Tell Your Story Founder George Rafeedie gave a recent breakfast seminar with the Chicago Business Marketing Association where he taught a group of B2B marketers how to develop and share stories on any budget.
Content Marketing: Greet Your Guests and Boost Your Bookings451 Marketing
Key Takeaways:
- An overview of content marketing
- Why content marketing is important to enhance search results
- How content can strengthen engagement with your guests (and potential guests)
How to jump start Marketing your business. In Marketing there are 5 simple pillars - Create, Distribute, Promote, Convert and Measure.
This presentation was adapted from a workshop we conducted at Tom Ferry International. Visit www.tomferry.com to learn more about Tom Ferry's Coaching, Events and Training Products.
Tell Your Story Founder George Rafeedie gave a recent breakfast seminar with the Chicago Business Marketing Association where he taught a group of B2B marketers how to develop and share stories on any budget.
Content Marketing: Greet Your Guests and Boost Your Bookings451 Marketing
Key Takeaways:
- An overview of content marketing
- Why content marketing is important to enhance search results
- How content can strengthen engagement with your guests (and potential guests)
How to jump start Marketing your business. In Marketing there are 5 simple pillars - Create, Distribute, Promote, Convert and Measure.
This presentation was adapted from a workshop we conducted at Tom Ferry International. Visit www.tomferry.com to learn more about Tom Ferry's Coaching, Events and Training Products.
Explore social media for small business and engage your customers online! Learn how to leverage the most popular sites, how to build followers, and how to apply a deliberate strategy that will build your business using social media.
Press Kits: How To Create A Powerful—And Essential—Part Of Your Marketing Ars...Lisa Horn
Press kits aren't just for multi-national corporations; every company--large or small--can use press kits to introduce themselves to the media with the goal of getting the coveted coverage only a few receive. Most companies don't take full advantage of press kits, leaving the door wide open for those that do.
Most business leaders intuitively understand their target audience. But is intuition enough? What if your intuition is wrong? Develop buyer personas that validate your assumptions and provide actionable guidance for smarter strategies.
Twitter Ads - How to Use Promoted Tweets - Digital in Kent Monthly Meet Up 2Josh Whiten
Brief presentation on the latest insights from using Twitter advertising social pay per click advertising on behalf of some of our clients, exploring some of the opportunities for supporting outreach driving website traffic and gaining followers using Promoted Tweets.
Originally presented by Josh Whiten of Webscape Marketing at the 2nd Digital in Kent Monthly Meet Up at Fruitworks in Canterbury Kent in June 2014.
Planning a content marketing strategy for 2014 - from a workshop hosted by 451 Marketing's Francis Skipper on 12.13.2013 at Westin Copley Place in Boston.
Conference presentation from the Texas Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (TxGAP) 2012 Professional Development Conference.
Author:
Mark Barrera & Dan Sturdivant
Marketing Consultant
Barrera Search Marketing
Description:
Using content (articles, infographics, video, and other content types) as a way to generate good placement in search engine results is a good practice. But how do you use content to provide a long lasting effect? Mark Barrera and Dan Sturdivant will discuss various ways to use content as an asset whose value out lives that of other marketing tactics.
For more information, visit www.txgap.com.
Intentional Networking for Small BusinessJoe Hines
Are you making the most of your networking time? When you network, are you creating opportunities for positive relationships and making a clear distinction about who you are and why people work with you?
If you think you need help in these areas, this presentation is for you!
WHAT IS INBOUND SELLING? (AND WHY YOU NEED IT NOW) [INBOUND 2014]HubSpot
In this session, John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Selling will define once and for all the ins and outs of inbound selling and more importantly outline how any business owner, marketer and salesperson can install an inbound marketing system that helps them attract more ideal clients, build authority and expertise in the market and yes, close more deals.
Masters of Marketing -- Let's Get Digital: Five Digital Marketing Trends for...Darmini Kara
In the January 15, 2014 Masters of Marketing webinar, Product Manager Jennifer Fitzsimmons discussed five digital marketing trends you should know in 2015.
Explore social media for small business and engage your customers online! Learn how to leverage the most popular sites, how to build followers, and how to apply a deliberate strategy that will build your business using social media.
