Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 29, 2021
Introductions get all the attention. Yet conclusions and endings matter even more. Readers who get to the end of the story are the ones most interested in the topic (and likely what your business offers). Here’s how to reach a satisfying conclusion. Continue reading → The post 15 Engaging Ways to End Your Next Blog Post appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
APRIL 26, 2021
If you’re looking to get into video marketing, there’s no better channel than YouTube. They’re the second most visited website on the entire internet, with over 2 billion users , have virtually no competitors, and consumers are increasingly spending more time watching more online videos. With this flood of consumer attention, it’s no wonder companies are putting more of their ad dollars into digital video advertising.
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Moz
APRIL 27, 2021
In this article, learn how to successfully execute an SEO clean-up strategy to ensure your site aligns with your business goals, keeps you in Google’s good books, and yields an excellent user experience for visitors and customers.
ThemeIsle
APRIL 28, 2021
Finding the best free grammar checker tool is quite a daunting task. As someone with a huge workload, you cannot possibly manually check things like emails, long blog posts, and so forth. The post 8 Best “Grammar Checker” Free Tools for Easier Editing appeared first on ThemeIsle Blog.
Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing
Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 26, 2021
Don’t let blind spots and assumptions derail your content marketing program. Work through your challenges using one of these classic mental models for better decision-making. Continue reading → The post 4 Mental Models to Help You Tackle Tough Content Marketing Questions appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
APRIL 30, 2021
If you run or are starting an e-commerce business , you might have heard the term “minimum order quantity,” or MOQ, floating around. If you have heard of it, chances are you feel conflicted. There’s advice for and against this method. This makes it difficult to decide whether it’s the right choice for you, especially if you don’t understand how it works and how it can make you money.
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Grammar Underground
APRIL 26, 2021
Both healthcare and health care are correct, depending on which editing style you're following. The post Healthcare, Health Care, Health-Care? first appeared on Grammar Underground with June Casagrande.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 30, 2021
Nerf knows its audience well enough to know it needed to hire one of them. Business communicators want to know their audiences, but miss out on a crucial step. An agency knows its audience so well, it pokes gentle fun at a pain point to attract them. Here’s what to make of it all. Continue reading → The post 3 Ways to Know Your Audience: Hire Them, Talk to Them, or Tease Them appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
APRIL 28, 2021
As one of the largest e-commerce platforms on the internet, Shopify offers budding (and established) entrepreneurs a platform to sell their wares and increase their reach. In fact, Shopify dominates nearly 20 percent of the e-commerce market share. That’s not all. With millions of active buyers on the platform, there is plenty of opportunity for brands to grow their revenue.
Moz
APRIL 28, 2021
It’s been nearly nine years since Google rolled out its Disavow Tool. This guide covers how and when to use it, and the potential risks and benefits.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!
ProBlogger
APRIL 29, 2021
The post What Every Blogger Needs to Know about Email appeared first on ProBlogger. This post is based on episode 251 of the ProBlogger podcast. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: email is one of the best ways (if not the best way) to connect with your blog’s readers. You might think email is outdated, and that communicating on social media will give you the best chance of attracting readers.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 27, 2021
The more people watch your videos, the more YouTube is likely to surface them in their search or recommendation features. But how do you do that? Here are nine ideas. Continue reading → The post 9 Ways to Increase Watch Time on Your YouTube Channel appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
APRIL 27, 2021
A recent study found that 70 percent of Americans are shopping online more than ever. E-commerce is booming, and there’s never been a better time to start an online store. One of the best platforms to launch your e-commerce store is Shopify. Why do so many people love Shopify? In part due to its: affordability ease of use scalability security. One stand-out reason many e-commerce store owners love Shopify is the flexibility it offers through Shopify themes.
Moz
APRIL 26, 2021
In this blog, we’ll examine some of the technical SEO strategies you can use for your site before, during, and after your link building campaigns in order to optimize the performance and long-term impact of each campaign.
Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service
Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.
Grammar Underground
APRIL 26, 2021
Here's a mistake I've seen several times lately; using a semicolon instead of a colon in a sentence like this. Colons can introduce information, sort of like a drumroll. I saw what you were doing: nothing at all. Semicolons separate complete clauses — units that could stand alone as sentences. Joe has many fine qualities; courage isn't one of them. You could just as easily break those two clauses into separate sentences.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 28, 2021
Reddit gets a bad rap as a breeding ground for snark, rants, and memes. But this social platform has over 100,000 communities where some great expert sources for your content could be. Here’s how to find them. Continue reading → The post How to Use Reddit to Find Subject Matter Experts appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.
