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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Creative Ways to Boost Brand Awareness for your Online Business

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Savvy digital marketers are always in search of what gets their brands recognized by potential customers and to correctly associate the brand with a particular product/service. That in technical parlance is brand awareness. It can be directly linked to a name, a slogan, a logo, a peculiar color hue and any other distinguishing features that stand the brand out from others. Growing your brand awareness online is a way of making your brand better known and consequently better patronized. There are creative ways you can get it done to make your brand benefit from more searches by internet users.



Below are creative ways you can directly improve brand awareness for your business.

Creative Use of Podcasts

Even though Podcasts are relatively new form of media and inexpensive communication tools, they can help position your business as an industry thought leader. If your podcasting has good content and your listening audience enjoys it, it can help increase brand awareness for your business. Your business can creatively use podcasting to develop a distinctive voice. That way, your business can establish its unique character and identity to help drive its marketing goals. Quite unlike traditional advertising, podcasting allows businesses to build a more personal connection with their audience. This helps to build trust and creates customer loyalty for the business. Podcasts can directly help to increase brand awareness through podcast advertising and the use of audio snippets which podcast listeners can share easily and widely on social media.

Create Value Beyond Your Product/Service

If you want people to take you seriously online, you must be able to create value beyond the product/service you are selling. You can explore creative ways to educate and even entertain your audience before offering them a product/service to buy. That is about the best way to sell them something without making it overtly obvious that you are trying to do so. In other words, you can deliberately create memorable awareness first and selling follows closely behind. You can for instance present yourself as a thought leader and some sort of expert in your niche industry offering free education and advice. That way, you can directly get the attention of a lot more people who appreciate you and are willing to patronize you and even help to push your brand for free.

Guest blogging

If you are a good blogger, you can creatively use guest blogging to boost your brand awareness. Guest blogging helps you to gain immense publicity, increased credibility, good traffic and a lot more followers to grow your audience. Once the content you share in your guest blogs are of high value, impactful, engaging, relevant, and backed by incontrovertible facts, establishing you as an authority and thought leader in your niche industry, it can help to boost awareness for your business. However, for your guest blogging to be relevant, effective and authoritative, you must find a reputable blog/website to blog for. That helps to grow awareness faster, making guest blogging a great way to build brand awareness and generate good organic traffic.

Contribute Meaningfully To Your Community

If you aim to create brand awareness for your online business, it pays not to ignore your offline customer base. If you want your business to quickly become a household name in your local community, you must take active part in sponsoring and organizing various community events. Organizing local derby’s, clean ups, children’s’ picnics, games, sports and helping voluntary service organizations like the Red Cross and Boy Scouts are great for business awareness. You can offer branded items as gifts and corporate donations. Occasionally bringing out your employees wearing branded T-shirts and Face caps to participate in charity work and community clean-up is a great way to build awareness for your brand in your local community. During these exercises, your brand benefits from free press and good business reviews. Such events can help you to get more people talking positively about your business and your brand. Many more people really get to be more familiar with your business name, brand and logo as a result. This helps your brand awareness quite immensely.
 
Use Infographics Creatively

If you can creatively communicate with infographics, it can help boost your brand’s visibility. Human beings are naturally attracted to graphics, especially when they are entertaining and informative enough. So, you must take good care to design your infographics with attractive colors and aesthetics. They should have an easy-to-locate CTA button to help boost engagement and drive traffic to your site. To enhance this, your infographics must be easy to share particularly on social media. You can embed them in your website/blog in such a way as to make them effective to attract backlinks from reputable websites to your site thereby enhancing visibility for your brand. If well designed, infographics can help your brand stand out from its competitors through visible demonstration of expertise and dependability. This can be quite great for brand awareness.



