Who We Are

Who We Are

We’re a diverse blend of online marketing/communication technology,  with years of experience in newspaper, radio and  TV production and publishing. Our focus is helping small to mid-sized businesses realize marketing opportunities while utilizing Web-based communication services,  new-media and traditional tools. We leverage ...

LG’s Smart Launch

LG’s Smart Launch

It can be very expensive for a new or growing business to jump into the Pay-Per-Click (PPC) arena.  Even well established companies can struggle with PPC spends and management fees, but how else can a company grow online?  SEO efforts? ...

Unsalted Sailing

Unsalted Sailing

Unsalted Sailing is a new brand created to promote and highlight the Great Lakes Sailing lifestyle.  Lawton Gallagher Group is the agency in charge of assisting in the initial brand, website and product launch and will be playing an integral ...

File this tidbit of information under good to know:
When you setup a Google Adwords Campaign be certain to customize your columns. You can customize your columns at the campaign and adgroup level. There are different options for both.
At the campaign level I like to see the competitive metrics enabled as well as the many per click conversions and conversion [...]

I find this very interesting, Westwoods Elementary School is advertising on Facebook.  I’m curious to know what type of results they are seeing or what they are actually tracking.  From the ad, I am guessing they want to increase enrollment for their preschool, but the landing page is just the FB wall.
Perhaps Westwoods should consider creating a custom tab for [...]

Warmer weather and the peak tourist season are fast approaching.
How are area restaurants tapping into tourists searching for a bite to eat?
The short answer: They aren’t.
A search for Traverse City Restaurants brings up two paid ads, a michigan.org ad and a mynorth.com ad.
The top 3 natural positions are from tripadvisor, yelp, and traversecity.com. I don’t know about you, [...]

“The shoemaker’s children are often shoeless”. Most of us have heard that proverb in some fashion. And most of us have probably experienced it in some fashion.
We’re no different here at Lawton Gallagher.  Our blog and website has sat, stagnate, for some time now.  We’ve been busy helping our clients grow, and as a result we’ve not had the [...]