About Us
CICOR Marketing is a full service digital marketing agency dedicated to helping businesses grow through smart strategy, creative execution, and measurable results. With offices in Tampa, Florida, and Chicago, Illinois, we partner with organizations across more than 50 industries to build stronger brands, generate qualified leads, and increase revenue.
Our team specializes in SEO, website design and development, social media marketing, paid advertising, email marketing, branding, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). We combine proven marketing fundamentals with emerging AI driven strategies to help clients stay ahead in a rapidly changing digital landscape.
At CICOR Marketing, we believe great marketing should be transparent, data driven, and aligned with real business goals. Our focus is simple: deliver meaningful growth and build long term partnerships that create lasting success.
How We Got Started
CICOR Marketing was founded with a simple belief: great businesses deserve great marketing. What began as a passion for helping companies grow has evolved into a full service digital marketing agency serving clients across more than 50 industries.
From the start, our focus has been on building real partnerships, not just running campaigns. We saw that many businesses were overwhelmed by a constantly changing digital landscape and needed a trusted guide to help them navigate it. Like a skilled navigator helping a ship reach its destination, our role has always been to provide clear direction, strategic insight, and measurable results.
As digital marketing has evolved, so have we. From traditional SEO and website development to advanced AI driven strategies like Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), CICOR Marketing continues to embrace innovation while staying focused on what matters most: helping our clients grow, compete, and succeed.
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If you are going for Local SEO, then making sure that the Local portion is done is key.
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If you are going for Local SEO, then making sure that the Local portion is done is key.
The first thing I like to do when speaking with a business owner is to educate them on what digital marketing is, how it affects their business, and to formulate a strategy for that particular business that coincides with their company goals.
In the past 3-4 months especially, I have seen a huge...
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The first thing I like to do when speaking with a business owner is to educate them on what digital marketing is, how it affects their business, and to formulate a strategy for that particular business that coincides with their company goals.
In the past 3-4 months especially, I have seen a huge surge in companies looking to have a digital marketing strategy developed so that they can sustain their businesses during this pandemic. While many of the basic aspects of digital marketing are the same (website design, SEO, ads, etc), there are many components that needs to be specifically tailored to a company to best align with their business.
For example, if the company is B2B there really is no need to be running any sort of Facebook Ad Campaign however the need to run ads on LinkedIn, Google Search, Bing Ads, or other type of ad networks may be needed. What is the budget for running the ads also plays a major impact on the success of the campaign. In some cases running ads across the typical ad networks is NOT the solution the company needs. They may be better off with running industry specific campaigns to gain visibility against their competitors across the country (or world). No matter what the ads need to point to landing pages that specifically are targeting the product or service.
Another example, for the companies that offer B2C product and services the solution may be to really drive a strong online presence for their Local SEO if that is the better solution. Using enhanced SEO methods and proper indexing of the website can often achieve the results the company needs to be successful.
So long story short, the need for digital marketing for every business has and will continue to be an essential component for the company to achieve success. What is the best solution depends on the company and how they look to achieve success. Is it to drive more customers into their brick and mortar locations (like restaurants, C Stores, etc). Is it to gain 20 new homes to clean or service (maid services, floor cleaning companies, etc). Or is the solution to drive industry awareness for their products (CNC manufacturing, CBD Stores, etc).
With the recent changes to the AdWords platform there are some new perks to running some advanced placed ads through their channels. AdWords is still only one channel to utilize for digital advertising. There are a variety of companies (like ours) which have the ability to get ads running...
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With the recent changes to the AdWords platform there are some new perks to running some advanced placed ads through their channels. AdWords is still only one channel to utilize for digital advertising. There are a variety of companies (like ours) which have the ability to get ads running through an ad exchange network that can get a higher yield on return than the AdWords platform. However the biggest disadvantage to running ads through and exchange is the commitment spend level that is needed to really gain traction on that platform. While the ads do cost considerably less per click and can be far more targeted than that of AdWords the monthly spend is considerably higher overall.
