While not every blog is photography blog, thousands of blogs taking up space on the world wide web actually post photographs within their blog. Whether a craft blogger, a mommy blogger, a travel blogger or anywhere in between, chances are you have taken photos and shared them on your blog. If you are using your blog as a business venture, it will pay you to produce, process and post quality photographs on the pages of your blog. It may very well be critical to the success of your business and...Read Full Story
According to the Content Marketing Institute blogging is the #1 content marketing tactic. Why? Here are10 reasons.....in no particular order. 1. Blogs Help You Get Found
When prospects and customers have a need for your product or service, they no longer flip through the Yellow Pages. They simply type keywords related to their problem into Google, Yahoo and Bing.
And whose website do you want to pop up when they do that? If you’re saying “my own, of course,” you need to be publishing...Read Full Story
White papers are, according the Content Marketing Institute, the third most popular content marketing tool. Why? Because they attract your target audience, build credibility and softly sell your business.But a white paper is dead unless it gets read.So how do you make sure that your target audience is going to download and read your white paper? You figure out who they are and what they want before tapping out a single word on your keyboard. Suppose you’re a marketing consultant (like me...Read Full Story
Content marketing is informative, and sometimes entertaining, content that’s written with a marketing purpose. It’s targeted to a specific audience and its sole purpose is to influence someone’s behavior.
The Content Marketing Institute interviewed marketers to determine the most preferred content marketing tactics and ranked the following in the top 10:
#10 Videos: High level video product is not necessary. Just good content.
#9 Webinars/Webcasts: Almost as good as meeting with a...Read Full Story
Some people think that blogging is a bit too new-fangled to be used effectively for marketing products or services to seniors. Not true. Here’s why. First, you’re not just trying to reach seniors. You want to reach the people who influence them too: family caregivers, doctors, ministers, social workers, rabbis, legal advisors and more.
Second, seniors are surfing—online that is. The eMarketer reports that as of 2011 47%, almost half, of people 65 and over are online. And that statistic...Read Full Story
A recent story made me think that some marketers might finally be getting the right idea about how to use social media to build brands. The story in the New York Times, documents how McDonald’s enlisted the help of “mommy bloggers” to help shape its image. One of the keys to social media is that people like to share. Give them a good enough reason to do so, and they will promote your brand. The McDonald’s story is interesting, because it...
With a potential $100 billion on the table, it is perhaps not surprising that Facebook’s business model is coming under increased scrutiny these days. A recent Financial Times article reports growing tensions between advertisers and Facebook over the placement of advertising on the site. Advertisers, it seems, want to slap display ads all over your Facebook newsfeed, but Facebook wants to protect your turf. Earlier this week, I wrote this post...
In every generation, there are game-changing advancements that redefine business. From the automobile and television, to the VCR and Internet, the evolution of technology drives our consumptive habits. Today, there are arguably fewer more engrossing, time-consuming habits than that of the world’s current phenomenon, Facebook.While more than 900 million people worldwide have active accounts, few [...]
Written by Geoffrey James. With inbound marketing, the customer comes to you, but you still have to move the opportunity forward. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of “inbound marketing”–the concept that you should attract prospective customers by offering useful (on a website, for instance). Inbound marketing is contrasted with outbound [...]
Once again, my colleague Dave Barrowcliff, has posed an interesting question on Millward Brown’s Greenhouse, our internal social network. He asked: Social media affects brand equity because…? It is a good question. After digesting the various replies, I thought it would be worth sharing my thoughts here. I think that a strong presence in personal conversations, whether in person, on the phone, through e-mail, in social media or via customer...
Pay Careful Attention to the Upper Right hand Corner of Google Search Results If you have recently checked your category’s Google search results, you may well have been as surprised as was when I recently checked our first page placement in the ‘content marketing’ topic. In weeks and months past, text ads would have appeared [...]
Written by Chris Horton. This post was born out of a fascinating and revealing conversation our CEO recently had with a business executive of a prominent Minneapolis-area car dealership who absolutely refused to entertain the idea of social media marketing in general, and Twitter in particular. A marketing director, she was convinced that her fairly [...]
From videos and blogs to speeches and articles, it's all about content today. This wikizine will look at ways to develop, distribute and market your content.