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How to Optimize a Blog Post
Knowing how to optimize a blog post will gain you a better return on your content marketing efforts. Creating a post that is optimized for SEO, optimized for social media, and optimized for user experience, creates credibility for the brand. Also incorporate calls to...
Best Email Marketing Practices for Businesses
Best Email Marketing Practices for Businesses The top business owners in the San Francisco Bay Area know how important it is to stay at the forefront of their customers’ minds, so that when a need arises, they’ll be chosen to meet it. One of the most important tools...
How to Optimize Your Social Media Strategy
There are many ways to create a top-performing social media strategy in the 21st century. But before you can begin, you will need a workable game plan. It's a good idea to start by asking yourself a series of questions. Who is your audience? What interests, inspires...
5 Common SEO Mistakes Small Businesses Make
Many small business owners are losing out on potential traffic, because their web presences are not fully optimized for SEO. This may be from inexperience, a lack of knowledge or time, or a failure to realize just how important SEO is. The good news is that those...
Getting Influencer Marketing Right in 2018
Influencer Marketing has become the hot new thing on the digital marketing landscape. It’s been around for a while now, and it’s really starting to come into its own as a major digital marketing channel. Still, it does require you to entrust your brand or your product...
5 Easy Ways to Grow and Nurture Your Email List
More than once, we’ve pointed out that, of all the various remarketing channels, email marketing consistently shows the highest ROI (Return on Investment). It makes sense when you think about it. Unlike other channels, the people you’re marketing to have already...
Leveraging Reviews for Digital Marketing and Business Success
As a business owner, you’re surely aware of the kind of impact reviews can have on your bottom line. Your customers are probably aware of this too, at least in passing, but they’re often unlikely to take the time to leave reviews. It’s a problem of diffusion of...
NAWBO SFBA Seeks An Executive Director
We are kicking off 2018 with a search for a part-time Executive Director. Do you know someone who is passionate about women-owned businesses, is based in the Bay Area, has fantastic organizational skills and is comfortable seeking out corporate funding? The full job...
7 Tips to Follow When Using Social Media for Business
It wasn’t so long ago that message boards, chat rooms, and email were the only possible outlets for casual social interaction online. The scope and variety of social media we take for granted today simply didn’t exist. Even in high-tech cities like San Francisco,...
The Unique Challenges of Marketing for B Corps
For B Corps, as well as marketing your business message and branding, you will often find yourself dedicating some of your marketing efforts to communicating the very concept of a B Corp certification. Unlike more common certifications, like “Fair-Trade” or “Organic”,...
How to Achieve Better SEO Copywriting Results through Testing
As an SEO copywriter, you’ll get better results, more traction, more visibility, and more conversions if you use a testing and data analysis process to track and improve the results of your writing. You’ll build a stronger portfolio, keep your clients happier, and,...
5 Ways to Create Better User Experience
By now, if you’re reading this post, odds are you’re already familiar with the basic concept of “User Experience.” It’s been a buzzword in a variety of industries for a while now. Most recently a darling of the tech industry, it’s hatched into the mainstream and been...