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Google Analytics Is Updating from Universal Analytics To GA4

Here’s Navigator Multimedia’s Guide To Help You With The Switch Google Analytics is one of the most important tools for online marketing and analyzing website performance. As the way we navigate the web changes, Google Analytics needs to adapt accordingly....

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15 Online Marketing Blogs With All The Good Stuff

15 Online Marketing Blogs With All The Good Stuff

It’s a cruel, cruel summer when you have a business to run. While the rest of the world goes on camping trips and grazes in the sun, you’re stuck inside, getting pastier by the minute.  By the time Friday finally...

How To Make Online Marketing Work For Your Small Business

How To Make Online Marketing Work For Your Small Business

If only marketing your business online was as easy as taking a broken vehicle to a mechanic. “Fix it,” you’d say. “Alrighty, then,” the mechanic would respond. A couple hours later, you’d walk out with an oiled-up online presence that...

5 Street-Smart Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Web Designer

5 Street-Smart Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Web Designer

When you’re shopping for a web designer, asking questions about price, timeline, and past client experience makes sense. But be warned: web designers are so ready for those. There’s another layer of questions worth asking a web designer before making...

Want Social Media Results Skip The Fad Diets

Want Social Media Results? Skip The Fad Diets

Strange confession: I love fad diet infomercials. I don’t watch much televsion these days, but when I do, anything touting a miracle milkshake, exercise contraption, or weight-loss pill totally drags me in.  Those D-list celebrity spokespeople with their absurd tans...

Plain Language, Please! What is ‘Newsjacking

Plain Language, Please! What is 'Newsjacking'?

Though the name sounds slightly evil, newsjacking is a content marketing strategy with good intentions – to boost leads online. When the conditions are right, the payoff for a great piece of newsjacked content can be huge. We’re talking significant...

Plain Language, Please What’s a Landing Page

Plain Language, Please: What's a Landing Page?

The definition is in the name, but it only tells half the story.  Yes, a ‘landing page’ involves users landing on a page. But how did they get there? And what are they supposed to do next? We’ll tell you...

So You Wanna be an Online Authority? Here's How to Get Started [Part 2]

Do you ever look back on your career and wonder, “How did I get here?” You might chalk it up to dumb luck. Maybe you just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Or maybe, just...

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So You Wanna be an Online Authority? Here's How to Get Started [Part 1]

Tough love. It’s usually not my style around here. But previously when we were talking about the authority-boosting Google algorithm change, I got a bit snarky on the subject of “boring” industries. “Ah, your industry is ‘boring’? Right.  Sounds like an...

5 Cool Ways to Promote Your Business on Instagram

5 Cool Ways to Promote Your Business on Instagram

Remember the popular kids in high school? You thought they were so cool because they always appeared to be having the most fun. They were probably having about as much fun as you were, but what you saw on the...

6 Tips For Getting Started on Instagram

6 Tips For Getting Started on Instagram

Remember when Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock?  Zuckerberg and co. was on to something: the power of visual social media. Instagram is an online photo sharing and social media service that lets you take pictures with...

Plain Language, Please What Are ‘Backlinks’

Plain Language, Please: What Are 'Backlinks' ?

First of all, know this: ‘backlinks’ and ‘inbound links’ mean the same thing. If you’ve heard either flung around in conversation and felt only vaguely certain of their definition, you’re not alone. You heard it here: Backlinks (and inbound links)...

5 Signs It’s Time to Hire a Business Blogger

5 Signs It's Time to Hire a Business Blogger

I remember watching bobsledding events during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and thinking, “That looks so easy! I could do that!” As a Crazy Carpet master in my playground years, surely I had the finesse for professional bobsledding. How hard...