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Google Analytics Is Updating from Universal Analytics To GA4

Here’s Navigator Multimedia’s Guide To Help You With The Switch Google Analytics is one of the most important tools for online marketing and analyzing website performance. As the way we navigate the web changes, Google Analytics needs to adapt accordingly....

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Holiday Sales-Boosting Blog Tip: Write A Gift Guide

Amidst year-end reports, crafting an all-appeasing staff vacation schedule, negotiating with the holiday event planner for that last cheese plate, and scrawling personalized messages on seven-dozen client greeting cards, there’s your business blog, demanding more attention than Santa at the...

The Easy (And Often Overlooked) Way To Improve Your Social Media Marketing

Ready for the web marketing advice equivalent of coming in from an icy snowstorm to the warmth of a wool blanket and a steaming cup of hot chocolate? Here it is: You can significantly improve your social media marketing efforts...

Outsourcing Social for Small Business: The Good and the Bad

Here’s a dream for you: You’re driving home from work when suddenly you remember the Twitter profile you meant to set up today for your small business. The task has nagged at you for weeks, but you’ve always found something...

's Why To Avoid Marketese Online

Plain Language, Please! Here's Why To Avoid "Marketese" Online

You see “marketese” splattered all over the Internet. Just about everybody uses it. But that doesn’t make it right. “Marketese” is “the promotional writing style with boastful subjective claims,” according to web usability master Jakob Nielsen. Chock-full of hyperbole and...

5 Excruciating Signs It's Time To Update Your Website

The mullet. Short at the front and sides, long and wavy in the back. During it’s prime in the eighties, the mullet hairstyle broke hearts and commanded respect. And then something changed. Time passed. Hairstyles evolved. Tastes shifted. The mullet...

15 Online Marketing Blogs With All The Good Stuff

15 Online Marketing Blogs With All The Good Stuff

It’s a cruel, cruel summer when you have a business to run. While the rest of the world goes on camping trips and grazes in the sun, you’re stuck inside, getting pastier by the minute.  By the time Friday finally...

How To Make Online Marketing Work For Your Small Business

How To Make Online Marketing Work For Your Small Business

If only marketing your business online was as easy as taking a broken vehicle to a mechanic. “Fix it,” you’d say. “Alrighty, then,” the mechanic would respond. A couple hours later, you’d walk out with an oiled-up online presence that...

Plain Language, Please! What is ‘Newsjacking

Plain Language, Please! What is 'Newsjacking'?

Though the name sounds slightly evil, newsjacking is a content marketing strategy with good intentions – to boost leads online. When the conditions are right, the payoff for a great piece of newsjacked content can be huge. We’re talking significant...

So You Wanna be an Online Authority? Here's How to Get Started [Part 2]

Do you ever look back on your career and wonder, “How did I get here?” You might chalk it up to dumb luck. Maybe you just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Or maybe, just...

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So You Wanna be an Online Authority? Here's How to Get Started [Part 1]

Tough love. It’s usually not my style around here. But previously when we were talking about the authority-boosting Google algorithm change, I got a bit snarky on the subject of “boring” industries. “Ah, your industry is ‘boring’? Right.  Sounds like an...

5 Cool Ways to Promote Your Business on Instagram

5 Cool Ways to Promote Your Business on Instagram

Remember the popular kids in high school? You thought they were so cool because they always appeared to be having the most fun. They were probably having about as much fun as you were, but what you saw on the...

6 Tips For Getting Started on Instagram

6 Tips For Getting Started on Instagram

Remember when Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock?  Zuckerberg and co. was on to something: the power of visual social media. Instagram is an online photo sharing and social media service that lets you take pictures with...