Would you like more sales?
Who wouldn’t?
To increase sales, many businesses invest more in marketing or hire more salespeople. But there’s a more affordable – and fundamental way: Create more effective sales-enablement content.Continue Reading
Author: Ann Smarty
Ann Smarty is the brand and community manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas, founder of MyBlogU.com and co-founder of Viral Content Buzz . Ann is the regular contributor at Entrepreneur, Small Biz Trends, and other huge publications. Ann blogs about search and social media industry trends and content marketing tools. Please follow Ann on Twitter @seosmarty.
By ann-smarty published
July 29, 2021
How to Create Winning Sales-Enablement Content
By ann-smarty published
June 14, 2021
How to Make Sure Your Email Pops Up in Your Subscribers’ Inboxes
Email is still the most effective tool at any digital marketer’s disposal:
- Emails have the highest return on investment (Constant Contact).
- Almost 80% of B2B marketers say email proves to be the most successful channel for content distribution (Optin Monster).
- 60% of consumers admit to making a purchase as the result of a marketing email, while only about 12% admit to buying from social media (Optin Monster).
I could go on, but we all know what the data shows: Using emails in your marketing is almost always a good idea when done right.Continue Reading
By ann-smarty published
April 19, 2021
How to Drive Organic Clicks and Leads From Your Instagram Channel
Instagram is a great platform for influencer marketing and advertising, but it’s not easy to build organic clicks or conversions. That’s because it doesn’t allow clickable links in captions, which limits traffic-building capabilities.
Yet, hard doesn’t mean impossible.
It’s not easy to build organic clicks and conversions on #Instagram, but it’s not impossible, says @SEOSmarty via @CMIContent. #SocialMedia Click To TweetHere are a few definitive steps to start seeing higher converting traffic from your Instagram channel:Continue Reading
By ann-smarty published
March 15, 2021
How to Create an Effective SEO Strategy for Your Local Business
To survive the pandemic, research reveals, most small businesses were forced to change their operations or find new sources of revenue.
Lots of businesses that historically relied on local foot traffic were forced to completely or partially digitize their operations to allow online booking, buying, and even services.
That digital transformation brought a new challenge – how to get found online. The first fundamental step is verifying the business with Google Local as well as other local discovery platforms like Yelp and Tripadvisor. But then what?
This is when localized content marketing comes into play. Similar to what foot traffic was doing for your business, content marketing can attract people who never knew they were looking for you.Continue Reading
By ann-smarty published
December 2, 2020
How to Create a Performance Dashboard for Your Content Team [Tools]
I see this time and again: Freelancers and in-house content creators never get to see how their efforts affect the company’s bottom line.
While it can work fine for those companies, they miss lots of opportunities:
By ann-smarty published
November 9, 2020
Make Content Integral to Your Lead Generation
Lead generation and nurturing generally are defined as collecting contact details and then developing relationships with potential customers.
I tend to treat lead generation more loosely. Regardless of your niche, leads are your current or potential customers who gave their contact details because they don’t mind hearing from your brand.
By ann-smarty published
October 19, 2020
What to Know About Google’s FAQ Rich Snippets
Google’s search engine result pages are ever changing and becoming more visual, informative, and interactive.
They now include featured snippets, interactive image and video carousels, local three-pack boxes, people-also-ask sections, and an array of so-called rich snippets with additional information, like customer reviews and price.
By ann-smarty published
September 22, 2020
How to Optimize Your Site for Google Carousel Results
Have you seen a slow decline in organic search traffic?
You are not alone.
SEO has become more complicated, yet it remains the most effective and sought-after source of traffic and conversions.
By ann-smarty published
August 12, 2020
8 Tools to Optimize Your Old Content for New Conversions
Updated Aug. 25, 2020
Is getting clicks your ultimate marketing goal?
Of course not, you want your site visitors to perform an action instead of just landing and moving on.
By ann-smarty published
June 16, 2020
3 Keyword Research Trends to Get Your Content Seen
Editor’s note: Given the continued importance of keyword research, we updated this post from 2018.
No matter what your content marketing strategy is, keyword research is the fuel.
Keywords inform marketers as to what their audience strives to know, let them monitor their competition, and offer a constant source of content ideas.
