The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Blog’s Search Engine Ranking with Regular Updates

Are you looking for ways to improve your blog's search engine ranking? Do you spend hours crafting high-quality content, only to find that it's not being seen by your target audience? If the answer is yes, then you're not alone. Many bloggers struggle to improve their website's visibility in search engines.  Fortunately, there are some simple strategies you can use to increase your ranking, and one of the most effective is to update your blog regularly. In this article, we'll provide you with a definitive guide to improving your blog's search engine ranking with regular updates. Whether you're new to… Continue Reading

Why Brand Recognition Is A Key Metric In Measuring Marketing Campaigns

Most organizations out there have a really hard time measuring the majority of their KPIs. Their marketing approach is flat, measuring solely money in, money out. Those that keep evolving and strive to bring excellence at work act in several different ways (also contingent on industry or business size, but here’s what usually happens). Bootstrapped Companies Smaller self-funded firms are chaotic and often “hope for the best”. The smarter ones take smaller steps, speak frequently with their customers, attend industry events and form their decision-making process as a mix of all incoming opinions. They usually know of at least one… Continue Reading

Guest Blogging: 9 Lessons For Effective Outreach

Guest blogging (also referred to as "guest posting") is the process of content production for a third-party source for the sake of receiving brand recognition, a backlink, or a different PR-related benefit. Publishing content to external sources has been around since forever. Websites like Huffington Post or Business 2 Community largely grew and survived primarily thanks to loyal contributors associated with their brands. Guest blogging is one of the most viable concepts to build authority and recognition for your own work, tap into an existing community, improve your content writing skills by working with professional editors, and build a diverse… Continue Reading

The Practical Guide to Producing Long-Form Content

My preference goes towards writing comprehensive, long-form articles. My usual blog posts would normally end up between 2,000 and 3,000 words, some resulting in 4,000 - 6,000 in specific cases. However, 90% of the traffic to my own website comes from organic search and about 75–80% of our agency’s traffic is organic as well. Choosing Between Long-Form Content and Short Content So whenever I pick long-form, I care about the following considerations: Long-form content ranks better in Google Longer articles provide more value Long articles allow for introducing more data, stories, statistics, quotes Complex topics require long-form content to cover… Continue Reading

Marketing On LinkedIn: The Step-By-Step Executive Guide

Facebook or Instagram may be the leaders for B2C and direct relations to consumers, but nothing beats the strategies in marketing on LinkedIn for businesses when it comes to professional B2B relationships, selling enterprise products, or recruiting top talent. C-Suite executives represent about 1.5% of the LinkedIn population – let alone the myriad of executives, directors, senior managers. This high-profile pool of decision-makers is the best possible target to market (if you operate in a B2B environment). And ever since Microsoft acquired LinkedIn and turned it into a thought leadership platform, B2C businesses have been reporting positive results with purely organic… Continue Reading

The Guide to Consistently Producing High Quality Content

Content production is like building a portfolio. It's a long-term investment in developing your brand, forming a community, increasing awareness, reducing the friction of longer sales cycles. It's frequently neglected by entrepreneurs or new market players seeking the next quick win. It takes a while before you start reaping the benefits of your labor. And the key to producing high-quality content is understanding content marketing first. What Is Content Marketing? According to the Content Marketing Institute: Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience —… Continue Reading

Email Marketing and the Art of Email List Building

What remains to be a highly effective and lucrative digital marketing channel, email marketing continues to dominate many of today’s digital marketing strategies. This year alone, 347.3 billion emails are forecasted to be sent and received per day worldwide. Come 2025, there will be 4.6 billion email users around the world. We have long gone past the discussion on whether you must invest in email marketing or not.  There await massive returns for those who will be able to navigate email marketing successfully. In fact, email marketing is expected to generate around $36 for every $1 spent on it. In… Continue Reading

Why Do Digital Marketers Screw Up When Working In B2B?

Why do traditional marketers screw up in a B2B setting? After conducting 20 interviews with B2C marketers running eCommerce or other low-cost products, I decided to prepare a quick outline of B2B marketing and what makes it different. As a HubSpot agency partner and a programmatic advertising partner scaling enormous publishers, we know how different the entire strategy is, especially as we are selling $50K - $300K solutions all the time. Most digital marketers that I know of focus on the B2C audience because that is, in a way, how marketing started in the first place. You want to attract… Continue Reading

How to Build a Marketing Team In a Startup?

Let’s start with several questions first: How large is the organization to date – 5 people, 50, 500, 5000?Is it a bootstrapped startup, an SMB, or an established organization?Do you sell locally, on traditional media (newspapers and radio), or internationally?Do you aim for B2B or B2C clients?Are paid ads a better starting point or you’d rather shoot for inbound marketing?Do you sell products or services? Physical or digital?How long does a traditional sales cycle take? [Tweet "It is important to try to work solo and figure out marketing by yourself first or try to hire an assistant until you reach… Continue Reading

8 Strategies How to Promote Your Blog Content

I am a great proponent of Inbound marketing - and investing in content development is brilliant in the long run. But unless you promote your blog, there's virtually no way for visitors to discover your content. SEO has evolved drastically over the past two decades. I was crushing it for all sorts of keywords in 2007, content production was all about "keyword density", bombing any business was contingent on 10 marketers adding malicious anchor text pointing to a website. Social media is changing rapidly, too. Facebook has built a whole empire around brands building groups and fan pages for promotion… Continue Reading