Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, you know that LinkedIn has risen to the top of the social media pile to become the grown-ups version of Facebook. The recent changes introduced on LinkedIn are a boon to marketers and especially to content sharers. If you like using Facebook for business […]
Content marketing is a long-term investment in your company’s future, and a major strategy for gathering business leads. It would be a shame if you invested heavily in content marketing, and then saw a low return on your investment. Your content marketing ROI is the single most important factor in determining how much of your […]
Do you believe you’re doing everything you can to generate more business leads and grow your brand. Yes, you’re adding posts regularly to your blog, sending out targeted emails and keeping your website high in the rankings. But there’s more to inbound marketing than pitching a gigantic virtual tent and waiting to see who drops by. […]
A landing page is the first impression visitors get of your website. Since it’s difficult to change anyone’s first impression, you need to put your best efforts into designing a landing page that turns heads, and turns visitors into customers. Some of you may remember the old days, when people interacted face-to-face, and there was […]
These days, everyone from your dentist to your favorite brew pub is using social media for business. If you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon as of yet, you may think the fact that “everyone is doing it” is reason enough. I caution you to think twice before embarking on this long journey. It isn’t to […]
Google’s constant algorithm tweaks have made their way to Google Authorship – one of the most noticeable and popular SEO changes to arise in the past year. Google Authorship allows content creators to personalize their content by having their Google+ profile picture appear in search results. Profile pictures have led to a rise in click-through […]
Tired of the constant changes Google’s been making lately? Yeah, sometimes I am, too. It seems like the search engine mogul has tweaked everything from its algorithms to ranking in-depth articles above other results over the past few months. But nothing has compared to its latest change. A few years ago, Google encrypted searches for […]
Google announced another change to its search result pages that have set SEO minded folks ablaze: In-Depth articles that highlight topics that Google considers “high quality” and well…in-depth! Whenever Google proposes a change that impacts how you create online content, people start asking questions about the reasons for the shift and the benefits for them. The […]
When it comes to excuses from the sales team about inbound marketing, we’ve heard them all. If you have people on your team that say they want to attract leads and increase conversion rates but don’t want to do inbound marketing, these lame excuses may already be familiar to you. 1. We’re a B2B business […]
Last week, one of the biggest proponents of search engine optimization, SEOMoz, announced that they were rebranding their company and becoming Moz, a provider of analytical tools to help people in their inbound marketing endeavors. The writing had been on the walls for some time, I think. Rand Fishkin posted a Whiteboard Friday video blog […]
