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The 4 Steps to Social Media Marketing
One of Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change is to Begin with the End in Mind. This infographic from BigThunk and Number 8 Communications does just that – recognizing that you need to establish your goals first when looking to your social media marketing strategy. I especially appreciate this infographic because it…
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Do you Seed Blogs?
Way back (snicker) in the early days of blogging, I figured out that commenting on other blogs was hugely successful. The majority of growth in those young days was due to my participation in the conversation in other blogs. Even with the consistent growth of my blog, I continue to try to seek out and find new blogs who are…
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Why Do TV Commercials Like Billy Mays, ShamWow, and HeadOn Work?
The television is often on in our home, but it’s usually background noise. If I do watch television, it’s usually the Discovery Channel. Today is a weekday, so I roamed the channels a few times. After a while, we just rented a movie. These three commercials are why: ShamWow I hope this guy squints because someone poked him in the…
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Plone: The Enterprise-Grade CMS Platform for Secure and Scalable Web
Enterprise organizations face numerous challenges in managing their online presence effectively. The demands placed on content management systems are ever-increasing, from security concerns to scalability issues, from user experience (UX) to integration capabilities. Businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies alike require robust solutions that can adapt to their evolving needs while providing a secure and user-friendly content creation and distribution…
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How to Rebrand Your Business Without Losing Traffic
Not many companies have everything figured out the moment they launch their website. On the contrary, almost 50% of small businesses don’t even have a website, let alone a brand image that they want to develop. The good news is you don’t necessarily have to have it all figured out right off the bat. When you’re just starting out, the…
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PHP: Use the WordPress API to Build a Shortcode to List Subpages
We’re working on quite a complex implementation for an enterprise client right now. The site is being built in WordPress but has a ton of bells and whistles. Often, when I’m doing this type of work, I like to save the custom code for repurposing later on other sites. In this case, I thought it was such a useful function,…
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What are the Elements of the Best Facebook Contest Apps?
Today I actually had the pleasure – thanks to an invite from Jay Baer – of sharing tacos and Margaritas with the leadership team from ShortStack out at Social Media Marketing World. I made sure to let the team from ShortStack know how much we’ve enjoyed our ongoing relationship. Sara from the ShortStack team has been feeding us with great…
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Keep This Handy: The 10 New Rules of Crisis Communication
Our agency is located in Indiana and when the powers-that-be in the state passed their version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a crisis ensued. It wasn’t simply a government crisis. Since it impacted the business sector, it became a crisis for all of us doing business within the state. Especially when some some business leaders outside the state…
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Best Practices for Email Outreach to Influencers
Since we’re pitched by public relations professionals on a daily basis, we get to see the best and worst of email outreach pitches. We’ve shared before how to write an effective pitch and this infographic is a great follow-up that encompasses the greater progress. The fact is that companies need to build awareness and authority for their brand online. Writing…
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How to do Effective Local SEO on a Budget
Over time, SEO has become more challenging and more rigorous, but should that necessarily mean more expensive? Not all companies that need SEO services are Internet-based or IT-related. The majority are small, local businesses that serve a specific geographic area. These folks need local SEO rather than traditional, national SEO. Local businesses and individuals — dentists, plumbers, apparel stores, electronic…
