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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.

6 Ways To Make Your Content Headlines Stand Out

Writing a good headline can make or break your blog posts. Your headlines appear on the search engine results page as adverts for your writing, either pulling people in or putting them off. So the minimal characters you’re allowed need to be used wisely to sell your content to as many readers as possible.

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Category: Content// Author: Alyson Harrold

Google Analytics – SEO Case Study

This Google Analytics case study sums up a recent project we undertook with a California-based engineering company. This company manufacturers electrical components used in high-tech projects in the defence and communications sectors worldwide. From an SEO standpoint, their product categories ranked well but each has competition in both organic and paid search. Also, due to the nature of the end-product, this client manufactures many variations of each product resulting in multiple pages with similar content and specifications.

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Category: Case Studies// Author: Alyson Harrold

3 Social Media Management Tips

With social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ being the backbone of much of today’s online marketing, we thought a few social media management tips would be helpful. These tips are meant to simplify daily tasks and streamline process for a more productive campaign. Here are three tips that we know will make your life easier.

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Category: Social Media// Author: Alyson Harrold

Is Direct Mail A Waste of Money?

“Do What Your Competition Aren’t Doing” – this isn’t always the best advice, but in the case of direct marketing, or direct mail, it could be. A recent study carried out by the Experian Data Quality group on behalf of the US Postal service showed that Direct Mail, far from dying off, seems to be holding strong in the world of the smartphone.

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Category: Sales// Author: Alyson Harrold

Google Analytics Demographics & Generational Insights

Knowing your audience is Marketing 101. Thankfully Google Analy. In this post, you’ll learn about each demographic age range (mapped to generationeral info), nuggets of info for your online marketing strategy, and how to tackle digging into your data.

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Category: Web Analytics// Author: Alyson Harrold

Social Media After Death

What happens to your social media after your death? Who, if anyone, will control your digital assets? This question has been asked to us before as once we had a client unexpectedly pass away. Given all the online privacy laws and social media terms of service agreements, this is a valid concern. Its impact is felt not only by loved ones left behind but others in your professional network. For a business, this becomes a concern, as it affects continuity, marketing messaging, and a potential PR nightmare. In this post, we’ll share our thoughts on how to prepare for the inevitable: how to handle your social media after death.

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Category: Social Media// Author: Alyson Harrold

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Active On LinkedIn

A recent study found that 61% of people who have a LinkedIn profile view their account less than once a week. This is astounding when compared to Facebook. Where usage for most people is multiple times per day. So why are we not interested in our professional lives as much as our personal ones?

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Category: Social Media// Author: Alyson Harrold

Why You Should Build a Marketing Funnel

A marketing funnel, or purchase funnel, sounds like a complicated thing. But it’s not. A marketing funnel is simply the steps a visitor to your website takes on their way to becoming a customer. Creating a marketing funnel helps you easily visualize what it is that makes a customer become a customer, while showing you where you are spending your marketing budget.

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Category: Web Analytics// Author: Alyson Harrold

YouTube – The Worlds Second Biggest Search Engine

YouTube is incredibly popular. You probably use it to look at movie trailers or to check out that new Justin Beiber video. But did you know that YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine behind Google? In fact, Google has over a billion users and provides all sorts of information on almost every topic you can think of. So, are you creating video content that YouTube will rank?

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Category: SEO// Author: Alyson Harrold

Content Optimization Checklist

They key word to remember from this blog post is probably keyword. By now you probably know that keywords and optimization are important to your website or to your blog. But it’s always worth having a refresher on best practices, especially when search engines are continually moving the goalposts.

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Category: Content// Author: Alyson Harrold

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