Most companies conduct various types of research to understand the needs of the market. These may include primary research, 3rd party research, brand wave studies, voice of the customer, and…
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Branding can help local businesses avoid the “growth trap”
Local businesses have a very pragmatic attitude about branding: they ignore it. Many of them are more worried about meeting payroll, making rent, paying taxes, and other cash crises than…
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What is a keyword ontology?
A keyword ontology is a knowledge graph describing relationships between the keywords your target audiences frequently use in search queries and the products and services you sell. It can include…
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What does your site search mean for your reputation?
Some of you might believe that site search is important to raise your conversion rates and what to make search work. Others might be more resigned to the fact that…
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International SEO: Another reason to avoid AMPs
In my last post, I gave three reasons to avoid accelerated mobile mages (AMPs). Accelerated mobile pages are flat HTML web pages that follow Google‘s guidelines and are hosted by…
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Top 3 LinkedIn profile mistakes that professionals make
When LinkedIn launched in 2002, it was met with a fair amount of scorn, derision, and outright mockery. To more than a few pundits and prognosticators, a “social network for…
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Meet more new clients with these 8 tactics
For many growing professional services firms, new clients are a critical part of meeting business growth objectives, and tapping personal networks is no longer enough. Today you have to find and woo strangers–get…
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Creativity vs. productivity: AI to the rescue
Throughout my career, I have noticed a tension between creativity and productivity. In my more productive times, I’m checking off items in my to-do list one at a time. For…
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Capture the future’s biggest competitive advantage for yourself
Lesson for leaders Becoming the biggest leader is hard. The top competitors usually defeat all companies. Why do most fail? They compete in predictable ways and try what everyone knows,…
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4 tips to successful digital writing
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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