Content is a vital part of marketing, especially digital marketing. With SEO and PPC forms of marketing, without quality content these methods simply don't work. For the B2B buying process, content is vital, whether your marketing strategy involves direct marketing, digital strategy, traditional...
Ironpaper is a growing agency, and we frequently have to reach out to find candidates to fill new positions as the company grows. Our preference is to handle the HR hiring process in-house, rather than hire a recruitment company. This has given us the opportunity to try out many online job boards...
Defining customer/client segments and profiles is a vital part of the B2B marketing planning process. These segments are based on the differences in your customer base and can be used to create and define content strategy and messaging. For example, customer segmentation can take shape as email...
Content is at the heart of search engine optimization. Too many SEO professionals over-emphasize how robots will interpret the content of your website, whereas humans should be the real focus. User-experience should be at the heart of every SEO plan. After focusing on quality content and compelling...
Not all B2B websites or businesses have the same goals, intentions or needs. Yet, all B2B websites are still portals for communicating with other humans. It is a common falsehood that B2B should have a less customer-centric focus than a B2C website. Real humans visit both types of websites, and it...
Blogs can be a vital part of an organization's marketing strategy. The format and intent of a business blog can give authors the freedom to explore new and creative ideas not present in other parts of a business website. These ideas can spawn new innovations for marketing, as well as serve as a...
Certainly a hosted blog platform like Wordpress.com can be extremely easy and quick to launch, but the solution is not suitable for many business blogs. The hosted blog solutions cater more towards personal blogs. The disadvantages of hosted blog solutions particularly affect businesses. Some of...
The goals and intent of each business blog are unique to each business. It is vital to define and keep true to those goals, in order to assess the success of a blog or web property. For some businesses, the intent of a blog is to build a following with new visitors as potential customers, and the...
RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary (also known as Really Simple Syndication) and is a type of content feed format used to publish frequently updated websites—like blogs, news, audio sites, and video sites. Many blogs and news sites use RSS to build up readership. Heavy readers often subscribe...
SEO for websites and blogs can become a full-time job if you want your organization to be truly competitive. Search engine optimization is more than building links from external websites and pointing them to your brand's homepage. SEO is part science and another part art, and within this mix of...