The Latest News From Melon Local
Stay in the know with the latest news in digital marketing, best practices and updates from Melon Local.
4 Questions to Ask Before Granting GBP Access
Your Google Business Profile (GBP) is one of the most valuable digital assets your business owns. It’s often the first thing potential customers see when they search for your business, making it a key driver of organic calls, website visits and foot traffic. In fact, a fully optimized GBP gets
Client Success Story with Kirsten Nguyen
As an endless encyclopedia of SEO knowledge who’s always up to date on the latest digital marketing trends, it’s safe to say Senior Director of Client Success Kirsten Nguyen knows what it takes to deliver results. Listen to our conversation with her about how she helps our clients improve their online reputation, rank higher on Google through strategic organic search optimization and overcome hurdles with their digital presence — of
How to Grow During Life Insurance Awareness Month and Beyond
National Life Insurance Awareness Month may be in full swing, but there are plenty of opportunities to grow your business year-round — especially when you have a fruitful partner like Melon Local in your corner! Let’s discuss how you can empower your customers with knowledge and how we can help them make informed decisions about their life insurance needs during September and beyond. The Numbers Behind Life Insurance: Why It
5 Things I Love About Melon Local – Feat. Sati Soulakhian
Motivated by her passion for helping others and shaped by her upbringing in a hard-working immigrant family from Armenia, Sati Soulakhian knew she was on the right path when she opened her insurance office in Glendale, CA, in 2022. Her journey hasn’t been without its challenges—especially when it came to finding a digital marketing agency that truly understood her needs and local market. Fortunately, Sati found a fruitful partnership with
Converting Insurance Leads to Customers: Follow-Up Best Practices
You’ve invested in your paid search leads, but are they actually paying off? As Ernie said in our Melon Minute video above, you may not realize it, but quality leads may be hiding in plain sight, including places like day-to-day conversations with customers, your social media and Yelp. Let’s take a deeper dive into our lead follow-up tips so you can start closing more leads than ever before! Tip 1:
How Long Does it Take to Improve Organic Search Results
Have you wondered how long it takes to grow your business’s organic search ranking? The truth is, there’s no clear consensus on this. Typically, it can take anywhere between 3–12 months to notice an improvement in your organic search results, but this can be contingent on a number of different factors — some in your control, others not so much. Let’s explore what factors influence your organic ranking and dispel
Melon Spotlight: Kieran Taylor
Say hello to our August 2024 Melon Spotlight, Kieran Taylor! As our first-ever Client Success Assistant, Kieran has played an instrumental role in providing additional support for our agents and Client Success team, including helping with the onboarding process, optimizing Google Business Profiles, resolving map issues and assisting with reputation management. Watch our conversation with her to learn more about what she most enjoys about working at Melon Local and
How to Address One-Star Online Business Reviews
As a business owner, feedback should always be welcomed, but what should you do when you get a negative review? Digital feedback can be very influential for your business, considering over 75.5 percent of consumers put their trust in online reviews. We talked about what to do in the video up above, but now let’s debunk some common myths, as well as what it takes to remove unwanted negative reviews.
Interview with an Agent: Bryan Nowlin
After spending four years learning about the ins and outs of insurance while working for his cousin’s agency, Bryan Nowlin fell in love with the industry and felt compelled to open his Fort Worth, TX agency in 2022. Having seen firsthand the success and results Melon Local was able to deliver while working as an insurance representative, he knew it only made sense to go with us for his own
Client Success Story with Christina Shields
From delivering results for her clients to managing her own team’s marketing strategies, Director of Client Success and Client Relations Christina Shields plays a crucial role in forming fruitful relationships with all our clients at Melon Local. We caught up with Christina to learn more about how she “ex-seeds” expectations across the board. Need someone in your corner like Christina? Schedule a demo today!
Latest Blog Posts
How to Get Customers to Fall for Your Agency
Marketing is a little like dating. The goal is to attract new leads in hopes that the connection turns into a long-time customer relationship. While digital marketing is an ever-evolving landscape of strategies, there are a few time-tested industry truths that can help you bolster your business online. Let’s go over some essential insurance marketing ideas that can help you win the hearts of new customers. Attract customers with your
What are Keywords and Why do They Matter?
If you’ve looked up how to improve your Google ranking, how to market locally, or how to attract more leads to your business, you’ve probably seen one concept come up time and time again… keywords. But what exactly is a keyword anyway? Today we’re going back to basics to dissect the meaning of keywords in marketing and how they impact your insurance marketing efforts. What are Keywords? Keywords are words
Insurance Marketing Trends for 2021
Marketing is anything but static. The way people consume information changes, technology becomes more advanced, and algorithms become more intuitive. To adjust to evolving demands, marketers have to be flexible. So, let’s make a New Years’ resolution together to have an open mind and a willingness to learn! This year, we’re ushering in exciting new insurance marketing trends that aim to drive engagement with your agency and bring more customers
Interview with an Agent: Caitlyn Garlock Knows Insurance
Though it’s been less than a decade since she graduated college, you could say Caitlyn Garlock has been in the insurance industry for more than 20 years. How can that be, you might ask? Caitlyn’s father has been an insurance agent her entire life, and he made sure to teach his daughter a thing or two about hard work, customer service, and growing a business. According to Caitlyn, being an
3 Ways to Stand Out with Insurance Agency Marketing
You know your insurance agency is better than the one down the street, but it’s important your potential customers know it, too. With so much competition in the marketplace, insurance agents need to go above and beyond to stand out. While providing great service at an affordable price is always the goal, it’s not the only thing you can do to put your agency ahead. Using key insurance agency marketing
SEO Basics for Insurance Marketing Strategies
Search engine optimization, better known as SEO, encompasses a variety of strategies that aim to improve a webpage or website’s search engine ranking. The higher you rank for relative searches, the more easily potential customers are able to find your agency. As a local business, SEO can help you increase visibility and attract new leads to your agency. This tactic is known for its long-term effectiveness and relatively low cost,
3 Ways to Increase Customer Retention
While generating new customers is an essential part of growing your agency, it’s equally as important to care for your existing customer base. It’s difficult to keep momentum if you continually lose customers! Nurturing customer relationships and maintaining policies should be a prominent factor in your overarching business and marketing strategy. Luckily, the insurance industry boasts impressive customer retention rates, with the average agency maintaining an 84% retention rate. But
Four Marketing Mistakes You May be Making
Digital marketing for insurance companies can be difficult in an ever-changing online landscape. Consumers’ needs change, new platforms appear, and Google releases yet another new round of Google Ads guidelines. It can be exhausting to keep up! To make sure you’re not falling behind on your marketing efforts, we’ve compiled four of the most common marketing mistakes we see local insurance agencies making. 1. You haven’t set goals. We all
How Customer Reviews Impact Your Business
Chances are, you’ve likely browsed reviews before making a purchase or visiting a new place. Why risk having a bad meal when you can predict the quality with assistance from hundreds of reviews? And you’re not alone. A reported 70% of consumers reference multiple review sites when choosing a local business to patronize. As a local agency, it’s critical that you make review management a part of your insurance marketing