Inbound Marketing for Small Business

UpCity

Technology continues to offer incredible opportunities to the small business. As computing power and platforms continue to progress, costs continue to drop across the board. A few years ago, search and social platform tools were thousands of dollars per month and only available to companies who could afford the investment. Tomorrow I’ll be speaking to a group of small business professionals about tools to help them and UpCity is one of the tools at the top of my list. UpCity is powered by their Pathway™ platform. Pathway™ assesses the online … Continue reading

How Not To Freak Out About Content Marketing

Content Marketing

So your business has a blog and a presence on all the major social platforms, and maybe a few industry-specific ones too — great! Now what? How do you fill these channels, and more importantly, in this 24/7 news cycle, how do you get your content to cut through the noise and stand out? It’s a tall order. Everyone has to be a content marketer these days. But don’t freak out. Really. Take a look at our presentation below for the step-by-step to making good — scratch that — awesomesauce … Continue reading

Infographic: 5 Steps to Increase Traffic and Convert Leads into Customers

What is Inbound Marketing

The folks at The Whole Brain Group have released an infographic, What is Inbound Marketing? The best infographics are the ones that take a complex idea and simplify it. This infographic aims to do just that on the topic of inbound marketing. My only criticism of this infographic is that there’s a huge step missing between the writing of the content and getting found… and that’s optimization and promotion. In order to get found, you can’t simply wait for people to find you, you have to be optimizing and promoting … Continue reading

Infographic: 30 Ways to Promote Your Blog

Blog Post Promotion

We always tell our clients that it’s not enough to just write blog posts. Once your post is written, you need to get notify the target audience that it’s there… this can be accomplished through publishing an intro on Twitter, on Facebook, syndicating it to additional sites, sending your email recipients notification, and submitting it to social bookmarking sites everywhere. Most people don’t return to a site day after day and few will subscribe to your feed. More and more, people are relying on the curation of their social network. … Continue reading

Enterprise Social Media Management from Syncapse

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In an enterprise corporation engaged in social media, there’s a ton of activity. From support and sales conversations to marketing and promotions, conversations need to be properly routed, quickly responded to, and assured that they are handled properly. Almost every week we hear of another major corporation that accidentally publishes an embarrassing tweet because they lacked any command and control on routing and approving messaging. Enterprise social media platforms offer the opportunity to centralize, simplify and route the conversations efficiently and effectively. The Syncapse platform offers the ability for companies … Continue reading

You Are Not the Fortune 500

Blogging Growth

Roger Yu of USA Today just wrote an article a few days ago on companies abandoning blogging: With the emergence of social media, more companies are replacing blogs with nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. The entire article is fairly balanced… but the data may be a bit misrepresentative of all corporations. First, the data referenced is from the fastest growing Fortune 500 companies. This is the old tale of causation versus correlation. Are companies abandoning blogging because the strategy is not helping … Continue reading