Press Kits: How To Create A Powerful—And Essential—Part Of Your Marketing Ars...Lisa Horn
Press kits aren't just for multi-national corporations; every company--large or small--can use press kits to introduce themselves to the media with the goal of getting the coveted coverage only a few receive. Most companies don't take full advantage of press kits, leaving the door wide open for those that do.
Most business leaders intuitively understand their target audience. But is intuition enough? What if your intuition is wrong? Develop buyer personas that validate your assumptions and provide actionable guidance for smarter strategies.
Twitter Ads - How to Use Promoted Tweets - Digital in Kent Monthly Meet Up 2Josh Whiten
Brief presentation on the latest insights from using Twitter advertising social pay per click advertising on behalf of some of our clients, exploring some of the opportunities for supporting outreach driving website traffic and gaining followers using Promoted Tweets.
Originally presented by Josh Whiten of Webscape Marketing at the 2nd Digital in Kent Monthly Meet Up at Fruitworks in Canterbury Kent in June 2014.
Planning a content marketing strategy for 2014 - from a workshop hosted by 451 Marketing's Francis Skipper on 12.13.2013 at Westin Copley Place in Boston.
Conference presentation from the Texas Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals (TxGAP) 2012 Professional Development Conference.
Author:
Mark Barrera & Dan Sturdivant
Marketing Consultant
Barrera Search Marketing
Description:
Using content (articles, infographics, video, and other content types) as a way to generate good placement in search engine results is a good practice. But how do you use content to provide a long lasting effect? Mark Barrera and Dan Sturdivant will discuss various ways to use content as an asset whose value out lives that of other marketing tactics.
For more information, visit www.txgap.com.
Intentional Networking for Small BusinessJoe Hines
Are you making the most of your networking time? When you network, are you creating opportunities for positive relationships and making a clear distinction about who you are and why people work with you?
If you think you need help in these areas, this presentation is for you!
WHAT IS INBOUND SELLING? (AND WHY YOU NEED IT NOW) [INBOUND 2014]HubSpot
In this session, John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Selling will define once and for all the ins and outs of inbound selling and more importantly outline how any business owner, marketer and salesperson can install an inbound marketing system that helps them attract more ideal clients, build authority and expertise in the market and yes, close more deals.
Masters of Marketing -- Let's Get Digital: Five Digital Marketing Trends for...Darmini Kara
In the January 15, 2014 Masters of Marketing webinar, Product Manager Jennifer Fitzsimmons discussed five digital marketing trends you should know in 2015.
Defining your social media omni-channel strategy Social Circle
Topic: Defining your social media omnichannel strategy
Do you need a strategy per social channel? Yes, you do.
Why you need an omnichannel strategy
Understanding your audience by channel
Creating your objectives – marketing & social
How to define the purpose of each of your social channels what content you’ll require to fuel this strategy.
Social Network Prioritization - How to Prioritize Investment in Social Media Marketing Nutz
Marketing Nutz CEO / Founder delivers this presentation with practical strategies and tips to help prioritize social networks for investment. What social media network is the best one to market my business and make money?" Small business owners frequently ask this question – and just as often – puzzle over how to get it right!
Get the answers for your business when Pam Moore, the CEO of TheMarketingNutz.com, (and one of the nation's leading online marketing experts) discusses how to use an audience-based approach to prioritize and maximize your investment in social media.
How to Prioritize Social Networks Your Business Should Invest In Pam Moore
Every marketer and business leader is faced with the challenge of where to prioritize their time and investment. Time is our greatest asset in both business and life. How we spend our time can make or break our business success.
When it comes to digital marketing, social media and branding, it is no different. In my 20 years of business and marketing experience I have never heard a marketer exclaim, "I have so much time, resource & budget I don't know what to do with it."
Unfortunately, there are far too many "experts" online touting that you must be on every new shiny object and social network. They'll even go so far as to warn you that if you don't start snapping on Snapchat, storytelling on Instagram and delivering live video on Periscope that your business is destined to fail. Let me tell you right now this is 100% false.
Register for the full webinar and podcast on this topic at http://www.socialzoomfactor.com/214
Australian Marketing Institute Workshop - Doyle Buehler - Digital Brand Leade...Doyle Buehler
What is Digital Brand Leadership?
