3 Simple Rules of Copywriting
Marketers need to be awesome writers in order to get their message communicated. Whether you are doing traditional marketing like print brochures or direct mail, or online marketing like blogging or...
View ArticleYour Valued Investment-Marketing
Johnny Cash’s song, San Quentin, begins, “I think I understand a little bit about how you [the inmates] feel about some things, it’s none of my business on how you feel about some other things and I...
View ArticleMVTV Wireless
MVTV Wireless Connects with Rural Customers via Social Media Website: http://www.mvtvwireless.com/ Sometimes it seems like rural Minnesota is the last to get the newest technology. But with...
View ArticleImages 101 – Copyrights and Creative Commons
Do you know the rules behind using images and graphics from the web? How about the differences between a copyrighted photo and one under a Creative Commons license? I would like to introduce you to a...
View Article5 Reasons Why You Are Afraid to Blog
My blog post days sneak up on me quickly. I like to mull over a topic for a while, so I can add last minute thoughts and inspiration; that’s part of my blog plan. Procrastination is the enemy of good...
View ArticleHow to Develop Remarkable Content (Video)
One of the most frequent challenges that our customers face revolves around creating consistent content for their website. Sure, getting your new website live is a huge accomplishment. But the...
View ArticleAdd Tags to Your WordPress Blog Posts
Question: What can I do to get more traffic to my WordPress website and get better search engine results? Answer: While there are many components of driving traffic to websites and optimizing for...
View ArticleHow to Write Better Blogs on Schedule
Most bloggers will tell you one of their biggest challenges is coming up with engaging blog content on a regular basis. If you have plans for increasing your blog readership or engagement in 2013, we...
View ArticleWordPress Blog Formatting – Do’s and Dont’s
One of the key benefits of the WordPress platform is that once the foundation of your WordPress site is developed, you can easily add new content as a blog post, without being a web developer, graphic...
View Article31 Ways to Repurpose your Blog Posts into Social Media Content
With every blog post you publish, there are vast ways to promote it. In a perfectly SEO’d world, the search engines would always find your posts and place them on the top of their SERP’s (Search...
View ArticleDon’t Use Social Media To House All Of Your Content
This is a very complicated topic to write about and one that is very important to understand. It is complicated because in no way shape or form do I want you to read this post and walk away thinking...
View Article3 Ways to Use Twitter to Enhance your Blog
There are so many ways to integrate your blog content with your social media initiatives. Most blogs have some type of social media sharing built-in to make it easy to tweet the content on Twitter or...
View ArticleURL Search Engine Optimization Do’s and Don’ts
In the past we have talked about the importance of your URL when it comes to your SEO efforts. In that post we discussed how using keywords in your URL can have a positive impact in your SEO efforts....
View ArticleWhat is Authority and How Do I Get It?
What is authority? Merriam Websters (yeah, I’m using this cliche) defines authority many ways, but the most relevant to us would be, “the confident quality of someone who knows a lot about something or...
View ArticleWhat Is Google Hummingbird?
About a month ago Google announced that they have changed their search algorithm. The new Google search algorithm has been named Hummingbird. Soon after the announcement of the switch was made a...
View ArticleSharing Top Blogs – Thank You Google Analytics
We have written a lot of blogs this past year! As part of planning our blog strategy into the upcoming new year, we are taking a look at what topics and content has brought in the most traffic to our...
View ArticleFinding Your Best Organic Content With Google Analytics
We’ve talked a lot recently about the importance of writing a “best posts of the year post.” Last week we talked about using Google Analytics to find your most viewed content. This week we’ll put a...
View ArticleIs Guest Blogging Bad? I Thought it Was Good.
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Matt Cutts (the head of Google’s Webspam team) has recently published a blog that some have said declares guest bl0gging (in attempts to improve your websites...
View Article7 Ways to Dissolve Writer’s Block
If you are a writer or blogger, you have probably experienced it. Sitting in front of your computer with the blank stare and motionless hands. Yes, most of us have hit that writer’s block before, and...
View Article4 Simple Methods of Writing Blog Headlines that Work for Me
Writing a compelling and click-worthy headline for a blog post is a fine art. As a blogger, I feel torn between making the headline compelling and clickable, while also to-the-point and have that...
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