The 11 Rules of Blogging No One ever Told You

Are you dreaming of starting a blog? You probably have a picture in your mind how your life is going to look like as a blogger: Sitting at home or in a fancy Café with your laptop on your knees hacking away on your newest awe-inspiring blog post. Once you hit publish, you see numerous people instantly visiting the new post and reading it.…

20 Crazy Easy Hacks For More Social Traffic You Totally Missed

There is no question that you need a strategy for the big-time online marketing success. But there are many small tweaks and hacks that far too many people neglect and which have tremendous power to multiply your social traffic with the matter of a few clicks, a couple of words – or a tiny change to your strategy. If you…

Is SEO Rank Tracking Dead?

The following is a guest post by Maros Kortis. Maros is a full-time digital marketer at Mangools, Digital marketing and SEO have been his passion for more than 4 years. Besides being digital, he’s a musician. You can follow him on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn. This post isn’t about “SEO is dead” or similar kind of topics that used to be…

How to Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Localization

The following is a guest post by Alli Hill. Alli is a content writer for nostop.net, specializing in SEO, marketing, and all things digital. Alli currently lives in Northeast Georgia with her husband, two toddlers, and golden retriever. The old phrase “The customer is always right” has never been truer in today’s demand generation. People aren’t just craving personalized experiences –…

The 31 Social Media Marketing Books You Need to Know

It is summer. Some of us have some free time to chill, sit in the sun – and improve your marketing skills. If you are looking for some new marketing strategies and tactics read some social media marketing books. If you are looking for some blogging and social media marketing books to learn something new, get better at marketing, and even…

What Brands can Learn from the Starbucks Crisis

The following is a guest post by Jonas Sickler. Jonas has been managing digital marketing campaigns for years. His experience ranges from content planning for major consumer websites to helping businesses grow their online presence and protect their reputation. You can find him on twitter here: https://twitter.com/JonasSickler To understand the enormous impact proper crisis planning can have on a business’s reputation,…

24 Blogging Quotes To Get Inspiration, Motivation And Perspective

So many famous (or even not so famous) bloggers, marketers and online entrepreneurs have said some very interesting things. The following quotes are meant to give you valuable advice, inspiration – and motivate you to take action and start. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” Chris Grosser I have heard people complain that they did not get this or that…

The One Social Media Metric That Doesn’t Scale… (And it’s not traffic)

„Scaling“ is a magic word in marketing. The principle is simple: You find something that works for you and gives you a little success and then you go and try to multiply this small success into a bigger success – you „scale“ it – hopefully. If you can scale your success, you are done – go, celebrate! But the truth…