Category Archives: Attracting Clients

Content Marketing Focus: Lessons from Steve Allen

Tweet Having a hard time staying focused on your business content marketing? Focus-schmocus. Sometimes you start off doing one thing and end up an expert at something else. Life is like that. I look at content marketing as an experiment or adventure. Some things work well and you do more of them. Others, well, let’s…

When Should You Start a New Business Blog?

Tweet When should you start a new business blog? Let’s face it, publishing frequently on a business blog is time consuming. Depending on how swift your writing and blogging skills are, it can take you 1-2 hours to publish a post of 350-500 words, including the writing, editing, linking, adding an image, and updating social…

Is Your Business Blog Sexy?
4 Simple Ways to Get More Blog Readers

Tweet When it comes to business blogging, many professionals forget that there is more to it than getting information out on the page. The appeal of business blogs and sites has a lot to do with readers’ impressions. How can you make your business blog visually appealing, even sexy? Blog formatting is key; in fact,…

Oscar Wilde: Advice on Better Blogging

Tweet You know that your blog is a key part of your search strategy, but do you know how to get the most out of it?  What would Oscar Wilde advise for better blogging? Thousands of blog guides exist, but do they really help or just cloud the issue further? This is what you need…

Online Content Marketing: Let’s Put the “We” Back Into Weblog

Tweet I get calls from small business professionals who want to start a blog or an e-newsletter. They’ve usually invested money in a nice website, and then suddenly realize that something’s missing… like customers and leads! They’re genuinely surprised that with the money they spent on their website, no one is coming to see it,…

Small Business Content Marketing: When to Hire A Freelance Writer?

Tweet When should you hire a freelance writer for your blog or website? Most small businesses don’t realize how much writing goes into publishing (and updating) a website or blog. Yet the content on your website or blog is the key component of your content marketing strategy. In order to get the online results you…

SEO: 3 Things Journalists and Bloggers Can Learn

Tweet From what I see, many bloggers aren’t using hyperlinks when they publish blog posts. Worse, in some cases, they aren’t teaching writers about this in online writing courses. I just attended a week-long writer’s conference in San Miguel. and although there were a few workshops on blogging and online creative non-fiction writing, not one…

Relationship Marketing Messages that Work:
How to Use Send-Out Cards

Tweet Relationship marketing is getting simpler with inexpensive tools. Yesterday I got one of those ‘Send-Out’ cards in the mail from a colleague whose webinar I attended. It’s a great way to practice the fine art of relationship marketing. Send-Out cards, although printed, look as if they’re hand-written, and can be used to get the…

2013: No Marketing Goals This Year, Just One Word

Tweet No goals for 2013. I’m not setting any marketing goals this year. Goals are bad. I am not kidding, and there’s research to prove it. This isn’t just me trying to avoid feelings of failure when I’m not seeing immediate results. Here’s an excerpt from Peter Bregman’s blog Consider Not Setting Goals for 2013…

Tips for Better Blog Outreach and Blog Marketing

Tweet How can you make the most of your blog marketing and outreach? Here are some helpful tips so that your business blog attracts more readers, and you get found, get known, and get clients. Small business owners know that a well-formulated blog with consistently fresh content can improve brand image, customer interaction and overall…