Why Blogging Is Essential for Your Inbound Marketing Strategy

Why Blogging Is Essential for Your Inbound Marketing Strategy

Prospective clients often ask me what’s the single most effective tactic a startup or small business can do to jumpstart their inbound marketing efforts—to increase traffic to their websites. They always look skeptical when I say simply: “blogging. No really, blogging. That’s it.” Then I smile and qualify my statement: “Okay, high-quality blogging.” 

Of course, I’m only being half-serious here, but generally speaking if you own or manage a business of any sort, blogging is exactly what you need to capture the attention of your potential customers. And this is especially true if you run a startup or small business, which are often under intense pressure to grow their business. In fact, startups and small business gain several critical benefits of blogging.

3 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Team Will Fail Without Google Analytics

3 Reasons Why Your Content Marketing Team Will Fail Without Google Analytics

In marketing, a misconception exists that all marketers are essentially divided into one of two camps—the “data” team or the “creative” team. One team believes great marketing is “science” and the other team believes great marketing is an “art.”  A veritable cold war exists between these two mythological factions. In fact, many content marketers are openly hostile to analytics, as if they fear that being analytical will somehow reduce or destroy their ability to do bleeding-edge creative work. It took me a while to understand that this hostility was actually due to the fact that most marketers don’t really know what Google Analytics is or how powerful a content marketing tool it can be.