Tag: Betsy Kent

There are many reasons that you may be considering (or already have) a business blog on your website. Perhaps you simply want to drive traffic to your website or sales page. Or maybe you want to constantly keep your content fresh. You may want to establish yourself as a thought leader in your field or [...]

Last night I saw a commercial for Bing For Schools. I don’t know if you saw it, too, but it ran before the president’s speech about Syria. Let me tell you why I think it’s a brilliant concept. Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, has never been able to gain a significant share of search because users have [...]

A frequent question that I get from many of my clients (with a lot of trepidation) after they have decided that they do want to have a business blog, is this: “What in the world should I write about?” Regardless of what your goal is for having a blog, my advice is, don’t try to [...]

The latest big disruptor in our digital world is going to be (and already is) the staggeringly rapid increase in the use of mobile devices. For everyone involved in marketing, this is something that we have to educate our clients and ourselves about. Because more than anything else right now, this shift affects every business’s [...]

A few months ago we posted a very popular blog, How To Create A Pinterest Account For Your Business. At that time, Pinterest did not offer “official” business or brand pages. Well, just like everything else Social Media, things have changed. Pinterest is now embracing its active community of businesses and brands by allowing Business [...]

Ever since brands and businesses began to embrace Social Media there has been a lot of discussion around whether it is more effective to build an in-house team or to outsource Social Media services. As a seasoned Advertising and Marketing executive, our friend Diane Epstein has worked at big agencies and small ones -  most [...]

A reported 97% of consumers search for local businesses online. Have you ever Googled yourself or your business? If you’re not so pleased with the results, not to fear:  here’s a suggestion for you to improve your online visibility right now: Set up your Google Plus (Google+) Local profile page It’s Google so it will appear in Google [...]

We are happy to introduce you to Phil Gerbyshak: Social Media, branding, and business coach, chief connections officer, master public speaker, published author, blogger extrordinaire, and so much more! His guest blog for Be Visible provides 5 highly accessible and critical reasons why as a business owner it’s a great idea to embrace public speaking to supercharge [...]

#HashtagsAreEverywhere. You may have even noticed that many TV commercials are now showing hashtags (like #OldNavy) and networks themselves are now embedding hashtags (i.e. #NBC) right into their normal programming – but to what end? Hashtags are being used on many Social Networks; but on Twitter, where they originated, hashtags are used to build a [...]

An Interview with Elizabeth Beskin of 5th Avenue Digital Social Media marketing can sometimes be a dilemma. How much time and energy should be invested? It is an ongoing question especially for businesses that have flourished and grown without Facebook, Twitter, etc. Many of our clients at Be Visible fit into just that profile. Meeting [...]