Awareness of opportunities can shift your marketing efforts to maximize success. More web traffic, higher rankings and more sales or leads enhance your value and income potential. For marketers it’s about recognizing or discovering business opportunities that are being missed. That leaves money on the table. Sales are missed and leads are lost. A friend […]

When business owners or marketers want to reach your B2B client’s target audience, you need an ideal client persona to know exactly who they are. The buyer persona or avatar helps you visualize who you are marketing to.  Without it, you may invest your marketing dollars and hear only crickets… your message never reached the […]

Even great websites and prolific writers can have sneaky “content gaps.” Finding and dealing with them protects your marketing strategy from failure. In this curated article, I share tips from SEO guru, Neil Patel, to do just that.   What Are Content Gaps? Content gaps refer to questions people search for, but your website doesn’t cover […]

In the past 20 years, content marketing grew up and got married. You still share helpful information, but now the “how” has shifted.  With more businesses flocking to be online, the marketplace is more crowded. Now it takes uniqueness to get noticed.   People like to personalize their weddings. Everyone wants their wedding to be unique. […]

Blogs are an engagement opportunity for your brand. Here are tips to master blogs and engage readers.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, people have lost personal connections and engagement. But, unfortunately, it’s made us crave them even more. Subliminally, we crave emotional stories. We're hard-wired to listen to them. Instead, we’ve had to deal with both personal and professional challenges. Like being trapped in an old-fashioned telephone booth, we were […]

It’s great for a business advisor to suggest you discover your Unique Selling Proposition, USP.  But identifying it is more complex. First, you need to discover your SWOT with an analysis and identify your ideal customers. As a career school instructor, I helped students learn about not only the need but how to discover their USP […]

We connect with stories like no other medium. We're hard wired to engage with them. The hero journey story is perfect for a brand, a product that came to the rescue or a client success story.

Stories help us engage with prospects because of the feelings they tap into. We touch hearts, share history and common concerns. We bond.

B2B marketing has changed a lot in the last 18 months. Buyers want to shop online and want more of a B2C experience. To stay competitive, you need to start planning your B2B Content strategy now.  Here are some of the most recent forecasts from across my desk.  1. It’s important to know your buyers. […]