When’s the last time you bought something from someone you didn’t trust?

If you are in the business of selling your services or products online (and who isn't these days), you know how hard it can be to build trust and relationships with clients. It’s just not the same as meeting someone for coffee and being able to give them a firm handshake. You have less time online to make a good impression, and once you do, you have to make sure you are doing everything to keep it. Building positive, trusting relationships through your website will improve interest and engagement, leading to return visitors and increased lead generation. Here are a few tactics that will not only help people trust you and your services, but will help people connect with you too.

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A June survey, surveying 99 people from retail companies, indicated their e-commerce platform as a top priority. They responded to Internet Retailer Magazine survey. Mobile ecommerce was their second focus. Online platform is seen as a critical marketing tool for the majority of eRetailers. This aligns with an earlier Forrester study report that indicated US business spending on technology for 2014-2015 will outpace the economy.

Marketing budgets have changed greatly in the past 10 years, first they included developing a website and currently companies are creating a market.

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There's been a huge shift towards using inbound marketing strategies ever since the Internet became a vital mainstay in people's daily lives. More and more brands are using inbound marketing tools -- like SEO, blogging, and social media -- to attract, convert, close, and satisfy leads and clients.

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Visuals increase response rates for every type of marketing effort from direct mail and ads to emails and blogging. So visuals are highly effective in social posts.

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We've all read and been told to have social icons in emails headers or footers to grow your fan base and followers. It's important to test subject lines and offers to determine which get the best response. Tracking marketing results is a no-brainer for experienced marketers and business owners. Besides these obvious activities there is more you can do to achieve social marketing and email success.

A well crafted email and social media strategy to current customers is built on quality data and measurable goals.

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Forrester and Business Marketing Asociation research shows that B2B marketers are still not seeing satisfactory returns on their content marketing efforts. 51% claim their content marketing is "somewhat effective" and 27% were neutral.

Even with lackluster results 75% of B2B marketers plan to increase 2014 content marketing budgets. This would indicate that they see value in content marketing, but haven't devoted time and budget to master it. We will have to assume that they were testing the waters with minimal budget and the results met the criteria they set to increase efforts and budget.

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How much content do you need to rank?

There are so many opinions when it comes to content length. I was told you need 1000 words now per blog. But you have to be careful not to overload it with your keyword. It can seem a bit contradictory when the number of times the subject is in the article can hinder your SEO results.

SEO is constantly changing and difficult for most to understand. We recommend that you monitor your results through Google analytics and any other dashboards you have access to as well as the best indicator, sales and traffic you can account came from your website and marketing efforts.

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