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Alyson Harrold

Alyson is Co-CEO and Chief Storyteller. Prior to forming the agency, her career spanned media (NBC-TV affiliates and city magazine, international ad agency) and positions like C-Suite financial services marketer and digital marketing consultant. Alyson learned how the right medium with the right message can attract the right audience. With her team, Alyson helps brands have meaningful customer interactions. Now she teaches those lessons—among others—as a UC Berkeley Extension instructor in her SEO and Digital Marketing courses since 2014. Alyson shares her knowledge as a speaker at preeminent digital marketing conferences around the country like Digital Growth Unleashed and more.

Instagram For SEO

Instagram is great for taking pictures of your dinner. Or adding a filter to make it look like you caught the sun while you were on holiday. But does it help your business? Here we’ll explain how to use Instagram for SEO optimization.

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Category: SEO, Social Media// Author: Alyson Harrold

Call to Action Tips

Motivating Your Reader This post was updated on 11/2/19. Whether you place it at the end of your content and string it in lights or embed it more subtlety on your page, everything you do online should include a call to action. That means you strategically lead your visitors to do anything from continue reading …

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Category: Sales// Author: Alyson Harrold

SMB Marketing in 2018 – Time to Ask For Help?

  Size Does Matter Small and Medium-sized businesses are under many pressures but the biggest are typically time and resources. There are only so many hours in the day, and unlike bigger companies, you have to be very careful about hiring too many members of staff. Much content written online about marketing is focused on …

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Category: Content// Author: Alyson Harrold

White Paper Best Practices

  Tips To Tempt Your Audience White papers are an excellent way to add a call to action (CTA) on your website. Perhaps your prospect isn’t ready to call you or hit the “Buy Now” button. Yet, they may be willing to share their email information in exchange for educating them. Here are three tips …

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Category: Content// Author: Alyson Harrold

What Blockchain Means for Marketing

In recent years marketers have been privy to more and more of their customers’ information. Online marketing has helped marketers gather detailed personas of their potential buyers by collecting data from their online habits but as the recent reaction to the Facebook/ Cambridge Analytica fiasco is showing, tides may be changing. So will technologies like Blockchain, that are focused on online privacy, have a knock-on effect for marketers?

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Category: News & Events// Author: Alyson Harrold

Elements of a Memorable Elevator Pitch

If you were in an elevator with a potential client, could you make a sale in 30 seconds or less? Don’t rely on your improvisational skills to set your first impression. A well-crafted elevator pitch is a simple sales tool that helps you maximize every networking opportunity. Networking is essential to keeping your sales funnel full and a clear and concise introduction to yourself and your business is the key to success. Invest a little thought and planning now to create an effective pitch and you will be amazed at the results.

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Category: Sales// Author: Alyson Harrold

Key to Online Conversion: The Buying Cycle

Visitors > Conversions Lead generation and online conversions are the lifeblood of a website.  But to do it, you need to understand how your target market buys what you offer and how that maps to your website’s SEO architecture. First of all, there is no one definition of The Buying Cycle.  Essentially though, all explanations contain …

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Category: Sales// Author: Alyson Harrold

Building Perfect Landing Pages

So much of SEO and SEM is focused on getting people to your website, but what happens when they get there? To have any chance of converting a website visitor to a customer you need to make sure your site is focused on helping them make that transition. So let’s discuss how to optimize the post-click experience for your future customers.

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Category: Web Design// Author: Alyson Harrold

Finding An Authentic Blog Writing Voice

Regular blog writing is a tremendous business tool, one that can generate SEO equity, building your website’s visibility on Search Engine Results Page and also a way to offer your potential customers (hopefully) useful information. Like any business marketing tool, you need a strategy as well as focus. Here are few simple steps can help you develop an authentic voice when blog writing or creating content for your website.

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Category: Content// Author: Alyson Harrold

The State of SEO in 2018 So Far

If you follow various Digital Marketing forums and news feeds, you’re aware of the spirited debate about what’s going on in the world of Google algorithm updates. Is a big change brewing? Let’s examine what’s conjecture, what Google’s said on record, and what to expect in the coming months.

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Category: SEO// Author: Alyson Harrold

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