I’m eating donuts today. Why you ask? Because for the past 1096 days (3 years) I’ve been my own boss. This spring wasn’t easy, but summer and fall have been better and I’m heading into glee’s fourth year with renewed optimism and spirit.
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The skills set required of mothers isn’t that different from the one required of entrepreneurs. Yes entrepreneurs have an expertise in a particular field. But you could be the world’s top expert in anything and still that would not be good enough to get a business off the ground, run it day to day and grow it. Running a business requires additional skills that aren’t always front and center, but are critical to success. Continue reading “Everything I Know about Entrepreneurship I Learned from My Mom”
When we connect with people in our personal or professional lives we almost always build a familiar and comfortable rapport. It would be weird to talk to someone who sounds robotic. But all too often in our marketing and public relations writing that’s exactly what we do! We fill our website, emails, articles with industry jargon, acronyms and formal writing that makes it harder for the reader to get through and connect.
Today marks two years since I opened the figurative doors to glee Content Marketing. In that time, not only have I continued to sharpen my digital marketing skills by staying up on top trends, but I’ve learned to handle many new challenges that come with running a business.
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Have you noticed your friends sharing recent purchases or products they love on their social platforms? That’s a marketer’s dream: user generated content. Free advertising.
User generated content is today’s brand advocacy. Officially, user-generated content (UGC) is defined as any form of content, such as images, videos, text and audio, that have been posted by users on online platforms such as social media and wikis. As consumers turn to their online acquaintances for purchasing advice more often, it’s become a critical component in marketers’ content marketing strategies. Think of it as an additional form of your content curation strategy (if you don’t have one of those, read this.)
Here are the answers to the key questions (the who, what, when, where and why) marketers need to employ user generated content effectively in their strategies. Continue reading “User Generated Content: Who, What, When, Where and Why”
Blogs are great things. They give businesses the opportunity to add fresh content to their websites and share their expertise while building thought leadership. But the downside of blogs as anyone who’s ever had to manage one knows all too well, is they can be hard to maintain consistently week in and week out. Yet, a blog’s success relies on doing exactly that.
Unfortunately, many things get in the way of creating a powerful, successful blog including writer’s block, lack of time and lack of buy-in from colleagues. These challenges all limit productivity and value of the blog suffers.
The good news is that you don’t have to flounder. Here’s your guide through the best ways to overcome these challenges. By doing these things you’ll keep your blog current and full of relevant content that is valuable to your readers which in turn drive more traffic to your site, converts leads and positively impacts your bottom line!
So let’s go get it!
Remember film strips? (If you don’t, you’re probably under 21 and can learn more about them here.) But if you were a kid in the 60s-90s, that film strip projector rolling out was exciting. And they did the job well until something better—first VCRs, then DVDs and computers—came along and made them obsolete. Similarly, digital marketing has changed over the past few years and today some strategies that were popular maybe just five years ago aren’t generating results (and in fact, may be doing the exact opposite) now. Continue reading “5 Digital Marketing Strategies To Stop Using Right Now”
Elizabeth (Liz) Johnson, founder and principal of glee Content Marketing, has been invited to join the team of regular moderators that facilitate the event industry’s well known weekly Twitterchat, #expochat.
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