My answer to most is yes, for most businesses, it pays to craft a blogging strategy and stick with it. Many clients groan, but we find a way to work it into their content plan and it usually pays off. According to Hubspot – business websites with active blogs receive 55% more traffic and 70% more conversions (defined as purchases, sign ups, downloads, customer interactions). Those are compelling numbers.
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My Guest Post on Small Business Trends – What shoveling Snow Taught me about Small Business
Now that spring has almost sprung (although it’s April, parts of Pennsylvania just got a bit of snow, and the west received a lot more) I thought this would be my last opportunity to share by guest blog post from SmallBusinessTrends.com. You see, it was inspired by this winter where Philadelphia (where I live) got … Read more
Emotionally Intelligent Signs are Good PR Both Offline and Online
Signs and signage can set the tone for an interaction between a potential customer and a business, both offline AND online. Storefront signs are a essential for bricks and mortar businesses. Sometimes those created by a business are useful, other times useless. But what people don’t think enough about are the online applications of the equivalent of good signage. Daniel Pink’s concept of “Emotionally Intelligent” signs even works on websites too.
PR 101 – Goals: 5 Reasons for Using Social Media for your Small Business (Part 1 Reasons 1-5)
My guest post just came out on the EQ List (Entrepreneur’s Questions). But in my Five Key Questions for Savvy Web PR, I left one question off. The question for entrepreneurs that I missed was: “Why am I doing…what I am doing? (i.e. whatever PR activities I am engaging in),” or phrased another way: “What are my goals?” for each PR activity my business is engaged in. Social media is one of those activities that entrepreneurs too often jump into without asking that key question.