Authority - Brand credibility
Influence - Brand “active” audience
Knowledge - Expertise in your industry/niche
Combining all the elements of digital media is what digital leadership is about. It is about combining all of the different elements of what is needed online to work with your brand.
This is my presentation for the Australian Marketing Institute Annual 2014 Congress in Perth, WA
How Startups Get Customers: Using Content Marketing & Social Media to Tell Yo...Kim Donlan
Defining your early brand story is difficult for any startup. Content marketing and social media channels are important to establish credibility. This is a presentation showing how to create a unique value proposition, define your brand story by using your customer perspective. It will help with lead generation and awareness.
Using & Tracking New Media - Marketing Retirement Homes & Senior CareOur Kids Media
How can you use new media such as blogs, Facebook and twitter for marketing retirement homes, retirement communities or senior care. This presentation shows you how you can engage with senior during the various stages of their consideration funnel, and how to track your results with Google Analytics and social media tracking tools.
Be the best at retirement home marketing and marketing and selling to seniors.
Originally presented by wink11 founders Nadia Duriavig and Daniela Duriavig at the Comfort Life Marketing Academy Lunch & Learn in Toronto on October 289th, 2014. More tools and resources available at www.ourkidsmedia.com/marketing/retirement-living/
How to Plan and Build a Content Marketing StrategyLiz Bedor
Step by step guide on how to plan and build an effective content marketing strategy. This will be covered in the following sections:
Discovery
Destination
Team
Editorial
Customer Journey
KPIs/Reporting
Optimization
With limited budget and a lean staff, trying to get 3,000 people to attend an annual conference can seem overwhelming since traditional marketing plans don’t typically account for variability. Learn how some associations have thrown out the traditional DIY model in favor of an omni-channel strategy (automated marketing) that leverages marketing platforms. Learn how even a marketing staff as small as three can still deliver results and exceed expectations. Create a framework for your own omni-channel conference marketing plan that creatively combines a social media strategy supplemented by digital advertising.
Content strategies to engage your audiencenstaylor
social media. We will present tools and tactics to help build engaging content strategies to build a digital profile
on-line and how that influences people and search engines.
Presented to a group of interior design professionals in Mountain View, CA hosted by Doreen Yun of Windows & Beyond.
This is a followup presentation to one I did back in the Spring - it has updated tools and I hope you find them valuable and useful!
Ad:Venture - Strategic Marketing MasterclassJonny Ross
How to set SMART objectives
Identify who your audience is
How to build trust
All about growth hacking, looking at Dollar Shave club and dropbox
Customer Centric Marketing, looking at Virgin, Nandos and Orange (now EE)
Scarcity and Influencer Marketing
WNY Chamber Learning Lunch - Social MediaJonny Ross
West and North Yorkshire Learning Lunch Social Media event. How much time should we spend on social, What should we be doing on LinkedIn? How do we find keywords?
Buy Yorkshire - Stand out whilst ExhibitingJonny Ross
How to get the most out of social media prior to an exhibiton. How to engage with delegates at the conference. And how to convert leads into clients after the event! #BuyYorkshire Yorkshire Mafia
Digital tools for growth, better processes, more effectiveness, better productivity. With tools to help from CRM to Accounts, to Email to Project Management and even to sat nav integration!
It's another new era of digital and marketers are faced with making big bets on their digital strategy. If you are looking at modernizing your tech stack to support your digital evolution, there are a few can't miss (often overlooked) areas that should be part of every conversation. We'll cover setting your vision, avoiding siloes, adding a democratized approach to data strategy, localization, creating critical governance requirements and more. Attendees will walk away with actions they can take into initiatives they are running today and consider for the future.
Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?Cut-the-SaaS
Discover the transformative power of AI in content creation with our presentation, "Is AI-Generated Content the Future of Content Creation?" by Puran Parsani, CEO & Editor of Cut-The-SaaS. Learn how AI-generated content is revolutionizing marketing, publishing, education, healthcare, and finance by offering unprecedented efficiency, creativity, and scalability.
Understanding
AI-Generated Content:
AI-generated content includes text, images, videos, and audio produced by AI without direct human involvement. This technology leverages large datasets to create contextually relevant and coherent material, streamlining content production.
Key Benefits:
Content Creation: Rapidly generate high-quality content for blogs, articles, and social media.
