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,…
By Danny Brown Curatti Note: This is a true Danny Brown piece, packed with information, observation, Scotland’s unique and wonderful humour and absolutely no punches pulled. Enjoy! What made you click through to read this post (unless you’re reading this via RSS and already know what’s coming)? Was it because you’ve read other posts of…
I was enjoying the warmer weather in Chicago this past weekend and was listening to “Find A To My Heart” by Phil Collins and these lyrics resonated in how I build trust and relationships with my prospects, clients, and all my friends on social media. Effective B2B Social Selling must appeal to the buyer with…
Leads and sales are the mainstay of all business whether your are B2C or B2B. And hoping that new prospects are going to come in with your marketing efforts will never produce results. In order to attract new leads and customers your business can use two different methods. The first is called “Outbound Marketing,” which…
Relationship marketing is still a confusing concept for a lot of businesses. While they easily understand sales and the need for a set process to convert leads into dollars, the idea of building lasting relationships does not so easily translate into traditional business models. Time is money, after all. Why would you want to spend…
By Shelly Kramer So a month (or several) ago I had my great friend Wendy Scherer of The Social Studies Group on the #V3Live Videochat Show. The topic we discussed was one that pretty much everyone is interested in — Maximizing Social Media Monitoring and Insights on a Startup Budget. I mean, who doesn’t want…
There are many posts with tips on tools, methods and metrics to study. They are aimed at getting big results. There is one catch though. They guarantee about as much as “Do this to make someone fall in love with you.” The measure of any tip, however, is the strength of the genuine relations you build.…
One of the most remarkable transformations of our contemporary society can be seen in the way we inform and entertain ourselves through the web and social media. In the last twenty years, digital learning has made a deep impression on new generations, which they’ve harnessed with egocasting and infotainment. In a way, these trends meet…
Bringing new visitors and subscribers to your website can be one of the biggest challenges for businesses. The good news is that there are still free traffic methods to tap into despite all of the changes to Google’s algorithm over the last two years. Depending on the size of your company the number of visitors…
Whether you like it or not – and whether you use it or not – Google Plus is here to stay…at least for now. It’s difficult to describe this complex platform, but here is one definition that sums up Google Plus: Google+ (or Google Plus) is a social networking and identity service that is owned…
