Mini Ways to Get Big Wins on Your Pet or Vet Website

January 29, 2024June 13, 2015 by Pam Foster

PetCopywriter image: Mini USPs can be a powerful secret to big wins on your pet or veterinary website

Mini Ways to Get Big Wins on Your Pet or Vet Website

I recently wrote a guest blog post for SEOCopywriting.com, and it’s all about the many benefits of creating a “mini USP” for each product or service you offer.

My post explains that in marketing, the USP (Unique Selling Proposition) is a well-known acronym for explaining why your products, services and business uniquely offer the best solutions for your customers. I like to call it a “Unique Solution Proposition.” And, you not only need a USP for your company, but also for each solution you offer.

Your USPs are important because you need to find a way to stand out from the clutter. You’ll want to articulate them on your website, blog and other materials.

Let’s look at some easy and specific ways to use this mini USP approach for big wins on your pet or veterinary website.

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.

Does Your Pet Website Pass This First Impression Test?

January 29, 2024October 18, 2012 by Pam Foster

If you’re wondering why your pet or veterinary website isn’t bringing in the volume of sales or leads you expect… it may be due to your site’s “First Impression.” Let me explain. I’m always following web industry experts who measure different aspects of what works with search engines and site visitors… and recently I came … Read more

The Wordle Test for Pet Web Content That Works

January 29, 2024September 26, 2012 by Pam Foster

Petcopywriter.com uses Wordle to help with web content that works

Recently a colleague made me aware of a really fun little online tool called Wordle. The Wordle website describes itself as “generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”

Now, what makes Wordle an excellent tool for your pet website content (especially blogs) — is you can see if your content is using words that focus on what your customers need, or if the words are all about you.

Too many websites talk about how great they are or how fantastic their products are. Ideally, your pet website content should always be about the solutions your prospects or customers are seeking.

And don’t forget to include those keywords that match what people are using in Google and other search engines to find you.

Here’s how Wordle can help you determine how you’re doing along those lines.

Your pet website first impression matters more than ever

January 29, 2024July 11, 2012 by Pam Foster

Photo for puppies blog post PetCopywriter.com

More than two years ago, I wrote a series of blog posts about the importance of having a clear, optimized website to attract more business, whether you’re marketing pet products, veterinary services or supplies for pet businesses. A lot has happened on the web since then, but the web-success fundamentals have not changed. In fact, … Read more

The Ear Hug Approach to Pet Website Content

January 29, 2024March 14, 2012 by Pam Foster

PetCopywriter.com Blog about Pet Website

OK, there’s really no such thing as an ear hug. Or is there…? This photo provides clear evidence that ear hugs exist. Isn’t it sweet? To me, it’s the ultimate image of a warm and loving bond between two best buds. So why should you care about ear hugs? Well, as the owner of a … Read more

Quality Content Defined for Pet Internet Marketing

January 29, 2024February 13, 2012 by Pam Foster

With the mission of helping you keep up with the challenging world of search engine optimization (SEO) and how pet web content works best today, I try to follow the latest guidelines, trends and events that make a big difference in search results.

Finding quality websites for searchers has always been the goal of Google and other search engines. But just what does “quality” mean?

Last year, several strides were taken to clamp down on “thin” pages that offered very little information, keyword-stuffed articles that offered nothing of value, and duplicate content you can find on dozens if not hundreds of websites. So one definition of quality has been “original, useful and highly relevant content,” which I talk about a lot.

Today I read this new definition of quality, and it helps clarify things for us further, to a point.

According to Google, “High quality content is content you can send to your child to learn something.”

Hmmm.

Here’s how I interpret that for pet-industry marketers, whether you’re marketing pet products, pet services, veterinary care, pet business consulting or anything else related to this industry.

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Fascinating Facebook Facts for Pet Retail Marketing

January 29, 2024November 28, 2011 by Pam Foster

This weekend, I was browsing through some pet retail magazines and came across a new report that might interest you. It’s called Strategies for Effective Facebook Wall Posts for the Retail Industry, and it includes a number of fascinating facts that may well be worth considering for your pet business Facebook page, whether you’re marketing pet products or services.

Posting 1-4 times a week produces 71% higher user engagement than 5 or more posts for retail brands: quality trumps frequency
Posts containing fewer than 80 characters produce 66% higher engagement than longer posts (wow!)
Posts containing questions generate more than double the amount of comments, even if they may get fewer “likes,”
Top retail sales keywords that produced more user engagement: “$ off” and “coupon” worked best (55% higher user engagement rates); while the words “sale” and “percent off” (or % off) produced the lowest; even posts about offers less than $10 off produce 17% higher engagement than percent-off posts
The 2 most effective types of retail brand posts contain a single photo attachment or use only words. Posts containing only words produce 94% higher engagement than avg.
Wednesday is the best day to post, although you obviously shouldn’t post ONLY on Wednesday. 🙂

So — what kinds of topics should you post on your pet business Facebook page?

Original content ideas for marketing to pet owners

January 29, 2024October 20, 2011 by Pam Foster

Today I was on a conference call with Heather Lloyd Martin, SEO Copywriting pioneer, mentor and friend of mine. She was talking about some of the things that are critical to web success today and I immediately thought of how these tips can be applied to your pet marketing strategies or pet SEO success (of … Read more

How to optimize your pet website photos for visitors and SEO

January 29, 2024October 7, 2011 by Pam Foster

Last spring, I was driving my dog to doggie day care and came upon this hilarious scene in a neighbor’s driveway. I had to pull over and snap a quick photo from my phone.

Turkey lessons about optimizing your pet website for SEO, visitors — Turkey lessons about optimizing your pet website images

Everyone I’ve shown this to gets a big kick out of it, so I thought I’d share it with you.

What do these turkeys have in common with your pet business or veterinary practice website?

And what lessons can be learned from this photo when it comes to optimizing the images on your site?

I see 2 key take-aways for you.

1. Try to use distinct images for marketing your pet products or services.

This quartet of Tom turkeys are strutting their stuff in full regalia to attract the lone female who happens to be strolling by. Sadly, it’s hard to tell them apart, except the one on the right has some torn tail issues.

So how does the female know which one is her soul mate, or if any of them belong by her side? Hmmm. I wish I knew how that works. All I know is, it leads to an important point.