Brainstorming: AI simulates conversations to inspire creative ideas.
Research Assistance: Efficiently summarize and research information.
Market Insights:
The content marketing industry is projected to grow to $17.6 billion by 2032, with AI-generated content expected to dominate over 55% of the market.
Case Study: CNET’s AI Content Controversy:
CNET’s use of AI for news articles led to public scrutiny due to factual inaccuracies, highlighting the need for transparency and human oversight.
Benefits Across Industries:
Marketing: Personalize content at scale and optimize engagement with predictive analytics.
Publishing: Automate content creation for faster publication cycles.
Education: Efficiently generate educational materials.
Healthcare: Create accurate content for patients and professionals.
Finance: Produce timely financial content for decision-making.
Challenges and Ethical Considerations:
Transparency: Disclose AI use to maintain trust.
Bias: Address potential AI biases with diverse datasets.
SEO: Ensure AI content meets SEO standards.
Quality: Maintain high standards to prevent misinformation.
Conclusion:
AI-generated content offers significant benefits in efficiency, personalization, and scalability. However, ethical considerations and quality assurance are crucial for responsible use. Explore the future of content creation with us and see how AI is transforming various industries.
Connect with Us:
Follow Cut-The-SaaS on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and Medium. Visit cut-the-saas.com for more insights and resources.
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
Top 3 Ways to Align Sales and Marketing Teams for Rapid GrowthDemandbase
In this session, Demandbase’s Stephanie Quinn, Sr. Director of Integrated and Digital Marketing, Devin Rosenberg, Director of Sales, and Kevin Rooney, Senior Director of Sales Development will share how sales and marketing shapes their day-to-day and what key areas are needed for true alignment.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
5 big bets to drive growth in 2024 without one additional marketing dollar AND how to adapt to the biggest shifting eCommerce trend- AI.
1) Romance Your Customers - Retention
2) ‘Alternative’ Lead Gen - Advocacy
3) The Beautiful Basics - Conversion Rate Optimization
4) Land that Bottom Line - Profitability
5) Roll the Dice - New Business Models
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
The Forgotten Secret Weapon of Digital Marketing: Email
Digital marketing is a rapidly changing, ever evolving industry--Influencers, Threads, X, AI, etc. But one of the most effective digital marketing tools is also one of the oldest: Email. Find out from two Houston-based digital experts how to maximize your results from email.
Key Takeaways:
Email has the best ROI of any digital tactic
It can be used at any stage of the customer journey
It is increasingly important as the cookie-less future gets closer and closer
Come learn how YOU can Animate and Illuminate the World with Generative AI's Explosive Power. Come sit in the driver's seat and learn to harness this great technology.
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
When most people in the industry talk about online or digital reputation management, what they're really saying is Google search and PPC. And it's usually reactive, left dealing with the aftermath of negative information published somewhere online. That's outdated. It leaves executives, organizations and other high-profile individuals at a high risk of a digital reputation attack that spans channels and tactics. But the tools needed to safeguard against an attack are more cybersecurity-oriented than most marketing and communications professionals can manage. Business leaders Leaders grasp the importance; 83% of executives place reputation in their top five areas of risk, yet only 23% are confident in their ability to address it. To succeed in 2024 and beyond, you need to turn online reputation on its axis and think like an attacker.\
Key Takeaways:
- New framework for examining and safeguarding an online reputation
- Tools and techniques to keep you a step ahead
- Practical examples that demonstrate when to act, how to act and how to recover
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
3. Objectives
• Overview of all the main marketing channels
• Identify who to talk to and what messaging
• Find out where your target audience is
• Ultimately be more strategic with your
marketing
5. 7 P’s of Marketing
• Product/Service - The Product should fit the task
consumers/businesses want it for, it should work and it should
be what they are expecting to get.
• Place – The product should be easily available – what markets,
locations etc.
• Price – Clear pricing – doesn’t have to be cheapest
• Promotion – Advertising, PR, Sales Promotion, Personal Selling
and, in more recent times, Social Media are all key
communication tools for an organisation. These tools should be
used to put across the organisation’s message to the correct
audiences in the manner they would most like to hear, whether
it be informative or appealing to their emotions.
