Alyson Harrold
Co-CEO and Chief Storyteller
Expertise: Storytelling | SEO | Digital Marketing | Growth Hacking | Strategic Planning
About 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.
Articles by Alyson Harrold
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Website Privacy Policy Advice
Unweaving A Tangle of Legalese Is your website privacy policy up to date? If you’re using any kind of analytics — like Google Analytics — or specialty software on your website, then you must post a policy. With privacy issues making headlines and consumers feeling paranoid, you want to make sure your business is covered. Privacy… -
Four Ways To Use Buyer Personas
If you’ve ever read about Content Marketing you’ve heard of buyer personas. Buyer Personas are a kind of straw man, describing your ideal customer in a simple and memorable way. They also allow you to dig a little deeper and work out if you have more than one type of typical customer. But once you’ve built buyer personas, they can be used for some other interesting things that you might not have thought of. -
What Are the Legal Requirements for Websites?
Like most things in the legal realm, the wording of the actual statutes is lengthy, often confusing, and not the most exciting read. So, we’re going to give you an overview of a few important points to keep your website on the right side of the law. -
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. -
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… -
Building Perfect Landing Pages
Landing pages should do more than support a marketing campaign. For B2B marketing leaders, the real goal is to turn the right traffic into qualified leads through clear offers, stronger message alignment, trust signals, and a smarter path to conversion. -
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. -
Marketing Blog: Habits for Success
Blog Routine A major contributor to SEO juice is a marketing blog, where content is added frequently and regularly. Many of our clients groan at the mere thought of having to blog. A typical objection is the amount of time required to keep up a marketing blog (e.g., research and creation of posts). Most worries,… -
Customer Loyalty in the Digital Age
From Buyer Beware to Seller Beware Ten years ago how customers researched and purchased goods looked very different. Typically brands controlled the information and steps within the sales process. Many companies also relied upon brand loyalty that fueled repeat purchases. Now, with the proliferation of smartphones, ease of online search, and changing consumer attitudes, the… -
Types of Online Spam
Unwanted & Annoying With Google handing out thousands of manual penalties every month, it’s critical for brands to follow the online rules. And that includes online spam. In this post, I’ll explain the different definitions and types that should not be a part of your online marketing arsenal. Email Spam Many of us first think…
