Email marketing can provide a relatively steady drip to your sales funnel, but it hinges on your ability to understand and adapt to campaign metrics. Statistics such as open rate, click rate, unsubscribe rate and more can provide deep, useful insight into what customers on your email marketing list are actually looking for. By digging into …
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New Anti Spam Legislation
From Our Northern Cousins Canada officially rolled out new Anti Spam Legislation, effective on July 1st. This is noteworthy for those businesses who have clients or prospects located in Canada. It will affect how you electronically promote your services especially via email marketing, social media or instant messaging. In this post we’ll recap the Canada’s new anti …
Negative Online Review Tips
For An Appropriate and Proactive Response If it hasn’t happened to your business yet, it will: You or one of your employees comes across a negative online review. Customers leave them on sites such as Yelp, Angie’s List, and Google as well as niche specialty sites and the Better Business Bureau’s site. Businesses can’t afford …
How Do You Increase Web Traffic?
One sign of a healthy online presence is a steady increase of web traffic. If your website is relatively new or your pageview stats have stalled, then this post is for you. We’ll answer the perplexing question: “How do you increase web traffic” with evergreen (read: White Hat SEO) techniques. Consistency, Baby Search engine bots and …
Hiring a Ghostwriter for Blogging
Tips For Finding a Perfect Match “I don’t have time to blog” is a common complaint we hear from clients and prospects alike. In the SEO world, fresh content is king. Without it rankings suffer. But what if writing is just not your thing? The good news is that you can hire a ghostwriter to keep you on …
Effective Blog Writing: 3 Key Ingredients
One of the ways to improve your business’ SEO ranking is to post new, original and optimized content relevant to your target market. Blog writing is a great online marketing tactic that fits into an overall SEO strategy. According to HubSpot, businesses that blog at least 20x per month generate over 5x more web traffic …
Boring Website Blog: The Telltale Signs
Is Your Audience Engaging or Exiting? So how do you know if your website blog is getting stale? The answer to that question lies in Analytics and in your blogging motivation. In this post we’ll explore the statistics and softer-side of a website blog to determine if your content marketing strategy is a trick or …
SEO Copywriting Tip: Mind Mapping
A Powerful Tool That Sparks Creativity SEO copywriting is invariably on my daily to-do list. I’m either writing for our blog (229 posts published and counting) or I’m whipping something up for a client. Sometimes I get stuck – not quite writer’s block – but I get to the point where I’m struggling to write …
Repurposing Content Ideas
Content Marketing is hard. It takes resources to consistently publish new and fresh information that resonates with your audience. Google and other search engines don’t like duplicate writing. The search engines see it as basically re-publishing the same content at different times or other places on the Web. So, when does repurposing your content make sense, and how can you avoid duplication? Here are a few ideas to remix and revitalize content you’ve already written.
Online Bio: What Works & What Doesn’t
Your online bio or profile is your first handshake with potential clients. Whether you’re marketing online for new prospects or looking for a job these days, the Internet is often where your initial introduction takes place. It provides a great opportunity for you to present your credentials—and you don’t even have to dress up to …