Marketing
Has Amazon Ruined eCommerce For Everyone Else?
I operate an eCommerce website. We sell stuff… and while as a consumer I LOVE Amazon I can’t help but wonder if, as a business owner, I should hate Amazon. If you are a vendor or operate an eCommerce site here are the key things you need to consider where setting up your Amazon Seller strategy.
Read MoreBusiness Owner? Wondering What to Do About SEO?
The objective of this article is to explain the complexity of SEO for the small business owner, while still giving you some clear and simple things you can do to start. This isn’t the end-all but it should at least make you feel empowered to start somewhere.
Read MoreSEO or Paid Traffic? A Conversation About Priorites
New businesses are often caught up in the allure of SEO. SEO shouldn’t be neglected but it may not be the place to focus your priorities. This overview is meant to help you understand the short term and long term game of online marketing.
Read MoreBecoming a Wikipedia Editor and Contributor
Anyone can contribute to the content on Wikipedia. Marketers have a particular interest in the site since a relevant backlink to one’s site from Wikipedia can be very valuable. Naturally then it would make sense for any web marketer to become familiar with Wikipedia and where possible try to leverage it (within the Wikipdia guidelines) as a tool to drive awareness and traffic.
Read MoreBusiness to Business Online Marketing Tactics
Recently I presented a training at a local Chamber of Commerce for business leaders about how to correctly engage in business to business marketing online. Here are the ten core tips or tactics that I shared.
Read MoreShould You Buy Email Lists For Marketing?
Email marketing leads to big ROIs because its relatively cheap to execute and is very easy to measure. Sadly, it is also difficult to get started as most of us start with few if any contacts in our email marketing subscriber lists. The temptation to buy an email list is very high. This is especially true in the B2B space where many marketers feel like it would be impossible to construct a list on their own.
Read MoreDo Digital Marketers Need to Know All Of This?
Marketing and Advertising present a very complex environment. Marketing experts have to surround themselves with people who have expertise in each part of the marketing cycle and the various mediums where marketing and advertising are placed.
Read MoreThe Marketer’s Ultimate Guide to RSS
Essentially RSS is the technology or format in which EVERY news site and EVERY blog publishes their content. You’ve see the cool orange icon that looks like a wifi symbol on it’s side all over the internet and now you know what it is for.
Read MoreMarketing: What Job Is Your Product Being Hired To Do
When working on product development, and then when marketing a product, ask yourself, “What job will my customer hire my product to do?” In addition to looking at this from the marketing and business angle I also want to address how this applies to relationships and personal development.
Read MoreROI Is An Equation Not A Theory
As marketing channels become diverse and difficult to track, the business world is screaming for transparency, reporting, and return on investment. All to often us digital marketing folk have to go into meetings with…
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