Infographic: Why Content for SEO?

Content for SEO Infographic

Great find by good friend Chris Baggott of Compendium. Although we challenge many of the tactics that SEO companies utilize to gain ranking, there are still thousands of queries in search engines every day by people trying to find your product or service. The questions vary… so a few pages of great content just isn’t going to cut it anymore. Virtually every company needs to become a publisher nowadays if they hope to both build authority in their industry and … Continue reading

Save $100: 2012 Inbound Marketing Handbook

2012 Inbound Marketing Handbook

MarketingSherpa has just released their 2012 Inbound Marketing Handbook. The goal of the Inbound Marketing Handbook is to guide you through the development of an effective process that can scale to meet the growing, ongoing need for inbound marketing across your organization. You will learn: How inbound channels help customers find and choose you. How search, social and content marketing interact with each other to produce ongoing enhanced results. How inbound marketing powers the customer engagement cycle across awareness, consideration, … Continue reading

18 Must-Know Inbound Marketing Experts

Inbound Marketing

Colleague Dave Morse of Delta Faucet passed on a congratulations to me today for making a list of 18 Must-Know Inbound Marketing Experts in Marketo’s Whitepaper: Amplify Your Impact: How to Multiply the Effects of Your Inbound Marketing Program. Wow – that’s quite an honor… especially having my name alongside this list of amazingly talented marketers: Michael Brito – Follow @Britopian Paul Gillin – Follow @pgillin Adam Metz – Follow @theMetz Ann Handley – Follow @MarketingProfs C.C. Chapman – Follow … Continue reading

Video: Local Search Strategies are Key for Large Brands

Local Search Optimization

A recent post we did on 6 Keyword Misconceptions spoke to the misconception that national or international businesses should avoid local search. It’s not only a misconception, it’s a huge mistake. Developing an SEO strategy that ranks you regionally can be less competitive, require less resources, and increase your overall returns. And it doesn’t discount you ranking on non-geographic keywords or phrases. Quite the opposite, ranking well locally can drive your rank nationally and internationally. VideoInfographs produced this fantastic video … Continue reading

Infographic: The Gold Standard of Content Marketing

Content Marketing

Newsreach has released both an infographic and accompanying whitepaper, The True Value of Content Marketing. Individual pieces of high quality content are capable of attracting and engaging web users, but on their own will not have the impact you want. Content Marketing requires an ongoing effort to produce fresh, relevant high-quality pieces. Many businesses face challenges in producing the volume and variety of engaging content needed, which is where a Content Marketing agency has a role to play. As with … Continue reading

Statdash: Build the Ultimate Dashboard

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It seems like each day we’re having to add another tool to monitor some new metrics that provide feedback on our clients. Over time, we’ve collected a number of SaaS subscriptions that we’re logging in and out of on a daily basis. It’s so complex that we’ve sought out development resources – but it’s going to be costly to integrate so many APIs and maintain them. Thankfully, someone else thought that was an issue as well and developed Statdash, a … Continue reading

Inbound Marketing with “The Content Marketing Manifesto”

The Content Marketing Manifesto

It can be challenging to communicate and quantify all the benefits of content marketing to the C-Suite and even some marketers. Even more difficult is explaining the strategic and tactical nuances across multiple types of media and platforms. Content marketing is not as simple as publishing a blog post every day in order to show up on the first page of Google. »Download a free copy of The Content Marketing Manifesto Because of these challenges, we’ve written The Content Marketing … Continue reading