As a healthcare professional, you’re busy focusing on your patients. But if you’re trying to scale your practice, you’re likely also trying to focus on digital marketing as well — and juggling both can be a demanding task. At Mod Girl Marketing, we hear from a lot of healthcare practices who want to do more with their website, social media presence, email marketing, and more, but simply don’t have the time. But they’re also not ready to hire a full-time marketing team. That’s where a digital marketing consultant comes in. With a digital marketing agency by your side, you get all the knowledge of a team of full-time marketing employees, without the expense or hassle of overseeing them. Find out why a digital marketing consultant can be the key to scaling your practice below. Ready to transform your healthcare practice? Discover how we helped one plastic surgeon increase her leads […]
Updated October 3, 2018 Determining how to market your business online is a difficult decision – and one that can have big (not to mention, expensive) consequences affecting your bottom line. Deciding between hiring a team of in-house marketers or hiring a marketing agency does not just come down to price, but maximum efficiency. Having worked with numerous clients over the years as the founder and CEO of my own marketing agency, Mod Girl Marketing, I’m familiar with the pros and cons of hiring a marketing agency over a team of in-house marketers. But don’t just take my word for it! I reached out to fellow marketers and business owners on LinkedIn to get their perspective as well. Check out what they had to say by clicking on the comments below: 8 Benefits of Hiring A Marketing Agency Over In-House Marketers Here are 8 benefits of hiring a marketing agency – […]
Updated September 6, 2018. If you send email for your business, then you’ve likely spent time attempting to increase email open rates. But it’s not always as simple as changing a subject line or moving a CTA. The challenge of trying to increase email open rates can be frustrating, but the statistics show that it is worth the effort: – Three-quarters of companies agree that email offers “excellent” to “good” ROI – About 49% of businesses use some form of email automation – 86% of professionals prefer to use email when communicating for business purposes – Active email accounts are expected to hit 5.6 billion by 2019 A “good” open rate and click-through rate for your email marketing campaign is relative, of course. Below you’ll see some of the industry averages so you can compare how your emails are performing: Image Source Now that you have some idea of how you’re […]
Before we launch into repurposing tactics, let’s get a few things straight. First, repurposing content is not lazy writing; it’s smart marketing! Not only are you lowering content costs and production time, but you’re also cross-promoting different types of content across multiple channels to reach new audiences and capitalizing / expanding upon hot topics that your audience wants to read about in greater depth. As Marketing Genius Seth Godin points out: “Delivering your message in different ways, over time, not only increases retention and impact, but it gives you the chance to describe what you’re doing from several angles.” Secondly, repurposing content is not a practice reserved for small, cash-strapped brands only. Sure, in some cases, you can get more mileage out of your blog by taking a couple minutes to re-post on social media or blast the message out to your email subscribers — and it doesn’t cost you another […]
Marketing automation is a crucial need. Business owners understand that marketing automation is the key to improving lead management and company growth. They know that software will help with email marketing, lead tracking, drip campaigns and sales follow-up. Yet, where to get started and how to ameliorate the dreaded learning curve is something that many smart executives struggle with. A recent survey by Gartner’s Software Advice found that nearly half of small businesses still rely on manual data entry for their online marketing, but 98% are now shopping for marketing automation software. Many of the large, competitive businesses Mod Girl Marketing works with are already using marketing automation software by top firms like SaS, HubSpot, InfusionSoft, Salesforce, Marketo and Act-On, but are still learning how to get the most from these programs, particularly when it comes to lead generation. As you well know, modern marketing has evolved and targeted traffic is the key […]
The Content Marketing Institute reports that “70% of B2B marketers are creating more content than they did one year ago, even those who say they are least effective (58%) and those without any type of strategy (56%).” In 2015, only 38% of B2B marketers rated themselves as “effective” at content marketing — which is down from 42% last year. Most marketers seem to think they are not completely ineffective — but rather, fall somewhere in the middle. As an experienced digital marketing firm, we’ve seen all manners of content — the good, the bad and the ugly. We’ve worked with some amazing companies that just needed the right presentation of their brand to boost their bottom line and gain more customers. Good B2B content is informative, unique, inspires action, and attracts an eager audience that is most ready to buy. Easier said than done, though, right?! In today’s post, we’ll take […]
We’re not necessarily “outraged” or “offended” by GoDaddy’s latest Super Bowl attempt — but, as marketers, we do find it truly thought-provoking. One has to wonder, “What were they thinking?” We’ll get to that in a moment, but here’s a quick recap to get you up-to-speed on what’s been happening: The 2015 GoDaddy Super Bowl ad depicts an adorable Golden Retriever puppy who falls out of a box from the back of a pickup truck and races through the rain back to his home — only to find that he’s been sold on a website built by GoDaddy! “Ship him out!” the presumed Backyard Breeder orders the delivery driver — who happens to be race car driver Danica Patrick. Needless to say, the animal rights activists were all over this one. “Journey Home” previewed Monday morning on the Today show; by Tuesday evening, a Change.org petition had over 42,000 signatures calling for the […]
To an innocent bystander, Search Engine Optimization seems like a complex sort of wizardry that brings a website from virtual obscurity to the top page of Google results. Even from the inside of this industry, we have to agree. There are a dazzling array of different items that go into the pot when cooking up just the right algorithm to attract Google’s wandering eye. Social media has become one of the most important ingredients in recent years, as you can plainly see in this infographic: Here are eight of the most important ways social media affects SEO: 1. Social media helps your site get indexed faster. Search engines find websites quickest when there are a lot of links acting as arrows, pointing to content that matters. It’s as if every person who re-tweets your content is saying, “Hey, check this is out, Google!” A study by SEOMoz found that a […]
According to a widely-cited Forrester Research report from 2008, most corporate blogs are “dull, drab, and don’t stimulate conversation.” Ouch! Furthermore, they found that two-thirds of corporate blogs hardly ever get comments, 70% stick strictly to business topics, and 56% just republish press releases or already public news! Many of the worst business blogs in 2008 have since cleaned up their acts in 2014. (Orbitz being one of them!) In today’s post, the Mod Girl team shares 8 tips for corporate content marketing success. 1. Content is not just “marketing.” It’s a valuable revenue stream. When we think of “publishers,” we think of newspapers, magazines, and book publishers. Yet, these days, any business can be a “publisher” even if it is not considered to be one’s central business. If you were to ask Hubspot “what they do,” they would tell you they “create software for business marketing.” Yet, they also publish e-books […]
The dream of every writer is to get as many eyes on a piece of written content as possible. Nothing is better than a blog that has “gone viral.” After a small amount of effort, fan sharing and buzz is the gift that keeps on giving long after the pen has been put down. So how does one encourage friends to become content-sharing fans? The answers are surprisingly simple. Check out this great infographic by Mari Smith on ways to boost Facebook shares: Here are #8ways to get more social media shares: 1. Do your homework. Nothing beats ORIGINAL, INTERESTING, INFORMATIVE content. Naturally, people want to share something they like. One of our writers helped a client bring in over 5,000 visitors literally overnight by writing a well-researched piece about Zumba Dance injuries that was picked up by Zumba instructors on Facebook and shared to the masses. The post really […]