Sherpa! Names Digital Communications Strategist

Sherpa! Web Studios has appointed Alan Williams as its Digital Communications Strategist to spearhead communications and content development tactics across its expanding portfolio of rapidly growing clients. The addition of Williams is central to Sherpa!’s digital mission to increase, nurture, and convert opportunities with targeted communications and thought leadership, the new frontier for search marketing and social media. [...]

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Can your business be found online?

Fact: 44% of small businesses have a website and half spend less than 10% of their marketing budget online. Fact: 82% of consumers and small business owners turn to search engines first for information about local companies. The disparity of these two numbers are striking, but our “from the ground” perspective supports them. There is [...]

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Good Email Subject Lines

A list of good email subject lines. What do all good email subject lines have in common? Good email subject lines put the company name in the FROM name, not the subject line. Yes to a company name, no to an individual’s or marketing program. And if they don’t know your company name, maybe you [...]

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Evite needs to go away.

Instead, try ILCU, Renkoo, Planypus, MyPunchBowl. Some are more glitzy and attractive, others are so circa 1998 that it is laughable. Let’s call this Web 1.0 Beta. Evite Evite is about an event dictator sending out an online invitation to a group of “friend’s” email addresses. Sure, the “friends” are allowed a brief witty comment, [...]

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How do you market to the Virtual Generation?

Marketers used to have it easy. For over half a century, all of these demographics are conveniently defined by age. There were the Baby Boomers–those born between 1946 and 1964. They had the unique advertising/marketing Coming of Age experience of being raised with television sets in their homes. Then there was Generation X — the [...]

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