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Ann Smarty

5 Steps & 5 Tools For Making a Great Editorial Calendar

In the past eight years I have worked as an editor for several huge websites. Those don’t include my own, where I have been 100% responsible for all upkeep and content published. I can say, with a great deal of experience backing it up, that having a solid editorial calendar is the most important tool…


Jan Gordon

Why Content Marketing and Social Now Drive SEO

By Lee Traupel SEO is the process of making your web site more accessible to search engines. Google’s algorithmic updates the last 3-5 years (“panda” “penguin” “hummingbird”) have changed SEO marketing permanently. It’s s a myth to think you can and should be manipulating search engines with back links, page keyword stuffing, duplicate content development,…


Jan Gordon

Competitive Analysis: The Key To Success In The Digital Age

By Lee Traupel There’s an old Gypsy saying heard around the campfire: “speed can be a friend or your enemy.” This is so applicable to small to mid sized companies today. Rapid change and global markets are defining how business grow and compete. Competitive Analysis is Critical in the High Speed Digital Age It’s truly…


Jan Gordon

It’s a Publish or Perish World for Content Marketers

By Lee Traupel So, you just uploaded some great content to your blog post and shared it across you social accounts expecting a signal back from the universe. But nothing: a ping with no echo. Instead the old hawk and drone story hit you upside the head. #realization You remember, the one your grandad used…