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 […]
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?
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 […]
The Art of Getting S#*t Done During Christmas
Every Christmas, I see many of my entrepreneur friends do the same crazy dance as the holidays approach. What do you mean it’s Christmas already? How am I going to find time for all the shopping, baking, wrapping, holidaying (and Work)? How will I cope?
Do You Need a Social Media Community Manager?
I work with a wide variety of companies, some that begin their social media journey with me from ground zero and some that have dabbled (and floundered). All are looking for the advice and guidance that will lead them toward success. As a social media professional …
Are You a Good Writer?
Writing comes from somewhere deep inside of you and needs protecting. For some of us, sharing our writing is like getting naked in public. For my prison students, that was easy – judgement wasn’t new to them. For the rest of us, the story is a little different …
Important SEO Strategies that will Help You Stand Out from the Crowd
Curiosity titillated by what SEO can do for your bottom line? Start by checking your inhibitions at the door and checking into a new way of doing business online.
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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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 […]
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?
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 […]
The Art of Getting S#*t Done During Christmas
Every Christmas, I see many of my entrepreneur friends do the same crazy dance as the holidays approach. What do you mean it’s Christmas already? How am I going to find time for all the shopping, baking, wrapping, holidaying (and Work)? How will I cope?