Offer Free and Paid Plans Together

To easily get the attention of consumers, you must always find creative ways to offer free plans first which can be upgraded to paid plans if they like what they see. By offering a free version of your paid plan, you can get people to check out your services without having to commit yet. If they like what they see, it can help create a major buzz in the right communities, thereby boosting your brand awareness no end. You must always remember that it is awareness you want for your brand. So, when offering the free plans, make sure the package has your brand logos and name imprinted strategically across the product.

Build Rewards into Referral Programs

You can directly improve your brand awareness level if you habitually reward users for referring others to your brand/product/service. The average human being likes rewards and gifts. If you are able to creatively use rewards to appreciate the people who refer others to your brand/product/service, the word quickly goes round and many more people get involved in the referrals. That creates real awareness. Most users will gladly spread the word about your highly rewarding referral program, and others will quickly get involved knowing they’ll be rewarded as well. That inevitably helps to improve your brand awareness.
 
Tell Your Brand Story Well

As the saying goes, no one can tell your own story like you. In like manner, no one can tell your brand story as well as you. When building a brand, telling your brand story well is vital for success. It is more credible and believable if it is you telling your brand story as it happened. This story begins from its conception ideas, the people involved, history, challenges, mission statement, vision, achievements and even your bragging rights. Creating a credible story around your brand is an essential part of brand awareness. You can tell this story in various ways, such as through a narrative if you believe it is more convincing and believable that way. The more believable your brand story is, the more awareness it creates for the brand.

Run Awareness Ads

Awareness ads are really becoming very popular on social media and most of the popular social media platforms have in-house tools to help marketers run the ads. On most social media platforms, you can deliberately run ads targeted at raising brand awareness. Savvy marketers can easily capitalize on the available options to boost awareness for their brands. Because there is already a practical and effective segmentation of the audiences of most social media platforms, awareness ads can be used to target specific groups of people based on their gender, location, race, educational level, age, and so on.

Last Line

If you follow the foregoing ways/methods diligently, you can improve brand awareness for your business. It is best however to use creative ways to combine as many of these methods as convenient if you want to get the best results from your efforts. Good luck!!

Saturday, January 08, 2022

Best Online Business Strategies for E-commerce Beginners

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Yes, covid-19 restrictions are still somehow in place but people must do business all the same. If you are new to e-commerce, you must first recognize that some business strategies have high potential, and some don't. That is the way it is in the world of e-commerce business. For this reason, it is imperative to first thoroughly analyze the market space to discover which e-commerce business has great potential before you make your decisions, pandemic restrictions notwithstanding. Below are some tested e-commerce business strategies that can help entrepreneurs to earn money online.



Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a fairly easy business to start online even without prior experience. All it entails is to simply promote products online by sharing their referral links. These are affiliate links you can actively share on your blog, social media, email, or other online platforms. Any time someone clicks on your referral link or makes an order through the link, you earn a commission for your efforts. It is as simple as that. Online, there are a vast number of businesses looking for affiliate marketers to help them generate customers through effective links promotion or even word-of-mouth marketing. Large and very popular e-commerce websites like SFI TripleClicks, Alibaba and Amazon do offer affiliate programs that new e-commerce entrepreneurs can easily take advantage of.

Virtual Online Teaching

Teaching all kinds of skills online is a very lucrative business. Experience during the early stages of severe restrictions during the pandemic proved that businesses didn’t have to grind to a halt simply because of the pandemic. Online teaching and learning stepped up to help out. Many people were forced to study online. As a consequence, even offline-based institutions moved online. Many people with valuable and important skill sets in specific areas translated their knowledge into online courses and training and they started earning good money. More and more online learning platforms sprang up as well and the business continued to expand despite the pandemic. As a new entrepreneur interested in online teaching, there are many ways you can sell your online courses. Most common among them are by organizing online training sessions, self-publishing eBooks and making tutorial videos. You earn good money for your efforts.

App Developer/Web Designer

With improvement in technology, app and software development have become a great niche to start a business online. App developers now find good opportunities to create mobile apps and websites. If you are creative enough and have real interest in coding, HTML, CSS, and other aspects of web design, you can become a freelance webmaster/web designer. This is yet another great online business idea. Even if you don’t have the requisite experience in this field, you can leverage valuable web design resources, courses, and tutorials available for beginners and you’ll be in business pronto.

