Digital Marketing Blog
The Finely Tuned Sales and Marketing Machine [Slideshare]
Let’s face it. It’s hard to have a highly evolved digital marketing strategy when the goal posts get moved all of the time. Nevertheless, staying competitive requires that organizations be nimble and ever more sophisticated in their marketing approaches. Effective...
Help Your Team Share Your Content More Easily With IFTTT
If you're responsible for content marketing, you probably would use all the help you can get promoting it (not to mention productivity tips to help you save time). When you're part of a company or team, it's common to send out an email notification when new content is...
Insults: The Latest Conversion Rate Optimization Strategy?
So, is this a thing now? Over the past few months I've noticed what is ostensibly a conversion rate optimization trend that was a little jarring at first and now is beginning to get under my skin a little bit. I'm seeing it on more and more sites. Many of those sites...
Comprehensive Content Promotion Guide
You've created your compelling ebook or your fabulous video or your super-handy infographic. Now what? The whole point of your content is lost if you don't tell the world. Kind of like the Doomsday Machine from the movie Dr. Strangelove....
How to Perform an Inbound Marketing Self-Assessment
You've read the blog posts, viewed the webinars, attended the conferences, bought the t-shirts. Maybe you even hired a consultant or two to help move the ball forward. You've either dipped a toe in the water or done a head-first swan dive into the inbound marketing...
Ease Content Marketing Pain with CoSchedule
Content marketing is hard. According to a recent B2B marketing survey by TechValidate, the biggest challenges to content creation are the time involved to create it and difficulties promoting it. But if you've tried your hand at content marketing, you didn't need a...
What To Do About the Heartbleed Bug
The Heartbleed Bug is not specifically a digital marketing topic. However, I'm covering it for two reasons. First, any digital marketer is going to spend an awful lot of time online. This means that they will be particularly vulnerable to this bug. Second, I'm getting...
The Real Reason Why CopyBlogger Is Removing Commenting
[Spoiler Alert] Links. In a blog post from this past Monday, Copyblogger explained Why We’re Removing Comments on Copyblogger. It's a smart move by some demonstrably smart marketers. They gave several perfectly good reasons why it would be a good idea for them. First,...
3 Ways to Boost Your e-Commerce Sales
There are three basic metrics that determine how much revenue your e-commerce website will generate. It's important to look at each one and maximize their performance. The good news is that they're not additive, they're multiplicative. That means that making...
Blogging for Business Wrap-up
We held our inaugural webinar this past Tuesday, Blogging for Business. It was a huge success and the first in an ongoing series of marketing & sales webinars we'll be conducting. Our next topic will be SMB Guide to Prospecting With LinkedIn. Be on the lookout for...