Jon-Mikel Bailey — June 1, 2020 SEO or search engine optimization is the practice of getting your website to rank well for targeted keywords and phrases. It used to be super easy to do but that was like 20 years ago. Now, SEO is an ongoing practice that takes skill and patience. Achieving a ranking … Continue reading 3 Things That Can Help or Hurt Your Website’s SEO
Fabio Panzavolta — November 25, 2019 Follow @collectivgenius Scrum requires a self-organized team to deliver “done” increments at the end of each Sprint. This peculiarity sometimes raises criticisms and questions when it is discussed in trainings or when coaching the clients: how can a team work without a leader? How are we going to do … Continue reading 4 Unbalanced Accountabilities That Can Hurt Your Scrum Team
Elise Dopson — April 8, 2019 Follow @elisedopson — April 8, 2019 Marketers are intimately familiar with their industry and product. But that familiarity isn’t always an advantage. Often, they unknowingly overwhelm or confuse the same visitors they seek to persuade (with long, jargon-filled product pages, for example). Your knowledge, in other words, can become … Continue reading The “Curse of Knowledge”: How Expertise Can Hurt Marketing
Faster-loading sites was at the bottom of a list of marketing priorities according to an Unbounce survey. Greg Sterling on January 25, 2019 at 8:41 am Load time matters. Beyond the fact that Google has made page speed a mobile ranking factor, consumer behaviors and perceptions are significantly impacted by page load times. That’s according … Continue reading Slow pages hurt conversions, but marketers aren’t in a hurry to fix them
Liz Kislik — November 7, 2018 Follow @lizkislik — November 7, 2018 Maybe you’ve heard this saying: “The world is divided into people who know they are right.” That’s the entire saying — and you can see why! Whether it’s a kneejerk reaction or a data-gathering process that’s heavily subject to confirmation bias, most of … Continue reading How to Raise a Problem and Not Hurt Work Relationships
Chris Pentago — May 12, 2018 — May 12, 2018 OvidiuTepes / Pixabay I recently had a discussion with a friend that does lead generation and email marketing for pet supply companies. He admitted that his job has gotten tougher over the past few years, but it isn’t because of problems in the industry itself. … Continue reading 6 Solutions When Spam Filters Hurt Your Email Open Rates
JoAnn Corley — December 5, 2017 Follow @joann corley — December 5, 2017 jarmoluk / Pixabay I have to admit, I think I know a good bit about many things — particularly in my area of business. That statement and thought has just made me vulnerable to improvement and greater success. And, because I am … Continue reading What You Can’t See Can Hurt You
Dania Dunlap-Hurden — August 5, 2017 — August 5, 2017 cdu445 / Pixabay Meetings. The word is enough to strike fear into the hearts of most employees. It evokes wasted time, wasted money, and, above all, wasted energy. They’re slow, pointless, and most of them could be accomplished via email, right? Wrong. Meetings don’t have … Continue reading How to Structure Your Meetings to Help, Not Hurt, Efficiency
Jo Lynn Deal — January 30, 2017 Follow @jolynndeal— January 30, 2017 YouTube video marketing is a powerful marketing medium. It’s a way to capture your audience’s attention and tell your business story. If you’re on the fence about using videos in your business marketing, take a look at some compelling statistics pulled from a … Continue reading How Embedding A YouTube Video Can Hurt Your Business
Fake content and information will be a growing problem in 2017. Columnist Wesley Young takes a look at this trending issue and discusses ways that false information is being used and how local businesses and marketers can protect against it. Wesley Young on January 4, 2017 Fake news and its influence on the election dominated … Continue reading The fake information epidemic and how it will hurt local search in 2017
