Five SEO Misconceptions and the Truths Behind Them

Eastern Iowa Business Website SEO

There are a lot of misconceptions about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and what it can realistically do to drive your website’s traffic. If you are going to invest your time, energy and money into SEO, it probably makes sense for you to understand some of the basics and avoid the scams. Following are five of […]

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Social Media: The Great Equalizer for Small Businesses

Social Media for Quad City Businesses

Note: This article originally appeared as a guest post for Grow Your Enterprise. Never A Better Time If you’re a small business owner, you’ve probably, at some point, debated with yourself on whether or not to do social media. Depending on how your internal debate went, you may be doing some already. At Frontera Marketing […]

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Does Social Media Fit into the Traditional Marketing Mix (4 P’s)?

Iowa Social Media Business Marketing

Is the Marketing Mix Still Relevant The 4 P’s of Marketing, or Marketing Mix, have been the traditional building blocks of the marketing foundation since the early 1950’s. While there have been changes and additions, these pillars have generally stood the test of time and remain key pillars in the science of marketing. The question […]

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Why Large Companies Have Problems with Social Media

Quad City Business Social Media

Emerging Patterns We engage in Marketing activities with a variety of companies and our work crosses a number of boundaries with regard to industry and available resources. Additionally, we’re fortunate to work with companies of varying sizes from start-ups to large and established entities. Over time, a number of patterns have emerged and one of […]

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Social Media Use in Business: Social Customer Service

Quad Cities Social Media for Customer Service

Ready or Not…Here it Comes Social Media as Customer Service function is an area that is developing very rapidly.  This presents a number of challenges for all types of businesses as many don’t have a Social Media strategy and, more specifically, they don’t have a specific plan for Social Customer Service. Our advice to clients […]

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Why You Need a Digital & Social Media Marketing Plan [Infographic]

Digital & Social Media Marketing Explosion Regardless of the size of your business or brand, it is more important now than ever before to have a Digital and Social Media Marketing component as part of your overall marketing plan. It should come as no surprise to anyone not living on a deserted island that the […]

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Don’t Treat Twitter Like Facebook

Twitter and Facebook Marketing Iowa

No One Knows It All We’re a marketing company and we do a lot of Social Media. Believe it or not, people actually pay us to do it! You might be thinking, big deal. Right? Anyone can do Social Media and you don’t need to be an agency to know what you’re doing. To a […]

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Top 3 Reasons Your Business Needs Social Media

Social Media for Iowa Businesses

Good for All Types of Businesses We interact with a lot of businesses in the course of our work and it would probably surprise you to find out how many of them don’t have a Social Media presence. What is even more surprising is how many of them have no intention of establishing such a […]

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Good, Better and Best Backlinks for SEO

Quad City Website Backlinks

Better To Have Than Not Backlinks are like lifelines for your website. They bring help in the form of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by aligning your site with other high traffic sites. Backlinks are basically an endorsement of your website by the referring website. While certain types of backlinks are clearly better than others, as […]

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