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…
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New 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 MoreLead exponential digital growth through publishing and advertising
Lesson for Leaders Advertising is the Internet’s main business model. How can publishers exceed the lost advertising revenues and content displays taken by dominant platforms like Google and Facebook? How…
Read MoreCan content written for print position well in Google?
Recently, I worked with a big-brand publisher that published print assets to their site. The powers-that-be believed that the content should position just fine. After all, the content was written…
Read MoreYour online reputation on Google is the direct result of the content you write on your website, your blogs, and on social media, over time
How (and, to be honest, if) you, your brand, your business, and services, your products, and your colleagues are portrayed in a simple Google search is the most important personal…
Read More6 types of content your readers hate
When creating content for your blog, social media profiles, email subscribers, and other purposes, you don’t want to irritate your readers. Unfortunately, some types of content can send readers running…
Read MoreEffective types of native advertising for small businesses
Not many small businesses currently take advantage of native advertising, so the small businesses that do gain a significant advantage over the competition. Native advertising is advertising that looks like…
Read MoreDo you need different kinds of video for sales enablement?
Vidyard recently published an infographic that cleverly maps 12 types of video productions (explainers, product info, chalk talks, personalized, etc.) to the customer life cycle and suggests appropriate levels of production…
Read MoreWhy I told a client to quit blogging: finding your “One Thing”
Here’s a question: what’s the ONE content marketing tactic that drives the majority of your revenue? Is it blogging? Webinars? Teaching small classes? Or is your answer, “Hmm, I’m not…
Read More3 insights from intelligent content conference
I had the great fortune to speak twice at the Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas on March 30. I said to a colleague there that the conference agenda fit…
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