It’s no longer enough for businesses to just have a website and a company blog. To effectively market online , they need to engage in social media. Using social media platforms, they can connect with their potential customers and industry influencers and share and distribute their content.
Getting Started with Social Media
Learn the basics via this [...]
Blogging for a small business is different from blogging as a professional blogger (“problogger”) who is making money with advertisements or affiliate products on their site. As a small business, you benefit from your company blog in a variety of ways that make your situation different from an internet marketer or problogger.
1) Credibility
The mere existence [...]
Guest post written by Peter Sandeen.
The ability to give quality referrals has significant advantages. Not knowing whom to refer to an important contact can seriously undermine your credibility. The same applies to businesses and bloggers alike.
Creating a network, of referable businesses, creates the most value to you and your customers – even more than just [...]
With all of the excitement about Facebook, Twitter and now, Google Plus, you might get so distracted that you forget about your blog.
Big mistake!
Your company blog is the best asset that your company has and should be the hub of all of your online marketing activities.
Here’s why your Company Blog is your online marketing hub:
1) [...]
If you have a blog, then I’m sure you realize that you need to be creative in order to stand out. Sometimes the ideas just don’t flow – we all need a creative kick in the pants every once in a while!
Take a look at these ideas below to get some inspiration and while you’re [...]
…and when will that change ?
There’s a strange thing happening on Google. Despite the huge press for Google Plus and its incredible, unprecedented growth, marketers and businesses don’t seem to care about it. Yes, there are some great Google Plus business pages being created but the collective market just isn’t interested (at least not yet). [...]
Danny Iny, the Freddy Krueger of Blogging who blogs at Firepole Marketing (and everywhere else on the web) is running an amazing contest called “The Marketing That Works” contest.
Each day he’s running a new blog post from one of the 20 finalists. Each post will educate the audience on a specific marketing lesson based on the [...]
LinkedIn is a the largest professional networking site in the world. It has members in over 200 countries and is available in over 14 languages. It’s growing fast, at a clip of to members per second.
Some other key facts about LinkedIn:
LinkedIn now has over 147 million members now!
LinkedIn members are likely to have done approximately [...]
This is a guest post by Cassie Hicks of Women’s Way To Wealth (http://womenswaytowealth.com)
Welcome to 2012! Perhaps you’ve decided this is the year to start blogging, or launch that new online business?
What will you do first? If you’re like most people you’ll venture online to see what your options are and see how it all [...]
Content Marketing has become a critical component of the marketing mix for businesses of all sizes and types. In fact, it’s so popular that the “content competition” will get tougher and tougher. It will be harder to stand out unless you find ways to separate you company’s content from the crowd (see Darwin’s 12 Rules [...]
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