Curation of a Neil Patel article on the value of using an SME. With tips for boosting marketing ROI with SEO Content Skills and SME.

In today’s business environment, everything needs to be customer-focused. If you have gaps in your prospect details, it holds back your success. It doesn’t matter whether you are dealing with B2B or B2C, you are dealing with a human who is making the buying decision.  You need to have a clear picture of who that […]

Visitors use Google to find solutions many times a day. Search engines seek the answers. When a person enters a question, the search bot responds with answers they located. Search engines seek content that provides relevant, helpful answers to online questions. Quality SEO content is what Google wants.   When you can’t find answers I recently […]

We get all caught up in categories. We get hung up on names like B2B and B2C. Instead, we need to focus on how to humanize marketing messages by speaking directly to our prospects. We need to write H2H. Humanizing marketing is making it personal so readers connect with us more easily. When our prospects […]

The face of marketing to B2B buyers is rapidly changing, and there is a lot of somewhat confusing information out there.  After sifting through mountains of information, I found three keys B2B buyers desire when looking for a solution. In one sentence—B2B buyers want their experience to mirror their B2C personal shopping experiences. My own […]

Beauty and Wellness comprise over a 4.2 trillion dollar market and growing exponentially.  But the terms can be a bit confusing or vague. So, as a marketer, how do you pick the best words to reach your market? A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania showed that while there are some commonly associated definitions, […]

Telling your story is the first essential step to sales. People need to know you so they can like you and start to trust you. So to help them get to know you—tell your story. Who you are, what you stand for, and what makes you unique. Avoid being like these guys. Internet and phone […]

Familiar with the term Digital Sharecropping? It’s a phenomenon that most people don’t understand. An SEO guru colleague, Heather Lloyd-Martin shared a newsletter email regarding it and got me taking another look. Digital sharecropping refers to social media channels and how people and businesses interact with them. The earliest concerns about it date back to […]

Consumer and business demand are fueling massive growth opportunities in 2021. Get these four business team components in place to maximize your 2021 business growth. It's all about you and your teams. When many businesses or marketers think of growth, they focus on new products or divisions. But for real change, you need to start […]

Empathy engagement is key to relationship building. It’s the marketing path to creating long-term loyal fans and relationships.   But you won’t find what you need in a ream of demographics. Numbers and statistics don’t tell you what their thinking, feeling, or how they are responding to you.  Empathy engagement  Before I moved into full-time copywriting […]