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 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 easily…
The best and most accessible sources for free blog traffic develop and even change with time. Some sources get very crowded like search engines – but are still important for free traffic. Some platforms that used to bring considerable amounts of traffic simply close down – like StumbleUpon did in 2018. Some traffic sources get less accessible without paying for…
You have probably read about all these awesome success stories. The bloggers that are cracking it and live the life that you are still dreaming of (yet). But there is a hard truth that these stories often don’t mention. It sometimes looks as if the successful bloggers have forgotten about their struggles or are trying to hide that time long…
Your conversion rates are the one metric that has tremendous influence over your success or failure. Conversion rates have more impact than all the standard metrics that we all watch and talk about: They are more important than followers, traffic and engagement combined. If you have a ton of traffic to your website, but you convert at zero percent –…
The following is a guest post by Marcus Suther. Markus lives and breathes writing. He’s passionate writing topics about marketing, sports, and travel. If you own an eCommerce shop, the future can look pretty awesome for you. After all, it’s expected that by 2021, there will be nearly $4.5 trillion in online sales, with mobile commerce alone reaching the $319 billion mark.…
I love guest posts. I even like to give new bloggers a chance. I know it can be tough to earn guest blogging opportunities on fairly high profile blogs. And it is getting harder by the day. There are many blogs who no longer accept guest posts without any personal connection of the contributor to the blog owner(s). We have…