You can save yourself lots of time and money by skipping the print methods of trying to reach these tourist in your area. A well designed landing page tied to a mobile only ad campaign can attract more people than you realize. Your ad(s) could target different aspects of your store products and...
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You can save yourself lots of time and money by skipping the print methods of trying to reach these tourist in your area. A well designed landing page tied to a mobile only ad campaign can attract more people than you realize. Your ad(s) could target different aspects of your store products and can even be setup to guide them to you as well. All of these tourist get off the boats and one of the first things they will do is have their mobile phones out looking for different things in the area to do, that is your opportunity to grab their attention and motivate them to come stop by.
If you follow trending strategic marketing analysis, you can see that even Google just released a noteworthy study related to pure video marketing. Here is a link for that piece ( https://syit.us/2A1DOhO
). We have seen that video incorporated within both company website's, social media, and...
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If you follow trending strategic marketing analysis, you can see that even Google just released a noteworthy study related to pure video marketing. Here is a link for that piece ( https://syit.us/2A1DOhO
). We have seen that video incorporated within both company website's, social media, and even landing pages for digital ads has had a great impact on different client success drivers.
Obviously there are many different methods in which marketing can be effective, however digital marketing as a whole still has the greatest return on investment to the vast majority of clients.
We host directly on Google. Never affected by any other servers because they are all independent servers and none are a shared hosting solution. You pay a little more but the advantages extremely out way the price difference. Plus to get VPS hosting somewhere else you pay insane amounts of...
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We host directly on Google. Never affected by any other servers because they are all independent servers and none are a shared hosting solution. You pay a little more but the advantages extremely out way the price difference. Plus to get VPS hosting somewhere else you pay insane amounts of money for. The only drawback is if you are not a technical person then you will not want to try to use them yourself.
I have been building websites since 1992 and I still have my original HTML book to prove it. =) I have developed on practically every platform out there over the years. I have developed site on everything from ASP.NET to Java to Ruby to Wordpress.
To answer your question specifically, I would...
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I have been building websites since 1992 and I still have my original HTML book to prove it. =) I have developed on practically every platform out there over the years. I have developed site on everything from ASP.NET to Java to Ruby to Wordpress.
To answer your question specifically, I would tell you Wordpress. What many of the people who opted to tell you HTML don't understand is how the CMS platform works perfectly fine and if it is maintained in a similar fashion as to how you should run your updates for your computer, then you won't have any security holes.
The first suggestion that I would make to you for having a Wordpress site would be to spend a few dollars (usually $60 or less) to get a Premium Wordpress theme that was professionally developed. The Free Wordpress theme are people who are barely able to scratch together something and call it a theme. Spending $60 is far more time efficient than manually coding even a basic HTML site that would not meet the requirements for responsive design in the first place.
There are a variety of Plugins that you can install based upon what your site needs are and what you are trying to accomplish. Some of the elaborate (pro) plugin items may need to purchased.
Also for those that may not realize it, but you can use any piece of HTML code you want within a Wordpress site.
Regardless of which route you take, be sure to know how good your hosting is going to be for your website. You can have the greatest, most efficient, best optimized, etc site in the world, but if your hosting company is horrible there is nothing you can do about that.
In the beginning a shared hosting environment will work just fine for you until you start to gain some traction with your website. But be prepared to migrate out of the Shared Hosting server environment relatively quickly.
In many cases the right strategy depends on the client. If they are B2C vs B2B, then the focus on what approach is used to gain the target audience can change.
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In many cases the right strategy depends on the client. If they are B2C vs B2B, then the focus on what approach is used to gain the target audience can change.
One of the first things that I do with all prospective clients is to sit down with them and review what they have (or don't have) free of charge. During that process I then reveal more details about their particular situation and relate it back to their own goals. Then I interject my own...
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One of the first things that I do with all prospective clients is to sit down with them and review what they have (or don't have) free of charge. During that process I then reveal more details about their particular situation and relate it back to their own goals. Then I interject my own background and experience to their need and the typically seals the deal
