Thursday, May 19, 2016

The Best Way to Market Your Business

The Best Way to Market Your Business? There's no magic bullet.
One question seems ubiquitous among new business owners: "What is the best way to market my [insert niche business idea here] business?"

I see two problems with this question. First, the question seeks a silver bullet, a magic bullet, whatever bullet that can cause the product, service, or business take off in a viral message campaign that crushes sales projections. Second, the question shows the high focus on the business idea as something different as if what works for other companies can't possibly work for this business.

So let's address these two concerns first in answering the question.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Content Marketing and Product Development Should Focus on Quality: Lessons from Buffer

I recently stumbled across Buffer's "Marketing Manifesto in 500 Words" over on Medium. The original was evidently a shared Evernote note. I'm glad they shared with us, too.

I find Buffer itself a fascinating company. For starters, they have a wonderful product. If you are trying to stay active on social media, but have limited time to do so, Buffer offers the ability to just share and store things in a queue that will eventually post out on whatever schedule you choose.

What Buffer also performs well, though, in analyzing the performance of tweets and posts and providing free information to its users (or anyone that stumbles across its site) with valuable stats. They have identified the best times to tweet in any give time zone if you are seeking engagement, for example, by analyzing the results of thousands and thousands of tweets posted by their users.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

New Content Creation Strategy Concepts I Learned From Gary Vaynerchuk

Content Creation Strategy
If you don't know Gary Vaynerchuk, you should get yourself acquainted with him. He is an entrepreneur who has an often refreshing take on marketing, media, and business.

He also has great taste (and advice) on wine.

I follow Gary on Twitter and often check out what he's doing in other corners of the web, like this gem I stumbled across on Medium last week.