Blogging is fun and it is a lifestyle. But blogging is also a business. If you want to turn your blog into a business many bloggers have to slightly change their blogging approach. Blogging best practices can help you to do that. Instead of writing what they want, and how they want to write it they suddenly have to consider…
There is a lot of praise for Pinterest group boards. Some of it is a relic from older days and can be read with caution. But some of the praise is new. Even some (expensive) courses are building a strategy on the use of group boards. Yes, I have found success with group boards for a while, too. Until it…
The following is a guest post by Devin Morrissey. Devin writes in his garage and examines car parts in his office. He aspires to be an eternal student, writing wherever the web takes him. You’re watching TV and a commercial for the latest wonder drug comes on. It promises to help you think more clearly, focus better, and accomplish more. It…
The following is a guest post by Carsten Schaefer. Carsten is the founder and CEO of crowdy.ai, the first Clients-Convert-Clients Marketing platform. Inspired by principles and mechanisms of social proof, Carsten is currently on a mission to help businesses become trustworthy and thrive in the digital landscape. Every business needs customers to survive. The math is simple: get more clients, and your…
The following is a guest post by Whitney Blankenship. Whitney is a Content Marketing Manager for Omnisend. When not writing awesome content, Whitney is reading up on the latest in digital marketing, ecommerce, and social media trends. Obsessed with pop culture, art, and metal. Powered by coffee. Fastest Googler in the West. You can follow Whitney on Twitter. Email marketing…
Why is the Pinterest search of so much importance for marketing success and blog traffic when Pinterest is a social media platform? For many bloggers Pinterest has been the answer to all their traffic problems and the one traffic source that brought success. Most of these bloggers made exactly one traffic source work for them: Pinterest. On the other hand,…
Stolen pins become more and more of a problem. It is not only a bad feeling, seeing your carefully crafted images on Pinterest linking to shady websites and driving your hard-earned traffic to thieves. What is more: Stolen pins can seriously hurt your business. You lose traffic. You lose credibility. And you lose business! So, how the heck can you…
The following is a guest post by Devin Morrissey. Devin writes in his garage and examines car parts in his office. He aspires to be an eternal student, writing wherever the web takes him. Effective customer service is one of your most valuable assets. Ensuring that customers return to you even after experiencing a problem is essential to customer retention and…
The following is a guest post by David Oragui. David is a product marketing manager at SkedSocial – one tool to plan and automatically post your spicy visuals on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. If you work in social marketing, then I am sure you already know who valuable your Instagram account can be. However, after initially setting it up, you might find that…
Do you sometimes wonder why some people start one venture after the other and all seem to instantly turn into a success? The simple answer may be that these people have a network they can rely on. And while some people already have those valuable contacts that make starting, running and marketing a new business so much easier, you can…