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How To Get More Leads From LinkedIn
Should I waste my resources and valuable time to target my audience on LinkedIn? YES! Definitely yes and it should be a MUST! You should definitely start generating leads with the help of this 500+ million users platform. If you haven’t been doing it so...
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How To Get More Leads From Your Home Renovation Website
It’s easy, you need to have an awesome website. 🙂 All joking aside, if you’re in home renovation business, you might want to consider renovating your website to get more leads. How many remodeling, rebuilding, or home renovation companies describe...
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How To Find NEW Approaches For OLD Back To School Marketing Strategies
Summer is almost over and September is usually the month when everyone wakes up and picks up where they left off before those long hot days arrived. Back to school (BTS) is both an exciting and stressful period for almost everyone around, especially...
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Are You Ready To Launch Your Online Store? Tips That Will Help Your eCommerce Start The Right Way
You’ve found your passion in life and you want to turn it into business, by opening an Online Store. Hopefully you do fulfill the first condition - you want to sell goods or services that you know the market needs and at the same time you are really...
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First off, what are leads? Leads are potential customers, or individuals that fit the description of your target audience as you have outlined. They display the qualities of having a need and/or interest or reason to have interest in your product or...
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The Do’s of Real Estate Marketing
We all understand the struggles of a competitive work environment, but no one feels the pressure more than Real Estate agents. Working as a little fish in a big pond can be difficult, but what can set you apart from the hundreds of Real Estate moguls strolling around your local neighbourhoods? The answer is simple…
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How Can Your Small Business Benefit From Facebook Ads? A Beginners Guide To Facebook Advertising
You run your business, you have a decent website, you are present on Social Media, your think you have it all covered, but yet, somehow you feel like your product or service is not getting enough exposure and you know you are not reaching your potential. Next logical...
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Why You Want Your Small Business Website To Be Accessible Accessibility for Small Business Owners
Did you know that 1 in 7 Ontarians have a disability? There are programs that exist to help people read your website even if they can’t see it. Let’s work together to make their life easier. Accessibility is about making your website user friendly for...
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4 Marketing Tips To Succeed As A Realtor
The real estate world can be a very competitive place. It can be competitive for home owners trying to buy or sell a place, but it can also be competitive for Realtors. There are over 100 000 active Real Estate agents in Ontario alone. How do you appeal to...
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Do You Know Your Consumer? A Guide On How To Target Your Audience
WHO ARE THEY? So when we ask ourselves that question, be sure not to fall into the generic category of associating your consumer with the typical male/female, name, usually email address and credit card info that we usually rely on to differentiate...
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Shopify or WooCommerce? What is the Better Choice for your E-Commerce Platform?
So you have this AWESOME product that you want to sell online and there’s lots of marketing and planning that needs to happen to launch it!!! The biggest challenge you have is that the Buyer is not capable of using any of their 5 senses before making the...
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Last Minute Valentine’s Day Marketing Tips
Valentine’s Day is just a week from now and you still haven’t figured how to take advantage of it? It`s still not too late, thanks to Digital Marketing and our favorite – Social Media! If some of you are still wondering if the most romantic holiday of the...
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WINTER EVENTS NEAR ME IN BARRIE Local Events to Get Rid of Those Winter Business Blues
When you think of the phrase “social networking” what do you think of? Instagram? Face-book? Twitter? While all those answers are obviously very relevant and important to utilize properly, making sure you keep up to date with local events is also crucial....
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Social Media Steps Every Chiropractor Should Follow
In the year ahead of us, all business`s should really focus on their digital presence and their marketing strategies. The easiest step to start with is Social Media. Even though platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, have been around for some time...
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Latest Marketing Trends That Will Help Your Practice Reach More Patients
This is the very start of the year 2018 and there are already so many predictions, new trends and analysis in the Digital Marketing Field. When you google “new trends” besides fashion you will most commonly read titles that involve technology, design and...
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How To Successfully Kick Off New Business Year
Holidays are behind us and we are still daydreaming of the fun times we had and processing all the food we had. First working week is the hardest one and all of us are trying to find a way to motivate ourselves and get things going. Good way of starting it...
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8 Web Design Trends for 2018
1. Big and Bold Typography Your font needs to stand out! You want your users to notice your content, notice your head lines and most importantly notice your call to actions (CTA’s). Having a bold, large font will help your users focus on what you are...
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Last Minute Tips To Kick Off Your Holiday Marketing Campaign
December is already here and you still haven’t figured out how to start your last Marketing Campaign for this year? Or you already started, but you still need some extra inspiration? Luckily, we have some last-minute tips for you to catch up and get things...
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Why You Need Great Photography For Your Business
If you are like myself, you have a low attention span when it comes to advertisements. I’ve heard them all before, I have heard your tag line before, I know your brand’s song off by heart, and I know what your social media posts say time after time. The...
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Do You Have a Brand that Builds Your Business?
Brand, branding, brand awareness. Very common expressions in today’s modern business world and everyday life. But what do we actually know about branding? What is brand anyway? Does having a good brand mean having a nice and memorable logo? Well, there is...
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6 Tips From Our Web Designer
Who better to ask some for tips than our very own designer! Jess McLaughlin can take anything ugly and make it beautiful. Whether it’s a website, social posts, ads, landing pages. You name it and she has you covered. A little nervous to be on video but she...
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How to Increase Your LinkedIn Success A Guide to Optimizing your LinkedIn Profile
Why do I need LinkedIn? Great question. LinkedIn is a valuable tool for business owners and employees alike, whether you are looking to network or gain potential customer. My opinion is that having a large number of followers and an optimized profile will...
