back on course. 

  • Maybe your site needs some back end tweaks?
  • Maybe it’s time for a website redesign?
  • Maybe the content isn’t driving customer interest?
  • Maybe you need to nurture your leads?

When the list of “maybes” goes on and on but your budget doesn’t, we can help.

You don’t know what you don’t know. But Harmonia Media will help you make sense of it all and, on your say so, prepare an affordable digital marketing strategy that will not only drive traffic but sales!

Harmonia Media has been recognized as one of the Top New York Web Development Agencies by Designrush

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