Content marketing, inbound marketing and digital marketing: These three phrases are often used interchangeably, but they don’t refer to the same thing. This can create confusion when implementing your brand’s marketing plan. These strategies do share some things in common. They’re all designed to grab user attention, build your brand, increase traffic, attract qualified leads...

As a content marketer, you need to maintain a steady stream of fresh, reliable content that’s targeted to your audience at each point of the buyer’s journey. What you might not have discovered yet is the busy content marketer’s secret: Keeping your content calendar and your production process organized is essential to ensuring that content...

Marketing metrics drive the success of many businesses. And in the age of the internet, devices, and social media, the type of marketing driving those metrics is digital. In the old days when billboards, commercials, and print were king, sales were the only metric that mattered. Now, with everyone carrying devices with cameras, microphones, web...

Successful content writing for brand marketing requires two key factors that can sometimes conflict with each other: First, the content must be easily read, in the way that people have always read text content on the web (i.e., scanning). Second, the content must also be written so that search engines want to reward it with...

If you want to succeed in your business, you’ll need to do more than simply respond to existing trends. You’ll also need to figure out future developments today. Business planning for the future isn’t optional if you want your business to succeed. In fact, it’s imperative to strive for a proactive mindset and plan for...

This behavioral targeting guide will help you personalize contact with your readers. With so much bombarding on a daily basis, today’s consumers only want to see content relevant to them. Exhausted by the constant tsunami on every channel, they tune out anything they perceive as generic because it’s most likely not going to meet their...

It’s always a goal for a business to develop and bring in increasing revenue as time passes. Unfortunately, the reality is that you may not see the level of growth you want. You may even hit a wall in terms of sales that seems insurmountable. The trick to overcoming this is identifying factors that might...

Recently, we’ve seen signs that many businesses are reopening during the last quarter of 2020. Yet uncertainty remains. In some states, businesses have reopened in recent weeks only to be told to close or reduce their capacity for customers. It’s becoming increasingly challenging to plan for the future. Consequently, many business owners and leaders might wonder...

As 2015 winds to a close, it's time to look at some simple strategies for improving various areas of your business operations.