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The Best Social Media Platforms for Small Businesses
Mar 25, 2021Do you remember when MySpace was a thing? If you do, can we borrow your walker and join you for your 4 pm meal at the retirement home? Maybe you could offer us a hard candy on our way to play bingo, where you can tell us all about growing up during the great depression. Ow, my back. We’re just…
5 Ways to Level Up Your Digital Marketing for 2021
Jan 28, 2021Well, so long, 2020. It’s been weird knowing you. Let’s hope that your successor is a bit gentler and more predictable. Speaking of predictability, at FirstPage Marketing, we like to look ahead at what some of the biggest upcoming opportunities in digital marketing might be so that we can make great recommendations for our clients. To that end, we wanted…
How to Determine the Price of a Website
Nov 30, 2020Website costs can seem complicated. When looking at different types of websites and pricing things out, you might discover that some websites cost a few dozen dollars to get started with while others can cost tens of thousands. Why is there such a massive discrepancy between website budgets? If a person can build their own website for less than $100,…
Why is User Experience Important?
Nov 19, 2020User experience (UX) can help fulfill the users’ needs and your business’ online goals by creating a fast, easy-to-use product or service that improves user engagement, drives conversions, and encourages repeat visitors. Great UX goes beyond the visual elements of web design to plan out how users will interact with the website in order to get them to convert by…
What is Custom Web Development?
Nov 06, 2020While most people tend to think that having a custom website designed for their business purely focuses on the overall aesthetics, website design is only half of the process of building a new website. Custom web development—the other half of the process—is where the artistic ideas are transformed into a fully functioning website. Working closely with a team of web…
What You Need to Know About Online Payment Gateways
Oct 15, 2020We’ve come a long way from bartering goats for grain in terms of how we make retail transactions as humans. One of the best innovations over the past few decades in the realm of convenient trade is online retail and the convenience of the payment gateways they use. Who doesn’t like being able to get food from the best restaurants…
What is a Domain Name and How does it Work?
Sep 23, 2020Domain names, internet protocol, control panels, URL, FTP, DNS… if your mind just turned into a glazed donut at the mention of these arcane terms, we don’t blame you. Understanding internet jargon can be overwhelming, but it is useful to understand what domain names are and how they work if you have a website so that you can know how…
5 Reasons to Invest in a Digital Marketing Strategy
Sep 17, 2020Defining business goals and how those goals will be achieved in a strong marketing strategy will make it much easier for a business to become successful. This is because seeing business goals clearly defined will ensure that the business owner or management team is able to hold themselves accountable for meeting those goals. If you are unsure about the different…
How to Lower Your Website’s Bounce Rate
Sep 02, 2020You were once so proud of your website. It was a well performing business tool that people easily found online, leading to new clients signing up and sales being made. Fast forward to today, and it is now a struggle to get potential customers to act. In other words, potential customers are finding your website and then immediately leaving. This…
Debunking Facebook Pixel Myths
Sep 01, 2020What if we told you that there was a tool that would allow you to specifically target your company’s advertisements at the people who were most likely to be interested in your services or products using their personal information? Is it too good to be true, or does it kinda give you the willies? The fact that social media ads…