Social Media Management

SMM or Social Media Marketing is becoming increasingly popular with new online entrepreneurs. These are people who effectively use social media marketing to promote products/services online. They deploy social media efficiently as an integral part of their overall online marketing strategy. However, because of the diversity of many social media platforms, it could be hugely challenging to effectively manage them all for best results. One business opportunity this creates is that other businesses can outsource SMM to social media enthusiasts and experts who understand social media marketing and are able to manage social media platforms/pages well enough. Such experts get paid handsomely for their services.

Niche Market Retailer

Online, there are always buyers for almost everything. Even if you don’t have the requisite skills in social media management, affiliate marketing, or other online business ideas, you can create an e-commerce store to sell specific products like hand crafts, home made goods and even retail merchandise. If you promote the store well enough, you get good traffic, leads and sales. Comparatively, setting up an e-commerce store is relatively easy nowadays. Even if you are new in e-commerce business, you can create your hosting service with integrated e-commerce software or list your products on an e-commerce marketplace and you are in business.

Freelance Graphic Designer/Writer

Freelancing business online enjoys a lot of flexibility. Freelancers can freely choose what they do, how they do it and even who they do it for. If new in freelancing business, they can even decide to work with popular and credible freelance platforms like Upwork and Fiverr, freelancers who can help you to decide what to work on and who to work with. Most businesses require the services of good designers to create infographics, logos, posters, and other visual designs. If you have a flair for writing and you have the requisite writing skills, you can use your talent to get job offers to write blog posts, eBooks, and sales copy from people across the globe. There are limitless opportunities for web designers and good writers online.

Handmade Craft Seller

If you have the skill sets for handcrafts, you can create an e-commerce store to showcase and sell handmade crafts/art. Even if you can’t make them yourself, you can get these products from a supplier and sell them online to make money. Other highly creative endeavors like photography, carvings, sculpture and painting and other beautiful works of art can help with good income online via an e-commerce store.

 

Dropshipping Business

Dropshipping business requires you to sell online by simply taking customers’ orders and partner with a third-party wholesaler/retailer who handles the inventory and order fulfillment side of the business. It is one of the best ways to make money online without the need to invest or buy products in advance by way of huge investments. To make your own money, you just need to sell the products with a bit of a mark-up over and above the wholesaler’s price. For e-commerce beginners, it is really lucrative since they don’t have to worry about cost of storage and inventory handling/management to run the business successfully.
 
SEO, Search Engine Optimization Consulting

If you have the technical know-how and a good knowledge of SEO, starting a consulting business for website owners is a good business idea. With more and more people taking their businesses online, the competition for search engine rankings is really becoming tougher. If search engines don’t rank your websites in their SERPs high enough, it doesn’t benefit from highly valuable organic traffic. For this reason, many companies/brands that are obsessed with staying ahead their competition through ranking high on SERPs and turning their searchers into customers need good SEO techniques on their websites. Because SEO is really technical, it requires some good expertise to be able to render the service by way of consultancy. Those who know how can render the service and make good money from it. Good SEO consultants help business owners to analyse how their brand’s websites are doing online. From the results, they can best prescribe effective SEO strategies that help to increase traffic and customers to such websites.

Becoming an Influencer

Most influencers earn money mainly through brand sponsorships. They work by helping brands promote their products/services on their page. This is a very effective marketing method because most influencers usually have a large following on social media, and people see them as some sort of experts in a particular business niche. You can thus become an influencer in food and hospitality brands, sports brands, logistics and travels brands, hotels and accommodation brands, fashion brands and so on. There are several social media platforms influencers can take advantage of to build a large following. The larger an influencer’s following is, the more he earns. To become an influencer, you can start a podcast, become a TikToker, or create a YouTube channel, Pinterest or an Instagram account through which you can be creating valuable content regularly for your followers who rely on your opinion as an expert. That way, you get to build a real online presence, have a lot of following, and you earn money through commissions by promoting/endorsing products for products merchants.

