Do you ever wonder whether your audiences read your digital content? The content for which you painstakingly brainstorm, research, write, and edit? Sure, you can track email open and click-through rates, unique and returning website visitors, session duration, bounce rates, and other metrics. But do your audiences really read it? One way to find out is […]
Content Marketing
Is Your Content Following the Trend?
Most businesses have accepted or even embraced the idea that without creating content, your website can’t hope to compete for search engine rankings, high visitor counts, or much engagement. There are just too many sites out there fighting for the same eyeballs that you want. If you don’t put something appealing and fresh in front […]
4 Common Misconceptions About Creative Content You’ll Want to Avoid
When we think of the words ‘creative content,’ we may immediately picture global campaigns from huge well-known brands: innovators like Walmart, Spotify, and Netflix that shake up the industry and change the game. These juggernauts continue to create iconic content that is justly celebrated and pulls in prestigious awards. You might be thinking: these campaigns […]
3 Ways to Raise ROI & Grow Your Business with Content Marketing
A friend recently asked if I could recommend any good books for learning SEO principles. And despite working as an SEO specialist and consultant, I didn’t have any recommendations for him. Why? The principles of SEO and content strategy are constantly evolving—so much so that books can be outdated by the time they’re published. And […]
7 SEO Tools for Local Businesses
If you’re running a small business and you want to rank your website for keywords, you need to optimize the content for search engines AND ensure that it offers value to readers. Once you get into the process of optimizing content for search and benefiting from the results, you’ll be happy that you did. Search […]
Clustering Users for Enhanced Audience Segmentation
Audience Research is an important piece of any successful marketing strategy. Whether its conducting interviews, surveys, or content analyses: Audience research can help define who your users are & what they truly care about At Seer, we developed a unique technique (leveraging Analytics & behavioral data) to cluster users based on the actions they take on […]
5 Ways to Improve Your WordPress Blog
If your blog runs on WordPress, it is in good company. WordPress is now the most popular CMS in the world, powering almost 32% of all websites. WordPress sites post an average of 70 million blog posts monthly, and these get 20 billion views and growing. But if you want more views or conversions than the […]
With Which of These Marketing Predictions Do You Agree?
2019 awaits us. Which new trends and practices will be in store for marketers in the new year? I did some digging and discovered several predictions for your review. I leave it to you to decide which ones have merit and which do not. According to Janice Chou in a recent Forbes article, “content marketing continues to […]
How Your Company Can Beat Social Media’s Decline
2018 has been a challenging year for a lot of brands, especially because of social media. Social media consumption is at an all time high, but user satisfaction is dipping dramatically. Recent studies at the University of California show that there’s a correlation between high Facebook usage and negative physical and mental health, as well […]
Jumping on the Podcasting Bandwagon
As we march towards January, I am devoting my time here to talking about some of the channels and marketing tactics that you need to have in your consideration set for your 2019 marketing plan and one that rises to the top of that set is podcasting. Previously, I shared these statistics: The average US […]
