Author Archive for: Don Dodds

About Don Dodds

Don Dodds is the founder, managing partner and Chief Marketing Strategist at M16 Marketing. He is part strategist, part creative director, part technology leader, and part teacher. With a passion for creating success stories he and the team at M16 work with startups, small businesses and large organizations to help them better define their digital strategy, user experience, web design and digital marketing efforts. 



As a serial entrepreneur, Dodds has created several successful companies and has a keen understanding of how to create and scale a business using digital marketing. He serves on the CSU College of Business Board of Advisors and is a member of the Atlanta Business Chronicle Leadership Trust and a Forbes Agency Council member. In 2018 he was a featured contributor on 3 Amazon bestseller lists with Expert Profiles, Conversations with Influencers and Innovators.

Entries by Don Dodds

Top 10 Branding Trends in 2022 to Implement for Your Business

Businesses will want to approach branding differently throughout 2022. You’re likely to see tougher competition along with evolving technology that, together, have already been changing the branding game for years. These days, if you want to stay on top of your industry, you need to do a lot more than stand out visually. Branding consists […]

Top 8 PPC Trends in 2022

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is still as popular as SEO today because of its combined affordability and effectiveness. Its ability to generate leads makes it popular among many companies and, like other marketing strategies, it continues to evolve while becoming more user-friendly. 2020 saw a lot of changes in PPC, which continued throughout 2021, and we can […]

The Digital Marketing Roadmap: 12 Steps to Success

What is a Digital Marketing Roadmap? A digital marketing roadmap is the foundation that guides all your digital marketing efforts from start to finish. The digital marketing roadmap begins with a strategy and is supported by a series of tactics to help achieve your goals.  Your success comes down to two major things: driving enough […]

The Ultimate Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Checklist for E-Commerce Stores

Search engines are one of the top sources of e-commerce traffic. According to Smart Insights, nearly 40 percent of all e-commerce traffic comes from search engines. You don’t have to invest in paid advertising, however, to attract search engine users to your e-commerce store. Rather, you can conduct search engine optimization (SEO). With the right […]

How to Master Content Marketing for Local Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Content marketing is an essential component of local search engine optimization (SEO). According to BrightLocal, high-quality content is the second-most prominent ranking signal for local searches. The only ranking signal that holds more weight for local searches is backlinks. Content marketing, however, requires a different approach when used for local SEO than traditional SEO. If […]