When someone starts telling a story, people lean in and listen. As part of survival, we listen to them automatically. Today, storytelling is essential to your business. It’s how we humanize the brand and help people connect with it.

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 […]

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

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.

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 […]