Many of us use social media for our marketing. I asked a few entrepreneurs to send me questions they wanted answers to regarding Facebook, and here we go! :) What is the difference between Facebook Ads and Boosted Posts? Facebook ads are the adverts you see either to the right of your newsfeed or even in your newsfeed. There are a number of options, such as CPM or CPC (see below) and they can serve a number of purposes. Boosting posts simply means you are paying for more visibility for your post with your followers and their connections, or even with a wider audience. The thing is, … [Read more...]
Getting found on Google – 5 things to keep in mind
If I had a dollar, pound or euro for each time someone asks me how one goes about getting found on Google, well, I would at least have one nice free lunch each week :) Search Engine Optimization - making your website, and other online information about you - visible on Google and other search engines (apparently there are others, like Bing and Yahoo ;) This used to be the realm of the techies. It was all about keyword analysis, meta data, robot txt, link building and all those fun things. Many of those things are still valid, but many are not and its impact is constantly diminishing. … [Read more...]
What happens in an hour?
One hour. 60 minutes. 3600 seconds. That's one session at the gym. That is one TV show (with loads of ads). That's one massage session – and not nearly enough! You can't really do that much in an hour. Do you sell your time? Whether as a consultant, trainer, masseuse, teacher or whatever. Does it all work out? Do you buy an hour from someone? How much do you get out of that hour? For a long time people have sold their time. When you get paid overtime you are getting paid by the hour. You get an x amount for your usual hours and y per hour above and beyond that. And if you have an … [Read more...]
Content Marketing: Creativity and Organisation
I want to talk a bit about the practical stuff around content marketing. Our biggest headache is often how we are going to produce our own content and find what other stuff we can share, for example on social media, which demand quite a lot of activity and can be challenging to keep alive and active. If you have been following me for some time, whether you have been reading the blog, subscribing to emails or following on social media, you can see that I use content marketing a lot. The content can take various form, can be presented in various ways and the purpose of the content can be … [Read more...]
Content Marketing: Are You Giving Them What They Want?
Marketing is changing. It has changed a lot since the start of the 21st century. With the internet, social media, mobile etc. marketing is less and less about one-sided broadcasting of marketing messages, like we know from traditional media like TV, print and radio, and more and more about pulling people in - attracting them. Marketing is becoming less about grabbing people and more about being there when people are looking for what you have to offer, or anything related to it. Marketing is less about pushing things on to people and more about pulling people in. The marketing jargon … [Read more...]