Book Review: Contagious

At SES London this year in one of the content marketing/social sharing sessions which featured Matt Roberts from Lindex, he mentioned Contagious by Jonah Berger as one item on a list of resources and items that they had found useful in evaluating whether or not they were producing “shareable content”. Intrigued, I ordered a copy during […]

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Book Review: Contagious

#HEROCONF Predicting the Future with CRO: Achieving ROI through Content

Jasmine Aye recaps Stefan Wiechowski’s HeroConf 2014 presentation on his opinion of the future of CRO, and how we all can grow businesses without the use of averages.

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#HEROCONF Predicting the Future with CRO: Achieving ROI through Content

Predicting the Future with CRO: Excuses and Assumptions #HEROCONF

Jasmine Aye recollects Bryan Massey’s presentation of case studies from HeroConf, discussing roadblocks prior to asking to test new elements on a site.

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Predicting the Future with CRO: Excuses and Assumptions #HEROCONF

Link Building ≠ Content Marketing. But Here’s How They Fit Together

Link building has gone through a lot in the past 18 months — and when content marketing became the buzzword of the day, there were troves of articles saying that content marketing is the new link building or that content marketing has replaced link building. That couldn’t be more false….

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BrightonSEO: Lessons Learnt about Content Marketing

Briony Gunson summarised a series of content marketing lessons from a selection of speakers at BrightonSEO speakers. Learn about the role content marketing plays at every stage in the buying cycle, how boring content can have great value and tips on designing great content.

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Friday Commentary: Why a Fear of Failure Might be Holding Back Your Marketing Success

The problem with modern day marketing is that, under increasing pressure to get results, we’re often too scared to fail in order to achieve success. But being scared in a digital era is not the best approach. Taking away that fear of failure, you open up much greater potential rewards. Kevin Gibbons explains in this weeks Friday Commentary how a CMO should look at these things and act.

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Friday Commentary: Why a Fear of Failure Might be Holding Back Your Marketing Success

Does Google Have A Secret “Translate” Service & Why Should Search Marketers Care?

Google is probably the largest translation service globally with its popular Google Translate online service. It is also fighting spammers that auto translate content with this service and put it online. This is why I was so surprised to see that Googl…

How To Get Your Content Linked To From Top-Tier Websites

Creating great content that other websites will organically and editorially link to is a core part of a modern-day SEO campaign. In premise, it sounds simple: you create a piece of content that is relevant within your niche and holds a certain level of…

The Psychology Of Online Sharing: ZMOT and The Ad Spend Fragmentation

In my last post, we discussed different sharing personas and the foundation of human motivations, so I would now like to take a look at the fragmented nature of social spending amongst top brands and analyze how they spend their digital budgets – highlighting the need to engage with your audience and community online. Apart from this we’ll also be looking into Google’s ‘Zero Moment of Truth’ (ZMOT) which is fundamentally all about getting closer to your customer.

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The Psychology Of Online Sharing: ZMOT and The Ad Spend Fragmentation

How To Repurpose Content Without Looking Like A Total Jerk

When content first hit the search scene, search marketers wanted to produce as much content as humanly possible. That’s a lot of work — so much so, in fact, that it’s ushered in wave after wave of crappy content. The great news is that you don’t have to create a lot of…

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Link Building Fundamentals To Future-Proof Your Online Business

Google launched in 1998 and has grown steadily to become the most popular search engine in the world. Over 2,161 billion searches were run on their engines in 2013, and the company corners a 67% share of the global search market. As it grows and evolves, Google search is well and truly on its way…

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