Every blog should have a clear purpose, after all blogging is a tool that you are using in order to gain a rapport with your customers, website visitors, and prospective buyers. A blog should never be aimless, or left in shambles, or worse published half finished (gasp). You have to feel comfortable with your topic to ensure you will produce the best quality content you can. Coming up with a topic is hard stuff, we feel your pain, and trust me when I say that no one here has ever come in on a Monday morning (or any day really) and said, "I know what I want to blog about today yay!" Picking a blog topic takes planning, research, and time to select, and shouldn't be taken lightly. After all, it could be the difference between people reading it, or not. Need help getting started? Take a look at ImageWorks' best blog topic choosing practices!
Topics: Blog Traffic, Blog Posts, blogging tips, Business Blogging, blog topic
Traffic is something every internet marketer or blogger needs to survive online. It's not always kittens and rainbows, (although we'd like it to be) and sometimes you put a painstakingly enormous amount of time into a post only to find out nearly no one has viewed it. You have a stellar topic, an epic title and some solid content. So, where did it go wrong? The blogosphere is a big, busy world. With over 100 million blogs (and growing) it can be easy for your blog to go unnoticed.
Topics: marketing, content marketing, blog content planning, content, blog, Content Writing, Blog Traffic, Blog Posts, blogging tips
Lead Generation Techniques from an Inbound Marketing Agency
Topics: Lead Generation, Social Media Marketing, internet marketing tips, Web Marketing, Facebook, Blog Posts, Business Blogging
Why Social Media Will Never Work For You. CT Web Design Tips.
As a Social Media Consultant, I often run into potential clients who are convinced social media is the magic answer to their online marketing needs. Often, they try to pick my brain for special, "tricks of the trade," that I may be willing to share with them for the price of a cup of coffee. Now I am certainly willinging to offer up some guidance on best practices, a couple of learned tricks, and what I consider to be the benefit of some real world experience over the vast expanse of my client base. However, after this brief conversation, I am frequently disheartened to find their social media strategy is already pre-destined to failure. So, why do their social media campaigns explode? Do you exhibit similar signs of social media failure?
Topics: Blog Posts, Business Blogging
Inbound Marketing... How To Bring The Fireflies To You
If you've read any business oriented content on the web these days, you've probably run into the term 'inbound marketing' more than a few times. If you know what this term means, then skip ahead. If you don't, listen up.
Topics: Social Media Marketing, Web Marketing, CT Inbound Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Outbound Marketing, Facebook, Blog Posts
Writing a business blog is easy. Anybody can write something and post it online. Successfully keeping an audience interested, however, is difficult. There’s an inordinate amount of guides and ‘how to’ posts on the Internet explaining all the different methods and techniques that the blogger should use to obtain more readers. We’ve gone through many of these posts and compiled the recurring themes we’ve seen in all successful blogs. If you include these next few components into your blog posts, you’re bound to increase your Internet presence.
Topics: Social Media Marketing, SEO, Internet Community, Content Writing, Facebook, Blog Posts, Business Blogging, Web Content