Topic | Inbound Marketing

Do You Have Lackluster Branding?
What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you remember how you answered this question? It’s a question that has been asked...
Long Tail Keywords Vs. Branded Keywords
When you’re looking to increase traffic on your site, one of the most effective ways to do that is to use the appropriate keywords. These...
Is Your Company Keeping Up? 3 Changes To SEO You May Not Know
Are you a small business owner struggling to keep up with your digital presence on your own? Or maybe you aren’t struggling, because your website...
Still Doing Your own Marketing? 6 Statistics Your Small Business Needs to Know
It’s tempting to do your own marketing, and do it the same way it’s always been done. You may be doing just fine. But could...
4 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Marketing Company
Hiring a marketing company is an effective way to gain revenue and attract attention for your business;however, all companies are not created equal. If you’re...
How Does Inbound Marketing Work?
Most of us know what marketing is, but we aren’t all aware of the strategies that companies use. Marketing is the promotion of businesses and...
4 Benefits of Bringing in Marketing Professionals
Many small businesses manage their own advertising and social media, with mixed results. It’s hard to market your products or services to a diverse customer...
How to Turn Digital Inquiries into New Clients
If you’re running a small business and actively participating in Inbound Marketing, which you must be by reading this blog, you’re already getting ahead of...
Leads - What They Are And Why You Need Them
Thanks to innovations in the way people shop, like mobile apps and ecommerce websites, you aren’t just competing with the store down the street. Anyone...
A Marketer's Secrets to Closing Sales
If you are doing regular, compelling content marketing campaigns, there’s no reason that you shouldn’t be generating leads. So for the purposes of this article,...
Set SMART goals and benchmarks
One of the biggest challenges that marketers face is creating goals that are both realistic and measurable. Some goals can span as short as daily...
9 Quotes That Sum Up Content Marketing for 2015
2015 was a big year for content marketing – I think we’ve finally reached consensus that even for small brands, retail and ecommerce, it’s vital...
Top 5 Content Marketing KPIs
In order to understand the effectiveness of your Content Marketing efforts, you need to understand the effectiveness of each piece of content that you generate...
Creating Customer Personas
A customer persona is a fictional character (that you and/or your marketing team creates) whose needs, wants, goals, and behavioral patterns match those of your...
Inspirational Quotes From Content Marketing Agency Leadership
One of the biggest mistakes a person can make is simply not learning from our own mistakes, and the mistakes of those who came before...
Content Marketing Ideas
Some days you just feel so enthusiastic and excited about writing an article on a topic. But other days, you feel like you’re drained out...
SEO vs. SEM
The most important thing every website needs to grow their business is targeted traffic. In fact, targeted traffic is what makes successful websites unique and...
Changing Up Your Content Marketing
Content marketing involves extensive research, the foundational documents (voice docs, buyer personas, editorial calendars, content mapping templates and more). From this research, we build a...
10 Tools in our Marketing Toolkit
In the advanced world of content marketing, there’s a lot of competition to be significant and unique. How does your company stand out? How can...
How to grow your startup using the funnel concept
Growing the user base of your startup doesn’t solely depend upon the traffic you attract. In fact, gaining traffic is just one phase of growing...
Business Owner Stress
We get it. You have a lot on your plate. Running a company is hard work and you have plenty to do and no time...
Routine Content Marketing Maintenance - The Monthly Content Audit
As a content marketing agency, we produce a plethora of diverse content each month. In any given month, we’re typically writing dozens of downloadable offers,...
How To Create An Editorial Calendar
(Photo Credit: www.meylah.com) An editorial calendar is your content planning bible. It shows a detailed listing of your blog posts/content pieces and where they stand...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...

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