Why an External Marketing Team is the Right Move for Your Business

The importance of marketing for any business is no secret. The real issue can be deciding on whether to hire an external marketing team or to keep your efforts in-house. After all, your marketing strategy determines the overall success of your business, and you want to make the right choice. Ultimately, it’s important for business owners to do the research before deciding, so we broke it down for you!

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The Benefits of Having a Marketing Strategy

Having a clear and concise marketing strategy is essential to any business. A marketing strategy is the roadmap to overall success. Success can be measured in a multitude of ways, but often it means to reach a targeted audience. Whether you’re looking to gain new or returning customers or improve your online engagement, having a roadmap will ensure that you are adequately growing and evaluating your business and reaching your goals.

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HMG Creative Proud to Be Named on Clutch 1000

In recognition of our success, we’ve been named a top web design agency on the Clutch 1000! This list is a comprehensive directory of B2B companies around the globe, verified by Clutch, a platform that provides ratings and reviews for businesses. We’re number 802 on Clutch, one out of 62 web design agencies, and one out of 24 companies based in Austin, Texas.

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Key Things to Know About Google Analytics to Improve your Website Analysis

Utilising Google Analytics is a necessity for any business website. But sometimes it can be overwhelming in terms of actually getting usable information from this powerful platform. In this article, we take a look at four key functions in Google Analytics that you can use to improve your analysis. 

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A Year in Review

“In this industry, you either evolve or become obsolete. I’m constantly learning, but just like any growing business, I’m always looking for ways we can better serve our clients and build stronger partnerships. This last year, I’ve put lots of thought into processes, smart growth and investing into our current team.”

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Web Design Trends to Watch for in 2020

The new decade brings a new boldness with it. This new invigoration can be seen everywhere — from TV ads to billboards, and especially to web design. Each new year is an opportunity for reinvention, and that’s most true for 2020. The pressure is on to stand out in many saturated industries, but the one thing all businesses have in common is their brand. As businesses and web design companies aim to establish a robust online presence, here are some of the biggest web design trends to watch for in 2020. You just might be inspired to implement some of them!

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Six Website Upgrades to Improve your Conversion Rates

Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) is something that businesses of all sizes need to start taking more seriously. As your digital marketing and SEO efforts become more sophisticated you will attract more visitors to your site – but there’s no use getting lots of potential customers onto a page if they aren’t going to result into a sale. Here are six website upgrades you can use to improve your conversion rates.

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How to Optimize for Conversions Without Ruining your SEO

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) and search engine optimization (SEO) are seen as integral to the success of a business online. However, this can sometimes cause problems, as the best practice guidelines for each can contradict each other.

SEO focuses on making changes to a website to help it it rank higher on Google. This is vital in getting more traffic to your site — and more traffic means more potential customers. Then, we have CRO. This is a system for increasing the percentage of site visitors that take a desired action. These actions could be anything from completing an order to filling out a form.

But the real task is managing both of these activities at once. Each of them is necessary for the smooth running of your website – so how do you deal with the fact that they don’t always like to work together? Here we take a look at some of the important ways that you can optimize for conversions while still improving your SEO.

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HMG Creative Wants to Help

The world around us is different than it was yesterday. It is a frightening time for all of us, with the uncertainty of our health and well-being looming over our heads. For many people, it isn’t just our health that concerns us, but our jobs, businesses, and the state of the economy. All around us, it’s quiet. Restaurants, bars, and public spaces are empty. There’s no traffic on the streets. But if you turn on the television or log in to social media, the world seems louder than ever. We are transitioning our daily lives into the digital space, whether that means working from home or conducting business online. As a digital marketing agency, HMG Creative recognizes the need for businesses to communicate with customers and present themselves at their highest capabilities online right now. We want you to know we’re committed to doing our best to ensure that happens for you. Continue…