Neil Patel
APRIL 27, 2021
Have you ever thought a struggling ad campaign would perform better outside of the country? International PPC campaigns work best when you understand your target audience and appeal to the local culture. Here are seven top tips for running international PPC ads to give you the knowledge necessary to succeed anywhere on the planet. International PPC Ad Strategies.
Kayleigh Moore
APRIL 26, 2021
The more time I spend with words, the more I realize that they’re not just flat characters that live on the page (or the screen.) Instead, words create three-dimensional objects and settings that can be viewed from different angles, perspectives, and through various lenses. Translation : What you write might look/sound/feel one way to you, but could, in fact, come across totally different to your readers.
Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital
⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.
Neil Patel
APRIL 28, 2021
As marketers and brands, many of you use PPC ads to drive traffic to your brand or a client’s website. There’s nothing wrong with that approach. After all, PPC ads have obvious advantages. You can reach new customers, track your results, and manage your budget. However, for all their benefits, these ads can sometimes lack something. Has anyone guessed what I’m talking about?
Neil Patel
APRIL 26, 2021
Pandora, the popular music-streaming service, boasts over 81 million users, and the average Pandora user spends 2 hours and 15 minutes per day listening to music on the platform. With ad options on both their free and paid platforms, Pandora music ads are a great opportunity for advertisers who want to increase their audience. Let’s learn about how you can harness Pandora’s unique advertising platform to make your campaign goals a reality.
Neil Patel
APRIL 27, 2021
From high fashion to a terrible sense of fashion, wherever we fall on the spectrum, fashion marketing comes our way online, on television, catalogs, billboards, window shopping, and more. We are bombarded with messages of what we should be wearing, and why. If you’re on the marketing or sales side of fashion, how do you leverage your message to reach the right buying audience?
Neil Patel
APRIL 30, 2021
Have you ever felt like someone was watching you online? Those shoes you just searched for on Amazon suddenly show up in ads on Facebook. Maybe you start seeing ads on YouTube for a resort you were researching for an upcoming vacation. The truth is, you are being watched. In fact, marketers have used cookies to track the actions of internet users for years—but that may soon change.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn
Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.
Neil Patel
APRIL 29, 2021
Search engine optimization (SEO) used to be defined by the number of keywords and keyword synonyms across your website’s content. When Google launched its knowledge graph , SEO shifted away from simply relying on keywords, and search engine crawlers began prioritizing rich snippets and entities on search engine results pages ( SERPs ). These days, Google has more systems to identify the true meaning of keyword searches and queries.
Neil Patel
APRIL 26, 2021
Google recently announced that they have delayed the release of the Google Page Experience update. In mid-June they are going to release the update as well as some new tools to help you out. But as you know, you don’t want to wait for Google to release their algorithm update and then fix the issues as then you can potentially lose traffic if something is wrong.
Neil Patel
APRIL 26, 2021
We’re all accustomed to ads following us around the internet. Is it a little creepy? It can be, but many people write it off as a part of using the web. However, the world is changing. With a greater emphasis on privacy, the way personalized ads follow you around the internet could be, too. The big fish in the middle of all this Google, announcing in 2020 that by 2022, it would end the use of third-party cookies (what advertisers use to track you) on its browser, Chrome.
Neil Patel
APRIL 26, 2021
Since Instagram’s creation, it has grown into the ultimate platform for sharing photos. Over 1.16 billion monthly users are active on the site. Daily users spend about 8 minutes on the app and 500 million use Stories daily. There’s also a large number of influencers on the site with a massive amount of followers. And with the right plan, you can become an influential brand, too.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.
Neil Patel
APRIL 29, 2021
When you browse the internet, do you ever stop to wonder what’s happening in the background? If the answer’s no, don’t worry. You’re not alone. Most marketers, even great ones, don’t give the “tech stuff” much thought. How a website performs is just something for IT specialists to worry about, right? No, unfortunately. If your website’s slow or clunky, it directly affects the user experience.
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