So you have a new product and a brand new website? Brilliant! But no one is visiting it. Why? Well because digital marketing isn’t just about creating an engaging product and showcasing it well. It’s about finding interested customers and driving that traffic back to your website. SEO (search engine optimization) is still the most…
Marketing Tips For Startups
If you are starting up your first business or if you are still working out whether it is going to be profitable, then you have an idea of all of the many tasks involved in the process. From registering your company, to organizing premises and equipment, right through to planning an effective marketing strategy, there…
The Perfect Solution To Your Social Media Traffic Problem
Would you like to have more traffic from social media? Wouldn’t it be nice to sit back and watch as traffic rolled in every day? Imagine a blog post you recently wrote receiving tons of visitors from social media in a short amount of time. Also imagine every time you shared an article it did pretty…
The Pinterest Secret That Will Impact Your Social
Images impact your brain a lot easier than text does. If you’ve been in the social media industry for any amount of time you already know this. That is why it is so easy to build traffic over on the Pinterest platform. Take Twitter for example, even 140 characters take the brain a little longer…
How To Build A Relationship Online For Your Business
Relationship marketing is a dirty word and I hate the term to tell the truth. When you talk about this ‘technique’ with people you can sense them being taken back when you talk about strategies and different things like that. Relationship marketing, at first glance, would make you think of manipulation. But isn’t all marketing…
Relationomics: The Final Five People You Need Around You
Relationships are critical to making your business go. In the coal mine I was always used to working with DC power and was handy with a pipe wrench and other tools as I worked on DC motors and diesels. But not so much on other things. I remember one time I was at a traffic light…
A Marketing Strategy From The Rock on Instagram
I was sitting on my couch the other day going through my Instagram feed when I just about missed something important. The Rock is a marketing genius on this platform. Now I realize most people are using Instagram to pacify their audience, to make themselves appear more personal. As you can imagine, Instagram does make…
Quotes From The Matrix For Social Media Marketing
First of all, I’ve gotta give credit to Ryan Hanley for prompting this quote post. He did a masterful job with one called The Ron Swanson Guide To Content Marketing and it impressed me to try my own out with one of my favorite flicks, The Matrix This is a rip off. So what? He…
How To Tell If You Have Content Goggles
Bloggers have one of the hardest hurdles to jump. You write content week after week, and day after day. Sometimes we tend to wear blinders. It’s hard to see our content the way other people see it. This is called content goggles, and you must be aware of it to spread your message effectively. Your…
Why We Need A New Social Media
Social media has changed. Social media is always changing. Shoot, it’s changed so much from when I first started that I don’t hardly recognize it anymore. But has it really changed? We talk a lot about change in this industry, and how we need to strive to make things better, but is that really changing…