As most of you know, I am a prolific writer. I have more than 1700 bylines in my career, spread across dozens of magazines and their companion sites, blog sites,…
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How to turn your business blog into a publisher
Regardless of the products or services you sell, your goal likely boils down to one objective: solving customers’ problems. Since this single goal unites nearly all businesses, many companies have…
Read More9 things you can do today to improve your Google search results
Because so many people presumably make so much money “doing SEO,” there’s a lot of confusion as to what Search Engine Optimization is and all the little things that you…
Read MoreYour company’s digital future is still open, if you capture it first
Lesson for leaders You can control your digital future if your know where you’re going, and know how to reach it first. But if you don’t know, someone else will…
Read MoreShould businesses use LinkedIn groups or Slack for prospecting? Part 1
If you’ve checked out your LinkedIn groups lately, you may notice that LinkedIn groups are not what they used to be. As much as I had hoped that LinkedIn’s changes to groups would…
Read MoreWhy you need a strategic approach to your LinkedIn network
Have you ever really stopped to think about who you are–or should be–connected to on LinkedIn and why? The power of your LinkedIn network is not just about how many…
Read MoreUsing your website to get to know your customers
Many of us are in business where we don’t interact directly with our end customers. We operate through distributors or value-added retailers or some other channel. This is, of course,…
Read MoreUse reviews on your blog to gussy up your Google search results
If you’ve ever wondered how some search engine results come up with gold stars, those are called Google Reviews. They’re part of a special structured data coding, called schema, that…
Read MoreNew exponential publishing drives business growth and revenues
Lesson for leaders How can publishers switch from being disrupted to exponential growth that disrupts others? In a growing range of businesses, exponential growth disruption wins. When an exponential competitor…
Read MorePlato, the Allegory of the Cave, and the digital enterprise, part 2
In my last post, I recalled my experience in 1990s Brazil and how the technological progress in the workforce shaped my comprehension of our digital reality. To some extent, the…
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