High-performance inbound marketing teams utilize buyer personas, understand buying journeys, and closely monitor their sales funnels. I’m helping deploy a training lesson on digital marketing campaigns and buyer personas with an international company right now and someone asked for clarification on the three so I think it’s worth discussing. Targeting Who: Buyer Personas I recently wrote on buyer personas and how critical they are to your digital marketing efforts. They help segment and target your
Content Library: What Is It? And Why Your Content Marketing Strategy Is Failing Without It
Years ago we were working with a company that had several million articles published on their site. The problem was that very few of the articles were read, even less ranked in search engines, and less than one percent of them had revenue attributed to them. I’d challenge you to review your own library of content. I believe you’d be surprised at what percent of your pages are actually popular and engaged with by your
Elokenz: Intelligently Repost Your Site’s Best Performing Content on Social Media
Marketers are inherently creative and I believe sometimes it’s too their business’ performance detriment. It’s something that I continue to remind myself with my articles. I often dive deeper and deeper into tools and strategies… and forget that there are visitors that haven’t been on this journey with me. For companies, this is a huge oversight. As they continue to ideate and deploy content, they forget that there are some people that may not even
10 Reasons Your Site Is Losing Organic Ranking… And What To Do
There are a number of reasons that your website may be losing its organic search visibility. Migration to a new domain – While Google offers a means for letting them know you’ve moved to a new domain via Search Console, there’s still the issue of ensuring every backlink out there resolves to a good URL on your new domain rather than a not found (404) page. Indexing permissions – I’ve seen many instances of people
What Questions Need Answered to Evaluate Your Company’s Inbound Marketing Strategy?
I’m working with a prospect right now that knows they require assistance with their digital presence and inbound marketing efforts… but they don’t know where to start nor the path necessary to get where they need. While I’ve written extensively about the agile marketing journey to develop your marketing maturity, I’m not sure I’ve ever written about the elements necessary for success. As I’m working with this client, I’ve been interviewing their sales, marketing, and