The 3 Steps to Mastering the Modern Press Release

The 3 Steps to Mastering the Modern Press Release

In years past, companies used press releases so that a journalist could notice it, and that a piece of the release would get published in some news publication. Today, most of those news publications are extinct. Just like other forms of media promotion, the press release has made its home online. And the good thing:…

5 Things to Know before Hiring a Digital Marketing Company

5 Things to Know before Hiring a Digital Marketing Company

For small to mid-sized businesses, online marketing can be a struggle. There can be so many different tasks to juggle. Companies just don’t have time to implement effective marketing strategies. So, they decide to hire a digital marketing firm. They jump head-first into the firm’s many promises, expecting superb results. But what they receive is…

The 2 WordPress Plugins That Will Explode the Size of Your Email List

The 2 WordPress Plugins That Will Explode the Size of Your Email List

A business neglecting its email list is like a gardener refusing to water his plants. Your email list is a seed that needs constant nurturing and maintenance so that it reaches its full potential. The size of your email list should see a constant trend of growth—from the beginning, when you first started collecting the…

How to Drive Traffic and Engagement Using These 3 Social Media Plugins

How to Drive Traffic and Engagement Using These 3 Social Media Plugins

In and of itself, social media is a marketing machine. There’s a reason why you see its reach on nearly every corner of the internet: It works. 87% of all small businesses said that social media helps their business. Social media also accounts for 23% of all time spent online. Social media works for small…

5 Easy Ideas That Can Electrify Your Content Marketing

5 Easy Ideas That Can Electrify Your Content Marketing

Ideas can get stale. Do something enough times and it’ll become dry and monotonous. If you’ve ever dabbled in content marketing, you know what that’s like. “What am I going to write about?” “What topic is going to excite my readers?” These dilemmas will stagnate creativity. It happens, and if it hasn’t, it will. Your…

How to Build a Long-Lasting Local Link Building Strategy

How to Build a Long-Lasting Local Link Building Strategy

It is no secret that the best way to dominate your competitors is through local SEO. Often enough, the most relevant, targeted customers can be gained through a local search campaign. It is also no secret that backlinks are still a powerful ranking factor, even in 2014. But some backlinks are better than others. Getting…

The Three Types of Posts That Will Keep Your Social Media Followers Engaged and Ready to Buy

The Three Types of Posts That Will Keep Your Social Media Followers Engaged and Ready to Buy

Don’t believe the hype: Social media is not a set-it-and-forget-it marketing strategy. Like any other strategy it requires a precise understanding of your goals and how you’re going to accomplish them. It also requires you to test your methods to see what’s working and what isn’t, so that you can optimize your campaign for success….

The Don’t-Do Checklist: 5 Marketing Ideas That You Should Never Implement

The Don’t-Do Checklist: 5 Marketing Ideas That You Should Never Implement

The web is overpopulated with poor marketing ideas and advice. Every day a new blog with questionable advice sprouts up like a bad root in the soil. For the non-savvy business owner, it’s hard to distinguish what is good and what isn’t. This is dangerous, as it can be the difference between blowing a marketing…

The Four Keys to Having a High-Performing Google+ Local Page

The Four Keys to Having a High-Performing Google+ Local Page

The importance of reaching Google’s 1st page becomes more apparent. 59% of consumers use Google monthly to find a local business. If you are not actively trying to climb to the 1st page, then you are neglecting a major piece in the digital marketing puzzle. The truth is that you should have been improving your…

How to Write a Captivating White Paper

How to Write a Captivating White Paper

Writing compelling content is not the easiest thing to do. An above-average content piece is descriptive, informative, and compelling. A mediocre piece of content will be littered with throwaway sentences and paragraphs, will be dull from beginning to end, and will be plagued with half-baked research and misunderstood concepts. If you’re a small business ,…