At Maudience, we deal with a lot of businesses in the corridor. We work with companies of all sizes from national brands all they way to newly opened businesses. It is fascinating to learn about their work and how they conduct their business. Each company has specific ideas that they want for their websites and […]
Millennials, Generation Y, Echo Boomers, call us whatever you want. By us I mean anyone born in the mid-1980’s to the early 1990’s. Our generation is often viewed as the tech-savvy kids, as we grew up using computers in school and had smartphones introduced to us as teenagers (there’s a scary thought). Some negative views […]
We keep running into businesses who are spending huge amounts of money in search advertising. Nothing wrong with that, it’s just as an Iowa web-design company, we find horrible amounts of waste. Recently, one particular company we found was spending in excess of $20,000 per month in search marketing. Sure, it’s a highly competitive market […]
If you work in marketing your eye is more keen to noticing the faults as well as the creative pieces in every advertisement and website you come across. An example of this would be Super Bowl commercials. I remember my favorite one from the game this year, which you may or may not remember. Click […]
“I Tried It And It Didn’t Work.” It’s the phrase less-than-overwhelmed advertisers often say when approached with a marketing idea. Accepting that you truly believe an idea didn’t work, here are some general questions to ask yourself: Why did you try it? Often, a new kind of ad campaign begins from an ill-timed need for new customers. […]
Today I was introduced to an article that peaked my interest, with the tag line “Social media post saved restaurant from closing”. The article talked about a local restaurant getting an increased amount of traffic seemingly all due to a Facebook post. Their business was slowly losing customers in the winter as it usually did, […]
There are typically three types of people when it comes to marketing and working out: the dedicated type, the sporadic type, and the tried it and don’t need it type. Iowa SEO.
In 1914, a little umbrella-carrying girl on a round box of table salt appeared and it never went away. For more than 100 years, the Morton’s salt color, shape, logo, and brand statement hasn’t changed. But their website has. It’s fresh, clean…updated and it works very well. The Kikkoman soy sauce bottle design first came […]
I grew up in a small town called Lost Nation in rural Iowa. It was a town of 400 people where almost everyone knew each other. Like most Iowa-born kids I was raised in a humbling manner where you get what you earn, and you support local business. Although I haven’t had many travels in […]
At Maudience, we hear time and time again how difficult it is for a company to find quality employees. It used to be so easy. If you had an opening, you called the newspaper and post it in the classifieds. If you got really crazy, you did this over multiple days and with bigger ads […]
You get what you pay for. A free website is just like anything else offered for free…there’s always a catch. It’s understandable that the word “free” still manages to attract as many people as it does. Given the considerations of a business website, we feel the word “free” undervalues what a true professional website design […]
I recently moved to North Liberty, IA to work for Maudience, an Iowa web design agency. For businesses in the area, this means I am a new potential customer who could use their service. I searched online for an apartment on my phone, tablet, and computer. Keep this in mind. I found an apartment after […]
In order to get Maudience off the ground two years ago, I was forced to walk door to door to businesses practically begging them to let us build them a website for money. The three main objections I would get were: 1. My site is okay, nobody goes to it anyways. 2. I don’t need […]
More than 60% of all searches on the internet now start on a mobile device. More shocking is the fact that 48% of the population uses a mobile device EXCLUSIVELY to research online. Those statistics don’t even include other non-PC devices like smart-TV’s and game consoles. The bottom line: Your business website must be optimized […]
Review your website A quick glance at your website isn’t what we mean. Step outside of your current bottle as owner or manager of your business and truly look at your website as a customer would. Would YOU do business with YOU based on your experience? Check your site on multiple devices…using the office computer […]
It’s almost March and to thousands of college seniors that means only 2 and a half months until the end of their college careers. Whether they are nervous because they haven’t found a post-graduation job or are ready to start their new career, none of them can completely know what comes next. Budgeting, denial, bills, […]
Sign Up and Install Google Webmasters Google Webmasters provides a starting point for gathering information without having to pay for SEO software. You’ll be able to see Search Traffic, HTML improvements, links to your site, bad URLs, and how your site is indexed. If there are any problems with your site, Google Webmasters will tell […]
If you weren’t able to make it to our Google Partner event yesterday at the North Liberty CoLab you can watch it at the link below anytime you want. The most interesting stat of the day was 97% of all people search online prior to making a purchase. Watch to find out more. Watch The […]
1. You think marketing is only advertising Not always. Marketing is the sum total of all that you do to create an impression in the mind of your customer…good and bad. Your sales process, your storefront, your employees, your website, your business card…everything you and your employees do develops an impression. Advertising is the outward […]
Local North Liberty marketing firm Maudience and Google will be hosting an event designed to help small businesses manage their online presence and target the searching public. This free event will be held at the North Liberty CoLab and will feature a video Q&A presentation with Google Managing Director Todd Rowe. Todd will talk about […]
The Before: I graduated from the University of Dubuque one semester early to pursue my career in Marketing. As my graduation grew near I kept hearing my former classmates give their two cents about life after college. The responses were on both ends of the spectrum, but seemingly nothing in between. “It is terrible, I […]
