Last friday a client called me up and asked for a quick blog post. She wanted to cover an event that was coming up that weekend and asked me if it was possible to write it in the following 24 hours. Was it possible to write something that fast? For me, the answer was yes. …
Content is a powerful tool. It attracts people to you website, it engages them on important and interesting topics you are covering, and it generates new leads for your business. And sometimes writing a longer, more in-depth, authority piece of content that will stand out as a beacon for potential readers and a link building …
Three months ago a close friend of mine asked me for a favor. He needed to get more traffic to his company’s website. They couldn’t afford to hire anyone so he was asking as a friend, just for a bit of friendly advice. “What one thing can we do that will have the biggest impact?” …
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One of the most effective ways to generate interest in your company, connect with prospects and build an audience that legitimately trusts you to provide useful, authority information in your niche is to start a company blog. But simply starting a company blog is not the same as running a successful company blog, and as …
Sometimes there is value in cleverness. Even if you run a business not usually associated with showing its personality, there can be a usefulness in making sure that something about yourself – or your company – shines through. It’s the reason that social media is considered a big part of any new business. Social media …
BREAKING NEWS: Clark Kent Quits Daily Planet. Also, Superman Takes Up Blogging! Read More »
There are a lot of myths out there about content marketing. Seriously, some of these are ridiculous. If you’ve ever been to a forum or blog about SEO or marketing in general, people will toss around all sorts of myths about things like duplicate content, content volume, the length and formatting of that content and …
Podcast Episode 5 – Top 5 Content Marketing Myths Read More »
A few months ago, I came across a blog post by a marketer on a site I can’t quite remember, but he had a brilliant idea that had really paid off for his company. Content blitzing. He and his staff wrote 100 blog posts in one month and published them at a rate of 3-4 …
Habits. For businesses and the people who run them, habits are the foundation of everything you do – both good and bad. Successful businesses and business owners are those that understand and work to develop GOOD habits while mitigating the effects of bad habits. They are the ones that create a culture that fosters creativity …
Creating a website from scratch can be difficult. Thankfully there’s WordPress, a free, open source software platform loaded with easy to understand, upgradeable parts. With WordPress, you can add nearly any tool, code, or function you want to your website provided you have installed the right plugins. Installing WordPress is the easiest way to get …
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Not long ago we had a post on the idea of marketing a city. Specifically the city of Merced, which has a great deal of promise as a potentially enjoyable city in which to live, but is struggling as a result of its location and the housing crisis. But perhaps Merced’s biggest problem is that …
