Writing:Guest Writers Needed

I am looking for guest writers for my blog. If you cover the topics of marketing, public relations, blogging, content marketing, inbound marketing, social media, social media marketing, campaign planning or writing, I would like to offer you the opportunity to write for my blog. Please respond with topic and article length. Original posts only please. Post should be no longer then 750 words. If you...

Open Mic: Has Social Media Marketing or Networking Helped Your Business?

marketing Everyone seems to be into social media these days. Whether its LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Google Buzz or the hundreds of other sites available, everyone seems to be doing it. Think about where you spend your social media marketing or networking online. Here are today’s Open Mic questions: Has social media marketing or networking helped your business? What is your favorite social...

Marketing: Credibility – The 4 Letter Word of Rags-To-Riches Marketing Promotions

I’m going out on a bit of a limb here, but I’ve got to say it today. As I’ve watched the marketing campaigns of dozens of Internet marketing entrepreneurs, there is one aspect of growing a business that I almost never hear addressed. I’ve been in live events, teleseminars, social media, and blogs that have mega-traffic but this one concept is rarely (if ever) mentioned. It’s...

Ten Great Post Over the Past Week

Here are 10 great posts that I read over the past week. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I did. Tell All Q&A With Google’s Maile Ohye – SES Toronto Keynote Brand VS Traffic – The Battle Line is Drawn 10 Foundational Tips for Bloggers Wanting to Make Money Blogging  How to Build a Great Brand for Your Blog 31 Facebook Applications to Enhance Your Facebook Page Want More...

Four Quick Tips for Creating Buyer Personas

Don’t create too many buyer personas, 3-5 buyer personas should be a good representation of your current and ideal clients. Know whom you are trying to reach then create buyer personas to represent them. If you are, a financial planner and you want to reach parents who are planning to send their kids to college, wealthy households, people who work in higher education. Create a buyer persona for...

It’s NOT the Economy, Stupid! Marketing in Tough Times

Author: Robert Middleton Is the economy hurting your business right now? Are things slow because nobody is spending money? Are you discouraged that you’re not getting as many people calling you as before? Are you waiting for the economy to improve before you get out there are start marketing yourself? But is it really the economy that’s hurting your business? Last week I went to a networking...

Twitter Daily Round-Up

RT @marketingprofs What I Did Right: How I Averaged 80 Comments and 135 Tweets in My First Week of.. http://bit.ly/9TdyJQ RT @Blogussion How to Achieve the Same Benefits of a Guest Post by Leaving a Blog Comment http://bt.io/FKI4 RT @socialmedia2day 12 Reasons to Use Social Media to Grow Your Business http://bit.ly/bZUvRD RT @ignitesma 50 Women Bloggers You Should Be Reading | Ignite Social Media...

The Little Me is Strangling the Big Me

Image provide by: Arbron at Flickr Freely Licensed Do you ever feel as if the little you inside of your head is strangling the big you that’s living your life? If you don’t know whom the little me is…it’s the voice in your head that holds you back from doing the things that you want to do. Sometimes the little is me so busy talking, I want to strangle her. Sadly, most of the time I feel as...

Using Lead Nurturing to Create Relationships, Build Trust and Increase Sales

You designed the perfect marketing campaign, implemented it and the leads are coming in. Your prospects are interested, yippee, so now what? How do you nurture that prospect to become a client? This is where lead nurturing comes into play. Lead nurturing is the relationship that you build with prospects over time by interacting with them in a variety of ways, building trust and leading the prospect...

Eleven Ways that Social Media can Help Your Business

Small businesses are using social media to help reach current and prospective customers allowing them to compete with larger companies with bigger marketing budgets. The low cost and relative ease of social media marketing has evened the playing field for small businesses. Eleven Ways that small business are using social media: They consistently add content to their blogs, twitter, LinkedIn and facebook...