Blog


diamonddog middle-age-people-sitting-and-using-laptop Five Top Google Ranking Factors to Impact Your Website Placement Online

Use Google Ranking Factors to Increase Visibility for Your Business Every business wants its website to appear on the first page of search.  Only .63 person of people click through to the second page of Google search results.  Just as important is Google’s domination of the search engine market.  Of all the online queries conducted every day 91.9 percent use Google.  Only 2.88 percent of searches occur on Bing and Yahoo has even less with 1.51 percent market share.  There are paid and free ways to help ensure your website ranks high......

Continue Reading


diamonddog business-deal-shakehands Gain New Customers and Revenue with High-Converting Content

Seven Easy Steps for Producing High-Converting Content You have probably heard the phrase, “content is king.”  However, when I present my content marketing workshop, I tell attendees that quality content is king.  This quality content should not only be original and engaging, but also high-converting.  High-converting content is created with your prospects in mind.  In this blog, discover the steps to producing high-converting content that will help to turn your prospects into revenue generating customers. Seven Steps for High-Converting Content Success Writing high-converting content has changed over the last 10 years; therefore,......

Continue Reading


diamonddog woman-with-dog-smiling-in-front-of-computer Google Alerts - A Free Media Monitoring Tool to Keep Marketers in the Know

Get the Latest News on What Matters Most with Google Alerts Google offers an awesome library of free online tools, such as Google Analytics, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Alerts, and many more.  In this blog I am going to focus on Google Alerts, a tool widely used by marketers.  You will learn how this easy to set up and use solution will become invaluable for a variety of reasons. What are Google Alerts? Google Alerts is a free digital marketing tool that monitors the Internet for you based on keywords or keyword......

Continue Reading


diamonddog Man-in-his-vegetable-store The Key to Business Success:  Selecting the Right Target Market

Don’t Waste Marketing Resources, Be Spot-On with Your Target Market Often times when I teach a workshop, I ask the question, “Who is your target market?”  More than once I have received the answer, “everybody”.  Business owners like to believe that everyone in the world will buy their product or service.  However, this is not the case, which can result in using valuable marketing resources to pursue the wrong customers.  In order to increase sales, it is critical to understand your target market and determine the most effective ways to reach it.......

Continue Reading


diamonddog Team-analyzing-graph A Few of my Favorite FREE Marketing Tools

Marketing Tools to Make You a Smart Marketer When I started writing this blog, the first thing that came to mind was the song, “My Favorite Things,” that Julie Andrews sang in the movie, The Sound of Music.  I know I am dating myself for a few of my readers.  However, the marketing tools I am going to explore with you are a few of my favorite things that I have used consistently over the last several years.  All these tools have paid versions.  However, they also offer free versions, which are......

Continue Reading


diamonddog happy-mature-man When is the Perfect Time to Send an Email Campaign?

Learn How Timing Matters for an Effective Email Campaign An email campaign may seem to be an outdated form of marketing to you.  On the contrary, even in 2022 it is still one of the most effective tools in any marketing team’s plan.  It can lead to new lifelong customers and help to grow your bottom line.  B2B marketers as well as B2C industries still embrace email marketing.  Fifty-nine percent of B2B marketers claim email is their most effective revenue generation channel.  Email campaigns boast a 3,800 percent ROI, which make them......

Continue Reading


diamonddog hands-typing-on-mcbook-air A Content Calendar Can Help You Make the Most of your Marketing Efforts

Experience Organization and Many Other Benefits with a Content Calendar You have many great content marketing ideas that you would like to execute.  However, it is critical that you carefully plan out your marketing efforts to guarantee that you make the most of your time and budget when creating every piece of content.  A content calendar, which is often called an editorial calendar, will help you do just that.  This written schedule details out not only when or where you plan to publish upcoming content, but also includes other valuable information to......

Continue Reading


A Content Marketing Strategy is Key to Business Success A content marketing strategy is a plan for building an audience by publishing, maintaining, and distributing frequent and consistent content that educates, entertains, and/or inspires.  With a strategy, the content you produce will turn strangers into frequent website visitors.  Ultimately, these visitors will more likely become customers. We have all heard repeatedly that “content is king”, and those companies that have a content marketing strategy are more likely to be successful.  However, not all companies have a documented strategy.  In fact, just 43......

Continue Reading


diamonddog girl-on-laptop An Advertorial is Perfect for Growing Your Business

Gain Visibility While Educating Your Customers Have you ever read an interesting article to only discover that it is an advertorial instead? An advertorial is a cross between an advertisement and editorial content; therefore, the name advertorial. A company sponsors, pays for and often writes it or hires an agency to produce the content. An advertorial can be published in print publications and in digital media. Its goal is to inform prospects about a company’s product while also providing educational content. The words, sponsored content or advertorial, are posted either at the......

Continue Reading