Blogging
I Took a Week Off Social Media and the Sky Didn’t Fall
Once you participate in social media and content marketing on a regular basis, don’t you feel obligated to maintain what you’ve built? I always thought so.
Don’t our social media connections and blog readers expect us to post relevant content and engage with them? After taking an entire week off social media, I discovered that the sky didn’t fall and I didn’t lose followers either.
Know why? Continue reading
The Absolutely Wrong Way to Submit Guest Blog Posts
If you’re looking for ways to build your personal, business, or nonprofit’s brand, submitting guest blog posts can help. However, if you approach submissions the way one guy did with me recently, you may as well quit marketing altogether!
If I hadn’t written every word of his email messages here, you’d think I was making this up. Read it for yourself and then tell me how you would have reacted.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, Bill (not his real name) wrote:
Hi,
My name is Bill, I’m hosting specialist. Currently employed as a consultant in a couple of eCommerce companies. I’m also a web writer and co-author on several websites. You can see some samples of my work: link, link, link. At this moment I’m interested in makreting and I recently wrote an article “How to design successful exhibition stand” and I think it would be great for your site and interesting topic for your readers. My article is in this mails body:
(Content was included here. I didn’t edit any typo, grammatical, or spelling errors.) Continue reading
If You’re Not Blogging, You’re Missing the Inbound Marketing Boat
Trying to demonstrate ROI (return on investment) for inbound marketing tactics is proving to be challenging, says a new HubSpot study. With so many companies and organizations trying to “get found,” inbound marketing has been active for many years. (Inbound marketing: “activities that bring visitors in, rather than marketers having to go out to get prospect’s attention.” Wikipedia)
According to the study report “Businesses now turn to inbound methodologies to power sales (25%) and even customer service (10%).”
So, if you’re using content marketing, white papers, special offers, free stuff, etc. to draw in leads, you’ve been practicing inbound marketing. But, have you been tracking your ROI? Continue reading
How to Get 10 Posts Out of One Good Idea
Guest post by Dennis Fischman
It’s time to post to your blog. You scratch your head, pace up and down, drum your fingers, start several posts and delete them…and at last, you have it. It’s a good idea. You put the finishing touches on it and hit, “Post.”
“Uh-oh,” you say. “Now what am I going to use for Facebook?”
Save time and worry: take that one good idea and use it again. Here are ten ways you can re-purpose one good idea for blogs, social media, video, and print. Continue reading
