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Do you Use Images in Your Blog Posts?

Do You Use Images in Your Blog Posts?

5 simple ways images can improve customer experience on your business blog At it’s core, marketing is simply storytelling. And just as a compelling story has a hook, strong marketing draws you in and gives you lots of reasons to stick around and learn more. As digital marketers, we have more tools to help us […]

3 Flavors of Content Marketing: ToFu, MoFu and BoFu

Understanding the 3 Flavors of Content Marketing: ToFu, MoFu and BoFu

And how to serve up what your customer needs when they need it As digital marketers, we’re able to touch consumers throughout their entire buying journey, which opens up a world of opportunities – and potential missteps. If content marketing is a vital ingredient in your marketing mix, let’s look at your customers as if […]

Is your business blog delivering results?

Is Your Business Blog Delivering Results?

Now would be a good time to audit your content marketing strategy When it’s done correctly, content marketing is a powerful tool. When it’s done incorrectly, it’s an expensive hobby. An effective business blog allows you to tap into audiences that you may not be able to reach through traditional marketing channels, as well as […]

How to Create a Content Hub & Leverage the Power of Search on Your Website

Create a Content Hub & Leverage the Power of Search on Your Website

Amp up your content marketing strategy with hyper-focused blog posts, curated, user-generated or co-created content If you’re blogging on your business website, you understand the strength and value of inbound content marketing. But a content hub – a powerful content strategy – takes everything you know about driving traffic to your website and shifts it […]

Digital Marketing Audit – Your Success Checklist

Digital Marketing Audit – Your Success Checklist

Or, more importantly, moving beyond the “hope & pray” strategy For small businesses, digital marketing can be a confusing venture. Should you invest your marketing budget on a fancy website upgrade or a social media campaign? What about SEO or how to get (and use) social proof? If you’ve been operating on the “hope and […]

Evergreen Content in Your Digital Strategy

How to Leverage the Power of Evergreen Content in Your Digital Strategy

Search-optimized content marketing assets that stay fresher longer In a lot of ways, digital marketing is like playing poker. As a small business owner, constantly honing your skills will help you level the playing field against bigger companies with bigger ad budgets. But luck and skill go hand in hand. If you’re lucky enough to […]

7 Ways to Strengthen Weak Copywriting

7 Ways to Strengthen Weak Copywriting

Or why your shitty first drafts should never be published – and how you can clean them up In 1994, Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird changed the way many writers looked at their first drafts. If we thought we were alone in our crappy never-to-be-seen first drafts, she cured us of that fantasy. She told […]

Facebook versus Google Advertising

Facebook versus Google Advertising

Which ad platform will deliver the best results for your business? When social media was in its fledgling days – a growing force but still young and wild – getting found online was more about ingenuity than marketing. Social media experts popped out of nowhere, experts only by their ability entice followers on their chosen […]

How to Get More People to Read Your Content

How to Get More People to Read Your Business Blog Content

Simple styling fixes to make your blog content more readable and sharable You’ve spent hours crafting what you think is the perfect blog post for your business. It’s well written, speaks directly to your customer and offers clear, honest advice. You take a deep breath, hit publish and then… Nothing. No one likes it on […]

How to Write Persuasive Blog Content

How to Write Persuasive, Compelling Blog Content

Or how to turn your copywriting into gold When I was a senior editor of a national pregnancy magazine, I knew within the first 10 words of a pitch whether the piece was a good fit – or at least whether I should read the rest of the pitch. You might think that’s harsh, but […]

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