Pet Industry Marketers: Attract That $60B in 2015 Spending

January 29, 2024March 12, 2015 by Pam Foster

Fun toys are just part of the major spending in the pet industry

Pet Industry Marketers: Attract That $60B in 2015 Spending

Last week at the Global Pet Expo 2015, the American Pet Products Association (APPA) released its 2015 numbers on pet spending. The APPA’s annual comprehensive report covers pet spending in the segments of food, supplies/over-the-counter (OTC) medications, veterinary care, live animal purchases and other services.

Overall, pet spending reached $58 billion in 2014. But get ready. In 2015, pet owners are going to bust through all previous spending records by shelling out a projected $60 billion. Wow!

Let’s look at the highlights of that report, and what they mean if you’re responsible for marketing pet products or veterinary services.

Podcast: SEO Marketing for Veterinary Practices

January 29, 2024February 14, 2015 by Pam Foster

Podcast: SEO Marketing for Veterinary Practices What’s the secret to veterinary practice SEO? It’s much easier than you think. That’s what I explained to Brandon Breshears — Director of Operations at Rethink Veterinary Solutions and creator of The Veterinary Marketing Podcast — during our podcast conversation. Brandon and I both know that many veterinary practices … Read more

What the .vet domain could mean to your veterinary website

January 29, 2024January 13, 2015 by Pam Foster

What the .vet domain could mean to your veterinary website

Now that the .vet domain is available, you may be wondering if you should you jump on board and register your pet or veterinary business website as a .vet version.

Should you register your veterinary business website with the new .vet domain?

You may be asking yourself, “Should I buy the .vet domain to help with our SEO/search results or website traffic?”

I was wondering the same thing and I had a conversation with a few of my fellow online marketing professionals. Here’s the upshot of what we discussed.

Mike Linville, owner of Black Dog Studios, a “Responsible Design” web site developer and online marketer in the veterinary industry, said, “After the Google Panda update a few years ago — the search algorithm changed to put less emphasis on domain names (because any spammer could buy domains with $7). Instead, there’s more emphasis on quality content. So in terms of buying the .vet domain name – I don’t think you would see an SEO benefit. But, if you wanted it for branding sake … then I would definitely say yes.”

Wildly Profitable Marketing for the Pet Industry 2015 Edition

January 29, 2024January 7, 2015 by Pam Foster

Wildly Profitable Marketing for the Pet Industry 2015 Edition

I’m happy to announce that my book co-author, C S Wurzberger, and I have just released a fresh 2015 update of our guide, Wildly Profitable Marketing for the Pet Industry.

Updated for 2015: Wildly Profitable Marketing for the Pet Industry

This is our fourth year of updating this workbook. It’s designed to be your complete road map to creating a very simple yet effective marketing plan for your pet or veterinary business.

In Wildly Profitable Marketing for the Pet Industry 2015 edition, you’ll see that we’ve updated:

Examples and screen shots to feature the latest “best practice” websites, including pet businesses, veterinary manufacturers and more
Several resources and links to make sure you have the latest information
Statistics, facts and features that are relevant right now
Tips and steps for success, including a completely updated Podcast section (see page 216)
Other details that make this a great go-to guide for success this year and beyond

Simple Formula for Writing Magnetic Pet Marketing “How-to” Articles

January 29, 2024June 25, 2014 by Pam Foster

Simple Formula for Writing Magnetic Pet Marketing “How-to” Articles

By David Tomen for PetCopywriter.com

“How to” articles are practically a no-brainer when marketing to pet owners because you’ve listened carefully to what your customers wonder about most.

Lori does the writing and email newsletters for her veterinary clinic’s website. She has a steady stream of ideas for pet-business articles her business uses when marketing to pet owners. Here, we’ll look at the formula Lori uses to write her blog posts, web pages and email newsletters.

My hope is by the time you finish reading this article, you’ll be able to make Lori’s success your reality too.

Topics for your pet-business marketing articles

Marketing to pet owners with “how-to” articles made easy

January 29, 2024May 20, 2014 by Pam Foster

Marketing to pet owners with “how-to” articles made easy

By David Tomen for PetCopywriter.com

The pet-owner focused web content for Dr. Buzby's ToeGrips includes this How-To article on dog nail care. It includes helpful text, a photo and a video. — The pet-owner focused web content for Dr. Buzby’s ToeGrips includes this How-To article on dog nail care. It includes text, a photo and a video.

