How to Build Inexhaustible Resources to Inspire Your Content Marketing Ideas
Reading Time: 6 minutes We know social media impacts business, and that social media marketing has incredible benefits. 1/3rd of the world’s population actively uses and can be reached through social platforms People are increasingly turning to social networks for information and decision-making Recommended reading: 20 Top Social Media…
Using Google Analytics: An Essential Guide for Social Media Marketers & Small Business Owners
Reading Time: 7 minutes If you aren’t actively using Google Analytics, or haven’t installed it for your website as yet, this guide can get you started. Even though the service is free for use, I personally know many companies who aren’t exploiting its potential. Some marketers and business owners…
The Ultimate Content Curation Guide for Social Media
Reading Time: 10 minutes As social media managers or small business heads, do you struggle with keeping your social media accounts updated for your audience? Are your upset that your social media profiles don’t appear as visually and intellectually appealing as you want them to be? Here’s something you’ve…
7 Types of Social Media Content That Drive Most Engagement – What Experts Say (& Real Life Examples)
Reading Time: 9 minutes A Facebook page with 1 million fans can expect only about 20,000 of them to view a particular post- an observation made by Erik Devaney in one of his Hub Spot posts. If fan views are 2% or lower, engagement, and therefore leads are bound…
Marketing Inspiration: 12 Brilliant TEDTalks You Can’t Miss
Reading Time: 8 minutes In November 2016, Google announced its first dedicated initiative focused on mobile-first indexing, revealing a major shift in SEO as we see it. Marketing is an area where shifts like that occur often, and staying updated and prepared becomes essential. The catch is that sometimes…
An Instant Recipe for Social Media Content that Converts
Reading Time: 8 minutes When reporting to a CMO, or accounting for content marketing for your business, you should ideally go beyond vanity metrics (engagement and reach) and focus on metrics that measure direct impact on your business (conversions – site visits, lead captures, sales and customer retention). A…
Influencer Marketing: What’s New, What’s Important & What’s Next
Reading Time: 9 minutes Note: The content on this post has been inspired by the #XYZInfluencer webinar conceptualized by expert growth marketing consultant Ron Sela and co-hosted by DrumUp and TwitterCounter. If you aren’t sure that you care about influencer marketing yet, here are two reasons why you should. Research…
Using Employee Advocacy for Employee Engagement, Employer Branding & Social Recruitment
Reading Time: 9 minutes It maybe less apparent, but a HR professional is a marketer and a salesperson in principle. He/she markets a company and its culture, and sells job opportunities to prospective applicants. A HR professional is also the traditional “employee advocate” – he/she speaks for the workforce…
Top Alternatives to Hootsuite Suggestions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Curated content suggestions are massive time savers for busy social media and content marketers. The ability to choose from intelligently sorted content recommendations saves marketers hours of time otherwise spent sifting through 1000s of websites for news and top-notch industry content. In fact, content curation is one…
Viral Content Marketing – How to Create the Ultimate Hits
Reading Time: 8 minutes Viral content marketing is fundamentally similar to a popular stand-up act; they both involve strong emotion and mass appeal. If your content lacks mass appeal, it won’t get shared by large numbers of people, and if it doesn’t evoke emotion, people won’t be moved to…