By Chip Gallent I have been playing in bands off and on for more than 25 years, or about as long as I have been in the business world. Though the parallels of being an entrepreneur and playing in a band may not seem obvious, believe me, the two have a lot in common. Some […]
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Do you see the featured image guys? My wife Kelli and I are working a 5 week house sit at this particular home in Turkey. This Cappadocia region of Turkey is world renowned for both having bizarre-looking rock and mountain formations plus some cool-looking, stone, cave-style homes etched into mountains and built into hills. Rumor
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Throughout 2018, I was responsible for the launch of just over 100 content-led link building campaigns. They all had a shared goal of earning links and coverage from the world’s biggest publishers for clients across retail, travel, finance, and other sectors. Here’s a small selection of publications where I earned links from across the year:
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You’ve probably come across an online quiz or seven where they ask if you’ve ever done this, if you’ve ever eaten that, or if you’ve ever visiting this place or that. You tally up your score and determine that you’ve still got a lot of the world to see, a lot of food to eat,
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We analyzed 912 million blog posts to better understand the world of content marketing right now. Specifically, we looked at how factors like content format, word count and headlines correlate with social media shares and backlinks. With the help of our data partner BuzzSumo, we uncovered some very interesting findings. And now it’s time to
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According to recent stats (2019), Instagram is the 5th most populated social network in the world. 1 billion monthly active users (MAU) on Instagram This puts the visual platform far ahead of social network giants such as LinkedIn and Twitter, and right behind the Chinese competitor – WeChat. Social Networks Monthly Active Users — Source:
6 figures a year? Wow, awesome. I will follow that blogging strategy. Related blog posts and resources: Wait a second…this guy nabs 3,000 visitors daily following a different approach. Hold on! This Ryan Biddulph guy never talks outcomes, never checks stats, and circles the globe through blogging? Plus, he landed features on world famous sites?
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Blogging has come a long way from the days of niche link catalogs and online journals. From the stratospheric rise of content aggregators such as Huffington Post and Gizmodo in the late 2000s to popular figures such as Tim Ferriss, Michelle Gardner, and Amber Clark, a slew of digital superstars emerged over the years. But
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Local search and SEO are frequently treated as secondary considerations for search marketers. Yet, especially where mobile search is concerned, they should be primary. Using Google’s own data and public statements, it’s safe to say there are at least 350 billion annual local queries, which is still probably conservative. The New Realities of Local Search
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For select consumer product categories, Amazon, while imposing, isn’t the kind of category dominator that makes or breaks a brand’s e-commerce fortunes by themselves. Fashion is one such category. Despite 27.4 percent of U.S. apparel being purchased online in 2017, an array of niche retailers (e.g., The Children’s Place) and D2C companies (e.g., MeUndies) are
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