"[Sales] Lions and Events and Facebook, Oh My!" The IMPACT Show Ep. 35 [Show Notes]

2018 is already moving fast and furious for us.

This week, Marcus, George, Kevin, and Zach (or as I like to call them, the artists formerly known as The Sales Lion) joined us for their in-office onboarding and a little team bonding.

Even Nick drove down from Boston to join in the fun (and of course, film The IMPACT Show).

In this week’s episode of The IMPACT ShowBob and Nick talked Facebook read more

50 Everyday Words That Actually Started as Brands and Trademarks

51-everyday-words-that-started-as-brands-and-trademarks.jpgMadonna. Shakespeare. Oprah. Fabio. Bono. Adele. Picasso.

You know you’ve made it when you’re known by just one name or word; when a single spoken breath can trigger everything about you in the minds of the listener and it’s practically synonmous with your product.

In many ways, this is the pinnacle of celebrity status and branding success, but when it comes down to business, sometimes it’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

The Good & The Bad of Becoming a Word

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Eyes-free Virtual Assistant: How Google Ranks For Voice Search  

Good gravy– does anyone else feel like the moment you get settled on a strategy/platform/tactic that everything changes? 

On one hand, it’s one of the things I love most about marketing — it’s constantly evolving. On the other — slow your roll!

Unfortunately, there will be no slowing of the roll anytime soon and from technical SEO to video, to user-generated content, we HAVE to not only execute tactics today but understand whatstrategies read more

Try New Things to Grow Your Sales Career! 4 Ideas to Get You Started

Have you ever considered the relationship between trying something new and achieving success and happiness?

Whether you realize it or not, you likely spend the majority of your day doing the same things you’ve done hundreds or thousands of times before.

On one hand, having a routine is great for providing structure, efficiency, and comfort, but on the other hand, falling into one day in and day out can make you feel like a bystander in your own life.

When’s the read more

Breaking the Stigma of Mental Illness in the Workplace (ft. Christina Bockisch) [MarketHer Ep. 19]

We’ve tackled a few personal and difficult topics here on MarketHer.

From when I lost my home during two hurricanes to Angela sharing lessons learned during difficult times in her life – we don’t shy away from the sensitive. 

This week’s episode is no exception. 

In this week’s episode, “Breaking the Stigma of Mental Illness in the Workplace,” we welcomed blogger and advocate Christina read more

7 Must-See Graphs: How Companies Get Competitive Intelligence in 2018 [New Data]

Company digital footprints have grown exponentially in the last decade, and with them, the amount of marketing intelligence available for the taking.

New data from Crayon’s 2018 State of Market Intelligence report shows success with competitive and market intelligence relies on getting complete coverage of that digital footprint.

In fact, 77% of businesses said holistic competitive intelligence – intel on every aspect of a company’s marketing, products, customers, read more

"How to Handle Feedback You Don't Agree With" (Creator's Block, Ep. 57)

I know we’ve talked about the art of giving and receiving feedback on Creator’s Block. But this week, we wanted to address something specific we’ve touched upon in previous episodes — how to handle negative feedback from clients that we don’t agree with.

Since it’s a significant feedback challenge on its own right, we would always say, “Hey, let’s talk about this on a different episode.”

Well, read more

17 Organizational Hacks To Cut Through the Stress of Your Growing To-Do List

Have you ever stared at your to-do list and felt yourself getting more and more stressed out? Or worried you’re never going the reach the end?

There have tons of times I’ve become frantic thinking about how many things I need to get done, with only 24 hours in the day.

It’s taken me many stress-filled days to realize organization was the answer to conquering my growing to-do list.

I knew I wasn’t alone in my stress;  read more

"Increase Search Engine Rankings with Technical SEO Ft. Britt Schwartz" (Inbound Success Ep. 21)

One of the scariest things a content marketer can experience is a sudden and dramatic drop in organic traffic. When Britt Schwartz saw this happen with one of her clients, she immediately set about identifying what the root cause was and determining how to address it. 

What Britt found when she analyzed Ambs Call Center’s traffic was that they had fallen far down the search engine results pages for certain keywords, and traffic has dropped read more

Grassroots Inbound: 5 Tactics I Used to Make an Impact Locally

I’m an inbound marketing strategist. I’ve been one for years and I am always amazed at what can be accomplished when strategy and tactics come together.

If you’ll be so kind as to indulge me for a bit, I’d like to share a story about how I accomplished something that was a longshot, through smart inbound strategy and tactics.

It was about this time last year when I made the decision to do something I never imagined doing —  run for my local school board.

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CRO: The Proven Process That Helps Turn Browsers into Buyers [Infographic]

If you could double the percentage of people who take action on your website, how much of a difference would that make to your bottom line?

The truth is, the average conversion rate for most eCommerce and lead generating websites sits between 2-3%. Yep.

That means about 98% of your visitors are leaving without converting.

The major reason that these conversion rates are so low is that many consumers have trouble navigating your website.

Too many brands design for themselves read more

18 Expert Predictions for Every Marketer in 2018 [Infographic]

2018 isn’t what I thought it would be.

Where are the flying cars and self-tying shoes we were promised, am I right?

The absence of these wonders (and I suppose some more practical items) goes to show you the future is unpredictable.

As a marketer, you can try to analyze your data and forecast what needs to be done in the next year, but success relies on more than just what’s under your own nose.

No matter what your past performance, a new medium, law, tool, or competitor read more