Has YouTube Been Calling Your Name? 4 Beginning Tips

by February 16, 2012

Sometimes we forget that not everyone is buried in online marketing like we are. In fact, most people aren’t… it boggles the mind. Did you know most people aren’t professional SEOs? Makes sense; if they were, we wouldn’t have jobs, but it’s that whole “circle of I” syndrome we keep talking about.

Disturbing Trend with Big Business Points to the Failures of SEO

by February 2, 2012
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Over the past year, we’ve seen an emerging trend among big business clients. It’s disturbing, this trend, because it points to the fact that a lot of businesses believed the SEO hype and didn’t pay attention to what the actual practitioners were saying. So we’ll say it again. SEO is not the end all, be [...]

Presenting Your Product as a Masterpiece: You Can’t Market a Piece of Junk

by January 23, 2012
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Have you ever heard the phrase, “You can’t market a piece of junk?”  There are other… ahem… shall we say, more ‘graphic’ versions of the saying, but that’s the cliché sans the expletives. While this quote could be disproven (you really can market it… doesn’t mean people will buy, though), it’s a no-brainer that you [...]

Using “AIDA” Method as Part of Your Internet Marketing Strategy

by January 19, 2012
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You learn a lot of things in Marketing 101. Things like “Starting sales copy with negatives is a negative thing.” You learn that meeting a customer’s eyes is important, as is active listening. By the time you’re done with the course, you can sell sand to a man in the Sahara. Of all the things [...]

2012 Is the End of the Beginning: SEO, Social, Search, Copywriting, Et All

by January 12, 2012
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So, did everyone have a good brouhaha good time for New Year’s? Are you ready to delve into 2012’s planning, marketing and magic? I don’t know about you, but around the office here, we’re ready to do more with less. We’ve taken a step back – but not a backwards step. – And if that [...]

WordPress – The Site, Blogging, Developing, Designing CMS Platform

by January 9, 2012
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WordPress – it’s a content management system, a blogging platform and “that place you put your blog on”. It’s often thought of in relation to blogs, but have you ever thought of it as a “place to put your site on”? Thousands have, and many of them are big brands. WordPress is a flexible, viable [...]

Give Your Content That White-Glove Treatment – Repurpose for the Good of Humanity

by December 19, 2011
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Every so often, we look through our old blog posts as a way to pat ourselves on the back for the work we’re doing. Okay, not really – the reason for pouring through almost three hundred blog posts is a little strategy called content repurposing. Today, we’re going to dig into this content development strategy and answer the questions: what is it, why, which ones, and how.

12 Steps to Creating a Business Blog

by November 17, 2011

We’re buried in the Internet day in and day out. Being surrounded by the very things we talk about, it’s hard to remember sometimes that some people don’t have so much as the basics. Today, we’re going to walk you through one of the foundations of traffic building – a company blog. From the concept to the reality, here’s a step-by-step process to creating a company blog for traffic generation.

Don’t Let Your Brand Suffer from Bad Blogging Skills

by November 3, 2011

For many companies, blogs are either a major point of interest or they get little to no attention. So what happens if your company’s blog is, in fact, potentially damaging your company’s brand? Do you pull it entirely? Do you rework it in order to improve the company brand? Or do you just leave things the way they are and deal with it later?

3 Tricks No Hooker Should Try: Conventional Wisdom and Branding

by October 31, 2011

Announce yourself; announce your brandBranding. Nothing strikes fear in the heart of marketers quite like this concept. For entrepreneurs with many interests, it’s difficult to think they can be summed up in a single construct. For others with a narrower focus, it’s frustrating to find just the right words to accurately represent what they stand for. Your brand is what represents the core values of your company—your mission statement, if you will. Your target market will likely never see the brand statement because it’s not for them.