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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Crafting Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Content Marketing for Everyone Else
Email Marketing for Everyone Else
Social Media Marketing for Everyone Else
Search Engine Optimization for Everyone Else
Website Conversion for Everyone Else
Digital Advertising for Everyone Else
Online Commerce for Everyone Else
Getting Started: Crafting Your Digital Marketing Strategy
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" is as true now as it's ever been. There are basic tenets of online marketing you need to build your strategy.
Understand the power of consistency, connect with your audience, own your content and set up ways to measure success. These and other keys laid out here will help you lay the foundation for a strong online presence.
- The “Secret” of Successful Digital Marketing: Consistency
- The Foundation of Persuasion
- Choose Your Cornerstone
- Find New Audiences in a Fragmented World
- Measure Your Marketing
- Control Your Content, Control Your Destiny
- Publish with Purpose
Content Marketing for Everyone Else
Content marketing is the engine that makes your business's online presence run. From writing effective blog posts to catching people's eye to building a podcast for your business, this is where you start your content journey.
- Your About Page Essentials
- Craft the Perfect Headline
- Great Ledes Keep People Reading
- As Above, So Below (The Fold)
- What Makes B2B Marketing Work
- Create an Online Course: Knowledge is Power
- Craft a Compelling Podcast
- Business Podcasts: This Content Marketing Goes to 11
Email/SMS Marketing for Everyone Else
Email marketing is still one of the most critical channels in marketing for almost every brand. Why? It lets you build personal relationships at scale. SMS (text) messaging does the same thing. Learn how to create messages your customers will want to engage with.
- Create Email Conversations Through PII
- SMS Drives Your Audience to Act
- The Spam Filter You Can't Ignore
- The FOUR Effective Email Stories
- Structure an Email Story that Sells
- The Autoresponder: Email that Stays Evergreen
- Want More Opens? Strengthen Your Subject Line
- Power Up Your Emails with Personalization
- Knowledge In Your Inbox: Sell an Email Course
- Don't Let Your Email Data Deceive You
- Bring the Human Back to Marketing
Social Media Marketing for Everyone Else
Almost 3 billion people use Facebook at least once a month. That’s more than the populations of North America, South America, Europe and Africa — combined. Marketers go where the eyeballs are, and that’s social media. No matter what platform you use, here are the keys to success with social media marketing.
- The Right Social Media Platform for You
- Should You Pay for ANY Social Media?
- Rent to Own: Social Creates Community
- The Long and Short of Content Curation
- Stop the Scroll
- Get Used to Knowing Less About Your Customers
- Social Proof: The Power of UGC
- Social Selling Starts With Your Site
- Influencers are for Business Too
- Building Trust with Influencer Marketing
- Vine is Dead. Hopkins Isn't.
Search Engine Optimization for Everyone Else
If Google doesn’t know who you are, chances are nobody else does either. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a critical part of your business success — and one of the least understood outside of the digital marketing industry. Read through these articles to stay aware of how search engines rank sites and what you can do to make yours more visible.
- SEO Starts with These 8 Letters
- Mobile Matters: 5 Keys to a Responsive Website
- Build Reputation, Not Backlinks
- Google Is Not Your Audience
- The Key to Local Visibility: Google My Business
- Details that Drive YouTube SEO
- Technical SEO: Help Google Grow Your Content
- Un-Break Your Links
Website Conversion for Everyone Else
It doesn’t matter how many people are listening to your message if they don’t do anything with it. Conversion is about turning your audience into customers. Find out how you can take your audience from passive to active.
- Fundamentals of Funnels
- Build Your Dream Digital Home
- The ABCs of Landing Pages
- The Offer They Won't Refuse
- The Most Loyal Customer is a Member
- Your Funnel Doesn't End With a Sale
- Convert More Customers with "Why You?"
- Love Conversions? Don't Hate on Popups
- Paywalls Power Your Business
- Turn Your Customers Into Salespeople
- How Local Landing Pages Turn Bricks to Clicks
Digital Advertising for Everyone Else
Organic search and social media matter, sure. But advertising can add a dimension your content marketing strategy is missing and help you reach new audiences. Learn how you can use digital advertising to grow your business with these tips.
- Social Media Advertising, Simplified
- PPC and SEO: The Bread and Butter of Traffic
- Promoted Posts: The Taste-Test that Works
Online Commerce for Everyone Else
eCommerce is just commerce now. The world is shopping online — and you need a good storefront to compete. Find out how you can engage your shoppers and keep them coming back to purchase again and again.
- Find the Right Affiliate Marketing Program for You
- There's No More E in eCommerce
- Build a Better Product Page
- Give Your Product Personality
- Seller Beware
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