Content Marketing: Page 332

  • Is Your Website a Fugitive From Google's Search Optimization Laws?

    We spend a lot of time on our blogs advising business owners to stay away from the darker sides of Internet marketing and search optimization.But is it really so bad to take a shortcut once in awhile? Can't you just cut a few corners to speed things up?You can, but it will cost you. Contrary to p...

    By • Aug. 5, 2013

  • Viral Brand Videos: British Airways Tells You to Go Home to Your Mom

    This week we have an odd concoction of videos which will amaze you and possibly make you shed a tear or two.#1 Best Buy "Marine Biologist"Best Buy, America's biggest electronic retail chain promotes their back to school offer in this video. In the video, an ambitious marine biologist discovers th...

    By • Aug. 5, 2013

  • Factors That Contribute to Email Marketing Success

    Social media marketing and mobile marketing campaigns are getting all the attention. In the vanity, email marketing may look useless, old fashioned and simply dead to you. However, the reality is when done right, the conversions from email marketing reach an unprecedented percentage, something t...

    By • Aug. 5, 2013

  • Proven Strategies to Increase Website Traffic [INFOGRAPHIC]

    BWHGeek has produced this infographic on ways to increase traffic to your site. I'm not sure I agree with BWHGeek on who is the best host...we love WPEngine (and are an affiliate) and I believe their infographic has a huge gap in it: mobile.Mobile optimization of your site via a responsive design...

    By • Aug. 5, 2013

  • Marketing: Dissection of a Cold Email

    I received this cold email on Saturday from a "National Accounts Executive"Colleen,I'm not sure where you are in the buying process, but if I haven't given you a demo of our sales automation software yet, I would like to do that. A personalized demonstration of our software takes between 20-30 mi...

    By • Aug. 5, 2013

  • 4 Quick Tips for Cooking Up the Best Branded Content Around

    It's that time of week when I often like to post examples of my favorite pieces of branded content from the past seven days. However, today I would like to take slight diversion and instead take a look at exactly what it is that separates the truly "great" branded content from the stuff that is j...

    By • Aug. 4, 2013

  • Mobile Usage in Travel on the Rise

    Source: Travel Weekly, Consumer Trends Report 2013In December 2012, I wrote a piece called The Mobile Revolution in Travel about recent trends and reports that painted what seemed to be an optimistic portrait regarding mobile adoption rates and its impact for the travel industry. Less than a year...

    By • Aug. 4, 2013

  • 10 Skills of the Ultimate Social Media Marketing Monster

    The world's greatest social media marketer has objectives and strategies. They're documented-on a spreadsheet-or on some social platform where her peers can collaborate.She understands the whole analytics and metrics thing that matters to the bean counters. Another spreadsheet? You'd better belie...

    By • Aug. 4, 2013

  • Google Penalty Checker Tools

    In this article I want to share two Google Penalty Checking Tools - I don't often write recommendations for tools or services, but these two tools combined are great for anyone who thinks they may have been affected by a Google Algo Update. Both tools are very useful in their own right, but toget...

    By • Aug. 4, 2013

  • Approach Content Marketing as Both an Art and a Science

    Although content marketing must be strategic and adhere to numerous best practices, content itself is an art that calls for genuine inspiration and your own unique sense of style. Too many companies create content on the same tired topics time and time again-influencing many others, including ca...

    By • Aug. 4, 2013

  • Staying Optimistic in Social Media Marketing

    Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full?"Would you say this glass is half empty or full?" That is the question. When looking at that glass what does your mind tell you? This is a great way to gauge at your outlook on your Social Media Marketing (SMM). Do you look at your SMM and think, "M...

    By • Aug. 4, 2013

  • There Is No Such Thing as Off-the-Record

    By now you've probably heard about Anthony Weiner's communications director going off the rails.I'm not going to repeat here what she said, but let's just say she called a former intern some really awful names. And, if that weren't enough, she did so while talking with a journalist.The story goes...

