SEO and Social Media Strategy Questions You Should Be Asking

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Q: When looking at our marketing spend, what’s more important for digital growth: SEO or social media?

Before consulting, I made my living as an editor in media. Each job I held taught me the same lesson: Digital growth is not about manipulating tools like search engine optimization (SEO) and social media. It’s about using them to reach customers. Then it’s your job to create a sustainable relationship off of those platforms.

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The Pros and Cons of Custom Software vs. Off-the-Shelf Solutions

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Yes, there are many considerations that make up “business needs,” and they span functionality, budget, return-on-investment, and so forth. But even if a piece of software is given to you for free, if it does not meet any of your needs or address your challenges it is effectively worthless and – worse – could actually cost you in the form of retraining staff, changing your processes to adapt to the software, and so on. This is where the question of a solution that that may  or may not need custom software

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