With their latest update, Panda 4.0, Google is once again taking a closer look at your content marketing strategy and quality of your content featured on your website. Is your content original? It is unique? What kind of value does our content provide? Does your website feature syndicated content? Depending on how you answer Google’s questions, depends on how well …
Social Email Newsletters Can Drive Engagement
If you are attending this year’s CompTIA ChannelCon14 conference in Arizona, keep an eye out for our our Co-founder and President Jeff Mesnik. He will be speaking on Tuesday Morning at 10:45am on how to ‘Generate More Leads Through Social Media‘. He will share best practices on how to integrate social media into your sales and marketing goals. To add …
You’re Kind of a Big Deal
Over the last few months, LinkedIn has made their long-form posts available to all LinkedIn members. In doing so, they are making big moves to becoming a major publishing platform. LinkedIn’s long-form posts are proving to become an essential part of our own content marketing strategy, and has also become an effective way for our team members to grow their own …
How Often Should You Post to Your Social Networks?
One of the most common questions asked by users is how frequently they should be posting to social networks – but is there a correct answer? Generally if you take the stance that you are a curator of content for your audience then the publishing frequency is probably more or less gated by the amount of truly useful and newsworthy …
Do You Still Send an Email Newsletter?
Newsletters are essentially a one way, flat communication. Ten years ago it was cutting edge to produce these robust communications. But for many, keeping up their newsletter with fresh and engaging content is expensive and time consuming. So even though these email communications are an important part of any online marketing strategy, newsletter marketing is often skipped in favor of …
Facebook: The Meaning of Change
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be…” – Isaac Asimov As an early Facebook user and observer, one thing I can consistently say about Facebook is …
Interview: Daniel Klaus of Fujitsu Technology Solutions …
What have been the most important benefits of going pro with SlideShare? One of the most important benefits, besides the dashboard, was certainly the option of rebranding our channel with current campaign visuals. We also benefit from … Read More…
Short Message Marketing Increases Results
I have been involved with email marketing for years, well 11 years 11 months, I was one of the founders of an email marketing company, and I have to say we enjoyed some great times and I learned a lot. One of the key elements that we learned was that newsletters with relevant content were always among the best types …
Short Message Marketing Platform 140 or Less
How many times have you been in a conversation thinking “get to the point!†Or, how many times have you been talking when you realize, “WOW it took me a long time to get there.† I am standing up here (for better or worse, and in as few as words as possible), to say that one of the real …
Drip Marketing YOU and your company
I recently read an interesting article written by Laura Lake about applying a strategy to drip marketing. She provides some thoughts on mediums and methods for developing your own drip campaign. These methods include stand-by’s such as: Postcards Newsletters Promotional or Sales Brochures In support of these ideas, I recall the story of a client at iMakeNews whose drip marketing …