I’ve really ramped up my content marketing activities in the past six months and have learned a lot. I try to share what I find as I find it, mainly…
Read MoreReputation management in the age of PRISM
While nothing’s changed at all since before Edward Snowden leaked both the existence of the NSA‘s PRISM program and its full reach, I now have the opportunity to have a…
Read MoreIntegrated Marketing is back–it’s the new SEO
How many times have you heard “organic content,” “ content marketing,” “it’s all about content,” or some derivation of these? A friend of mine, Jeff Sauer gave a great presentation on…
Read MoreAre you a social media marketing hunter?
This is the next in the series, including Are you a social media forager? and Are you a social media marketing trapper? This one’s about hunting. I have been writing and…
Read MoreThe $1,000 SMB marketing challenge: how would you spend it?
If you had $1,000 to spend as a marketing challenge, how would you spend it? We’ve all fantasized about what we would do if we won the lottery. But apply…
Read MoreAre you a social media marketing trapper?
I believe that all social media marketing campaigns should probably start with foraging (as I discussed last week) — but as you grow, you need to evolve, especially if you…
Read MoreMaking Money from Website Search
Our monthly webinar yesterday was about how to improve your website search in order to make more money. Did a frustrated searcher just ask again why your site search engine…
Read MoreAre you a social media forager?
When you put lots of energy, time, and passion — but no plan — into your social media marketing and PR campaigns, you’re a forager. And you surely won’t starve…
Read MoreDon’t under-optimize your website in SEO
The primary Google Penguin update and all of the subsequent Penguin updates have targeted sites that were guilty of “over-optimization.” These sites were taking SEO to the extreme and participating…
Read MoreIn digital marketing, you must get over your fear of being annoying
According to Jonathan Alter‘s new book, The Center Holds, it was Barack Obama’s young geek volunteers who crushed Mitt Romney‘s “Mad Men” campaign out of the 1960s in the 2012 election. And…
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