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Jennifer Lawrence

3 Crucial Steps to Optimize Images for SEO

3 Crucial Steps to Optimize Images for SEO

I’ve already written about how to use images in regard to copyright. You should always follow those tips and tricks to keep yourself out of legal trouble. But there is more to consider when it comes to the images used in your content marketing. Copyr…

How to Reach Your Buyer Persona with SEO

How to Reach Your Buyer Persona with SEO

Have you ever been solicited by an SEO firm? Hold on. Let me rephrase that. When was the last time you were solicited by an SEO firm? As a business owner or marketing director, you’ve been solicited by dozens – if not hundreds - of SEO firms over the…

How Strategic Sales Enablement Turns Marketing Leads Into Revenue

How Strategic Sales Enablement Turns Marketing Leads Into Revenue

What happens when a small-town woodturning company suddenly generates more leads than it can handle? For Glacial Wood, a Minnesota-based manufacturer serving designers and builders worldwide, the answer wasn’t to slow down — it was to invest in sales…

What is SEM?

What is SEM?

I’m sure you’ve heard this acronym before. It’s commonly used in conjunction with SEO. And the dreaded word strategy. As in, “What’s your SEO/SEM strategy?”

4 Tips for Successful Demand Gen

4 Tips for Successful Demand Gen

The demand generation tactics I’ll be covering are all about ensuring your efforts don’t produce results that fall short of your expectations, because let’s be real, nobody wants that.

Customer Data Collection is Crucial... Here's Why

Customer Data Collection is Crucial... Here's Why

Collecting customer data is the single most important key to your marketing strategy. Without data, you’re marketing blindly, hoping to reach your target audience or persona. Many businesses that collect data don’t know what to do with it and end up …

6 Undeniable Benefits of Google Ads

6 Undeniable Benefits of Google Ads

First, a brief introduction to Google Ads and how they work. Google Ads are those text ads you see on Google Search results. Typically, there are four above the search results and several more at the bottom. You may remember there also being seven Go…

How to Build A Highly Qualified Email List

How to Build A Highly Qualified Email List

This post is going to focus on arguably the most important part of building qualified email marketing lists: getting leads into your database! Not just any leads. The right leads.

How Much Does Media Planning And Buying Cost?

How Much Does Media Planning And Buying Cost?

You work hard for your money. So, spending your marketing business dollars wisely is important. But how do you know how much to spend, or where to spend it? I can tell you that your marketing budget should be spent on, well, marketing! And I’m not ta…

Today’s Consumer and Lead Nurturing

Today’s Consumer and Lead Nurturing

It’s 2018 and a lot of things have changed and evolved. Flip phones are few and far between, AOL Instant Messenger has turned into Slack messages, and dial-up internet is no more - thank goodness. It should be no surprise then, that the way your busi…

Can I Do Marketing and Ignore Demand Gen?

Can I Do Marketing and Ignore Demand Gen?

Okay, okay. We’ve pushed this whole demand generation thing a bit the past few months. We know. But that’s your indication that it’s super important. So, grab your favorite cup of joe and jot down this brain knowledge I’m about to spill.

Before, During, After: Inbound Marketing + Event Marketing

Before, During, After: Inbound Marketing + Event Marketing

Your organization has just made the decision to host an event - great! Now to the planning and promoting of the event. There’s a lot to think about when planning an event. All the logistics of the event usually come top-of-mind. However, promotion of…

Sales Enablement in Four Easy Steps

Sales Enablement in Four Easy Steps

>Have you been playing a game of telephone with your sales and marketing teams about your company goals? Are the strategies and processes you have in place not quite hitting the target? The strategies and processes you have in place determine how …