Here are four simple steps to help you measure your company’s content marketing ROI and the success of your strategy. Lean-startup pioneer Eric Ries said, “The only metrics that entrepreneurs should invest energy in collecting are those that help them make decisions.” In other words, measure the things that will tell you if an effort
Use these 4 steps to determine the topic clusters that will be best for driving organic traffic to your business’ website. You’ve determined your pillar content and written your pillar pages. Now what? It’s time to develop topics clusters. Topic clusters show search engines that your website contains breadth and depth on a particular subject,
Linkless backlinks, or mentions of your business without a hyperlink to your webpage, are now a more effective way to improve your ranking with search engines. For years Google has used backlinks to rank webpages. Backlinks are any link on another website that points (or links) back to your website. Unfortunately, search engines began to
Brand awareness is key in optimizing your content marketing efforts but can be challenging to quantify. Here are four metrics to help you measure brand awareness. Brand awareness is the extent to which potential customers recognize a brand and associate it with specific products and services. Making the public aware of your company is a
These social media statistics are important to keep in mind when planning out your content marketing strategy. A strong social media presence is key to successful marketing in 2018. Social media is simply unavoidable these days. So, you jumped on board and you’re posting and tweeting. You’re creating content. You’re learning about search engine optimization
To be effective, your content marketing strategy should align with your sales goals. Here are three simple questions to ask yourself to make sure your documented strategy is on target. I recently read an article on the Harvard Business Review that discussed pairing your sales goals with your marketing goals. This strikes at the heart
Here are three tips for creating a content strategy that will help advance your business goals. If we’re adamant about one thing at Fronetics, it’s creating a documented content strategy. But, as a recent Harvard Business Review article suggests, many strategies fail because they are not actually strategies. This begs the question: what constitutes a
Companies in the supply chain and logistics industries should take note of these top social media trends in 2018. While we don’t know what 2018 has in store for companies in the supply chain and logistics industries, we do know change is coming. That is true not only in terms of the economy and your
Resumes are hard. Always have been, always will be. It’s hard to write and talk about yourself. It’s even harder to boil years – or even decades – of experience and accomplishments into a few short pages of text and visuals. This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting, a boutique recruitment firm
Making the shift from doing to leading can be challenging for any supervisor, but great leaders need to master the skill of delegating. Delegating is a true skill set. Some leaders find it very difficult to let go of the control over daily tasks. They spend their time focusing on mundane details, instead of passing
More and more companies are leveraging digital technologies to keep extra tabs on their employees, both in the office and at home. This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting, a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management and Procurement. As part of our efforts to chronicle the ways the workplace is
Employees are much more than people you employ — they can be your best brand ambassadors. There are many benefits to having employee brand ambassadors, and one of the biggest is the rise in peer influence in B2B buying. But the benefits don’t stop there. There are the increased social media reach, growth in brand
