Author Archives: Jason Poulos

Making the Most of Email Marketing

By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)
Social media marketing, search engine marketing, content marketing, there are myriad of different internet marketing strategies but what about email marketing? 43.5 million consumers check their email daily and a well-planned and maintained email campaign can be used for further interaction between a brand and audience. With 95% of U.S. consumers using [...]

5 Web Trends for 2012

Mobile, Search, Social and Beyond
By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)

Mobile Continues to Grow
In previous posts I’ve mentioned where the mobile market is headed and the importance of the emerging mobile market. With over 5 billion mobile devices expected to be in use by 2012, I don’t see this area losing any steam next year. Marketing in the [...]

Why Create Video Content for your Brand

By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)

Video is social: Ever hear of a viral video? I’m not saying that every video created needs have this aspect to it but overall video content is easily shared (especially emotional content, funny, insightful, etc).
Video is engaging: Compared to text sites, websites with video have a lower bounce rate (59% compared to [...]

Has your brand suffered from any of the following syndromes or ailments?

By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)

Identity-Schizophrenia: Everywhere I look, I look and feel different
Budgetitus: I have champagne dreams on a beer budget.
Post-traumatic-design-syndrome: I hate what my former designer created for me
Creative-constipation: I’m having trouble “releasing” old ideas
Content-arexia: My website is thin because I’m not feeding it enough content
Arachna-keyword-phobia: My website’s afraid of search engine spiders
Antisocial Tendencies: [...]

The Power of SEO

SEO Results for PureCanadaMaple.com
By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)
I have touted the power of SEO over several posts now. It truly is a necessary element to your web strategy and should be considered if you are looking to increase visibility through search engines. In my first post, I talked about why SEO should be a part of [...]

5 Reasons to Have a Mobile Friendly Website

By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)
In last Friday’s post, Dave Hess talked about how responsive design can tackle a website’s mobile challenges. Having one site that reacts to mobile, tablet and desktop displays conquers all content, aesthetic and technical woe’s around the mobile web. A responsive design is where it’s at and is a solid solution [...]

Look Beyond Social Media to Create Website Popularity

By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)
In my how a search engine works post I identified that relevance and popularity are the two major over-arching factors that search engines take into consideration when ranking pages. Keywords and all those other fun on-site factors all pertain to relevance but what about popularity?
How does a search engine measure website popularity?

The [...]

A Keyword Rich Website is a Successful Website

By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)
In just about every one of my posts so far I’ve stressed the importance of keywords. As I’ve said before, keywords are the cornerstone of SEO. Without well-crafted and thoroughly researched keywords it’s going to be hard to maximize a website’s exposure through search engines. Think of keywords as search terms; what [...]

Going Local with Location Based Searches

By Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)
An easy first step to maximize your exposure as a local business is to turn toward the search engines. With more than 3 billion searches a day, and a rapidly expanding mobile search market, every local business should be catering toward location-based searches and services.
A local search is when a geographic location is added [...]

Beyond Web Design: Four Components to a Successful Website

By: Jason Poulos (@TheSaganaki)
Having a slick design and some dynamic functionality on your website can only be considered the beginning of a successful website. If the conversation with your client is only based around aesthetics and functionality, I urge you to keep on reading in order to grow your digital footprint and to increase your [...]