Matt Gottesman Shares How to Increase Traffic to Your Website

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Are you having trouble driving traffic to your website?  In this weeks episode of Ignition,  Matt Gottesman, expert in digital marketing, shares how businesses can use one common tactic to increase traffic to their site. This is box titleQuestion of the Week: My business sells surfing gear online. We get a respectful number of return customers...

Create a Strong Digital Footprint By Utilizing Your Digital Channels the Right Way

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] How Americans (and the rest of world, which is quickly catching up) interact with technology is a remarkable transformation, circa 2014. According to a ComScore release, mobile app usage has exploded, leading online publishers are posting revenues that should shame traditional print industry, and traditional TV ratings saw pronounced declines with...

McDonald’s Franchise Owner Jim Lewis on Building Brand Trust, Creating a Culture and Building a Winning Team

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Two of the biggest struggles most small business face are building a trusted brand and hiring the right people that will enforce that brand. The two go hand-in-hand and can constantly teeter on good or bad depending on the experience your customer has. You can spend tremendous amounts of time and dollars...

11 Big Tips for A Perfect Pitch On Shark Tank or Anywhere from #GROWCO15

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Shark Tank is awesome. Millions of us watch each week as the entrepreneurs brave the glare of the studio lights and the 5 sharks. It's great entertainment, but more so, it's chock full of great lessons for entrepreneurs, professionals and everyone in between. At #GROWCO15, INC magazines three day event for entrepreneurs,...

11 Reasons to Consider Bringing on a SEO Expert

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Should my growing company hire an SEO Expert? Why or why not? The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses. [Tweet "Find out if your #business...

Six Shark Principles That Are Key to Unlocking Infusionsoft Success

Ever wonder what technologies Daymond John, from ABC’s “Shark Tank” uses to grow his Shark Tank companies? While there are many technologies out there to grow small businesses, one of our premiere software partners, the one that outshine the rest, is Infusionsoft. Infusionsoft allows us to get organized, grow sales and, ultimately, save time....

4 Golden Rules of Driving Traffic to Your Blog the Natural Way

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] So, you want to launch a blog, but aren’t sure where to start?  You’re not alone. There are literally thousands of blogs that are started on a daily basis, so how do you get yours to stand out from the crowd? Photo credit: Northeastern University   With 78% of marketing officers believing that...

Why I Love Insignificant Things (And You Should Too)

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] I spend a lot of time observing insignificant things. The only reason I first realized this was because of an annual ritual I started more than five years ago where I would collect these bits of insignificance and arrange them into curated ideas that I felt described a shift in how consumers...

Ignition Video Series: Pamela Slim on How to Turn Writing Into a Business

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"] Infusionsoft just recently launched their new video series, Ignition, a fun and informative way to answer small business owner's questions about running and growing a small business. Each week, the show tackles one question from their viewership and brings a successful entrepreneur / business expert into their "success lab" to help answer. In this episode,...

Goodvidio CEO Dimitrios Kourtesis

GoodVidio: The Startup Story of Entrepreneur Dimitrios Kourtesis

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]About 10 minutes after landing in Austin, TX for SXSW, I met Dimitrios Kourtesis, CEO and Co-founder of retail video engagement curation platform GoodVidio. GoodVidio is a product that helps online retailers engage and convert their customers, by improving their product pages with high-quality video content that has already been put on social...