How Important is a Website Homepage?
We spend a lot of time researching, planning, designing, testing, improving, editing, and updating the homepage of our clients’ websites, and why shouldn’t we? It’s the “main event” and the “key entry point” for new visitors to your website – isn’t it? At the risk of sounding like the internet geek that I am, I […]
How-To Successfully Market A Company in New Orleans
How-To Successfully Market A Company in New Orleans New Orleans is a mysterious city in ways that go beyond voodoo, above-ground cemeteries, swamp monsters, and secret recipes. Marketing in New Orleans for out-of-town ad agencies and other companies find our city both bewitching and perplexing. Why? Because, like Dennis Quaid said in that awful Cajun […]
Marketing In Covid Times: Is Your Brand Quarantined?
Navigate through the chaos of COVID-19 and avoid quarantining your brand by using the power of digital marketing – your communication lifeline. The first few months of 2020 have upended society in a way few people could imagine. Businesses, schools, and museums are closed. Restaurants are either closed, empty, or reduced to curbside service establishments. […]
Is DIYing Your Website A Good Idea?
Is DIYing Your Website A Good Idea? Thanks to Pinterest and HGTV, everybody’s into DIY (Do-It-Yourself) these days. We think that’s fine if you learn how to make a wreath for your front door or even remodel the bathroom, but trying to build your own website may be a bad idea. We’ve all heard […]
What To Do When Business Is Slow? Just Keep Rowing
For years now, my motto in life as well as in business has been, “If there is no wind, row.” If business is slow or failing to grow: Keep rowing. For us, the wind symbolizes a good team, good clients and good sales. We’ve discovered there will be times in business where the wind is […]
What is Geofencing and How Does It Work?
Remember mass marketing – when finding your target audience could be like standing at one end of the gym and trying to make a basket at the other end of the court? With tools like geofencing and remarketing, those days of “Hail Mary Marketing” are coming to an end. Businesses used to waste thousands of […]
Why You’re Website is Not Showing Up on Google
Why You’re Website is Not Showing Up on Google You know that cheerleader in high school you tripped all over yourself trying to impress, and, for about five minutes, thought was your girlfriend? One minute she made you feel like Maverick in Top Gun and the next like Steve Urkel? Google is just like her. […]
Top 10 Ideas to Achieve Digital Marketing Success in 2019
It’s never too early to get a jump on next year’s business plans or to start listing the goals you’d like to accomplish. And if digital marketing isn’t close to the top of that list, 2019 might get a little bumpy! Don’t worry, the team at Design the Planet has you covered. Each year we […]
How to Create Marketing Videos on a Budget
It’s likely you’ve heard by now that video marketing is the new sensation that’s sweeping the…well, globe! Recent data from Cisco anticipates that roughly 80% of all global Internet traffic will come from video content. In our current marketing environment, video content has become a necessity for many businesses attempting to reach their audience. What […]