There are innumerable ways to promote your content, from email marketing to social media to even things like billboards, but many are campaign-based, requiring significant resources to implement. For the average piece of content, such as a blog post, that isn’t tied to a specific campaign, we tend to just throw it out there and…
Over the weekend, I enjoyed leveling my new hunter in World of Warcraft and learning more about the class. It’s quite a lot of fun. One of the things that occurred to me as I was leveling, however, was that hunters, like all of the other classes in World of Warcraft have the exact same…
If there’s one thing the jonin (heads of ninja families) had in spades, it was the long view, the perspective that spanned more than just now or the next battle, but the next decade or two. The most successful jonin leaders made decisions that might have seemed counterintuitive or foolish in the short term but…
The cloud sure is convenient. I can put stuff in it and never have to worry about managing or maintaining server infrastructure, system maintenance, etc. Someone else does all that, and I just show up, pay my dues, and have my stuff wherever I go. It’s perfect, right? Except… … when companies in the cloud…
Are you wondering how your prospective customers are behaving? Stop guessing, stop wondering, and start tracking! Google Analytics can provide some very interesting behavioral clues to prospect behaviors on your site if you’re willing to do a bit of coding to make it do more than just out of the box analytics. Here are four…
How do you come up with new ideas? Brand new ideas can be difficult to pull out of thin air, but there are plenty of ways to examine things that will bring out new combinations. For example, we’ve had flour, water, tomatoes, and cheese for centuries, but modern pizza is a relatively new invention (1899),…
Over the weekend at WordCamp Boston, I had the opportunity to chat with and speak in front of many fellow content creators. One of the things that struck me most was how confined our promotional efforts are. SEO is treated as its own space, which people think about without considering social media. Social media is…
