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We share our experience through strategies, tool and behind-the-scenes insight that help companies grow. You’ll find marketing deep dives, campaign breakdowns and industry insights. This is where we document what is working in the industry, what’s next and how businesses can win.
Whether you’re a soccer brand scaling up, a club navigating marketing decisions, or a business owner curious about what drives real results, you’ll find useful ideas, actionable tips, and a dose of inspiration. eLife isn’t fluff. It’s the real playbook from a team that lives in the game and thrives on helping brands grow smarter and faster.
How to Have Success Selling Soccer Equipment Selling soccer gear seems straightforward. Everyone needs cleats, balls, goals, and training aids, right? In reality, for soccer equipment companies, it is much harder. Between rising competition, shifting buyer behavior, and seasonal sales cycles, marketing soccer equipment requires more than flashy product shots
Feeling Held Back By Your Exact Match Domain? Do you want to expand your product offering but feel held back by your exact match domain? If you are just trying out something new, it doesn’t make sense to risk your current site and rankings. It would be better to experiment
Here’s a quick marketing tip. I’ve had the same problem with companies I’ve run. You want to do a newsletter, you want to start with email, but you know, you’re racking your brain trying to figure out what should I write about, what should I put in this email, or
Just a quick tip today for SEO and website migration. One of my clients had a website they moved and forgot to do any kind of migration checklist. They engaged me to take a look at it and do a migration audit, and it reminded me of a wonderful tool
SEO is Dead! Of course it isn’t, but I got your attention, right? We’ve been hearing that cry, well, for as long as SEO has really been a thing. For those of you who don’t know what SEO is, it means search engine optimization. So essentially, what can you do
I recently had a client in the fulfillment niche that shared a post from one of his contacts on LinkedIn. The post was advice for Paid Search for 3PLs. (In case you don’t know 3PL stands for Third Party Logistics). The advice the connection gave was overly simplified and a
Everyone is talking about OpenAI. And many people have been saying that it will (and other AI platforms) will replace content creation and content sites. Testing OpenAI’s Ability to Write Helpful Content So this morning, I decided to give it a try for writing content related to soccer. From what
I recently had a client tell us that, “99% of people looking for their service already know what they want to we don’t need to put much copy on our product pages. They already know what it is.” Things like this always make me raise an eyebrow. Maybe 99% of
A website audit or SEO audit is very similar to taking your car to get an oil change. You know you need to do it and it will help extend the life of your car. Your mechanic will change the oil, check the fluids, check the air pressure, and more,
SEO is definitely a long-term play. While there are some things you can do to prepare yourself for a crisis, it is not a tool quick response tool that can be turned on once a problem arises. One of the main issues of a PR crisis is that negative news
This is a question that I often get from SEO clients. It is often difficult to pin down the exact reason why this is happening. The phenomenon of impressions going up but the average ranking drops seems very counter-intuitive. One would think if your site is getting more impressions it
I’m happy to announce that last week we completed a deal that allowed us to acquire the site Topcleats.com. Actually, the acquisition falls under our sister company Blackbird e-Ventures but Blackbird e-Solutions will be the operator of the site. This is an exciting shift in our business model. From the
Image optimization is one of the most commonly overlooked on-site optimization tactics. People forget that image can also drive traffic to their sites and make for a well rounded optimized page. What is SEO Image Optimization? SEO image optimization is the practice of making sure your images contain important information
Our founder, Bryan Coe, was recently featured in another podcast where he discussed how to leverage analytics, Google Tag Manager (GTM). The podcast was hosted by our friends over at The Digital Marketing Blueprint. Listen to the podcast Bryan Coe on The Digital Marketing Blueprint Key Takeaways How to leverage
What is the heart of your online digital presence? Your website! Here are 6 best practices for onsite SEO to secure your foundation. Meta tags: Make sure your titles and meta descriptions are unique enticing and relevant to what is on each page. I.e. keywords. Page/site speed: Make sure your
First let me just say, we are still open and actively working with clients. Remotely of course. These are very strange times indeed. With the spread of the COVID-19 crisis the stock market has tanked, many businesses are closed, and others are discovering remote work for the first time. Also,
With the COVID-19 news, We Wanted to Give You Some Good News. Google is providing $340 million in Google Ads credits to small businesses, although it isn’t clear yet how much each company will get. Also, while this is not immediate relief, it will help ease the costs marketing this
I recently came across more content writers and marketers advocating to clients that they need to use blog tags and categories to help their SEO. Too many of them want to use a lot of tags. I mean LOTS of tags! They believe that simply adding blog tags and categories
Want to create better content? Then ask yourself the following questions when you’re writing: Am I providing the reader with a comprehensive answer to their question? Expertise Is my content more thorough than what’s already on the #1 page of the SERPs? Am I presenting the information in a trustworthy
Guest Blogging or Guest Posting is when you post on another company’s blog. Typically the site is in a related or complementary industry. Guest blogging can be an effective way to get exposure for you and your company. It can also offer a good way to gain backlinks from authoratitive
I’m writing this post in response to the news of the pending SEC investigation and shutting down of The Income Store. I felt I should post something for a few reasons: Partly to defend the industry and the alternative investment vehicle of investing in websites or online businesses. Because unfortunately,
