Funny & Fearless: How it can Work for You on Social Media

Wait, wait! Don’t run away just yet. There is a way for your business to show a little personality and be funny on social media. Granted, there have been jokes that have bombed by well-known businesses, but overall, posting a joke will have your customers laughing and will garner you new fans. To be successf… Read more

17 Experts Respond to Your Email Marketing 9-1-1

According to the Direct Marketing Association, each penny you invest in email marketing will eventually yield an ROI of 4300%, and Gigaom Research has found that marketers consistently rank email as the single most effective medium for awareness, acquisition, conversion, and retention.

Despite so m… Read more

14 Expert Tips for Improving Facebook Engagement and ROI

If you do any kind of marketing on Facebook at all, here’s a complaint you’re sure to have heard (or even made yourself):

“Nobody’s engaging with my posts anymore. It’s like I’m invisible.”

Indeed, sometimes it seems like it’s Zuckerberg’s w… Read more

13 Twitter Experts’ Advice for Your Small Business

Believe it or not, Twitter is going to be turning 10 years old in 2016.  Does that make anyone else feel old?

And despite the fact that the social network has been around long enough to have become essential to everything from journalism to customer service to talk-radio, many entrepreneurs and small busi… Read more

18 Book Marketing Experts Reveal Secrets That Boost Recognition, Get New Readers, and Increase Sales

There’s no shortage of advice out there about how to best market your independently published book to new readers. Indeed, it sometimes seems like almost everyone has something to say on the subject.

So who do you believe? Who do you pay the closest attention to? And who, at the end of the day, really h… Read more

Why PR Remains the Red-Headed Stepchild of Marketing

We all know that public relations is the best thing since sliced bread, right? As PR pros we become a little isolated from the rest of the world and think nobody could ever doubt the power of what we’re doing.

The fact is, though, public relations is still seen as the red-headed stepchild of marketing. For eve… Read more

Is Your Press Release Actually Timely?

Thanks to the internet and social media, news spreads faster than ever before. Something that happened a day ago or even a few hours ago is already considered “old news” and no longer generates much interest as people have probably already moved on to something else. Timeliness is everything in today’s ne… Read more

How to Think 3 Steps Ahead in PR

Public relations is all about timing. Post something online at the right time and you’re golden – post at the wrong time and you’re out of luck. Release your press release right as the holiday shopping period begins and you’re rich – release it too late and you missed the window. With careful planning comes g… Read more

PR Problems You Never Expected

Most PR pros have a grandiose idea of what public relations is before they go into the field. They see representation of it on TV or a movie and believe that the job is all glamour and hobnobbing with celebrities all the time. However, after a few years actually doing PR work, they quickly discover it’s not all … Read more

The Most Important Questions to Ask when Negotiating an Exclusive Coverage Agreement

Offering a reporter or media outlet an exclusive can give them a huge incentive to cover your story. Every outlet wants to be the first to cover a big story, so offering them an exclusive is a great way to pique their interest while at the same time building their trust and taking the relationship to the next le… Read more