Best of Growth Spurts – Our Favorite Posts from March

Since we update our Growth Spurts blog several times a week, our readers know they can find a lot of actionable marketing & technology advice in it. And in case you’ve missed them, we offer a regular summary roundup of the most popular/interesting posts of the month where we extract the most useful information into tips you can use, and in many cases, provide a link to learn more.

Here, then, are our 5 favorite posts from the past month:

Advertising and SEO

Goodbye, Google Sidebar Ads – What You Need to Know – If you’ve done a Google search on a laptop or desktop in the last few weeks, you’re sure to have noticed a big change. There’s a lot of white space on the right – gone are the sidebar ads and the maps and local listings. What impact will this have on local marketing, SEO and search advertising? While the changes are so new the verdict is still out, we’ve gathered insights from a number of experts in order to get an early read.

Content Marketing

5 Ways to Make Your Blog Post Interactive on the Cheap – Is it time to breathe some life into your blog posts? This article features five tools you can use to draw your readers in and keep them engaged.

How to Grow Your Blog Audience: Here Are 5 Tips – So you have a great blog. You write great content with lots of important information worth sharing. You publish frequently and promote your own content. But still, you aren’t getting many hits. Does it mean your content needs reworking? Not necessarily. Breathe new life into your existing posts by following these 5 steps, and you can transform your low-traffic blog with a high bounce rate into a blog many new people will actually read and come back to.

Social Media Marketing

60 Facebook Advertising Mistakes that Make You Look like a Rookie – Facebook advertising can be deceptively simple and straightforward. This article provides concrete examples of what not to do.

How Small Businesses Can Use Social Media to Grow Their Online Presence – for Free! – After conducting our own social platform/content test for several months, we were able to prove that by investing a minimal, but regular, amount of time and effort, any business can grow its online social presence – for free. Learn how here.

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Sales Renewal’s insight:

Since we update our Growth Spurts blog several times a week, our readers know they can find a lot of actionable marketing & technology advice in it. And in case you’ve missed them, we offer a regular summary roundup of the most popular/interesting posts of the month where we extract the most useful information into tips you can use, and in many cases, provide a link to learn more. Here, then, are our 5 favorite posts from the past month.

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