Today I will be covering lawn care franchises and most importantly how to run a successful lawn care franchise. Which is very important and I can guarantee this post will be very beneficial for any franchisees. And maybe even people looking to invest in to a franchise in the gardening industry. First of all it would not be true if I said that the gardening sector in the UK is not massive. It is a very big market and i [...]
Franchise opportunities UK Franchises can be found in almost every corner of UK industry with hundreds of thousands of people now employed by franchise operations across the country. Last year franchises contributed an impressive £15.1 billion to the UK economy, a figure that’s increased by a staggering 10% in just five years. With the number of franchises operating across the country rapidly increasing, the number of franchise business opportunities in UK industry is also on the up. From cosmetic car repairs [...]
As you look to expand the reach of your business to customers in different countries, your website setup and the content you have in place will need to change and evolve. Before you even begin thinking about content localization and local keywords for each market, the technical setup of your website needs to be considered. The first step of this process is domain strategy. What domain you use when targeting local markets can impact how your site performs. There are a [...]
Earlier this month, Google rolled out the beta version of its new and improved Search Console to all verified users. Google has been testing the new Search Console for some months now, with a select number of users given early access to the beta. We’ve had sneak peeks at the slick, clean interface, and heard about some of the notable additions, such as the much-vaunted 16 months of historical search data now available to SEOs. The new Search Console is still in beta, [...]
Let’s set the scene. You’ve signed up to Google Adwords, entered your payment details, maybe even created a few ads and got to grips with the different types of matches for keywords. You may even have gone ahead and sent your ads live. Easy enough. But you are fully aware that it doesn’t end there. PPC can be an expensive hobby and you’re determined that your PPC campaign will become a valuable marketing channel rather than a resented, money-burning pastime. In order [...]
Organic success on Facebook may have become harder for brands in the past few years – and will become all the more so with the upcoming change to its News Feed – but the same doesn’t necessarily apply to its paid advertising options. Facebook has seriously invested in presenting a large number of options for marketers and business owners who want to promote their content to reach the right audience. It’s a highly effective tool for reaching out to audiences, as long as [...]
We all know by now that mobile has had a tremendous impact on our lives as consumers and as marketers. What we are still getting our collective heads around is what this change means for us as marketers. Consumers have different expectations of the information they want when they search for “running shoes” at 9am from their desktop at work, versus “running shoes” at 6pm on their iPhone two miles away from a store. We as marketers needs to consider these expectations and deliver [...]
Earlier this week, Searchmetrics published its fourth annual Winners and Losers Report, which reveals how certain sites fared in organic search visibility on Google.com during 2017. Searchmetrics bases its analysis on a unique indicator known as ‘SEO visibility’, which it uses to measure a webpage’s performance in organic search. This is not the same as organic search ranking, but aims to give an overview of how often a website shows up in search results, based on “search volume and the position [...]
Paid media transparency has become an increasingly pressing industry issue over the last few years. In January 2017, Chief Brand Officer of Procter & Gamble (P&G) Marc Pritchard drew attention to the issue of dishonest agency advertising practices, after an unpleasant surprise in its dealings with one agency led to the company reviewing all of its media-agency contacts. Just two months later, the issue of transparency and brand safety in programmatic advertising came to a prominent head, when a number of [...]
In today’s interconnected and technology-dependent world, businesses can no longer afford to stay away from mobile. With roughly three-quarters of Americans owning a smartphone, and mobile conversions being up 64% compared to desktops, businesses have no choice but to adjust their digital marketing campaigns to the new reality of mobile-driven marketing. An efficiently launched and well-run mobile marketing campaign can become pivotal in impacting SERPs, traffic, user engagement, and conversions. It is definitely one of a few crucial areas, along with [...]
