April 27, 2023
Our Website Discovery Process
At FGM Internet Marketing, we’ve designed and developed websites for small businesses, non-profits, and e-commerce sites for over a decade. When we take on a new website project, we walk our clients through a process that helps them understand their customers and the business needs. Then we can design a website that truly meets their […]
Read moreFebruary 24, 2023
The Story of a Hosting Meltdown
How the GoDaddy hosting hack is affecting small businesses In an SEC filing made public on February 16, 2023, GoDaddy finally admitted to falling victim to a multi-year hacking attack to their cPanel hosting service. While GoDaddy started hearing reports of their customers’ websites being used for phishing scams and redirects in December 2022, this […]
Read moreFebruary 3, 2023
Where to spend your digital marketing dollars – website or digital ads?
As business owners, we need to make tough decisions about where to spend our money to benefit the business the most. And every dollar matters. We’ve worked with companies in many industries, with various budgets, and stages of digital advertising. But most all have the same conclusion: they want to land more customers through digital […]
Read moreMay 25, 2022
How Often Should I Redesign My Website?
Designing a website is a big undertaking. From getting the right graphics and colors to visually express your business to writing a ton of copy to educate your potential customers, building a website is no small feat! Once you’ve launched your new website, you’re probably eager to sit back and not do that again for […]
Read moreJune 11, 2020
Digital Marketing Wins during Coronavirus
COVID-19 has been hard on people, businesses, the economy, and our spirits. I write this on June 11th, and although our state, South Carolina, has “opened back up for business”, we hit a record number of positive cases yesterday. I wanted to follow up on my last blog post, “COVID-19 and my Small Business”, a […]
COVID-19
Digital Marketing Trends
Ecommerce
Email Marketing
Small Business Help
Social Media
Websites
December 23, 2019
FGM Internet Marketing’s Year in Review 2019
2019 was a busy year for FGM Internet Marketing. We started the year focused on continuing our work with businesses who were looking to grow their business sustainably over the long term instead of those who just wanted a quick one-and-done campaign. For 2019, every new client started with a complete audit of their current […]
Digital Marketing Trends
Digital Strategy
Email Marketing
Environmentalism
SEO
Social Media
Websites
February 19, 2019
The Difference Between Interest and Commitment in Digital Marketing
In listening to a recent Rich Roll podcast, he and his guest were talking about the difference between being interested in something and committing to something. Hmmm, this got me thinking. This difference between interest and commitment is the same throughout so many aspects of our lives – work, personal growth, health, wealth building, business growth, […]
Read moreJanuary 14, 2019
Conversational Marketing in 2019
It’s crazy to think that the World Wide Web was made available to the public 28 years ago, and that Google launched in 1998. In the past 20 years, the internet has changed how we interact with businesses and purchase goods and services, and these changes seem to be accelerating. Part of my job as […]
Read moreDecember 21, 2018
What is an SSL Certificate and Why Do I Need One?
As a website owner, you may have heard of the term “SSL certificate”. So what is it? In the easiest terms, it’s a digital certificate that changes your website from being at http:// to https://. No big deal, right? Wrong. Since early 2016, Google has been warning us that they would start using SSL certificates […]
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