In the ultra-competitive world of search engine result supremacy, ensuring your website ranks as high as possible for the terms your target audience is searching for is paramount! Not to mention the often hundreds of factors that search engines like Google and Bing use to determine your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) fate. Here are 10…
Read MoreDigital marketing changes by the second, and here at Highforge we are always listening to podcasts, scanning our feeds and reaching out to the hive mind for new tools to try and test. There are thousands of marketing hacks to optimize things at every stage of the process, and we’re all about creating efficiencies and…
Read MoreWelcome to the age of the Collective. What’s the difference between hiring an agency, a freelancer, or building an in-house marketing team versus engaging with a Collective? Let’s start with what a collective is. It embraces the gig economy and looks towards the future of possibilities by creating efficiencies and focusing high-end specialists on solving…
Read MoreHere at Highforge, we live for making big wins for clients, which usually means new qualified leads, website traffic, and direct revenue. Advertising is almost always a part of the play, and our digital advertising tool chest includes Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Linked In Ads. In our initial meetings with clients, they’re often uncertain…
Read MoreYou spend a lot of time and money creating a marketing campaign. You’ve created a results-driven marketing plan. You’ve invested in paid media. You’re getting a lot of clicks and traffic, but your landing page is not converting. Whether you’re trying to collect leads, generate sales, or drive downloads, landing pages do what your website…
Read MoreIf you are a small to mid-sized business in nearly any industry, marketing is perhaps your most important department. But do you have the expertise on staff to direct a new product or service strategy, develop a comprehensive marketing plan or bring in the right team to execute your ideas? Enter the Fractional CMO. Though…
Read MoreIf you own a business, you probably know there are lots of ways to drive traffic to your business. But if blogs aren’t a part of your content strategy, it’s time to switch it up. Whether it’s editing old content or generating new posts, emphasizing blog content is a must for your business if you’re…
Read MoreJacob is a close friend. But he’s been struggling lately and he’s become distant, I suspect he’s depressed. When I ask him about his home life he brightens up and beams about his wife and kids. It’s when we talk about work that his mood sours. He tells me he struggles to find the energy…
Read MoreNow that everyone is shifting to remote work I keep getting asked how Highforge made the transition two years ago to a fully distributed remote team with no central office. We’ll keep this short and sweet. We use Slack for instant chat across team. On Slack we have channels for each department as well as…
Read MoreHere at Highforge, we hate balloon animals and love creating creative & tech-savvy solutions for our clients. We love doing good work and hearing that we’ve more than satisfied our clients. That’s why we teamed up with Clutch earlier this year to keep a pulse on how we’re doing. Clutch is a B2B ratings and…
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