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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 14 – Alison Macintyre
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 9 – Modern Customer Experience Strategy
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 8 – Confessions of a Tech CMO
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 6 – Business Advisory Boards
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 5 – Customer Experience Strategy
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 4 – Product Personalization
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 3 – Positioning Strategy
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 2 – Podcasting
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Neil Patel gets it wrong with blogs
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 12 – Keaton Hulme Jones
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The Champagne Strategy Podcast – Episode 15 – Andrew Roper
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Mobile vs Web Apps
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In trying to develop of a new software application, you may be contemplating on what way to go about it. The popular platforms to choose these days seem to be…
Understanding your Bounce Rate
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The bounce rate of your website is the percentage of people who click away from your website after a single engagement hit, with that hit usually being of the entrance…
Pivot Pricing for Profit
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Business can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years has seen an influx of competitors into Australia’s business sector. Consolidation in the vertical supply chain,…
Landing Page Secrets: What your digital agency doesn’t want you to know
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When it comes to Landing Pages, the truth is that you can implement many of the changes that will increase traffic to your website completely on your own. Here are…
Google Punishes Websites
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The warning signs have been clear for over 2 years but last week Google sent a firm signal that enough is enough. With the ever-rising surge in mobile device usage…
No SEO better than Cheap SEO
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Price can be deceiving and in the murky world of SEO the price between different providers is extremely difficult to compare. We’ve even seen campaigns advertised for as low as…
SEO Considerations for New Websites
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Launching a new website is an exciting time, often weeks if not months have gone in to collaborating to convert a mere visual concept into a working and functioning piece…
Unleashing the Power of the AdWords Display Network
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If you’re like many entrepreneurs who are interested in marketing to potential clients in the new digital landscape, you’ve probably heard many positive things about the AdWords Display Network from…
Five great tips for executing a Content Marketing Strategy
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Content marketing is one of the most effective inbound marketing strategies you can use to bring in new leads and create buzz in your industry or market. Fundamentally, content marketing…
Top ten ways you can improve conversions on your website
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Conversion Improvements for your Services-Based or E-Commerce Website Why worry about doubling the traffic that visits your site when it is much more profitable and easier to double the sales…
Industries Best Suited for Social Media
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While many businesses are encouraged to use social media to interact with potential customers and to bolster their brand, some businesses are better suited to the medium than others. When…
Securing your site with an SSL Certificate helps give your rankings a boost
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Online security or a lack thereof has been one of the most significant challenges webmasters and online businesses face in the race to secure customers ever since the evolution of…
Google’s world of snippets
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For a long time now, Google’s Results have contained more than just indexed websites. Results have grown to include rich snippets, authorship (although since deprecated), local maps listings amongst other…
Google gets ready for Penguin
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Google is fundamentally on online ecosystem. It’s akin to a dynamic phone book that contains the widest directory of websites known on the internet – searchable from a simple and…
Stripe Available in Australia
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Back in 2015, weattended the Stripe Australia launch at NAB HQ to kickstart the eloquent payment gateway’s debut in Australia. It’s was welcome entrance at the time and the the…