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Make Your Real Estate Facebook Page Worth Following
Do you have a Facebook profile? More than 2 billion people would answer with YES. Do you own a business? Are you advertising your business on your private profile? Well, you can do better than that. No, you SHOULD do better than that! You need to separate...
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Bill 148 How to Survive as a Small Business Owner?
It is shocking and it can be scary – the amount of change that will follow the release of Bill 148 in Ontario. Starting January 2018. min. wage jumps up to $14/hour and will be at $15/hour by January 2019.
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Instagram Best Practices for Real Estate Become #InstaRealtor Today
Have you ever considered creating an Instagram profile for your Real-Estate Agency? Should your digital marketing strategy include this important social network? We want to show you why this will be a very smart move. We already gave you some tips with 5...
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While your Charity helps the World, let your Website Help You A guide to a smart and responsive webpage every charity should have
Did you know that there are estimated 170, 000 nonprofits and charities in Canada? Also, Canada`s charitable and nonprofit sector is the 2nd largest in the world.
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7 Online Tips For Fitness Professionals
You are passionate about motivating others to live and pursue a healthy active lifestyle and you know almost everything there is to know about health and wellness. You spend hours researching, meal prepping, training and studying. You have a small base of clients that...
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Boost Your Skilled Trade With a Skilled Website.
Do you own a business within the trades? A common trend within the skilled trades is having a positive word of mouth that will bring in referrals. Jane said you did a great job fixing that busted pipe in her basement, so of course Jane is going to tell...
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5 Ways to Generate Sales from Your Realtor Website
No matter what business you are in, or whether you are a new or experienced real estate agent, one of the first things you need to consider is…..Who are you marketing to??? It may sound obvious to some, but so often it is forgotten. If you can nail exactly who your target audience is, you can receive more value from any money you spend on marketing in any form, newspapers, magazines, online ads, etc…
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Is Your Website Design Reaching Its Creative Potential? Top 5 web design elements your site may be lacking
Have you heard? Creativity is lacking in the web design industry and you could say we need to band together to reinspire imagination.
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Hospitality Begins Online A Warm Welcome, Digitally
Whether you’re in the business of renting out log cabins nuzzled in the snowy ski hills of Nelson, BC, or running a quaint seaside bed and breakfast in Charlottetown, PEI, hospitality begins online.
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Help Your Startup Bloom Why a Fresh Website is Like Miracle-Gro for Your Budding Startup
Do you want to cultivate success? A great website can plant the seeds of a flourishing startup.
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Humans of Siva Creative Cindy Bidan, Director of Marketing
Inspired by Humans of New York, every other Thursday we’ll be introducing you to one of our remarkable team members. While we’re big fans of LinkedIn, our resumes don’t tell our stories. This edition tells the tale of a self-professed hippie, the consequences of having a huge heart in a tiny start-up, and an impromptu trip to Africa.
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Essential Accessibility Tips For Your Website
In order to maximize the number of potential visitors to your website, make it as accessible and user-friendly as possible. Google will favour websites that comply with Accessibility standards and rank them higher. Therefore, applying the AODA Guidelines to your website will be beneficial for your Search Engine Optimization! Consider implementing the following tips during the construction (or reconstruction) of your website.
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Introducing Get Siva Social.
How many hours a day do we spend on social media? Sometimes we get lost looking at pictures, checking out statuses, or scrolling through our news feed. These hours could be spent adventuring, meeting new people, or doing that one activity you’ve always wanted to try....
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Humans of Siva Creative Andrew Arkwell, Director of Development
Inspired by Humans of New York, every other Thursday we’ll be introducing you to one of our remarkable team members. While we’re big fans of LinkedIn, our resumes don’t tell our stories. This edition tells the tale of a 20-something in the tech industry, website pet peeves, and a seaside town in England.
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5 Reasons Why You Should Never Build Your Own Website
I see so many small businesses take advantage of build your own website platforms and it makes sense, it’s free and easy. You can design something yourself, cater to your own visual standards and within hours you are set up with a website. But are these websites...
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Humans of Siva Creative Jess McLaughlin, Director of Design
Inspired by Humans of New York, every other Thursday we’ll be introducing you to one of our remarkable team members. This edition tells the tale of a dedicated mom of two, a fateful summer night, and a kitten named Kiki.
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Coding for a Cause
To solidify our commitment to community outreach and philanthropic initiatives across Canada, we’re giving back. We recognize the critical role that non-profits play in communities across the country, and we have a collective interest in seeing those organizations thrive.
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Keep Dental Patients Smiling with a Minty Fresh Website
While kids may generally love getting a visit from the Tooth Fairy, some children may not be so excited when it comes to seeing their local dentist.
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Why Your Outdated Website is Pushing Clients Away
Your business has a website. Well, it’s an outdated website, but none the less your business has a website. That’s all you need, right? Not exactly. If you want increased sales, brand awareness and a mobile friendly design, having an updated web presence will bring...
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Blogs Build Better Businesses Top 3 Reasons Why
Cooking, fashion, and how to make marijuana cookies: if you can imagine a topic for a blog, it probably exists.
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How Much Does a Website Cost? – FAQ
You have the questions and we have the answers! Here at Siva Creative, we encounter so many questions from clients and we look forward to helping them understand the world wide web. We decided to start a series of blog posts that answers in detail the commonly asked...
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Siva Creative – Who are we in the World of Marketing?
We are a group of passionate individuals, workaholics if you will, dedicated to making sure you understand and succeed online. But what exactly does this mean? The online world can be very beneficial for your business, whether you want to increase lead generation or...
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