5 Things You Should Do Immediately After Writing a Business Blog Post

You have just poured your heart and soul into creating the perfect blog post for your website. You have found beautiful graphics to illustrate your major points. You have posted it to your website. Now, you have just a few more tasks to check off your list because no blog post can be considered complete until you have promoted it. After all, you want the world to know about the business blog that you have just created.

When you think about business-to-business blog promotion there are several different factors that you need to keep in mind. Think about how you are going to connect your blog to various groups like shareholders, executives, and lower-level management who will be using the product. Double check that you have included data-driven charts and graphs as they are vital to blog marketing. Think about how you are going to keep your blog promotion going … Continue reading

Tell Stories with Your Content Marketing

I’ve made an observation. I could be wrong, but I feel like businesses and content marketers are forgoing storytelling-based content for the more popular styles of content like list post and how-to articles.

As an SEO, I assume this is because it’s easier to promote these types of content to influencers for backlinks. And that may be the case, but I caution against forgetting about the most basic way to communicate ideas and move people to take action.

While specific styles of content may be easier to promote and increase domain and page authority, visitors don’t care about any of that.

The Content Marketing Institute defines content marketing as:

“… a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action. “

While it’s easy to get lost in technical marketing … Continue reading

How to Crank Out a Fascinating Idea in 60 Seconds or Less

From time to time, team members will share their views stimulated from a piece by an industry thought leader. Here, our Director of Paid Marketing, Kim Figor, discusses an Inc. article by contributor, Sally Hogshead “How to Crank Out a Fascinating Idea in 60 Seconds or Less.”

If I were a betting woman, I would be willing to bet that most people, if not all, struggle from time to time in coming up with ideas on topics to write about or the topic might be there, but the words escape them. I know for myself, this is true. Many times, the most difficult task of writing is deciding what to write about. This task becomes even more challenging for me when I’m up against deadlines.

Of course, more times than not, the reason I’m up against these deadlines is that I couldn’t decide what to write about, so … Continue reading

5 Ways to Develop Trust with Content Readers

Content sets a tone. It delivers your company mission, vision and other important information about your business. Content helps to build your brand presence online, but it also sets a company tone, differentiate you from the competition, establish you as a leader in the your industry and take your business rankings high in Google search results.

In addition, content also helps you to win the trust & faith of your audience.

By providing useful, informative and precise information to the readers, answering their questions, and giving smart yet reliable solution to their problems, your content development is an excellent way to build a long lasting relationship with your potential customers.

HOW TO BUILD CUSTOMER’S TRUST THROUGH CONTENT?

Whether you’ve just stepped into the world of digitization or you’re a successful brand looking to revamp the content marketing strategy, the tips below will help you build YOUR trust factor online.

Stop … Continue reading

Words Matter

I enjoy writing – and I have spent the better part of the last week working on the content for a new website. Each word is important. Not just because someone will read it and learn something about the company services, but because words make you think. Words ask to you think deeply about yourself and what you might need. Words help you to make decisions. Words bring us together with a shared language.

And yet, words can so easily be misinterpreted.

When I write, I find myself reading and re-reading what I write. Could someone misunderstand what I am trying to say? Does the pattern of the words, or the choice of the words, create space between me and the reader? Will the reader make judgements about me–or my business–based on just the few sentences they read? Will they feel the meaning and my passion behind the words?

When … Continue reading