Two of the most useful measurements available to set objectives and goals for your business are KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and OKRs (Objective and Key Results). Why? Because you need to know your numbers. If you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know what’s working and what’s not working for…
Hiring is hard, time-consuming, and stressful. And yet, you know that this is one of the most important processes of successfully scaling and building your business. This holds true in any industry. But when it comes to hiring a digital marketing agency in 2022, the hiring process can be a…
Over the years I have had a lot of people ask me about “the latest tips and tricks” for digital marketing, but these same people are not doing the basics of digital marketing like content marketing or ad retargeting that are proven to drive results. While I get that some…
We’ve updated our list of key SEO statistics to help you as you prep your campaigns for 2022
One of the fun parts of our jobs here at Credo is talking with companies who have grown a great lifestyle business to the half million dollar or so per year mark, and are now ready to start marketing. This is fun because if a company has grown to that…
I recently completed a program called 75 hard. In this program, every day for 75 days you: Do two 45 minute workouts, spaced at least 3 hours apart, and one has to be outdoors Drink a gallon of water Read 10 pages of a business book Take a progress photo…
Over the past few years I’ve become very interested in investing. Stock market, property, cryptocurrency, it’s all fair game and interesting to me. This is partially why when I speak with marketers and founders (especially founders), I notice often that their mindset and approach to marketing is one of marketing…
Recently I saw a tweet from my acquaintance Justin Jackson over at Transistor.fm where he shared a blog post on Transistor written by his daughter (I don’t know her age, but it blows my mind that people I consider peers have kids old enough to write blog posts on company…
I grew up in a pretty conservative evangelical Calvinist “Christian” church and household. Thus, I learned to look at things in a very binary way. Right/wrong. Black/white. Good/bad. Sin/not sin. Chosen/not chosen. Redeemed/not redeemed. It’s an interesting way to grow up that doesn’t really hold up (IMO) once it comes…
Are you struggling to put together a proper marketing budget, or not sure where to start and how to think about budgeting for marketing so you can hit your growth goals? Then this video is for you. What’s covered If you’re watching this video, you probably have the following challenges:…
Are you a business that focuses on your local area? If so, then this video is for you because I go deep with local marketing expert Greg Gifford. What we cover In this video, we cover the following: Minute 05 – The difference between nationwide and local marketing Minute 06:10…
One of the areas of digital marketing that I know woefully little about is franchises. I worked with a franchise company (InterContinental Hotels Group) years ago on their corporate site, but I never really had great answers for questions around what their franchises could do to help SEO or how…
It’s incredible to me how many times I’ve spoken with a company who hears a number for SEO, let’s say $2,500, and they say “Wow that’s too expensive! I can’t afford that!” But then I probe deeper and ask them what their goal is for SEO (in keeping with the…
With the rise of large companies like Amazon dominating the industry, small business owners and marketers are feeling the pressure. It can be difficult to compete with these eCommerce giants when you run a local brick-and-mortar business like HVAC companies or law firms that rely on foot traffic to make…
When I started Credo back in 2013, I had a WordPress site with Gravity Forms installed. One of my coaches likes to joke about this, mostly in the context of that we’ve built a real business off of that start. As a business generating leads, whether for yourself or others,…
As an agency, your business grows when one of a few things happens: You get more leads and close more of them You retain clients for a longer period of time You trim back expenses Let’s be honest first, getting more leads and closing more of them is really…
When I first got laid off from Trulia in 2015, I had a three month runway of finances before I needed to either be making enough to stay self-employed (and paying my half of our San Francisco expenses) or starting a new job. I was interviewing and had some great…
Because I spend a lot of my days talking with marketing agencies who are trying to sell their services to prospective clients, I spend a lot of my days thinking about sales and how agencies can be more successful. A question I hear time and time and time again…
Are you trying to sell something to prospective clients, but keep getting ghosted in the process? If so, keep reading. Over the last 5.5 years on Credo, we’ve seen thousands of proposals go to prospects for marketing services. For a period of time these went through our systems, though now…
I was once working with a marketing consultant who was offering high-end SEO audits. This person is extremely accomplished, but they were struggling to close high-ticket audits. They’d close them from time to time, but they felt like they had hit a ceiling for how much they could charge. At…
Over the years Credo’s been contacted by quite a few entrepreneurs and new agency owners who are signing new clients and looking to find contractors to deliver the work. I’ll be upfront and say that if someone is looking for contractors, Credo is not a good fit for them. We…
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