Yesterday, Google launched one of its most substantial local business products to date. It’s called Google My Business. This shows a significant investment by Google in the local business space and sets the foundation for Google local business for the… Read more »
Xcite Blog
What Does It Mean To Be Transparent?
A recent survey from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and Forrester Research finds that client-side marketers have concerns about the levels of transparency that exist between them and their media agencies. According to the survey results [download page, must be… Read more »
Ask A Small Business – Google AdWords Case Study
National Small Business week is an event that has happened every year since 1963 that recognizes the incredible contributions of the country’s small business owners and entrepreneurs. The U.S. Small Business Administration uses this week to highlight the outstanding accomplishments of these small… Read more »
Social Media’s Role in your Digital Strategy
It’s no secret that “word of mouth” has always been considered one of the most powerful forms of marketing for a business. Social media today is the ultimate word-of-mouth marketing. Getting people to connect with you online in the… Read more »
Do You Measure Your RoR? (Return on Reviews)
The world of Digital and Internet marketing is changing every single day. There are things we do as “marketers” every single day. We would have never even dreamed of doing some of the things we do today five years ago. … Read more »
4 Myths of Video Marketing Production
Marketing Experts Believe in Video In a previous post, Signs You Should Invest in Video Marketing, we discussed the reasons why you should invest in video marketing for your website in 2014 and the reasons it works so well. Video… Read more »
Signs You Should Invest in Video Marketing in 2014
Signs You Should Invest in Video Marketing in 2014 We are now settling into 2014 and as business owners and marketers, we are continuing to reevaluate our strategies to determine how to better make potential clients aware of our product… Read more »
Google Launches New Google Partner Program
On October 2nd, Google announced Google Partners, an umbrella program meant to consolidate all of the company’s other agency programs under one roof. Google already supported ad agencies with a number of programs like Agency Edge, Google Engage, and its… Read more »
Xcite Holiday at The Internship Opening
By Laurie Riley For those of you that are our clients, when you ask how to have the best internet strategy you have heard us say, in so many words – “Simply follow Google’s rules and create the best experience… Read more »
Penguin 2.0 – How is the intangible update affecting local businesses online?
There was an enormous amount of hype around the roll out of the latest Penguin update, named Penguin 2.0. This update rolled out May 22nd. So Penguin 2.0 has happened. Many have talked about the early results and how it’s… Read more »
Revelation of Google’s Master Plan – Google’s I/O 2013 Keynote
In doing my best to digest everything I can find out about Google’s three and a half hour keynote yesterday, I can say that Google could possibly be the world’s most powerful company. Having not been at the event in… Read more »
What Is Vine & Why Should I Care? – Uses of Vine For Business
We are living in the On-Demand world. We all have so much at our fingertips, that we expect everything now. A lot can happen in a very short amount of time. Say, in 6 seconds. A legendary high five, texting… Read more »