Friday, February 26, 2021

Content Marketing Tools that Get Quick Results


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Content marketing is a digital marketing strategy that involves creating and promoting any marketing content online. Marketers use content marketing primarily to generate brand awareness, increase social media following, increase website traffic, and ultimately to generate customer leads and sales. A good content is one that is educational, engaging, informational and even entertaining. Such good content helps marketers to attract traffic, get leads and customers. Practical examples of the types of content tools used by content marketers are e-books, blogs, online courses, infographics, case studies, how-to guides, glossaries, industry news, videos, images/graphics and banners, podcasts, and webinars. Digital marketers try to capture the attention of their target customers by publishing these content tools on their business websites, promoting them through social media, through email marketing, SEO, and even paid ads.



As pointed out by experienced marketers, some of the most popular content marketing tools that get quick results are:

Video Marketing: The use of videos online is hugely popular and widespread among marketers because it gets quick results particularly when promoted on social media. Many popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram encourage video content on their platforms. Now, videos are so important on YouTube that it has become the second most popular search engine after Google. Many shoppers now use it to find information about all kinds of products. Many rely hugely on YouTube product reviews to make their buy decisions.

Blogging: This is readily the most common content marketing tool among digital marketers. A good blog content spiced with relevant keywords for SEO helps to generate organic search traffic to business websites. If you blog regularly by writing articles in your business niche with informative content, it helps to demonstrate and firmly establish your industry expertise in the eyes of your readers. Blogs are very useful content marketing tools that have proved successful for creating some impact for increasing sales revenues. This is more so for products where customers can read reviews and write comments about personal experiences through blog feedback.  

Infographics: Infographics are a form of visual content designed to educate people. They often use charts, images, numbers, and minimal text, to communicate information quickly and clearly and give an easy-to-understand overview of a topic. The reason they tend to attract readers attention better and faster at giving out very important marketing info quickly. They get good results too just like videos.

eBooks: These are a long-form content type designed to inform and educate readers. They are similar to blogs in many respects except that they give more details in espousing a subject matter as well as the expertise on the subject. On business websites, eBooks find use as token gifts to get sign ups. That way, they serve as efficient lead magnets to collect the contact details of people who sign up to download the eBooks. That helps the marketer to build up a credible and reliable prequalified email list quickly. Every sign up thus represents a potential customer if followed up with appropriate emails from the marketer.

Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Blogging as a Creative Online Marketing Strategy

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Blogging is one of the most cost-effective ways to market your business online. Your blog is a great place for you to share your expertise with your target audience and to market your business. The only notable cost element of blogging is your time and if you blog creatively, the time expense is always well worth it.

If you use the creative strategies below, you can maximize the effectiveness of your blogging efforts.

Write Quality Content: With blogging, content is king. The more impactful the content, the better for your blogging efforts! You must be careful to create only content that is worth reading and sharing. Major search engines particularly Google don’t like poor quality content. So, if you as the writer wouldn’t read it, better don’t create it at all.

Make Sharing Easy: A written piece can easily go viral if it is shared easily. Make use of the sharing button on each post generously to ensure your post reaches a very wide audience online. That is the surest way to quickly get real exposure for your blog pieces.



Write only for Your Audience: Write only what you’ll love to read yourself if you were a shopper. By visualizing what your audience will like to read, it is possible to write what they’ll actually read. One essential element to successful online marketing is by understanding who you are writing for very well. You get some traction and impact better when you write solely for your audience.

Create Statistic Lists: Statistics can be very impactful and tell good stories. You can create a list of eye-popping statistics to wow your audience. You get their attention better by creating posts to explain the statistics and how they impact the audience.

Create High Visual Blog Posts: Visuals are very impactful on readers because human brains generally process images much faster than texts. For high visual blog posts, you can use Memes, Videos, SlideShares or Infographics to share a message.

