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You’ve just had a child, and you’re in love. 

It has never been more important to craft a website that people will remember positively. Some sources (including Mill for Business) say there are well over 1 billion websites while others say that the number is growing closer to 2 billion. Here are some tips to make your website stand apart from the rest. 

Have you ever noticed that sometimes you ask a question on Google and you're given the answer within the search engine results — without clicking on a link? Are you already familiar with how these answers appear and would like to know how you can make your website provide these answers? Well, these are known as featured snippets. Featured snippets are selected search results that are in a box at the top of Google's organic results. In this article, I’m going to break down my best tips and practices on how to win and keep featured snippets.

Virtual offices are becoming more commonplace. Companies like the reduced costs of a virtual office compared to the costs of maintaining a physical office. Even companies with a physical space want the flexibility to hire the best talent, regardless of where in the world that talent lives. 

Seeing your business listed high on the first page of search engine results for your chosen keywords remains an online marketing holy grail. You may even be targeting the coveted "position zero"; the information Google highlights in a box at the very tippy-top of the page – above the ads and organic search results. These are worthwhile goals.

As you further delve into digital marketing, you’re hearing a lot about how PPC, or Pay-Per-Click, advertising can increase exposure for your business, help boost sales, or spread the word about events or special offers. It sounds important, and it sounds effective. You know it’s time to dive in.

More than ever, marketing today is a 24/7 operation. It has to be if you want to stay competitive. The digital transformation changed consumers' expectations about how they interact with brands and how companies present themselves to the world.

The digital transformation leaves no industry untouched. The same holds true for how real estate agents operate their business. The digital age offers easy, low-cost access to a wide variety of real estate agent tools that empower agents to conduct all types of business from any location, including a virtual office.

Recent controversies about privacy aside, Facebook remains a social media giant. It remains the world’s most active social media platform with 1.45 billion daily users. Somewhere in that 1.45 billion is your market. That means it’s not too late for you to build your company’s Facebook presence into a vibrant, revenue-generating community.

Instagram is today’s popular hangout. It’s no longer only younguns posting vintage-filtered pictures of their desserts. Businesses have arrived, and they’re utilizing image-centric content marketing to draw in new customers while nurturing a loyal following.