5 Ways to Increase the Readership of your Blog Posts

5 Ways to Increase the Readership of your Blog Posts

In 2014, many people aren’t readers. To call a spade a spade: people have shorter attention spans than they had in years past. This is not to say people are dumber necessarily, but the way people absorb information has definitely changed. This means that you have to redesign the way you create and deliver content…

How to Earn Links in 2014

How to Earn Links in 2014

“SEO” has really become a dirty word these days. What with all those black-hat SEO companies getting customers penalized and all… In fact, “SEO” has attracted such a negative stigma that “SEO Moz,” an inbound marketing thought leader, rebranded its company name to just “Moz.” But You Do Need to Do SEO! Now, it’s important…

How to Simplify Your Marketing

How to Simplify Your Marketing

One of the problems in the marketing industry is the obsession with fads, buzzwords, and fluff. Go to some digital marketing blogs and you’ll smacked with unproven and untested theories and ideas that, on the surface, sound great but will not be applicable to your business. The truth is that digital marketing is not a…

Do You Make These 5 Stupid Content Marketing Strategy Mistakes?

Do You Make These 5 Stupid Content Marketing Strategy Mistakes?

Everybody makes mistakes – that’s the nature of business. But, smart business owners learn from the mistakes of others so they don’t waste time and money making mistakes on their own. In our years of analyzing the market, we have seen plenty of content marketing strategy decisions that have gone right and wrong. These are…

Beyond the Sale: Why Email Marketing Should be an Evergreen Strategy

Beyond the Sale: Why Email Marketing Should be an Evergreen Strategy

The subject line will help to get your emails opened, but the actual content of the email will determine whether or not you will secure a sale. The average person’s inbox will have loads of different emails, and many of them will either sit unopened, be discarded, or get marked as spam. In 2014, sending…

Inbound Marketing Strategy and Why It Matters

Inbound Marketing Strategy and Why It Matters

The World Wide Web has dramatically changed the way we do business. It equips online business owners with the tools they need to focus their marketing dollars on highly targeted customer bases. This is where inbound marketing strategy shines the most. “Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.”- Seth Godin How an Inbound Marketing Strategy…

How to Fix Your Email Subject Lines to Improve Your Open Rates

How to Fix Your Email Subject Lines to Improve Your Open Rates

Email marketing is far from dead. Sure it may have been easier 5-10 years ago. There were fewer regulations, and the average inbox wasn’t a messy swamp flooded with over-the-top marketing messages and borderline spam emails. When you engage in email marketing in 2014, you are vying for your prospects’ attention while other companies and…