Use Graphs/Charts: Graphs/charts also have high visual impact on your audience. Thus, when you use Graphs/Charts on your blog posts, they make it easier for your audience to digest and understand the message at a quick glance.

Create “Ask the Expert” Pieces: Experts do command a lot of respect in online marketing business. Expert opinion usually plays a great role in buyer decisions. By reaching out to leaders in your industry and interviewing them on burning topics and industry issues, you can get a treasure trove of information to write about. Publishing your findings on your blog makes a great deal of impact on your audience.

Ask Experts to Share: Many industry experts always have a huge following on social media. By following them and helping to share their pieces, you can in turn request them to help share yours. That’s one social media etiquette that is highly impactful on blogging. If industry experts help you to share, you get extra visibility from their huge audience.

Top 10 Lists: This is one blogging strategy made popular by expert blogger David Letterman. He insists that readers always love top 10 posts. Getting quality posts in that range from your blog is good for traffic.

Optimize Your Titles: Doing so helps to attract a crawl from search engines. It also impacts the rating of your content in their SERPs. Because Your Blog Title is the first thing your audience interacts with, it must be impactful at a quick glance. If it is not impactful enough, it risks a frequent pass by from your reading audience since they have many other competing titles on their feed. For more and better impact, it is advisable you spend just as much time crafting your title as you do creating your content, if not more.

Pace Your Posts: Blogging for quality is much better than blogging for numbers. Before you write each post, take some time to think through it before you start writing. Rushing your blog posts just to meet self-imposed deadlines leads to poor quality posts. If you are quite realistic about the amount of time you need for any piece you are writing, you can take the time to do it right. If you can’t do it right, please don’t do it at all.

Be Flexible: It is good to have a content schedule for your blog to avoid overwhelming yourself. However, just take content schedules as mere guidelines that do not require stressing up about. Leave enough room for flexibility to take on more timely events even if not in the earlier schedule. Always remember you are writing for an audience. It is what your audience likes and wants to read that dictates what you should write about most of the time. That demands a bit of flexibility despite content schedules.



Guest Posting: Be sure to do it the right way. You can reach out to blogs in your niche industry and offer guest post content. Some may not accept but some may say yes but with some conditions. If the conditions are acceptable to you, just go ahead with your guest posts. Guest posting on a popular industry blog is good for traffic.

Buy Content if necessary: At times you may not really have sufficient time or hands to meet your content schedule. If that is the case, you can then consider buying quality content. Since content development takes time which you don’t really have, it is OK to hire good content writers for some reasonable fees. Content writing professionals may just require you to provide them a few details about your business. Once you pay their fees, they get the job done.

Write “How to” Blogs: People read blogs to get information or find solutions to pressing problems. Writing “how to” blogs helps to meet that need. You can develop a simple step-by-step post that helps your audience find solution to a problem they are experiencing. By making it concise, simple and enjoyable to read, it easily attracts readers. If for example you run a confectionery business, a good “how-to post” like “How to bake tasteful cupcakes” is a good idea.

Create List Posts: Blog readers tend to like list posts because they are always helpful and straight to the point. You get your info point by point instead of reading a whole lot of stuff before you can decipher a few points from the whole lot you’ve read. If you run out of ideas to write about, you can use Google to help find great blog topics relevant to your niche.

Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Effectiveness of Visuals on Blog Posts

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 Every blog is designed to attract traffic and eventual leads. The reason it must be informative, educating and even entertaining enough to attract readers. Experienced digital marketers now know that blog posts which contain a lot of visual content are a lot better for generating traffic and leads. The selling point of visual content on blogs is that most people like looking at something attractive and captivating. That is what visuals provide in blogs which helps such blogs with better depth and insight. Many people actually gauge the meaning in blogs through visuals like videos, images and pictures. 


