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Content Marketing
Is Your Startup’s Brand Ready for CES? Essential Branding Checklist for First-Timers
Sure you’ve heard tales from the front lines and even heeded warnings from helpful friends and colleagues. But if you’re one of the thousands of entrepreneurs registered to attend the annual January madness better known as CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas for the first time this year (January 9-12th), it may be difficult to truly envision what lies…
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Content Marketing
Appearance Isn’t Everything: A Checklist To Make Sure Your Website Is Functional, Not Just Beautiful
Many years ago, I was speaking at an event with Aaron Kahlow, a social media marketing expert. In his presentation, Aaron spoke about the investment in and return of a website. Specifically, he discussed the analogy of companies designing and furnishing their corporate lobby. Corporate lobbies often have someone there to greet people, they have beautiful furniture and even artwork and refreshments…
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Content Marketing
Wooing More Buyers and Reducing Waste Through Intelligent Content
Content marketing’s efficacy has been well documented, yielding 300% more leads at a 62% lower cost than traditional marketing, reports DemandMetric. No wonder sophisticated marketers have shifted their dollars to content, in a big way. The obstacle, however, is that a good chunk of that content (65%, in fact) is hard to find, poorly conceived or unappealing to its target…
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Content Marketing
6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting Your Website Design
Building a website can be daunting, but if you think of it as a chance to reevaluate your business and sharpen your image, you’ll learn a lot about your brand and might even have fun doing it. As you start, this list of questions should help get you on the right track. Table of Contents What do you want your…
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Content Marketing
Content Variety and Formats Drive Results
Your audience varies. While you may appreciate a long-copy whitepaper, another prospect may simply want to review a feature list before they contact you for business. This great infographic from ContentPlus, a UK-based content marketing service, provides an overview of the variety of content offerings that exist, why they work, and some supporting data. They also have an accompanying blog…
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Analytics & Testing
My Online Marketing Checklist in Prioritized Order
There’s a ton of things that need accomplished to fully leverage an online marketing strategy, but I’m often amazed at the priority that companies place each item on the checklist. As we take on new clients, we’re looking to ensure the strategies with the most impact are accomplished first… especially if they’re easy. Hint: content marketing and social media marketing…
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Analytics & Testing
Website First Impressions
So many companies simply don’t perform well on the Internet due to the aesthetics of their site. Design may be one of the most under-rated investments you can make, mostly because it’s so difficult to measure the return. You have to invest and invest heavily before you’ll ever find out how well your site is performing. This infographic, the Power…
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Content Marketing
Marketing Automation with Aggregation and Syndication
We like to use big words in the marketing industry… aggregation and syndication are a couple of them – and they’re very important. Aggregation – allows you to collect content from other sites and display them in yours. They could be from a blog, news feed, podcast, or social feed. Aggregation can be a great tool to use to keep…
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Content Marketing
When Deploying a New Site: Measure Twice, Cut Once
Online Marketers often develop their newly designed web site strategy by spending all the time designing and then deploying the new site… then measuring the results of the change. I shutter when I see some companies deploying multiple sites within months of each other because each one “didn’t work”. Before you begin to even plan the designs of the new…
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Content Marketing
Marketing to Intent, Not Eyeballs
Old school marketers always seem to get hung up on the number of eyeballs. I’ve always been a database and direct marketer, so I liked getting the right eyeballs rather than pushing advertisements in front of all of them. Businesses like the Yellow Pages like to tout the big numbers, too. I read once that 87% of the U.S. Population…
