seo

  • making marketing work

    “We are everywhere on social. We’re spending a ton of money. We’re doing email. Why isn’t it working?” Why do brands who value marketing and are thus willing to commit a budget to marketing fail to see the expected results? There are a variety of reasons, of course, but a common theme is despite spending…

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  • The business world has always been plagued with jargon. Marketing seems especially inundated with the buzzword of the week as old concepts get rebranded or terms get invented for the sake of naming everything. Some terms and acronyms make sense and are helpful, but unfortunately many of these buzzwords, which have gotten out of hand…

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  • content is still king

    We’ve all heard the phrase “content is king.” Bill Gates made the phrase buzzworthy when he authored an essay titled “Content is King” back in 1996. Before Gates penned his piece, the phrase was the mantra of Viacom’s Sumner Redstone. Same phrase. Two different meanings. Redstone was talking about the power of ownership and distribution…

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  • To drive a large lift in unique visitors, the lever most marketing teams instinctively look to pull is a SEM spend. Paid search certainly buys visibility, but eyeballs don’t matter if the website they land on doesn’t match what they’re looking for. I proved that point dramatically for a B2B services company that achieved a…

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