It’s time to master LinkedIn, the personal branding epicenter of the Internet. LinkedIn enters into every conversation I have about personal branding. It comes up in the daily conversations I have about content marketing and new media advertising. And whenever I’m tasked with helping people get started with social media marketing, the discussion always includes LinkedIn….
Have you read the “2015 Social Media Marketing Industry Report?” Each year, Michael Stelzner of Social Media Examiner delivers the report, which includes data summaries of their massive survey along with his insights. First up in the latest edition is the “Top 5 social media questions marketers want answered.” Question #1: What social tactics are…
You value social shares, right? I don’t want to hear about how vanity metrics are worthless. Getting more followers should have a positive affect and inspiring them to share your content is one of the big reasons to get involved in social media. It’s not easy to place a dollar value on social shares, but…
Help wanted? Let me help you with that. Sooooo… You know you need to keep nailing your content marketing to increase traffic, leads and sales. And (I hope) you also know success in content marketing is enjoyed only by companies committed to hiring the best talent. Content development director Michele Linn of Content Marketing Institute recently wrote: Each year we track the challenges marketers…
How are you feeling? If you’ve been here before and have come to know and trust me, you probably feel quite comfortable. Is it your first time? Now that’s an entirely different bale of hay. It’s human nature, right? When you arrive somewhere—or interact with someone—for the first time, you may be curious, but…
Failure is an option. In content marketing, the fails outnumber the successes 2:1. I’ll assume you want to be on the right side of this ratio. But recent history suggests it’s more likely you’ll go left and meet the fate of the majority. There are a number of reasons content marketers fail. If you want…
It’s time to stop yoking around with your Twitter profile picture I’m Twitter-obsessive. No apologies. Twitter rocks. I also feel I’ve got the hang of it, but not just mechanically. After a couple of years of trial and error, I’m accomplishing the objectives I have for the medium. I’m getting the Twitterati to read and share…
You rarely hear stories of people who get involved in social media and content marketing—and boom—their personal brand takes off. It may be the dream, but it’s seldom the reality. I wonder… Are you taking guest blogging seriously? I’m going to shed some light on someone who made guest blogging a high priority and…
I wrote a 40-page eBook covering today’s most effective digital marketing lead generation strategies. It was recently published by Three Deep Marketing, a sizable agency in Minnesota that’s one of the nation’s premier practitioners of data-driven digital marketing. From content marketing to marketing automation and many other tactics, the eBook covers a lot of ground. You…
Marcus Sheridan, The Sales Lion, always calls me “brother.” Though I’m way older than him, I see him more as a “father” than a sibling. You see, it was just four years ago when I read “Inbound Marketing” by the founders of HubSpot. I thought, “I get it. This is how marketing works now.” Then…