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Field notes from the agency.

Essays, playbooks, and field notes on building intelligence layers for B2B companies — by the team that ships them.

UpdatedWeekly · Mondays
Authored byImpulse team · 6 contributors
FormatLong-form · 5–13 min reads

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FIG. 01 use-the-SERPs-to-pick-link-building-targets
SEO

How to Get High-Quality Backlinks with Emails

Any SEO pro understands the importance backlinks play in their online ranking strategy. In fact, as far as local optimization goes, link ...

Remington Begg · Aug 15, 2018
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Inbound Marketing

Why You Aren't Hitting Your Goals: How to Write Successful SMART Goals

As a marketer or savvy business person, you understand that in order for things to get done, you have to set goals at work.

Remington Begg · Aug 13, 2018
FIG. 03 stranger-things-netflix-typography
Graphic Design

How Netflix Uses Typography to Market Original Shows

Every night, after I’ve used up all my brain power during the day crafting exquisitely fantastic logos and super duper websites for our ...

Remington Begg · Aug 8, 2018
FIG. 04 user-experience-definition
Website Design

3 Websites with Amazing User Experiences + Why You Should Care About UX

Google provides a wonderful experience for their users. Just before I began writing this blog article, I googled “user experience.” Just ...

Remington Begg · Aug 3, 2018
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SEO

12 Link Building Strategies for a Year’s Worth of Tactical Testing

Link building has a bad rep. It’s often associated with annoying emails begging you to do a link swap, phoney “buy 10,000 backlinks!” ...

Remington Begg · Jul 31, 2018
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Inbound Marketing

How Campaign Offers Are Like a Variety Snack Box

You are only limited by your own creativity.

Remington Begg · Jul 26, 2018
FIG. 07 call tracking in google adwords
Advertising

How to Set Up Call Tracking in Google Adwords

If you're like most consumers, when you're motivated to purchase a local product or service, you are much more likely to call the business ...

Remington Begg · Jul 24, 2018
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SEO

Knowledge Graph Not Showing? Optimize Google My Business to Appear

You probably already created a Google My Business listing and are waiting for your Knowledge Graph to appear in the search. But even though ...

Remington Begg · Jul 20, 2018
FIG. 09 practical-typography-buttericks
Graphic Design

Time to Start Thinking Seriously About Typography for Your Brand

Oh typography. How I love thee. The power of type cannot be overstated. A piece of text rendered in the right font choice has the ability ...

Remington Begg · Jul 19, 2018
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SEO

How to Find the Right Google Keywords for Your Business

Knowing what searchers type to find your product or service might seem obvious, until you Google search a fitting phrase and your business ...

Remington Begg · Jul 16, 2018
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Inbound Marketing

How to Jump on the Real-Time Marketing Bandwagon

How about IHOP’s recent IHOB renaming disaster?

Remington Begg · Jul 12, 2018
FIG. 12 beginners-guide-to-inbound-marketing-impulse-creative-landing-page
Understanding Your Leads

Why Your Lead Generation Strategy Needs Gated Content Offers

The lead generation struggle is real. Purchasing leads can be a total crap shoot, while paid advertising can be just as costly and ...

Remington Begg · Jul 11, 2018
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Content Writing

Pillar Pages & Topic Clusters: 2 Content Marketing Strategy Must-Haves

The pressure to rank on page one is on and SEOs across the world are constantly looking for new ways to crawl up the search engine results ...

Remington Begg · Jul 9, 2018
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Video Marketing

Using Animated Videos for your Business Marketing

The way we have done marketing has come a long way. Before the internet took over the planet, companies relied on tv & radio ...

Remington Begg · Jul 6, 2018
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Customer Service

Customer Service/Experience Departments The Who, How and Why

There seems to be a set of stars aligning in my life lately. In the past week, I've had the opportunity to interview Joey Coleman on the ...

Remington Begg · Jul 5, 2018
FIG. 16 Impulse Creative ebooks
Website Design

Website Redesign Case Study: 100% increase in Traffic / 42% increase in Leads in 6 months

At Impulse Creative, we thrive on growth. It's even one of our core values. Just like any growing company, we’re presented with ...

Remington Begg · Jun 29, 2018
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Video Marketing

Why Your Business Needs a Dynamite YouTube Marketing Strategy Now

We’re not sure we need to convince you that people love watching videos.

Remington Begg · Jun 29, 2018
FIG. 18 Mastering-YouTubes-Algorithm-How-the-Search-Engine-Determines-Ranking
SEO

Mastering YouTube’s Algorithm: How the Search Engine Affects Ranking

At the foundation of all things ranking lies a very basic concept: no matter how much you push or promote shitty content, nobody is going ...

Remington Begg · Jun 26, 2018
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SEO

How to Make YouTube Content That’s Worth Watching & Sharing

Let’s begin by driving this point home— hard.

Remington Begg · Jun 21, 2018
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Video Marketing

Cheap Video Marketing Strategies for Recording with Your Cell Phone

This topic will probably hit home for a lot of people because, let’s be real— times are tough and we have to make every penny count.

Remington Begg · Jun 20, 2018
FIG. 21 Bot-marketing
Conversational Marketing

The Biggest Benefits of AI Customer Support

I’d welcome you to the future, but in the modern digital world, robots do most of the welcoming. Just take a look at the numbers: More than ...

Remington Begg · Jun 18, 2018
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4 Ways Female Marketers Can Rise Above the Competition

No matter the company, women in the workforce face a fair share of gender stereotypes. This is true, and we would never negate this fact. ...

Remington Begg · Jun 13, 2018
FIG. 23 15 Easy Steps to Track Website Conversions in Google Adwords
Increase Conversion Rates

15 Easy Steps to Track Website Conversions in Google Adwords

Your Google AdWords campaign might be performing well, with high click-through rate, low cost-per-click or any of the other metrics like ...

Remington Begg · Jun 11, 2018
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Graphic Design

A Good Logo Comes With Options

What Makes a Logo “Good?” Some logo designers would argue the exploration of color theory makes a good logo, while some would opine that ...

Remington Begg · Jun 8, 2018
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Marketing Agency

Shared Success: Making the Client a Part of The Process

Client. The word evokes certain feelings and carries both negative and positive connotations.

Remington Begg · Jun 7, 2018
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SEO

4 Ways Competitor Research Can Actually Help You Rank

We tend to see our competitors as the enemy. It’s true that sometimes there’s tension, but rival relationships don’t always have to be ...

Remington Begg · Jun 7, 2018