This post is not about how valuable content is for your business. I feel I’ve made that point pretty consistently the last couple of years, here, here, here, and here just for starters. Instead I want to address the second most common question I get – what type of content is the BEST when it […]
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A few days ago, Apple officially passed Coca Cola to become the world’s most valuable “brand”. The Apple brand has always been synonymous with a certain level of style, of panache, of consumer driven fervor that gets people to stand in line for three days for the next iPhone or Macbook. But it took until
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I make no bones about my position in the content marketing vs. advertising argument. Content is simply better. In terms of ROI. In terms of overall value. In terms of branding. You simply get more from content and inbound tactics than you do from a straight ad. The problem of course is that ads take
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Those who read this blog or listen to the GLS Content Marketing Podcast may know me as a content guy. A writer and a marketer who does a lot of website development and branding. But I have hobbies like any guy and so a few of my friends and I started a podcast in August
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After everything that goes into having a new website built for your business, the last thing on most lists is the content. The text on your site that conveys your branding message, convinces visitors to buy or signup for an email list, and that builds relationships with your audience. That stuff is precious gold and
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As a car service and limousine company, you understand how important it is to continuously generate new leads and grow your business. And today there is no faster and more effective way to do so than by building a website that generates a lot of visitors. Great Leap Studios has worked with car service and
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Online branding strategies are not that different from offline strategies. Where businesses buy billboards and radio spots offline, they pay for Facebook Ads and podcast placements online. The difference, however, is that online we have so much more freedom of choice. We can pinpoint demographics, streamline our messages, and generate razor focused messaging that goes
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I cringe every time I read an article about how SEO is essentially free marketing. Search engine optimization is not free – not by a long shot, and for years I’ve had to untangle a lot of the knots that our competitors put out there among potential clients. It’s why I don’t use that word
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A few months ago, I was researching a book for a client about copywriting. I came across a passage about the Zeigarnik Effect – the psychological principle showing that human beings can’t help but want to know what happens next. It applies to just about everything. Cliffhanger endings. Soap opera style storytelling. Half finished photographs.
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Last month, Google released a completely revamped algorithm, replacing the existing one for the first time in more than 10 years. That’s a big deal. Even Panda and Penguin, which affected millions of sites, were revisions not complete overhauls. So this new release – dubbed Hummingbird by Google – is huge. But it’s not quite
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