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Get Past the Social Media Algorithms
Over the years, Facebook and other social platforms have changed the game for organic posts, making it increasingly harder for businesses to place at the forefront of users’ feed. This has both been to improve user experience and to encourage social advertising. If...
Five Quick and Easy Places to Publish Your Whitepapers (That Aren’t SlideShare)
So, you've published a whitepaper, guide, slide deck, or other big, important piece of content. You upload the entire document (or better idea, upload a preview) to SlideShare, because you want to share it to the most used visual content platform, which just so...
Link Building Tactics Part 2: 4 Important Techniques
Link Building Part 1 blog covered link building outreach, which is necessary to learn before approaching any of the other link building tactics, as they, too, require outreach. Link Building Part 2 consider four main tactics including: Guest Blogging Ego-Bait Broken...
Boost Online Sales With Social Media
Ecommerce websites are great for boosting sales and expanding transactions beyond local customers, but have you considered getting in on where consumers spend most of their time on the Internet? Social media. By both improving your social presence and even providing...
Link Building Tactics Part 1: Using Outreach to Gain Links
Search engines use links in two important ways: (1) to discover new web pages and (2) to determine how well a link should rank. Links act as the way that search engines crawl the Internet. Without link building, your website could be invisible to search engines. Some...
A Chiquita PR Campaign was Powerful Enough to Topple the Guatemalan Government
Chiquita’s brand image comes across as fun and playful, but the company has some dark history. Chiquita’s original name was United Fruits before rebranding and was an extremely powerful business in South America; so powerful that it had great influence over the local...
How to Add Meta Descriptions to a HubSpot Blog
In this article, we will be providing instructions for adding a meta description to your HubSpot Blog. What is a Meta Description? A meta description is the text that shows up with your listing in a search results page (like Google). Each page and blog on your...
5 Great Services for Content Promotion
Has your engagement on your online content ever been much lower than expected? While this can be a very saddening moment in any content creator’s life, there is something that can be done to save you from that disappointment in the future. While you can promote your...
Why It Matters: Proving the Value of Your Content to Prospects
In the great grocery store that is the internet, your content could be the greatest thing since sliced bread. It could be a well-written, topical, informative, and even slightly entertaining blog post, eBook, or infographic that is sure to turn a reader into a lead....
Why Your Content Isn’t Reaching the Right People
Maybe you just created a great piece of content—which in your mind is the greatest thing since sliced bread. To you, this isn’t just any sliced bread. This is top of the line, nutrient-dense content that is sure to turn heads and generate leads. Unfortunately, no...
Google Algorithms Timeline
Google has long been the leader of search engines and its influence is far-reaching. Ranking on Google means being visible on the Internet; conversely, not ranking makes you invisible. Over the years, Google has perfected its search algorithms to provide better...
How to Use LinkedIn Matched Audiences
On Monday, LinkedIn announced the launch of Matched Audiences. This new feature gives advertisers three new options for targeting people they already know: Website Retargeting Account Targeting Contact Targeting These options will be available for LinkedIn advertising...
Google Dropping the Hammer on Unscrupulous Partners
Do you ever get a call from a friendly robot who claims to be either “from Google” or “working with Google”? Have you ever had someone guarantee you page one SEO placement because they were a Google Partner? Have you ever had an agency that promises preferential ad...
Email Marketing Best Practices 2017
Our last blog discussed forming email strategy goals and a target audience. Here, we’ll re-visit 5 of our best practices from 2014, because the same ideas ring true today: (1) strategic subject lines, (2) avoiding spam filters, (3) calls-to-action, (4)...
Make the Most Out of Your Email Marketing Strategy
Don’t be so quick to blame email marketing for your woes. It may not be email itself, but rather, how you send email. Email open-rates may be underwhelming, but email has a ROI of 3800%, higher than any other digital form of marketing. So clearly, email can be very...
Instagram Stories are better for Marketing than Snapchat
Snapchat just went public and over the last couple years, marketers have tried to get a piece of Snapchat’s excellent engagement rates. But here’s the issue – users don’t want to use Snapchat to interact with brands. It’s personal. If you’re looking to create a...
The Dangers of Infinite Personalization
In previous blogs, we have discussed the many advantages personalization presents to businesses. But the past few months have revealed the very real and dark side of personalization. The election season brought about complaints of fake news on sites like Facebook and...
Law Firm Websites — 5 Best Practices
Whether a small or large firm with hundreds of attorneys, your website is likely the foundation of business development, and new client lead generation. There is certainly a lot of advice on how to make a website effective. So much information that it might be...
4 Essential Elements for Digital Marketing Maturity
In our last blog, we discussed what digital marketers were doing in 2016, according to Adobe. Based on the Adobe’s survey feedback, they created the “Four Essential Elements for Digital Maturity.” The four elements were: Data-Driven Marketing Customer Experience...
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How Do You Compare to Your Digital Marketing Peers? [STATS]
Adobe conducted a survey on digital marketers in 2016 to find out their priorities and challenges. The survey had some interesting finds. Digital marketing is becoming more advanced and widely adopted than ever. How do you stack up against your competition? Find out...
