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Darren Baines

How are Australiaโ€™s top car manufacturers and models competing on search engines?

By Darren Baines / March 5, 2020

Following Holdenโ€™s departure from Australia, we put the automotive industryโ€™s search engine marketing performance under the spotlight and analysed how many Google users have been looking online for our top ten car badges and models over the last five years – you might be surprised […]

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Search trends show signs of promise but also sticking points for Cairns tourism

By Darren Baines / February 6, 2020

The phrase โ€˜Iโ€™ll Google itโ€™ has become common place in everyday conversation and is usually used when looking to solve a problem or answer a question but also, when searching with intent such as to buy clothes, find a local plumber or book a holiday. […]

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EP3: How to get noticed using local SEO

By Darren Baines / January 28, 2020

Local SEO is exactly what youโ€™d expect – Search Engine Optimisation, so your business appears in local searches. You may have seen Googleโ€™s local results that shows three nearby solutions. Here are some quick wins so you get noticed. If you havenโ€™t claimed your Google […]

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EP2: Preparing your content calendar

By Darren Baines / January 19, 2020

If growth is your goal for 2020, you need a considered communications plan which does more than sit in a folder on your laptop gathering digital dust. Here are our top tips. Start with a simple calendar of events. Include obvious dates such as Christmas […]

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Ep1: How can you leapfrog your competitors on Google to rank higher?

By Darren Baines / January 13, 2020

Itโ€™s a problem many businesses face. With search engines checking numerous factors, itโ€™s no longer a simple case of โ€˜stuffingโ€™ keywords into your website – itโ€™s become much more sophisticated. Through competition analysis, we can effectively reverse engineer any siteโ€™s success and identify their weaknesses […]

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The 2020 marketing essentials for Cairns businesses

By Darren Baines / December 10, 2019

As we enter the new decade, and businesses strive to grab the attention of their customers through an ever-growing toolkit of digital and traditional marketing tactics, weโ€™ve put together our very own list of marketing essentials for Cairns businesses to help increase your bottom line. […]

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Can your customers find you online? Our quick wins for local SEO ensure they can.

By Darren Baines / November 26, 2019

It is likely that if you operate a business with a website, then you would have heard the term โ€˜Search Engine Optimisationโ€™ (SEO) thrown around a few times, even if you arenโ€™t entirely sure what it means. In a nutshell, SEO is the practice of […]

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Talking about my generation?

By Darren Baines / September 9, 2019

Generational marketing is a key tool when segmenting your marketing audience as it provides a useful method of defining marketing strategy, channels and messaging. However, the effectiveness of generational marketing really boils down to how well you know the behaviours and preferences of Baby Boomers […]

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Word up!

By Darren Baines / July 24, 2019

The written word has undergone a major transformation in the past two decades. With the advent and mass adoption of the internet, social media and SMS messaging into our lives, the way we write has had to adapt to suit the medium, making it even […]

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Matching customer expectations with reality

By Darren Baines / July 3, 2019

At some point in our lives we will all be drawn in by the lure of powerful marketing, only to be utterly disappointed by reality when a product or service fails to live up to our expectations. Even if youโ€™ve been lucky or studious enough […]

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