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Vertical Roots Canada – A Pandemic Case Study
Case Study on Online & Social Marketing with SEO - Vertical Roots Canada Inc. Vertical Roots is the brainchild of Mike Newhook, a Business Developer, and partner with Becky Newhook, Marketing Director for Metron. This case study is a little more personal since it...
Summer Content in 5 Days
Google is all about user experience! If you are focusing on SEO and being found you are going to want to ensure you have quality content all over the internet. From the website to your social media platforms, new and quality content is going to be a highly...
PooPickers – From Zero To Hero
A Case Study on Organic Online Marketing & SEO PooPickers saw an opportunity in the dog market in the Spring of 2021. After connecting with a Calgary company, they realized the need and the open space for a service they didn’t even know existed at the time....
Hosting Your Website with Metron
If you are currently hosting with HostGator, TwoCows, GoDaddy, Blue Host or any other public hosting provider THIS BLOG IS FOR YOU! You may wonder “What is the difference between a Public Hosting Solution and Metron’s Dedicated Hosting Solution?” Well,...
Pandemic Panic? – FREE Marketing IDEAS from Metron
Being online during the pandemic has been essential for businesses. For businesses that were not online, the scramble to find an avenue to market, sell, and be found online was stressful. For some, it was thought to be a short-lived lockdown, a few...
Do It Yourself Marketing
Today everyone is a marketer. From a young person that is a social media wiz and is now ready to do your social media management to a middle-age couple that has amazingly become online marketers overnight with their new Facebook Ads and is now offering you the...
We Hate Funnels
In these stay at home COVID times, the offers and ads are coming at light-speed pace. Online marketing "experts" have popped up EVERYWHERE! If you have ever signed up for an offer via a Facebook Ad or Website you get added to that company’s automated email...
Top 3 Ways to Make the Most of Your Time as a Small Business Owner
DOWNLOAD the INFOGRAPHIC How to Create Content in COVID Isolation As a marketing agency, we understand that right now things are hard. That your business may be one that has had to close it’s doors because you are not an essential service. That your business...
Found, Known & Trusted Online
Online Marketing is the way of the future. Sure thank you cards and face to face are important but to be considered as a viable option for services or solutions; being found, known and trusted online is vital to the heartbeat of your business. In this blog we are...
Metron’s Top 5 Facebook Ad Tips
Are you running a Facebook Ad? This article is for you! We find that Facebook Ads can be AMAZING for businesses especially when you know who to target, when to target and how to target. It is true that you can WASTE hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars on...
SEO and your Small Business
Your small business could be getting quality leads! SEO is not dead but alive and well, more so now than ever. With search engines on the lookout for quality content and meeting the needs of the users your business has a BIG chance to be found. Today there are many...
3 Online Marketing Keys for Online Success for Small Business in 2019
Your business is being found…but maybe not via that website home page you worked so hard to perfect! It’s the truth that more and more users are finding your business via a Google review, Facebook post or EventBright link. A website is required to provide validity and...
What’s Your Why?
How Metron Went from Surviving to Thriving! “These days when you become a Metron client you are impacting not just your own business but also impacting other entrepreneurs around the world!” The Good Old Days I remember when we bought our first business in 2005 in...
Why a Free Website?
The following are actual client experiences who reached out to Metron for help after being taken advantage of by other online marketing companies. Example 1: Paying $6000 for SEO, promised to be ranked on page 1 for Healthy Weight Loss nationally in 6 months, which...
3 Marketing Spending Keys (so you can make money)
A business knows that it must spend money to make money MOST of the time and, yet thousands of business owners think that their business is just going to become successful right out of the gate. When in actuality it takes time and investment to ensure a foundation for...
Get Found Faster – SEO 2018 Website Best Practices
It’s hard to keep up on all the algorithms that Google and other search engines put in place and require of websites these days. If you are a business owner you don’t have time to keep track of all these updates – and even if you could – updating your websites is most...
How to Spot the Spam!
Today your inbox gets FILLED with spam. If you sign up for companies offers, then sometimes daily you are receiving promotions and discounts as a “valued” member. If you are on social media then your inbox will be filled with notifications of people liking, sharing or...
User Experience – Why Facebook is following Googles Lead…
Facebook Fear The newest Facebook algorithm has people freaking out. “My Business already has low reach! Now no one will see it!” “Now I will have to pay to be seen with ads and I have no idea how to do that!” “No one is going to see my content that I work so hard to...
Is your company SEARCHABLE?
Getting your company found can be a challenge in the sea of options that now exist for consumers. With 85% of consumers searching for products and services online your company cannot afford to NOT be found. Search Engine Optimization has gone through many phases and...
Facebook Lead Generation – Pros and Cons
Lead generation is a very hot topic and leads these days are invaluable. The dictionary definition for Lead Generation is “the action or process of identifying and cultivating potential customers for a business's products or services.” The key word for this is...
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