Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’
Why Share Other People's Social Media Content?
As an entrepreneur using Facebook, Twitter and other social media for marketing purposes, your major concern should be coming up with awesome original content to share with your followers. But don’t forget about sharing other people’s content too. Sharing other people’s content is good for you, good for them, good for your followers, and just…
Read More4 Super Easy Ways to Kickstart Your Small Business Marketing
If you’re thinking of rejuvenating your small business marketing efforts, here are some ideas that will help kickstart things: get to some networking events and grow your referral marketing team brush up on social media and improve your online presence and engagement launch (or re-launch) a blog that will help position you as an expert…
Read MoreHow to Blog More Efficiently
While maintaining a blog for your small business reaps tons of rewards, I’m not going to lie – blogging with consistency can feel like a monumental task at times. After all, we’re small business owners, we have a lot going on. So how do we manage this massive task week after week, when inspiration, creativity,…
Read MoreEmail Marketing and Spam Laws in Canada
This post is about two of my favorite things: spam and the law. Haha! Ok, but seriously now… Small business owners who use email as a marketing tool will want to pay close attention to Canada’s Anti-Spam legislation, the majority of which comes into force on July 1, 2014. Now I’m no lawyer (and we…
Read MoreCreate an Unstoppable Email Marketing Super Team
Putting out an amazing email newsletter on a regular basis is a great way to market your small business, but for the entrepreneur with limited time and resources, it can feel like a heavy commitment. Let’s say you want to publish an email newsletter twice a month. That means every two weeks you need to:…
Read MoreWho Should Blog for Business?
In ancient times (during the dark ages before blogging and social media were mainstream) business owners attracted customers with, “this is what I have to sell.” In modern times, business owners attract customers with, “this is what I have to teach.” So you should blog if: you’re an entrepreneur and you’re not living in the…
Read MoreMind-Blowing Statistics to Get You Business Blogging!
Need a kick in the pants to get started on that business blog? Here are some pants-kicking statistics to get you moving! Companies that blog have 55% more website visitors (HubSpot) B2C companies that blog get 88% more leads per month than companies that don’t (HubSpot) B2B companies that blog get 67% more leads per…
Read MoreBlog Got You Bogged Down? 5 Reasons to Hire a Ghost Writer
Many small business owners agree that blogging is great for business. After all, a well-written, properly targeted blog can: be launched and maintained for little to no expense be used to position yourself as a credible expert in your industry attract and convert new leads attract the attention of referral partners keep clients and prospects…
Read MoreNeed Blog Ideas? Ask Your Followers!
It’s happened to all of us: we want to blog often but there are times when we get stuck for fresh ideas. There may be days when you say to yourself, “I have already written about everything.” Well, I’m here to tell you that even though it may sometimes seem that way, it’s very unlikely…
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