Jon Schepke is an Internet marketing industry veteran who has been in the space for over a decade. Since the mid-1990s, Jon's passions for technology and marketing have driven innovative marketing strategies that have focused on achieving significant ROI for multiple Fortune 1000 companies. Jon's broad understanding of the space includes all facets of Internet marketing, technology, Web analytics, mobile marketing, research, and tracking.
Jon started SIM Partners in January 2006 to help clients take advantage of the fast-paced changes in the industry. In addition to providing a standard suite of eCommerce services, SIM Partners is helping clients optimize their businesses with their local search marketing platform, Web video production, distribution and promotion, Mobile Marketing Platform, social media strategies, and mobile applications (iPhone, Android, etc.).
Those who already embraced Facebook local marketing tactics to grow their page, increase engagement and dominate users’ news feeds should be in good shape, but even those starting from scratch have a great opportunity to reap Graph Search success.
Converged media represents the overlap of any combination of paid, owned, and earned media types. Savvy businesses recognize the opportunity in this overlap. Before a business or brand can capitalize, they must conquer some management challenges.
Marketing automation tools already help brands maintain unified, clean sets of data that can be shared through many marketing channels. Huge strides have been made in recent years, particularly in the areas of SEO and local search.
Scalable, automated technology can help national brands overcome slower national competitors and smaller local competitors who lack marketing support. National brands should make sure to consider these initiatives in any local marketing effort.
Opportunity abounds for nimble brands that embrace Google+. Local marketers have a new but challenging opportunity to tackle. Here's why brands should launch a local marketing Google+ pilot program and which metrics to focus on and track.
The mobile ad landscape offers vast possibilities to national brands that want to promote their locations in order to generate leads, sales, and local awareness. Is a blind, premium blind, or blind ad network right for your brand’s mobile campaign?
Although Google still retains its overwhelming 2-to-1 lead, with Bing’s market share now exceeding the 30 percent mark (including powering Yahoo search), there are a number of reasons search marketers shouldn’t discount it. Here are five of them.
Local marketers have embraced social media, and in so doing have discovered half-a-dozen different platforms which divide their attention, effort and time. What is the one most important tactic per platform to impact local search results?
Ratings and reviews are essential to local businesses. They help by differentiating products and services, improving search engine rankings, and driving free web traffic.
Google's new Place Search makes it more important than ever for business to implement a local search, online review, and SEO strategy to achieve prominent visibility in Google's results.
Marketers need to optimize, distribute, and track content across all platforms. Here are some strategies and tools for success as local, mobile, and social continue to converge