Kristen McCormick

Kristen McCormick

Kristen is the Head of Marketing at Hatch, a customer communication platform for service-based businesses. She was previously the Senior Managing Editor at WordStream. Her cat Arnold has double paws on every paw, and she finds life to be exponentially more delightful on a bicycle.

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How to Follow Up With Sales Leads: 8 Best Practices to Land More Clients

The way you follow up with your sales leads has a direct impact on whether they jump ship, further engage, or become a repeat customer. In this post, we'll cover 8 tips to effectively follow up with your sales leads— including segmentation, prompt responses, personalization, communication tracking, and more!

How (+When & Why) to Update Your Google Business Listing

This post covers why you should update your Google business listing, when to make these updates, and covers the steps for common edits and changes such as hours, phone number, categories, and attributes.

7 Easy Ways to Get More Traffic from Evergreen Content

Let's face it—even the most evergreen content starts to show its age. In this post, we provide 7 ways you can refresh your posts and guides to keep traffic coming in. We'll cover keyword targeting, information updates, image refreshing, and more!

20 Creative Call to Action Examples for Email Newsletter Signups

Looking for ways to get more subscribers to your email list? Gain knowledge of best practices and inspiration with these 20 call to action examples for email signups that real businesses are using on their websites.

Modified Broad Match Is Going Away: What You Need to Know

Google has made yet another short-notice announcement that the modified broad match type in Google Ads will be phased out in February 2021. This post covers what the change means, what Google says about it, what the community says about it, as well as expert tips on how to navigate the change.

120 of the Best Words and Phrases for Marketing with Emotion

People don't buy products, they buy emotions! Here are the 120 best marketing words and phrases to write influential, emotional copy.

Creative Newsletter Names: 75+ Ideas & Examples to Inspire You

This post provides words phrases to help you come up with a creative newsletter name for your business, along with real examples of clever newsletters from all over the internet.

42 Powerful Local Marketing Ideas That Work (+Examples!)

This post provides 30 local marketing ideas to help you gain more exposure, build more trust, and attract more customers to your local business, broken down by advertising, local SEO, social media, email marketing, and community.

27 Free & Low-Budget Marketing Ideas for Any Business

Check out our list of fast, free, and creative ways to grow your business!