As marketers, our job in a nutshell is to inspire people to take action. Even if this desired action is to sign up for a webinar, I often imagine that I’m marketing a skydiving excursion, which is to say, that I’m asking people to spend money to jump out of an airplane. After all, at [...]
As Google’s algorithms continually reinforce the need for consistent quality content for SEO purposes, more brands are starting to act like publishers. According to a report by Content Marketing Institute (CMI), 60% of B2B businesses surveyed say they plan to increase their content marketing budgets over the next 12 months. One way that brands consistently [...]
Tumblr is the online equivalent of a boom town. The platform saw 218% year-over-year growth, and every minute, approximately 38,000 tumblogs – short blogs that often contain multimedia – appear on the Tumblr network. Tumblr doesn’t require self-hosting, and within minutes, you can have your own blog. Given all that, it seems that Tumblr would be an obvious [...]
Lead nurturing is about automating a simple process that sales professionals have known about since the dark ages: window shopping. Brick-and-mortar stores discovered long ago that certain types of shoppers enjoy the thrill of the hunt just as much as the kill, which lead to some very extravagant department store windows. These days, many B2B [...]
One of a content marketer’s goals is to create quality content that drives traffic to a website. But is video-sharing changing what we view as quality content? To quote MSNBC’s Suzanne Choney, “the eyes have it.” Since human beings are visual creatures, it doesn’t surprise me that video-sharing is on the rise. Each year, video-sharing [...]
As evidence-based marketers, we are constantly testing the most profitable ways to engage consumers. But consumers themselves are becoming more educated and demanding more evidence before making each purchase. The rise of evidence-oriented consumers has reshaped the buying cycle and increased the importance of quality content, social media optimization and marketing technology. In Jim Leckinski’s [...]
Earlier this week, Google sent engineer Greg Grothaus in front of the camera to discuss a topic that should be important to anyone with a Web presence – duplicate content. Grothaus’ mission was to tell the world that the “penalty” rumored to be imposed on Web sites that post identical content in multiple locations is, [...]
What is the most striking about the list of 25 Most Commonly Used WordPress Plugins –published by Line25.com, a blog focusing on web design–is how little the plugins actually have to do with actual web design. Instead, the list is topped by the “All-In-One SEO Pack” and followed by “Google XML Site Map.” The rest of [...]
Meeting a client’s SEO goals typically requires far more than web site optimization. More often than not, new content development – and significant revision of existing content – is a necessary component of the process. With that said, content development for B2B clients is its own animal, and requires an approach that is far different [...]
White Papers Distributing 1000-10,000 word documents is definitely old school. But large-ticket B2B buyers, especially in the tech space, download them by the thousands each day. Just as every patient would prefer to visit a doctor that’s always up on the latest research, business buyers want to feel that they are buying into a knowledge-based [...]
