“I don’t believe it…” Luke | “That is why you fail.” Yoda
It was New Years Day 2013 and on Spike TV was playing the iconic movie "The Empire Strikes Back". I personally take much of my own dogma from this film and the lessons and sayings of Jedi Master Yoda. The most memorable one is "Do or Do Not, There is No Try", which I...
How to get your advertising and inbound marketing to pay off for your business | Part I
This post is first in a series on how to get your advertising to pay off for your business. The hardest part of choosing how to spend your advertising dollars is determining what exactly you expect to receive from a program. Not all advertising or inbound marketing...
Shopify Responsive E-Commerce Website Design: What The Buzz Is All About
There are literally dozens of great ecommerce platforms to choose from, but one has emerged from the pack as the undisputed leader. Shopify Responsive Website Design has become incredibly popular in recent years, nearly doubling the sales of the next biggest dog in...
How to set up Google Author Rank / Authorship and Boost Your WordPress SEO
It is the age of the English Major. Content has always been king, but starting last year a new term called Content Marketing arose and major outlets such as Forbes Magazine went crazy hiring writers and blasting out content. Even major brands such as Coca-Cola have...
Joomla Web Development in Aurora Colorado
The Joomla Content Management System offers an easy-to-use platform for website design and management for individuals who have little to no design or coding experience. Currently, millions of websites around the world are built using Joomla CMS, mainly because it is...
5 Easy Things You Can Do To Better SEO WordPress Websites
WordPress offers a wide range of templates that are both intuitive and beautiful to look at. While that’s all well and good, the most important aspect of any website is making it so that it’s easy to find. So how does one do that? By simply optimizing your content...
The Top 5 Reasons to choose Responsive Joomla Website Design for your business
For the most part, we’re CMS agnostic – meaning we don’t necessarily have a preference what platform you decide to use – whether that is Joomla, WordPress or Drupal. But it’s important to know the differences between the three and choose the platform that works best...
Spread Your Business Culture Through Content Marketing
Everything your customer learns about your brand will come from an actual, firsthand encounter with your company, word of mouth or what they read online. Because so many brands are extremely active online, customers have become accustomed to making everything anyone...
Is there really a Google of Websites?
Google got its name from the mathematical term googol first coined by an eight year old in 1938. The term googol is a very large number 10 to the power of 100 OR 10 with 100 zeros. From Wikipedia: A googol is the large number 10100; that is, the digit 1 followed by...
The Best Way To Prevent Identity Theft and Computer Hacking
When out of the blue you receive an email, Facebook message, tweet or text that appears to be FROM those companies or your bank, do NOT under any circumstances click on the LINK in the message or email.
PERIOD.
Inbound Marketing 101 Marketing is a Science Are You Calculating ROI and ROE ?
Have your hired someone to do some "Social Media Marketing" for your business? Do you have a staff of writers producing "Killer Content"? Does the Inbound Marketing Agency you hired at the end of the month tell you, "We have MANY more followers! The Blog...
Inbound Marketing 101 People Buy From You Because They Trust You
When asked, "What is the #1 reason why someone would buy your product or service?" You might think the answer is price or quality of service. Both of those are important, but the real #1 reason any person make a purchase from you is trust. Establishing...
Inbound Marketing 101 People Use Google Like it is a Magic Eight Ball
Inbound Marketing leads to more sales and profits for your business when we reverse engineer your customer's pain points. Your customer pain point is a need a person has to solve a problem or fix a situation. The solution to that problem is your product or service....
Stop calling it “Responsive Web Design” if you don’t know what that means
The term “responsive web design” started gaining traction back in 2010, when “A Dao of Web Design” by John Allsopp caught the community’s eye, but today the term is often over applied or mishandled entirely. When a new buzzword becomes the go-to phrase for the entire...
What Is The First Rule of Landing Pages?
As an Inbound Marketing Agency stern believes that a landing page isn’t meant to serve as an advertising platform, a neat graphic, or even an example of your web design capability, but instead should be created to generate interest and capture leads. Always define the...
You Can’t Have Effective Inbound Marketing without Responsive Web Design
Inbound marketing continues to be a powerful advertising tool, but to fully utilize its powers web marketers need to integrate these efforts with responsive web design. Inbound efforts like SEO and white papers have banner ads beat by a long shot. In the early days...
No! You Don’t Need an App! What You Need is Responsive Design
No! You Don’t Need an App! What You Need is Responsive Design Stop spending so much time trying to develop the latest, greatest marketing app! Right now, every company, their brother, and a few of their cousins want to design an app to help promote their website, but...
How do I keep more of what I make? Tax Reform and the Fiscal Cliff Deal
Bryan Clark is an extremely talented CPA located in Monument Colorado. He can stand on 20 years of experience helping SMB and large enterprises with their full-scale accounting needs. Mr. Clark is our guest blogger on sterndmb.com this week. The most frequent...
Inbound Marketing Agency 5 Must Have Characteristics
Stern in a leading Inbound Marketing Agency specializing at reverse engineering customer pain points to create marketing campaigns that diversify our clients digital footprint. Here are the five must have characteristics of the Inbound Marketing...
Responsive Website Design and Images CSS Media Queries
stern is a leading Inbound Marketing Agency Located in Aurora Colorado. One of the biggest problems with mobile compatible responsive website design is image sizes. Gone are the days when we could just slap an 800 by 350 pixel banner image at the top of our website...