When you talk about developing a social media strategy, it can sound quite complicated and a little confusing. I was searching for an example to show visually how the flow of information works within a company’s social media/content marketing strategy, when I came across this awesome video by a company called IdeaPaint. IdeaPaint is a […]
Content marketing is a phrase you hear being thrown around a lot lately. But what exactly is content marketing? Let’s try to break it down, shall we? What exactly is content marketing? I’ve heard lots of different ways to explain it, both highly technical and overly simple. The best way I can think of to […]
I read an excellent post by James Chartrand over at Copyblogger recently, How to Turn Yourself Into a Damn Fine Writer. There are some real nuggets of wisdom in this post that I think every B2B marketer needs to revisit often, including yours truly. The one about motivation really struck me because I don’t consider myself […]
(Image via Gigaom) According to Mary Meeker, a top analyst at Morgan Stanley, more people will soon be accessing the Internet via mobile devices than from regular computers. If you take a look at the above graph, you can see that this is likely to happen in the very near future. More and more people […]
The other day I was looking up a business and went to their website. I searched around a bit on the website and saw case studies from 2001. It made me stop and think about the company. Do I want to engage with a company that has 10-year-old case studies? I then went to check […]
Hashtags are all over the place on Twitter. When they are used correctly, they can help make your tweets easier to find in searches and help boost your visibility. This article from Search Engine Land mentions a few reasons why hashtags should be part of your social media strategy, of which this is probably the […]
Social media doesn’t have to strictly rely on Facebook and Twitter. There’s another social media tool that has the potential to be hugely successful if you can manage to get the formula right – YouTube. Getting the formula right is the tricky part. If you can get the right blend of ingredients in your video, […]
When you hop into the world of social media, you start to hear this word everywhere. Engagement. It’s thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean and how do you do it? Last month, I helped my co-worker create her own Fendi bag via Bergdorf Goodman’s Facebook page. It was part of a […]
Content is King, right? Maybe not… Last week I had a good chat with a potential new client. She asked me two questions: “Do you guys develop content?” and, “How much does it cost?” The first one was easy to answer. The second one, not so much. When we Google, we look for websites […]
By simple definition, a landing page is the first page you arrive at after clicking a search result, email campaign or banner ad. People sometimes mistake a “landing page” for a website’s homepage because it’s the first place they are pointed to. Some people prefer to bookmark a landing page instead of a home page. […]