    By • Aug. 3, 2013

  • How To Promote A Self Published eBook

    Like many other photographers out there, I write and publish my own eBooks. Rather then constantly giving commission to other parties on a regular basis, I make the effort to market, advertise and promote my eBook all on my own.Of course that does have a downside, and a very big one at that. You...

    By • Aug. 3, 2013

  • Fake Twitter Hacks: The Latest PR Trend?

    Over the last couple of years, it's fair to say there has been a growing trend concerning the hacking of commercial Twitter accounts. From Jeep and Jamie Oliver to the Associated Press and Thomson Reuters, countless companies and high profile celebs have fallen victim to Twitter hackers over the ...

    By • Aug. 3, 2013

  • 10 Content Promotion Best Practices

    Are you ensuring that your blog content gets the attention it deserves? Once you publish relevant, engaging and information-rich blog content, you need to maximize its social exposure and help it reach a wider captive audience. High rates of social content curation are critical to SEO. When yo...

    By • Aug. 3, 2013

  • 10 Tips: How Not to Use Google Plus

    I've been spending quite a bit of time on Google Plus lately. I know, I'm geeking out. But it's quickly becoming my favourite social media platform these days. It's an incredible way to meet new people, connect with prospective customers, and deepen relationships with your consumers - and more th...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • The Wild Wild West of Social Media Marketing

    Welcome to the Wild Wild West!You've been traveling a long way and now you have finally reached your destination, the open frontier of Social Media Marketing (SMM). Now that you are here, how are you going to survive? It depends on what you are good at and who you have to help you. Are you a farm...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • Don't Need Mobile? You're Nuts [INFOGRAPHIC]

    The world of mobile is exploding. Furthermore, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Businesses are quickly realizing that things like mobile search, mobile websites, text marketing, and mobile apps are not just another fad. If you own a business and don't have a mobile stratgey, you should strongly consider it. This infographic highlights some eye-opening stats as to why you should be paying more attention to mobile.

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • Owned and Earned Media: The Online Trophy Shelf

    When my daughter was little, anyone entering her room would think she was a future Olympian. Why? The Trophy Shelf. Today's kid sports system - at least at the beginning involves parents paying an entrance fee for little Johnny to join an active sport (no tryouts needed). At the end of the yea...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • Why Successful Blogging Is About "You"

    If I can't wow you in one sentence, you will not read anything else.That is a fact, and I dare you to challenge it.Photo by Darren Hester. Used by permission.This is the third sentence. Still reading?Your blog should never be about you.Ever.Some of the time is OK. Never all the time.You need to a...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • The 6 Ps of Hiring a Social Media Agency

    While reviewing my Twitter account today, I noticed three additional follows from new social media agencies within the last week.Nothing surprising in that - after all, I try to consistently post useful content, How-to blog posts and leading thinking and developments, plus the odd funky tune and ...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • SEO Considerations: Category vs. Filter for Your Ecommerce Website

    Setting up any sort of Ecommerce store isn't easy because there are so many things to consider. Filters versus categories isn't usually the first thing on a company or Webmasters mind, but eventually this dilemma is going to hit him/her in the face and leave a lot of questions. Although many don'...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • The Importance of Influencing Pre-Market Consumers on Social Media

    63 percent of car buyers have an initial brand in mind before they begin researching their purchase. (Source: Google/think)Why should you care about this stat that has to do with a category in which you likely do not compete?Great question.You should care because what this demonstrates - check th...

    By Matthew Peneycad • Aug. 2, 2013

  • 3 Social Campaigns that Make Back-to-School Cool

    Marketers need to step a few steps ahead. That's why it's time to start planning your back-to-school campaigns.Back-to-school shopping rose again last year, and was projected to top $80 billion. So it's no surprise that a variety of brands want in on the action.To do that, brands need seasonal so...

    By • Aug. 2, 2013

  • Marketing to Back-to-School Shoppers: 5 Considerations

    Students are still on summer vacation, but retailers are already planning for the back-to-school shopping season.It's the second largest consumer-spending period for retailers behind the winter holidays, and a huge opportunity for marketers to increase brand awareness and expand their customer ba...

    By • Aug. 1, 2013