You may be a busy small business owner who has a website, and you understand that content is important, but you just aren’t sure how to proceed because you simply don’t have the time. Your business isn’t big enough to have a full-time content manager, although there are a couple of people on staff who [...]
If you landed here, you’re interested in content marketing success. You want your website to grow your business. So let’s do this! Let’s nail it! Now that we have your attention… here’s how content marketing really works: it’s all business. The Content Marketing Long Game Since we don’t want to waste anyone’s time, let’s begin [...]
Planning, creating and promoting online content can be very rewarding but also very time-consuming. It takes significant resources to produce good content and develop a cohesive promotion plan, whether that involves sharing content on social media or posting it to your own blog or to an industry/partner site. It’s not surprising then that digital marketers [...]
Content marketing is hyper-competitive, so how can you gain an advantages? Any seasoned digital marketer has heard these kinds of requests more than once: I want to rank number one in Google for a keyword. I don’t care about keywords, I just want to create something engaging. I want my blog to generate more business [...]
How do you determine what topics to write about and what types of content to produce for your website? To effectively drive website performance, we recommend leveraging data to assess your most successful content and determine what future content will resonate best with your target audience. Experiment With Different Strategies There’s no reason to approach [...]
In Summary: Re-optimizing for SEO is taking well performing content and improving it to perform even better in search results. You simply review which content is doing well and make improvements including metadata, content, keywords and relevance. You can even implement new keywords where appropriate. So you wrote a blog post, and it’s getting some [...]
A lot of digital marketing agencies out there are content mills. This means they write many articles for you as inexpensively as possible. You might think they’re doing your business a service since blogging boosts website exposure. The agency might even tell you that pumping out a bunch of posts with the right keywords is [...]
For quality US English blog posts, our totally anecdotal (but 100% professional) observations tell us the going rate is around $50-75 for 500 words. If you want 1000 words, just multiply by two. It’s that simple. Or is it? A great piece of writing that excites your audience can be worth millions. Still, a huge [...]
Studies show that content marketing costs 62 percent less than traditional marketing. But before you focus immediately on the cost savings, it’s important to understand what exactly it is you’re doing and how to measure success. The definition of content marketing is pretty simple—it’s using created content to increase brand awareness. Blogs, videos, social media [...]
By 2020, fifty percent of the workforce will be remote. What does this mean for your brand’s digital marketing? Just like people, a brand’s identity typically has several manifestations. The way you act at home vs. work isn’t exactly the same. Likewise, your business presence goes beyond your website. Now with social media, review sites, [...]
