Advice on how to leverage social media marketing bombards us from every corner. SEJ curates the best advice and how-to’s out there, including best practices using Facebook, Twitter, content marketing or web audience development.
At its core engagement boils down to one key idea. You have to remember that there is a human being on the other end of every tweet, status update, blog post, email or video. If we can view all these things as connection tools first and communication tools second that will make a huge …
It seems like every week I read a new set of statistics about the importance of mobile in a company’s marketing strategy. Two of the most recent stand out. The first, from SteamFeed, included the fact that in the United States, 37 percent of internet usage occurs on mobile devices. The second and more interesting …
Facebook just announced that it will start allowing Advertisers to CPA bid. CPA is commonly known as Cost Per Action or Cost Per Acquisition to people in the Affiliate world. Today it’s available through it’s Ads API. Should measure conversions within the first 24 hours. CPA bidding is not available to all categories on Facebook Here are the ones it’s currently live on: Facebook Page …
The term content marketing has been gaining a lot of attention over the last few years and rightfully so. Content is the lifeline in today’s social eco-system so it makes sense. But content marketing means nothing without a strategy. A content strategy enables and positions a brand to tell a very consistent story across the …
Pinterest was one of the big success stories last year. Just when nobody thought another social media site could take the online world by storm, the photo-sharing, “virtual scrap board” managed to do just that. Online sites quickly realized that it was sending even more referral traffic than Twitter, and that it was bringing a …
Social media has become the go-to marketing vehicle for companies looking to generate interest, conversation and increase consumer engagement with their brand. Likewise, at Steel City Marketing, we have invested both time and money into making this part of our marketing efforts. We love communicating with both existing and prospective clients on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ …
You’ve been told before that content marketing is essential to growing your business online. So why do you procrastinate, failing to execute on even a small scale content marketing strategy? I run a business too and even I don’t have the time to create useful content for my people with any frequency. The Zero Clutter Approach …
The web’s most recent viral success – the Harlem Shake video – was notable for the way companies in all industries jumped on board with their own variations on this funny meme. But while these businesses certainly experienced a temporary boost in their overall traffic levels, the process of jumping on an internet meme is …
While I don’t believe much in dwelling on failures and mistakes, I do believe we can learn from them. Often other people can learn from your failures as well. By sharing these experiences we keep history from repeating itself. Every year I like to take a look back at my blogging efforts and examine what …
After Matt Cutts confirmation of upcoming major Google algorithm update in 2013, there is a great panic among the webmasters. There are lots of discussions going on about the hitting parameters of this update but nobody has satisfactory answer. However, one thing is cleared by Matt Cutts himself that sites with on-page spam will be …