 

Visual illustrations are vital keys to help blog readers know how to take some important steps at blog sites. These are steps like call to action either to sign up for a special offer, download content or whatever and wherever the blogger wants to lead the reader. Great leads usually come about from such developments and leads are highly needed in marketing efforts.

If you are desirous as most marketers do to keep your readers interested in your content in order to help establish your brand, great visuals usually come in very handy in that quest. What images do in blogs and do really well is to enhance the posts by boosting their appeal and thus make many more people read the entire post as a consequence. Some visuals are also very helpful to expand on the ideas in a blog post. They also serve the very useful purpose of providing an emotional connection and a deep, personal connection with the reading audience of any blog.

Some very interesting visuals in digital marketing are Infographics. These provide an excellent way of getting all of your information across to your readers in a way that’s visually impressive and succinct. If you have a blog and you’re not significantly generating leads from it, you may be missing out on a lot of competitive advantage that other businesses are enjoying with blogging. Most marketers get more leads when they use a blog than when they choose not to. Visual content helps out a great deal to attract the much needed traffic and eventual leads. The real reason they are considered highly effective.

Visual content contributes a great deal to make a blog content great. By the time you have a great content on your blog, such content automatically becomes a resource for both your market and your industry. Such content easily goes viral with time. Over such period of time, more sites will be able to link to your useful posts and attract potential leads towards you. That is actually one of the hassle-free ways of generating good leads. If you blog, your biggest challenge most times is how to ensure that you get good and attractive visuals on your blog content to help attract organic traffic and eventual leads.



 

Thursday, June 06, 2019

4 Creative Marketing Campaign Ideas to Promote Your Business

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Expert marketers tell us that visual marketing involves using images, videos, infographics and memes to deliver valuable and relevant information in an engaging visual format. It simply means marketing with visuals/pictures. It is highly effective because visual content usually has a higher impact on people’s minds than written content. The real reason it manages to get more people to visit your website, know your brand better and patronize your business much better than with written content. With the increasing use of social media sites like twitter, facebook Pinterest, Instagram and a host of others, visual content marketing is becoming more and more popular by the day. The real reason smart digital marketers and business owners now use these strategies more profoundly for their visual campaigns. 


 

Here are 4 main benefits of visual content marketing which your own business can take full advantage of.

#1: Increased Website Traffic

Every online marketer wants traffic, traffic and more traffic. What gets this traffic best is what is best for the business. Visual content is uniquely important at giving a unique touch to any website/blog thereby helping to grab the reader’s attention fairly easily. Even though online marketers like playing with words to show the value of their products and services, making use of visuals in addition to words always manages to have a greater impact on readers. That translates to the much needed traffic every online business needs.

#2: Better Customer Engagement

The more customers’ attention is engaged on a site, the higher the chances of their taking positive action. Characteristically, visual content is more engaging and powerful than written content. A combination of both works well to attract better attention from customers. If you add pictures and graphics to your written content, your marketing campaigns become more interesting. That translates to better traffic.

#3: Increased Conversion Rates

 
There is research evidence that a brand’s video usually influences over 80% of viewers to buy a product or service from the brand. The real reason it is smart business to use visual content as a marketing strategy to generate leads and increase sales. In practical facts, a very high percentage of people usually get to know about a product faster by simply watching a video. Exactly why smart marketers have come to realize the real importance of visual content marketing strategy as it relates to increase in conversion rates particularly when such visuals are incorporated in the landing pages of websites/blogs.

#4: More Brand Recognition

Experienced marketers now know that many more people learn faster mostly by way of visuals. That most people comprehend better with images, videos, and other visuals than with written words. Therefore, you can easily raise brand awareness among your target audience if you incorporate visual content marketing strategy in your marketing plans. A sustained effort at that usually helps to gradually increase the much needed recognition for your brand. Updating your business website and landing pages with compelling graphics, icons, photos, and videos helps brand recognition much better and faster on the long run.



Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Effective Tips to Repurpose Your Blog Content


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These days, many online marketers routinely blog for business! That is digital marketing. Digital marketing is a highly technical and very competitive business. In digital marketing, there are always innovations and new methods of reaching your audience as we all learn what works and what doesn’t at least for today. The growth horizon is unlimited. What works tomorrow may be different. Blogs are an excellent way for companies to educate their target audience, build relationships with potential customers, and position themselves as industry thought leaders. One drawback which many bloggers at times overlook is that even if your blog content is very good, it could get lost in the archives once newer content is posted. You may not easily come up with new content to continually replace the good ones. That is one real problem you can overcome by exploring ways to repurpose your blog.

Repurposing your blog content can help it reach a new audience, resonate with them in a new way, and drive leads. That is what most bloggers want to happen and you too can make it happen by repurposing your own blog.

These here 5 tips are very effective for repurposing blog content to bring in more traffic and convert more leads. You may add others which work for you if you have considerable blogging experience.

Don't fix what isn't broken: Performance is the key here. If you manage to have a good blog post that performs well over a long period of time, let it be. You may write additional follow-up blogs that link back to the original to drive additional traffic, but don't be afraid to keep sharing a well-performing blog if it's evergreen content. When a blog post is doing well, just leave it to keep doing well.

Continually update your blog information: Quality content always holds the key to good blog performance. Once you identify a blog post that does really well, but the information is outdated, you can update it with recent information. That way, you can continue to share and promote the piece, while having it remain timely and relevant to your audience.

Change the format: Blogging trends determine what readers prefer to see. So, over time, you can consider turning your written content into a video, infographic, or even podcast which can engage a new audience. Some users respond better to visual content than written content, so it's important to create content for that audience as well.

Build spokes off your hub: Literally speaking that is. This is one great technique that works with deeper exploration of a good content. If you have a blog post on a major or in-depth topic, you can use that as a "hub" off which to build "spokes." You can then write related posts and link them back to the original post. This helps extend the lifespan of the original post, builds referral traffic, strengthens SEO, and gives you quick ideas for creating quality content.

Tinker with the size of your content: You may decide to expand or shrink your content. If you have very long or very short content, you can easily repurpose it. For example, if you have a blog that offers 5 tips as this one, you can make a separate blog out of these 5 tips. You may also decide to break the post into 5 separate blogs using infographics, visuals, and more by expanding on the individual tips separately. It works the other way, too. If you have a longer blog, or other long-form content, you can rewrite it shorter for better understanding. 



Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Leveraging on Infographics to Market Online

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You may want to ask, what exactly are infographics? Marketing experts say, Infographics are simply “graphic visual representations of information, data, or knowledge” that “present complex information quickly and clearly.” What makes infographics really effective in the presentation of a message is actually their ability to present complex information quickly and clearly. That helps to easily catch the attention of potential customers even within the short attention span of their exposure to the marketing message. That is really the trick behind the effectiveness of infographics in getting across a marketing message.  They allow people to see the true meaning of the data easily and quickly. As marketing tools, infographics derive their effectiveness from the fact that they include SEO-friendly terms in their messages. That is how they are able to drive new users to a website through increased search visibility. In addition, they can easily be shared on Social Media sites such as LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook and Twitter. On Social Media, if such messages manage to go viral, it helps to get your brand to a wider and largely untapped audience without any additional promotional efforts on your part. That naturally engenders a major boost in your marketing efforts.

 

Everyone marketing online is always desperately seeking the attention of very inattentive  people. That is always a very big challenge to all online marketing efforts. Marketers have since discovered that the attention span of many online surfers is always very limited. It is these same surfers who are notoriously and grossly inattentive that marketers always strive to catch their attention with a view to getting them to buy products/services. This no doubt is always a very tough task. What to do then to get around this problem. Welcome infographics! Whether it is connecting with customers, closing a deal with prospective clients or promoting efficiency within your own operation, you just have to device ways to get your message across quickly, efficiently and effectively. Only infographics can make that possible with impressive results.