Sheri is a master at marketing to pet owners. She loves animals. Caring for pets since she was a young girl fostered a passion that led to a career as a veterinarian.

Sheri soon found that sharing her know-how was a great way to build her business. Pet owners trusted her and shared their experience with friends. And her veterinary clinic’s revenues grew exponentially every year since she opened her doors.

Sheri taught Lori, her receptionist and resident webmaster, the easiest way to come up with “how-to” articles. During the week, her staff would make note of customer questions and problems. Lori then selected the best of the lot and wrote a “how-to” article for each week’s blog post.

Lori came up with some of her own methods for generating ideas for blog posts, too. You can easily do this for your practice as well.

If you use the pet web content ideas here, you’ll easily be able to write magnetic “how-to” articles that bring in more traffic to your website and business.

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For the most effective pet website SEO, focus on this tactic

January 29, 2024May 6, 2014 by Pam Foster

For the most effective pet website SEO, focus on this tactic

This just in… quality content matters when it comes to attracting visitors to your pet or veterinary website! Actually, it always mattered, but a recent blog post from Marketing Profs brought it to our attention with statistics from a new marketing survey.

Survey says! Quality content, posted frequently, is critical for getting traffic from Google and other search engines.

The blog post stated, “Marketing and sales professionals say creating quality content is THE MOST EFFECTIVE search engine optimization (SEO) tactic, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by Ascend2. More than half (57%) of the global professionals polled say quality content creation is one of the most effective SEO strategies employed by their company.”*

What else matters when it comes to bringing in business through Google and other search engines? The Marketing Profs article noted these survey findings from Ascend2: “Other SEO efforts seen as effective include:

7 Reasons Why Your Pet Website Should Include Video

January 29, 2024April 1, 2014 by Pam Foster

7 Reasons Why Your Pet Website Should Include Video

By Chris Butler for PetCopywriter.com

If a picture is worth a thousand words, do you have any idea how much a one-minute video is worth?

Whether you’re marketing pet products or promoting a veterinary practice, videos are priceless especially if you include an animal.

According to Dr. James McQuivey of Forrester Research, a video is worth 1.8 million words, which is about three times the length of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. That equates to about 3,600 typical web pages!

I don’t know about you, but writing that many pages for one website, even if it’s about my precious four-legged friends, would be a bit much. Besides, what are the chances of anyone reading the whole thing?

Just look at the abundance of pet videos that circulate the Internet on a daily basis. People love watching videos with cute animals in them. And if you use the videos to demonstrate something useful about a pet, or pet product, you’ve really set yourself apart.

5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Pet Business Facebook Page

January 29, 2024March 25, 2014 by Pam Foster

Photo: success in marketing to pet owners

5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Pet Business Facebook Page

By Jen Phillips April for PetCopywriter.com

There’s a saying that people don’t wake up in the morning and go to your website, but they do wake up in the morning and go to Facebook. In fact, if you’re a pet business marketing to pet owners, Facebook plays a key role in your marketing efforts.

Here’s why.

Facebook by the numbers:

Over a billion users (yes, that’s a B)
According to the Pew Research Center, 64% of adult users log into Facebook daily
Business Insider.com says 73% of the users have a household income of $75,000 +

What does this mean to you as a pet business? It means your potential customers are using Facebook.

However, if you’re like a lot of pet businesses, you’re not sure how to best use it to grow your business. After all, it’s not as simple as getting a storefront on the busiest street corner in town to maximize your foot traffic (and sales).

How do you get noticed and increase your customer base on the popular social media network? It starts with a plan.

Pet Industry Marketers: Attract That $60B in 2015 Spending

What the .vet domain could mean to your veterinary website

Wildly Profitable Marketing for the Pet Industry 2015 Edition

Simple Formula for Writing Magnetic Pet Marketing “How-to” Articles

Marketing to pet owners with “how-to” articles made easy

5 more ways to use social media in pet marketing

For the most effective pet website SEO, focus on this tactic

7 Reasons Why Your Pet Website Should Include Video

5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Pet Business Facebook Page