Many brands and businesses (including non-profits) should adopt the traits of a media company. By being like a media company, your brand can take a more inbound approach to marketing. See why non-profits should blog About eight years ago Tom Foremski (of the tech blog Silicon Valley Watcher) began...
Many brand and marketing managers are under a lot of pressure to drive up numbers for digital marketing efforts, whether the KPIs are traffic, leads, engagement metrics or custom events. Here are a couple tips to keep the numbers moving in the right direction without being too wasteful with spend....
Some businesses have followed bad advice in the past when outsourcing their SEO efforts and have been penalized for link spam. Google punishes websites for buying links or employing link spam to artificially build search ranking. The results of the Google penalty can be measured in radical search...
Telecom companies can use social media to engage new B2B contacts and energize existing customers. As a starting point it is a good idea to do an initial influencer analysis to understand the key themes of the industry's online conversation in social media and search. An influencer analysis will...
Most web analytics analytics can be used to also capture mobile app performance data. Google Analytics for instance can be used to measure mobile app metrics. Analyze and measure mobile app performance Number of installations and downloads Devices used to access the app Networks used to access the...
Managing a member website involves building internal (member) engagement as well as building external network engagement to build membership. Here are 5 engagement marketing tips for building awareness of your member network to drive membership. Use email to drive engagement around content....
Many enterprises and businesses pour their hearts and souls into the website design and development process, but fail to support their websites longterm. Many organizations feel that if we build it they will come. This hopeful approach does not work out well for website marketing. This article...
SEO is a longterm process. Member websites have a unique advantage in some ways, in that they possess user-generated content (UGC). One of the clear opportunities of membership websites is that you can mobilize members to build search ranking for the website, helping to drive web traffic from...
Rather than waste money by blasting journalists email boxes, consider tapping into your own support network to get the word out. In order to build support, it is vital for non-profits to create a voice. The web is a perfect place to develop this voice. We recommend that nonprofits make content an...
Arts organizations should be more like media companies. Arts organizations must extend their brands online to improve fundraising, engage audiences and build advocacy. A media company is a organization that publishes useful, interesting, entertaining or enlightening content in the hopes to attract...