6. 7 P’s of Marketing
• People – All companies are reliant on the people who run them
from front line Sales staff to the Managing Director. Having the
right people is essential because they are as much a part of your
business offering as the products/services you are offering.
• Processes –The delivery of your service is usually done with the
customer present so how the service is delivered is once again
part of what the consumer is paying for.
• Physical Evidence – How do we create trust, how do we
reassure, what literature do we have, how do we deliver the
service
7. Types of Marketing
• Advertising
• PR
• Sales Promotion
• Social Media
• Email
• Storytelling
• Sponsorship
• SEO
• Influencer Marketing /
Recommendations / Word
of mouth
• Cause / Charity / Petitions
• Scarcity
• Seasonal
• Direct Mail
• Telemarketing
• Inbound Marketing
• Promotional/Freebies
• Content Marketing
• Events / Round Tables
• Personal Selling /
Networking / Speaking
12. Search Engine Optimisation
• Create great content
• Ensure this content is accessible to
search engines.
• Make pages unique and relevant
• Make the content popular
• Good PR (Traditional PR…online)
17. Offsite SEO / Link building
• Directories
• Articles
• Guest Blogging
• Press Releases
• Social Bookmarking
• Social Sharing
• Local Engagement
• Suppliers
• Video
• Blog / Forum commenting
• Writing a column
• Mention people
• Petitions
• Link Out
• Image creation
• Webinars
• Interviews
• Awards
• Ask friends
• Create Link bait!
• Reviews
• Client Testimonials
• Broken Link Building
• Stalk Competitors for ideas
• Offers/coupons/deals
• Infographics
• Buyers Guides
• Calculators
• Trade Associations
• Local Media
• Local Charity
• National Charity
• Trade Events
• Sponsorship opportunities
• Quizzes
18. Keywords
• Answer the public
• Storybase
• Question Samurai
• Keyword.io
• Buzzsumo Question
Analyzer
• SEMRush
• KWFinder
• Quora
• Google autocomplete
• People also ask box
19. Keyword Exercise
• List 10 keywords
• Explore different parts of the business
• What questions might people type into
google?
21. Editorial Calendar sounds so complex…
• People think it needs to
be fancy and detailed
• Two advantages;
planning and
accountability
• There are lots of ways to
create an editorial
calendar, but let’s keep
it simple
22. Step 1: Make a list of key dates for the year
• Product launches
• Events / trade shows
• Marketing campaigns
• Promotions
• Holidays
• Sporting events
• Key milestones
• This date in history
• TV Programmes
• National Days / Weeks
• Charity Campaigns
• National Competitions
• Themed months?
• Patterns ( 4 blogs and 1 case study
per month
25. Step 4: Open a Google Spreadsheet
• Sole Trader or maybe 4 staff..?
• Use Google so it’s easy to share and update
• Everyone with permission can have access
• It’s a live spreadsheet
28. Challenge me?
Does anyone want to challenge me, does
anyone think this is all a load of nonsense?
Find me online
@jonnyross
LinkedIn/in/jonnyross
Editor's Notes
So for me SEO is common sense its nothing more than
Create great content
Ensure this content is accessible to search engines.
Make pages unique and relevant
Make the content popular
For me there are two distinct sides to SEO, onsite and offsite
Onsite being your own website and offsite being everything else online that has something to do with you
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Keywords
Content
Technical Aspect
Usability
Relevancy
Links
Reviews
Reputation
You then need to make a list of alll your products and services, adding to it keywords you would expect to be found for, but aren’t,
Or ones you would like to be found for.
You can then take some of these keywords and have a play with Google search.
This then helps identify more keywords that users search and shows you opportunities that you may not have thought about and considered. Giving you suggestions that could be good for your webstore.
Keep adding more words to excel and then go to the next tool semrush
So a link profile can be built using some of the following
There is a list on the screen, but I am just going to highlight some of them.
Posting to directories
These can be divided into three groups – General, Niche & Local. General would be directories such as White or yellow pages and so on. Niche obviously refers to directories relating specifically to your area of business, and local is anything based in your own area. All three can be useful, and while they may not attract so many visitors as other methods mentioned, they can be very useful in terms of mapping your location and influencing your ranking on Google Maps.
