A Primer for Blogging

“If you would like to get further into blogging, here is a brief primer…” A list of quick tips, easy to do, no theory, just practical suggestions that you can do now. For the new blogger or for anyone wanting to improve their blogging, in easy steps…

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5 Keys to Effective Social Media and Content Insourcing

“Last week, I wrote about the concept of ‘insourcing’ and the need to expand your social media and content marketing beyond a centralized, command and control structure (typically led by marketing). At Convince & Convert, we get involved in these ‘insourcing’ programs often, working with corporate clients to create social business structure that facilitates participatory…

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30 Things to Tweet or Post About Your Brand

“Businesses often experience a loss of direction shortly after starting into Twitter or a Facebook Page. Once they have had enough of following influential people and greeting people in their network, there seems hardly anything worth doing. If you too are facing a similar Twitter/Facebook-crisis, relax, this post is especially for you. Just use a…

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The Art of Writing Great Twitter Headlines

“Twitter has become the place for sharing content links. If your content catches attention on Twitter and spreads, suddenly you’re getting significant traffic from people who may have never visited your site before. What you share on Twitter is not just about the actual value of the content. It’s also about whether the content gets…

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Online Video Placement Best Practices

“Today there are more than 300 million websites on the internet fighting for consumers’ attention. Driving customers to your site with online ads, email, and social media is one thing; keeping them there is another, and generating multiple visits is the ultimate challenge of a customer-focused strategy. So, how do you drive a visitor to…

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Will SEO Exist in 2015?

“SEO used to be a self-standing marketing discipline, having a well defined, generally accepted set of activities and objectives. No more. Today, SEO is much more intertwined with other marketing activities, making it difficult to know where SEO ends and where social media, for example, begins. Furthermore, recent developments at Google suggest that the search…

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