5 Actionable Steps For a Better Converting Page
Any time someone lands on any page of our site, we want them to perform an action. Preferably, it’s a sale, but at least we...
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Ann Smarty is the co-founder of Smarty.Marketing, the SEO and AI visibility optimization agency, focusing on viral and Reddit marketing. Ann relies on her 20+ career in SEO to create custom search and AI visibility strategy for clients.
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10 Tools for In-Team Marketing Collaboration
Whether it is making projects run more smoothly, getting everyone on the same page, or promoting a healthy company culture, collaborating is important.
6 Ways to Optimize a Landing Page for Phone Calls
Phone call optimization is becoming an integral part of digital marketing. Here are six ways to make a phone-friendly landing page.
Boost Influencer Outreach With Visual Marketing
Visual marketing is as helpful in influencer marketing as reaching a general viewership. It might just be what you need in getting the results you...
12 Free & Freemium Tools to Train & Monitor Your Marketing Team
Training and managing your marketing team can be time consuming. Luckily we have some great free (or almost free) tools that can orHganize the process.
6 Absolutely Free Ways to Build a Community Around Your Blog
How do you measure the success of a blog? Your blog should be a community of users, not a place to host content.
5 Ways to Discover Alternatives & Compare Your Site to Your Competitors
Competition is your business catalyst only if you know how to approach competitive research properly. Here are a few tools and tricks that can help...
How to Build Interactions on Social Media
The more interactions you receive, the further your message spreads, the more results you see. Here’s an easy, resourceful and action-driven guide on driving interactions...
8+ Courses to Diversify Your Marketing Strategy Without Feeling Overwhelmed
Learning to become a better Internet marketer is a challenge: There’s so much information to discover and so many techniques to try! My list of free...
How to Boost Your Social Media Engagements by Using Quotes
Quotes are always re-shared like crazy. This is one of those things that’s almost sure to work no matter how many times you do it....
3 Ways to Create a Hashtag Monitoring Dashboard
I’ve always loved playing with hashtags. I can proudly say I was an early adopter (I can’t say the same about Facebook but I do love...
#HOWTO: Use Twitter Search Like a Pro
If you want to use Twitter search like a pro, you need to know all the ways that you can use their unique search engine...
5 Free and Awesome Tools To Use #Hashtags Wisely
The hashtag: what an incredible invention. Many people credit Twitter with its origination, but that isn’t true. It was used on programs like IRC long...
Guest Blogging Defined by the Smartest Marketers: 10 Best Guest Blogging Quotes
Guest blogging has been a hot topic for a couple of years now. It’s one of the most efficient ways to build relationships with bloggers...
6 WordPress Plugins for Easier Editor-Contributor Collaboration
A site only runs smoothly when you take the time to work with all people involved in its running. Editors and webmasters have a tendency...
5 Useful Google Authorship Cheatsheets and Infographics
I’ve doing a lot of digging into Google Authorship for some time now. It’s amazing to watch Google experiment with it! But how does it...
Content Marketer’s Resource Box: Free Ebooks and Cheatsheets
While it is always a good idea to refrain from putting all of your marketing eggs in one basket, content is still one that should...
3 WordPress Plugins to Diversify Your Content
We all have a little trouble coming up with fresh ideas for blog posts from time to time. It would be wonderful if we were...
7 Books to Read About Building A Community From Scratch
When a company first starts out, they have many challenges to face. Establishing a brand, marketing themselves to a particular demographic, bringing in the first...
6 Tips to Get Retweeted More Often
Maybe it is just me, but I find that getting a notification that someone has retweeted my content is really exciting. It could just be...
Best Blogs About Startup Entrepreneurship
Blogs are some of the most helpful resources on the Web today. Written by those who have both education and experience, there is a great...
Why Is Pinterest Successful?
When Pinterest was first launched in 2010, it was an unknown little cranny of the internet. Amassing a small following, mainly of micro-bloggers who wanted...
5 Pinterest Boards for Content Marketers
Are you a content marketer? Do you love Pinterest? If you don’t, you should, because there is no better place to find relevant content for...
Interview with Liz Wilson, Community Editor at Paper.li
Content curation is hot nowadays, and there are quite a few content curating tools to help you organize and re-use user-generated content that is spreading...
Come Chat On Twitter With #MyBlogGuest!
My Blog Guest has always been the excellent proof of the power of the community. Started from scratch, it has never had anything except the...
4 Tools for Better Pinterest Experience
Do you love Pinterest? Does it keep you up at night, staying up late to add more images to your board? Do you find yourself...
The Tracking Tool That Monitors Your Guest Blogging Campaign Effectiveness
Trying to keep track of backlinks is one of the most miserable elements of being a guest blogger. Relying on the blog owner not to...
5 Social Media Events Organized by and for Women (2012)
In a world dominated by men in nearly every facet of commerce, it is important for women to come together in order to showcase their...
Interview with Deven Patel of Cyfe, All-in-One Web Dashboard
With so many new online services popping up every day, it’s becoming harder and harder to monitor all your data scattered across them. The bigger...
New FREE Tool Alert: Find Broken Links and Errors
Throughout the years I’ve been reviewing several broken link checking tools like Xenu (desktop), LinkAider (paid), Link Checker (free but quite limited) and others. While...