6 keys to branding your business
Believe it or not, branding is about much more than choosing a unique logo or buying a well-placed banner ad. Good branding will increase the value of your company, improve the recognition of your business and create trust with your customers. It can also inspire your employees, and most importantly help generate new customers. So, where do you start? 1. Know Your Buyer Persona Who are you...
Medium is the solution if you want to blog without any overhead
The service helps with hosting, design and building your audience. You’re on your own for a steady stream of fresh ideas HubSpot claims that it is essential for any business to blog. One of the reasons being is that B2B marketers that use blogs receive 67 percent more leads than those that do not. If you’re considering blogging but don’t want to deal with hosting, design issues and...
How businesses can benefit from blogging
There are many benefits of blogging for business today. In fact, blogging is critical. However, bland, run-of-the-mill blog posts won’t cut it. These are lazy and ineffective. So what is effective? Publishing informative, well-written articles that are created with strategy and customer engagement in mind. Blogging helps to: Draw online traffic. Nurture and convert customers. Keep current...
Programmatic Ads and how to improve the CTR
Using software to purchase digital advertising (online display, social media advertising, mobile and video campaigns etc.) isn’t new, though many companies are still learning the nuances of how to make this advertising approach pay off. Very often, even when an audience is very precisely defined, programmatic campaigns do not always play out as advertisers expect. Properly setting expectations...
10 ways to be a terrible blogger (AKA, blogging no-nos to avoid at all costs)
When marketers like you set out to establish blogs, they want them to be successful. After all, what’s the point of putting your time, energy, and effort into a blog if nobody wants to read it or share it with their friends? Here’s the hard truth, though. Even though nobody wants to be a bad blogger, many people accidentally take steps that make them into mediocre bloggers. If you’re one of...
10 simple ways to grow your blog following
How do you build fans? Sure, you could pay for them or trick them into coming to your blogs with sneaky headlines. Or… You could take the long (but most effective route). While building a blog following doesn’t happen overnight, there are several effective things you can do to gain a strong and long-lasting group of readers who want to engage with your content. Read on to learn more. 10...