14
May
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By Mikel Erdman
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Growth Hacking 101: Three Easy Ways to Drive New Visitor Traffic to Your Blog

Adding new content to your business blog on a regular basis is a wonderful way to establish and build rapport with your customers, to inform them about new products and services and more. While you may want your existing customers to benefit from your blog posts, you may also want your blog to attract new visitors to your website. This can help you to grow your business by improving visibility and creating interest in your company's various offerings. While there are many steps that you can take to drive new visitor traffic to your blog and website, these are among…
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07
May
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By Mikel Erdman
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5 Reasons Why Making Your Blog the Hub of Your Marketing Efforts Will Deliver Results

Developing a strategic marketing plan is an important step to take if you want to maximize your return on investment and use your funds in the most effective ways possible. There are many efforts that you can take to reach out to your target audience through your marketing efforts, but most businesses will benefit by making a blog the hub of your marketing efforts. There are a few reasons why you may want to consider creating a marketing strategy around your blog. Improve Search Engine Results Search engines use many factors to rank websites for relevant keyword searches, and one…
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14
Apr
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By Mikel Erdman
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Important Differences Between First Time And Move Up Home Buyers

Here's an interesting infographic on some of the key differences between first time home buyers and move-up buyers. You'll notice significant differences in age, household income and family size. These are all important factors to consider when developing your target market, and thinking through your marketing strategy to reach them. Feel free to download or share this on your blog or social accounts. You can find a lot more of these on my Pinterest board. <<<--- Also, share it to your social networks by clicking right over here...thanks!   Infographic credit: http://www.mountainseed.com  
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19
Mar
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By Mikel Erdman
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Why Should I Care About Blogging or Content Marketing? Here Are Three Great Reasons

These days, more and more company leaders are realizing that internet marketing can be an effective medium through which to advertise their goods and services. Yet in many cases, these business leaders don't know which online channels will be most effective in helping them promote their goods or why. If this is your challenge, you should note that blogging and content marketing can be incredibly effective mechanisms that help your company experience continual growth and expansion. Content Marketing: The Basics A blog is essentially a collection of web pages comprised of posts that provide readers with information about a product/service…
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11
Mar
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By Mikel Erdman
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Content Curation: How a Few Minutes a Day Spent Curating Content Can Help Boost Your Traffic

These days, many website owners and bloggers are looking for ways to boost their web traffic. While there are a plethora of strategies that can be implemented to realize this objective, content curation can be particularly effective. Let's take a quick look at why this internet marketing strategy can be effective and help establish you as a thought leader in your space. What Is Content Curation? Although defined broadly, content curation is essentially a process of analyzing and sorting through the existing content on the web to find the best pieces that cover a particular theme. Content curation is similar…
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26
Feb
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By Mikel Erdman
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Struggling for New Ideas? Four Easy Ways to Come Up with New Blog Post Topics

Whether you have a travel or beauty blog, it is very important to update it with new content on a regular basis. If you go weeks without making a post, your readers may lose interest and stop visiting your blog. However, it can be difficult to come up with fresh topic ideas all the time, especially if you have had a blog for a while. Here are four easy ways to come up with new blog post topics. Just Brainstorm If you are having trouble coming up with blog ideas, you should just sit down at your desk and brainstorm…
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