Trend Watch: In 2016, Influencer Marketing Will Shine

As the year draws to a close, most of our clients are already planning January press releases, events, product launches, and trade shows. In the age of Adblock, on-demand television, and online newspapers, traditional advertising simply won’t cut it. Earned media remains one of the best ways to reach and motivate your audience. To stay ahead of the curve in 2016, one of the key trends to watch is the rise of influencer marketing.

The importance of social media is ...

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5 Tips to Keep Your Startup Rolling

What is a startupYou’ve already taken the plunge and started your dream company, possibly moved out of your home office and have hired more than 10 employees. Congratulations! Now what do you do? Feeling a little lost at this stage of your company’s development is normal. We’ve come up with 5 tips to help you get past this, “Now what?” stage and ...

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4 Tips to Creating Top Content

Establishing your brand on digital channels requires a lot of the right kind of content. What’s the right kind of content? That depends on your audience. Content can be a mixture of product and safety announcements, informational posts and articles, news and trend alerts and funny anecdotes. While there are a lot of great things you can do on a branded blog (see some tips here), what can you do outside of blogging?

1. Get ...

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Content Marketing -2 Winning Strategies-Any Season-Including Halloween

Great Content Marketing strategies are…

the pumpkin in pumpkin pie, the Z in Zombie, the sweet in Halloween candy, the content in content marketing. As Google and other search sites put a stake through the heart of time tested marketing methods that “game” the SEO system, the power of the written word have regained its rightful throne. So, if your job includes driving monster web traffic, you will appreciate these well-carved power PR points.

1 -Don’t pinch pennies on content creation

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UVEF Top 25 Under 5 Winners Boost Utah economy – Go Entrepreneurs!

There was standing room only at today’s Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum (UVEF) awards event held at Zion’s Bank Canyon Room in downtown Provo. “Boostrapping” start-up Boostability took top honors with a raft of awesome companies nipping at their heels. Of special note this year, the same entrepreneur group posting 2 winners ...

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Google Fiber, PR, and Utah

These three things have nothing in common right? Wrong.

Recently the city of Provo in Utah Valley, a place  I call home, announced it would make a huge announcement that would change the city entirely by putting us on the map. Great, I thought…another mall or maybe even a commercial airline terminal at our airport (it’s hardly a landing strip). The morning of the big announcement came and I sat waiting for what was to come. The mayor stood with ...

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Content Marketing, Blogging, SEO, & PR are Close Cousins

Content Marketing, Article Marketing, Product Marketing–they’re all connected. The language of business success. Where are companies finding this success? It’s not a simple answer, but a lot more people are asking, What is a blog?  “How do I blog?  Why do I need to pitch bloggers and do guest blogs. As a component in a well ...

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It’s a Content Marketing World – Content is King…again!

Content Marketing is Old School made “New” with the advent of Google Panda & Penguin algorithm rule changes. Let me explain. Before the Web, blogging, before social media, professionals relied on delivering killer content through press releases, brochures, letters, phones, etc to attract and communicate with key publics/target markets. The power of great content was diluted by online SEO “gamers” of search systems. Savvy web marketers maximizes PPC and organic search results to drive ...

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Content Wins! The New SEO is the Old Public Relations – Write to Win Top 10

It’s more than backlinks and stuffing keywords. In the new school of SEO, it’s killer Content that wins and who better to write it than Online PR (public relations) pro’s?  If you ignore Google’s new search emphasis on ultra awesome content you may see your search results heading south like a duck in winter!

Public Relations firms, especially those with accredited, seasoned professionals whose English is ...

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