So many blogs or articles about SEO focus on what you should do, but we decided to turn the tables a bit and look at what you should not do. 10 SEO Mistakes It’s time to check your ego at the door and be ready
Using Google Plus Hangouts for your business is a no brainer! For years business owners have been using the rising Social Media sites – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and Skype to increase their online presence. These social networking sites have helped savvy businesses to grow their
Oh my goodness – if I don’t see it once I see it often, and it saddens me to no end to see highly successful business professionals presenting themselves on social media in a negative way, specifically with Facebook rants. Zig Ziglar said it best,
The term Newsjacking, coined by David Meerman Scott refers to the act of leveraging a big news story or popular event to draw attention to your own content, product or brand. Newsjacking Done Right Oreo’s did it right with their Facebook post during the 2013
Getting views on YouTube is an essential part of growing your audience. The more views you have on a given video the more likely YouTube will reward you by being recommended as a suggested video on other videos. These are three simple methods that you
Are you tired of coming to the end of a workday and feeling like you didn’t get everything accomplished you planned to? Learning how to delegate tasks will improve your productivity and shorten your to-do list. Whether you are an employee or small business owner,
Your Social Media Guide For Small Businesses While social media marketing is meant to help companies directly engage target audiences, the medium remains difficult to organize and control. In order to use social media successfully, you need to create a strategy to reach the right
Creating brand awareness, lead generation and thought leadership are all solid goals of a good content marketing strategy. And, as with any strategy, there are some foundational elements that make achieving the goals much easier. It starts with really understanding the why of your brand.
As an entrepreneur, we get new ideas for our business on a daily basis. We get them from attending networking meetings, webinars and live events. We can also get great ideas from reading blogs, social media posts, magazines and when we are having conversation with
The #1 reason new businesses fail within the first 2-3 years is lack of sales. Every business owner or salesperson needs to continually add new customers and increase sales volume in order to grow their respective businesses. However, in today’s selling environment this has become
If you actually tried to keep up with every SEO blog out there, you could find yourself in pretty bad shape in no time. Not only does the sheer volume make that impossible but you could continually find yourself doing one thing based upon one
Does Google make your head spin sometimes with all the changes to their algorithms? Do you feel like Penguins, Pandas and Pigeons are for the birds? We need Google because it creates tools to make our mission to reach our customers online easier. Yes, this
If your content marketing efforts are not producing the results you desire, it’s time to take a good, long look at the type of content you are creating. Recently I read an article written by Joe Pulizzi of the Content Marketing Institute on branded content
Are you tired of hearing about how your business success is connected to relationships? If you are, you might want to stop reading right now. This post is about relationships … creating real relationships. I am not going to talk with you about networking, follow
A skill set that every business owner and entrepreneur must master is the art of building rapport with your prospects. Without rapport, there will be a lack of trust which will eliminate the possibility of converting the prospect to a client. As with most things
Listening to what matters to your customers is more important than ever before. The trick is to “First seek to understand, then to be understood” as Stephen Covey highlighted in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The most important lesson I ever learned is
This past week I had the honor of being one of the sponsors at the Local, Search and Social Summit, an event put together by Rocks Digital for SMBs to learn the latest and greatest in areas of local, search and social media. If your business
During the Local, Search and Social Summit Lissa Duty started us thinking about our social media plan and then, Natalie Gould and Rachel Morgan stepped up to walk us through how to keep your website current with fresh content, drive site traffic, and rank higher in search
Closing out the day at the Local, Search and Social Summit was Ben Killmer, Strategic Partner Manager at Google. Ben started off by telling us that to print the information found on the Internet would be about 136 billion sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper.
Lissa Duty kicked off the afternoon at the Local, Search and Social Summit with a Social Media Planning Session (she also threatened to make us do jumping jacks if we weren’t attentive and interactive!) As part of her presentation, Lissa provided a tool for planning which
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