Link Directories
There are two basic varieties here – General Link Directories, which accept basically anything and everything, and Niche Link Directories, which are industry specific. The former, are really not worth investing time in – the sheer volume of links is immense and consequently the links are not terribly credible and these sited generally have a poor page rank. By all means, submit to one or two each month for the sake of link diversity, but do not consider these sites a priority.
Niche directories on the other hand, can be very worthwhile as they specifically target people interested in your field. For example, if you run a Party Goods Website, directories focusing on Event Management, Entertainments and the like, are more likely to be accessed by people that your site will be of use to.
The more selective choice of links published also contributes to the directory site having a better page rank, giving your own link more credibility.
Guest blogging
Many blogs are happy to accept relevant, well written guest posts, and will link back to your site in exchange for quality content. A link to your site on a relevant blog, can attract a huge amount of new traffic and do wonders for your Google rank – especially if the site you’re posting on already has a high rank of its own.
Articles & Press releases
Submitting an article, or press release to sites such as Article Dashboard or 24-7 Press Release can be a great way to expose your link to a new and wider audience. Don’t allow your standards to slip though – only submit content you would be happy to have on your own site, as it is still a direct representation of you. Also, don’t be tempted to submit the same content to a dozen different sites – it will be noticed, and do your site more harm than good. Keep your content unique and useful and this can be a worthwhile exercise.
Social bookmarking
Much like Social Networking, Social Bookmarking when it is social bookmarking sites done well, can be a very valuable tool. As with Facebook & Twitter, StumbleUpon & Digg buttons are an almost essential part of any great web design. Again, there are a huge number of platforms to choose from, so do a little research and decide which are a good fit for your project.
Social sharing
Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest… love them or hate them, social networking is here to stay. In an age of smart phones and a need for constant, current information, any website not giving it’s readers the option to follow them on their favourite network, is taking a big risk. Social Networks allow you to build a community around your brand, encourage users to share your content, and ultimately, widens your potential audience.
Initially setting up the pages can be time consuming, but it really is worth it in the long run. If you’re overwhelmed by the variety available, pick perhaps three of the most popular networks and concentrate your efforts on those. Personally, I’d recommend Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest is a good third as a current rising star of the online world.
Local engagement, with local shops and communities
If you have a bricks and mortar retail unit, speak to local shops and local communities to see if you can guest blog, link to each other, offer each other resources online.
Do something for charity
This tends to get the charity or a online article linking to you
Suppliers
Speak to suppliers and see if they will link to you
Blog Commenting
A quick search for ‘[your niche] blog’ will return countless results of blogs you can get commenting on, and this can be a great way to build new links. Be selective though – choose blogs that are relevant to your business, and make your comments useful and relevant too – avoid just a ‘great post!’ or ‘I agree!’ – These just look spammy and won’t encourage people to visit your site.
forum commenting (babycentre, mothering.com, for baby related products, charity forums for particular audiences.. Maybe animal trust for pet related etc)
Create Link Bait
Link Bait is any content or feature, within a site, designed to catch people’s attention and interest. A funny photo, a great info graphic, a must have app… Anything that people are drawn to and feel compelled to share with their network.
Of course, this list is by no means exhaustive. There are many other ways of successfully building links, but if you’re just starting out, these ideas can help build a solid foundation to build on.
Remember too, that linkbuilding is not just about getting your name out there. It’s about networking, building relationships and trust to grow a solid, diverse and ever expanding profile of back links to your site.
Use the ideas above and challenge yourself to create ten new backlinks today. Do the same tomorrow, and then again everyday for a week. As your traffic grows, you’ll see for yourself how worthwhile the process is. Good Luck!
Trying to utilise all of these different web properties to create a solid spiders web around your site
An editorial calendar will help you to plan ahead, link blogs to seasons and events, and ensure you have a good variety of blog topics to appeal to all your customers and showcase your whole product range.
If you have more than one blogger, it also helps you to know who is writing what and to plan submission and posting dates.
Make the calendar work for you. Yours might include things like: season; theme; products featured; keywords; target reader segment; date etc.
I tend to mention these and people think it needs to be fancy and detailed.
There are two main advantages, planning and accountability
There are loads of ways of creating one, but lets keep it simple!
Then simply add these to your road map, this is nothing more than an excel sheet with jan – dec along the top and the categories down the side
So we can see valentines day in february for exmaple