Blogging

  The Case Of The Missing Blog   “Do you have a blog?”   Whenever I sit down with a new client that’s one of the first questions I ask. You may thinking…”Betsy, you should have checked the client’s website before the meeting.” And you’re right. But read on:   At our first meeting I have [...]

Sometimes a content marketing strategy gets some pretty unexpected results. But when a blog post gets a New York City dentist into a Google commercial on TV in the U.K., well, it’s something pretty rare.   About five years ago I took on a new client, Dr. Michael Sinkin. Dr. Sinkin is a dentist in New York City…and he [...]

  I’ve suspected for a long time that there is a growing number of Facebook users who simply don’t want to leave Facebook anymore, for any reason. Even something as labor un-intensive as clicking a link can be too much work for these folks! And the fact that so many people use mobile devices instead [...]

  You’ve worked hard to build your business and you love what you do. Every day is a new opportunity to meet new customers and transform their lives. You’ve spent a lot of time getting to this point, and you’re very proud of what you’ve accomplished. Then one day you do a Google search for [...]

[This post is from my Tuesday Tips series) This is my cat, Cocoa. She’s not particularly talented as far as felines go, yet she has developed a very successful marketing strategy.   For real! My cat is a brilliant marketer.     Every time I go into the kitchen Cocoa follows me and proceeds to [...]

    I have a confession to make: This week I screwed up. I’m late with my blog post. The due date I set was Monday with a few days for reviewing and editing before posting early Thursday (today) morning. Well it’s now 11:58am on Thursday here in New York, and I’m still working on [...]

  Want to get more mileage out of your Facebook Fan Page? We all do. Without spending ad dollars your status updates will only reach a fraction of your fans, so I recommend that you boost your posts whenever you can. (I’ll be uncovering the pros and cons of boosted posts on Facebook in two weeks.)   I’ve [...]

    I have a confession to make. I used to hate, hate, hate writing blog posts. It was once one of my most dreaded tasks. Blogging is an important part of marketing these days, so I had to figure out how to write a blog post in a way that was fun and faster. That involved creating a formula that [...]

Blog categories and tags are the tools used to organize content for your readers. Whether you’ve been blogging for a while or in the process of just getting started, you are going to have to make some decisions about them. It’s easy when you think of categories as your blog’s ‘Table Of Contents”.   How To Use Blog Categories   [...]

If you blog for your business, it’s likely part of the reason you are doing so is to make sure that Search Engines (especially Google) can find your web page when someone is searching for some answers that you can provide. So, if you are one of those people whose eyes glaze over when someone utters [...]