Social Media

Social Media for Business

Next year will be here before we know it bringing with it a new opportunity for engaging your business in the social media sphere. In fact, we’re going to go ahead and say you should make strengthening your social media presence your top New Year’s resolution. We could cite many reasons why your business needs social […]

Keywords More Than Words in SEO

Keywords Are More Than Just Words in SEO

We know this might be going out on a limb here, but we think Shakespeare might have been wrong. “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” declared Juliet from the balcony as she pined for her star-crossed lover, Romeo. But when it comes to SEO and keywords, a […]

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Why You Should Have a Company Blog

Company Blog – Time to Get Started Today’s consumers go to the web before they go anywhere else to learn about businesses and business opportunities. You know this, and so you developed a dynamic, engaging website to greet these clients when they arrive. However, a lot of businesses have yet to start a company blog […]

5 Ways to Grow Your Email List with Social Media

Some things simply never go out of style, like the little black dress, for instance. It’s versatile, looks great dressed up or down, and works for any occasion. In marketing, the email list is the little black dress that never goes out of style. You can tweak emails to suit any purpose and know you’ll […]

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Communications and Sales: How to Change a Bad Sales Habit

When we listed the 16 bad sales habits customers want your sales people to stop, it revealed some fairly common mistakes in communications. You can probably identify your company’s sales people who continually engage in each of them.  You might use a few of these bad sales habits yourself. The book What Got You Here […]

Landing Pages

Landing Pages – a Must for Your Inbound Marketing

Landing Pages – Planning for Success When you host a party, you include an RSVP so you can plan. Knowing how many guests will attend means you know how much food to prepare, how much wine to buy and how many chairs to set up. Fail to include the RSVP and you have to plan […]

Customer Buying Journey

3 Ways to Connect to Your Customers’ Buying Journey

Do you know where your online readers are in your typical customers’ buying journey? Inbound or content marketing on a business blog or website works to attract potential customers but it depends on how well you connect to customers at the right time with the right words that inspire action. Just as it’s important to […]

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Blog Strategies: Writing to Different Target Markets

How can you adjust your blog strategies if your business needs to reach different customer segments? Let’s say you sell accounting software to big businesses, small businesses and freelancers. Clearly, you wouldn’t want to send the same marketing message to all of these groups, as it can be confusing. Sending a mixed message turns off […]

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Purposeful Leaders: Are you Part of the 40% or 10%?

Are you a purposeful leader? If so, you’re in the minority. According to a 10-year research project, only 10% of managers are purposefully engaged, highly focused and energetic. This is according to Heike Bruch’s and Sumantra Ghoshal’s study, published in A Bias for Action, (Harvard Business Press, 2004). “By its very nature, a manager’s job […]

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Knowing vs Doing: Beware of Business “Busyness”

As a business leader, you know what to do, but are you actually doing it? Knowing vs doing becomes a struggle when day-to-day business requires triage – putting off some priorities in favor of others. Only about 10 percent of managers work purposefully to complete important tasks, according to a 10-year study of managerial behavior […]