Google grabbed headlines last week and sent a wave of worries through the oceans of SEO strategists with its Penguin update. Marissa Mayer made Monday morning mighty interesting (and we thank her for the alliterative opportunity) when she announced Yahoo would purchase Tumblr. What should you do about it? Probably nothing. Since deals between online […]
Nothing gets those in the business of SEO talking like rumors of a Google algorithm change, and it seems that this time around (yes, another change is on the way), Google is trying to preempt some of these rumors by clarifying, in advance, what businesses can expect. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam […]
Infographics are cool. So cool they were hard to resist – at first. After you’d clicked on 80 or 100, though, be honest: you realized some of them were a waste of time, right? Like so many internet trends, infographics look like an overnight sensation, but they’re not new.* In fact, they’ve been around long […]
This is a very easy, very valuable tip that we share with our clients who opt for social media coaching (rather than a more comprehensive content management program). It’s a quick lesson in how to schedule posts on your Facebook Page, assuming you are a page manager/administrator. Ready? Using Facebook’s Activity Log and Scheduling Feature […]
If you’ve visited our website lately, you know we dedicate a sizable piece of virtual real estate to describe JointSourcing, our unique business model. In conversation, it can take a few minutes to explain. But, as one of our newest clients told us last week, “it’s completely logical!” When we prepared last month’s client reports, […]
There’s a reason our Blueprint process is the first step in every relationship with every client. And there’s a reason some of our clients feel a bit perplexed in the process. By the time they’ve gotten to know us well enough to realize that we’re as incentivized to increase their sales as they are, they’re […]
In the first quarter of this year, we (the Sales Renewal team) have spent more hours than we’d like to admit discussing our inner clockworks. How do we make decisions that affect the team…who decides…how do we decide which stories deserve full-length treatment and which end up on the cutting room floor. Stories? Agile groupies […]
Among the responses to our post about REI’s “personalized commercials” was a very thoughtful reply from Marc Cica, Director of Advancement for the Shenango Valley Catholic School System in Hermitage, PA. Cica pointed out that video can be an ideal communication tool for non-profit organizations. When it’s done well, video can be personal, motivational, even […]
It’s easy to define what content marketing* is: Using original content to acquire and retain customers. The steps a business owner needs to take to put a content marketing plan in place are also easy to describe: Know your audience, create your content, promote your content and build natural links. But how does a business […]