How To Leverage the Latest Content Marketing Trends
A well-planned content marketing strategy can bring significant growth for your business online. This includes combining social media, search engine marketing, and blogging for more leads and sales. Original articles that meet the needs of your audience combined with the right connections are just the beginning to a successful strategy. According to a study by…
7 Advanced Thoughts On Content Marketing
The dream of hordes of customers flocking to business blogs in search of educational content to supplement their buying decisions fuels the content economy. Powered by storytelling, eye-catching visual elements, and favorable statistics, content marketing is taking control of the digital marketing world. Obviously, business goals can be achieved through content marketing, but it needs…
Generation C: The Social Benefit of Baby Boomers
With increasing frequency, we hear and read that in the social networks, it is better to focus on the quality of relationships, rather than relying solely on the number of friends and followers. And by investing in more sustainable relationships, we obtain a better ROI with social media. However, in the current context, the baby…
Is Blog Commenting a Lost Art?
Do You Have a Blog Commenting Strategy? ‘Say what?’ Yes I ask you; do you have a blog commenting strategy? Do you have ‘comment goals’ for your own blog? Have you ever analyzed your articles to find out why some articles get commented on a lot and other (great) articles get no response at all?…
Is ‘Information Overload’ a Myth?
The History Of The Theory of Information Overload First, let’s talk about the historical precedence of the information overload theory. I imagine the 2nd day after we emerged from caves, one caveman grunting to the other that there was just too much stuff to process to survive for him to go on. Luckily for us,…
Why Behavioral Targeting is Smart Marketing
Do you frequently ask yourself: How can my business cut through the online clutter and connect with customers? A well-established principle in psychology, the cocktail party effect, helps us to answer this question. Imagine you are at a noisy gathering. Drinks are being served and music is playing in the background. Loud circles of conversations…
Watson & Twitter: A Marriage Made in Tech-Heaven?
In a successful marriage, each partner complements the other. Recently, the hi-tech world was abuzz with the news that Watson, IBM’s AI supercomputer, was hooking up with the social media darling Twitter. Some see the pair as a match made in cyber-heaven, which will benefit marketers and small to medium-sized businesses.  But is the much…
Curatti Social Media Recap 2014: #7 – The Year Content Became Impersonal
Curatti 2014 Social Media Recap: #7 We’re in the final quarter of 2014, which means there are less than 90 days until the New Year and the celebration of a new year on its way. 2014 has been yet another banner year for social media, digital marketing, and the era of curation as the companies…
Marketing Strategy Begins with a Buyer Persona Profile
By Lee Traupel A buyer persona profile identifies who you are targeting with marketing initiatives. It’s the go to foundation of all your marketing. You may have more than one. Your surveys, samples and interviews will flesh out the optimum profiles which can be converted to actionable marketing profile docs. Four Critical Steps for Building…
Amplify Your Messaging With a Less is More Strategy
By Lee Traupel I can’t believe the amount of content shared targeting small business that rhapsodizes about the endless rewards bigger brands are generating with social media marketing like Toms, SAP, Cisco, Intel, SalesForce, et al. Many of you do not have the marketing resources, staff and/or technical expertise to create and deploy this…
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