Goal Setting Skills-SMART
For any business, it’s a good idea to have goals to work towards. What do you want from your business and how do you plan...
5 FREE Content Marketing Tools to Make Your Blog Posts Sizzle
If you’re like many longtime bloggers, community managers and content marketers, you’re probably a rockstar at creating impactful content, probably pushing out 12 or more...
Avoid These 5 Content Marketing Mistakes
These 5 content marketing mistakes can either make or break your campaign. Are you making them? 1. Moving forward without a strategy. This is a...
SEO Primer - Local SEO
This is a part of a larger series designed to help you Learn SEO. If you want to start at the beginning, start at the...
SEO Primer - Advanced SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not just useful for your own traffic-building purposes, but it can also help you understand why your competitors are succeeding...
SEO Primer - Off Page Optimization
While it is important to have good on-site optimization of your web site’s meta tags, keywords selection and density and user-friendly content, it is essential...
SEO Primer - Penalties for Bad SEO
SEO is not a static landscape. Over the years many people have tried to beat the system by using tactics that were considered “black hat”...
How to Increase Revenue with a Lead Gen Campaign
If you want your business to make a profit, you first need customers. While this may sound straightforward and simple, finding and holding onto customers...
Here's How to Start a Lead Generation Campaign for Your Website
As any inbound marketing agency will tell you, starting a lead generation campaign is central to the online success of your business. There are a...
SEO Primer - On Page Optimization
Last week, we started our SEO Primer series with an introduction covering What SEO Is. Today we’ll talk about how you can affect where your...
SEO Primer - What is SEO?
INTRODUCTION: Most small businesses struggle with SEO. How your business ranks in Google isn’t common knowledge, and it’s not abnormal to see a small business...
Content Marketing Agency Habits - Listen to Provide Value
In just a few short months, I celebrate a decade as a blogger. In that time, I’ve won awards, created successful ecommerce and affiliate sites,...
What is All the Hullabaloo About Inbound Marketing?
Inbound marketing, or content marketing as it is also called, has been getting a lot of attention lately. As businesses move away from interruption marketing...
Advanced Strategies: Content Marketing vs Native Advertising
In June, The New York Times published a native ad that was not terrible. It was investigative journalism plus sponsored content at its best. Many...
Advanced Strategies: Content Marketing vs Native Advertising
In June, The New York Times published a native ad that was not terrible. It was investigative journalism plus sponsored content at its best. Many...
How Content Drives the Sales Process and Closes Sales
Yesterday we talked about the benefits of content marketing. The value becomes even clearer when you realize how powerful content can be in closing sales....
A Small Business Guide to Hiring a Marketing Agency
Blogging, social media, email marketing, search engine optimization (SEO)and search engine marketing (SEM) – all are valuable tools that help your business grow and thrive....
Why Lean Branding isn’t A Fad
A brand is a unique vision that customers recall when thinking of your company name. It’s what you stand for. It’s the emotions you evoke...
3 Reasons to Subscribe to the Community Manager's Newsletter
Do you get our (almost) daily collection of news, resources and jobs for community managers, The Community Manager Newsletter? If you are a Community Manager,...
4 Common Failures From Your SEO or Content Marketing Agency
When choosing to hire a content marketing agency, you’ll come across many, many awesome high tech agencies. There are lots of inbound agencies who understand...
What is Content Marketing?
Content Marketing… Everyone is talking about it, but many companies wonder what it is and whether it works. The answer is simple – content marketing...
The Five Steps of a Successful Content Marketing Strategy
Every business owner is looking to increase his online visibility. Some will choose to rent an audience, via advertising lilke Adwords, Newspapers and Billboards. Those...
Hiring a Content Marketing Agency
Marketers have been talking about content marketing services for a few years. Smart agencies have staffed up in the editorial department, hiring a content marketer...
How to Create a Smart Twitter Profile Page with Pinned Tweets
You may have noticed that pinned tweets are finally here for the rest of us, as a part of the new Twitter profile. As I...
#myNYPD: Another social media hashtag gone bad
This post isn’t really relevant anymore - it happened back in 2014. Shoot back over to our blog for more interesting stuff about social media....
Attention Community Managers - Everybody loves a good story
You have 10 seconds to engage a user. From landing on your page, to clicking away, those 10 seconds will be spent mostly skimming your...
Mobile Optimization: Do You Need a Mobile Site?
With the increasing dominance of mobile content consumption, it’s clear that determining your company’s mobile strategy is vital. We know that a tablet user spends,...
Twitter Expands Pinned Tweets Offerings for Select Users
Twitter is making good on some of the promises they’ve made to business owners by rolling out key features, albeit very, very slowly. Increasing the...
Creating the Right Downloadable Offer
Creating the right downloadable offer is essential to any marketing campaign that chooses to include one. The right downloadable offer is something of value that...
Cookie-Cutter Chiropractor Sites Are Terrible For SEO and Facebook
I rarely have the time or inclination to dig deep in a local, small business vertical, but today I was given an opportunity to do...
[Case Study] Marketing on Pinterest – Fiber One Chewy Bars
Case Study: Every so often, we take an interesting campaign and break it down for you. If you have a suggestion, please let us know...
When Sponsored Social Media Goes Wrong
This is a quick look at a common problem in digital marketing, the negative turn of comments on sponsored social media. What do you do...
Mariposa - Developer Hackathons FTW
We don’t deal in hackathons anymore. Sad, we know. You can go back to browsing our blog if you’d like..
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Increase Your Facebook Reach [Infographic]
There are almost 1 billion people on Facebook now. With that many potential eyeballs, it’s understandable that businesses on Facebook feel like they must actively...
7 Email Marketing Tips for Small Business
Many small businesses struggle with sending their email newsletters. Their templates are old and boring or their lists are filled with junk emails. If you’re...
SMB Reputation Management Is a Waste of Money - Almost Always
The competitive landscape for marketing dollars is tight. Your budget is tight and somewhere in there you have to make room for social media marketing,...
Considering Inbound Marketing? Keep These 4 Things in Mind
Have you heard the buzz lately about inbound marketing? Inbound marketing is the process of using marketing to bring potential customers to you, rather than...