These days we all realize the power of content: It builds the foundation for all digital marketing tactics and it is able to drive leads and traffic long-term. Consequently, more and more content is being created on a daily basis. Businesses seem to be under impression that if they miss a week, their content marketing…
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How to Optimize Your Content for Voice Search
Voice search is on the rise. We all have known this for ages but the voice search market may actually be growing faster than we expected. Throughout the last few years, smart speakers have been taking the market by storm. With the emergence of Amazon’s Alexa (powered by Bing search), Google’s Homepod, and Apples’ Homepod…
How to Optimize Your Old Blog Content to Boost More Traffic
You work on your blog and don’t see the results you should. If you optimize your old blog content you could see significate gains in traffic. Learn how… READ MORE >>
6 Content Ideas to Plan Your Content Marketing in 2019
If you haven’t yet made up your mind as to what you are going to write about this year, it’s time that you plan your content out. The beginning of the year is the slowest season for most of us: Use it to work on your editorial calendar. Get organized! If you feel like everything…
How to Create a Search-Optimized Video Content Strategy
For many content providers, the increasing popularity of videos is a blessing. For most businesses, it’s a necessary evil because customers expect to find them on Youtube. Whether you hate it or like it, video has become an integral part of any content marketing strategy, in most niches. Whenever you are working on your content…
Five Keyword Research Steps not to Overlook to Create Better Content
Keyword research, the bread and butter of my trade. Everything, from SEO to content marketing to customer engagement, is hinging on finding and cornering the best and brightest keyword combinations within my little slice of the industry. So I am always looking for new ways I may have been missing that help me do that….
Keyword Research Tools to Help Your Content Research and Brainstorming
Keyword research is much easier these days. There are so many tools out there that you could get lists longer than you could ever use for keywords just waiting to be properly targeted. While some phrases are cornered tightly by the larger brands out on the web, the increase in more specific phrases, questions and…
Twelve Free Tools For Creating an Effective Editorial Calendar
If it were not for my editorial content marketing calendar I would be completely blind. I mean it, my work would not only be unproductive but there is no way I could keep up with the demands of running a blog and a business at the same time. I would lose my mind. No matter…
How to Create Successful Content Using Seasonality
Looking back on the years it is incredible to see how far my life – and work – have come. I couldn’t have conceived of the hardships I would face, the struggles I would go through, the triumphs and successes, the moves and changes. The industry I have dedicated myself to have shifted so dramatically…
13 Great Content Marketing Tools You’ve Got to Try Today
Content marketing is an ever evolving process, but it remains one of the most effective means of branding and promoting a business available today. It’s also a time consuming activity that warrants an entire team dedicated 100% to the task. Unfortunately, most of us can’t afford that and are held holding both ends of the…
How to Plan Your Content Marketing Strategy for Your Project Launch
Launching a new project is overwhelming: You need to think about so many things at a time that most people get seriously stressed. I always do. There’s no way to make a project launch easy. After all, the more you do prior and at the launch, the more chances your project has to succeed. So…
How to Use Slideshare for Personal Branding
Of all the underrated tools on the web, Slideshare is one of the biggest examples. For many who are hoping to promote, it is last on the list of helpful social dashboards. Yet, it offers a unique and effective way to increase the power of your social brand. The lack of oversaturation means your chances…
5 Tips to Create an Effective Slideshare Call-to-Action
Everything you put online should have some kind of brand-specific purpose. Even if it didn’t when you created it, it damn well better have it by the time you publish. At first glance, that might sound like cynical advice. It may also appear to fly in the face on conventional wisdom, that all content should…
A Detailed Guide to Using Slideshare Analytics
Slideshare has become a staple of content creation in recent years. The ability to impart information quickly, in a visual way that appeals to how humans think and recall that information, is fantastic. Where slideshow presentations used to be a tool with a limited user base, it can now be used by anyone, for anything….
How To Use SlideShare For Content Repackaging
Content repackaging is the number one content strategy that not enough people are using. I know this, because I have too many fellow bloggers, marketers and website owners who have never even tried it. Instead, they constantly beat their heads against the wall as they try to come up with fresh content constantly. But our…
The Anatomy Of A Great SlideShare Deck
Creating the perfect SlideShare slide is more than a skill, it is an art. Your goal is to make sure every slide is crafted just the right way because the whole of the presentation depends on the strength of its parts. Breaking down SlideShare slides, you can start to find a winning formula that will help…
7 Ways to Promote Your Slideshare Presentation
Slideshare is the largest Powerpoint sharing community on the web, but it is so much more than that. It is also a social network, and a platform for marketing visual content in many different forms – which means Slideshare an essential part of a solid social media strategy. Presentations can be both hosted and noticed there,…
3 Free Tools to Create an Awesome SlideShare Presentation
Last month I was sharing some Slideshare content ideas including re-packaging screenshots, collecting quotes, curating content and re-using your presentations from events you are visiting. This time let’s share some tools that will make a presentation creation a breeze! First of all, a few words about PowerPoint which I am not including into the list…
5 Tips for Awesome Slideshare Content Inspiration
Slideshare is a great (content) marketing platform but since it’s mostly about sharing presentations, many people shy away from marketing there. I am starting Slideshare series here, at Maximize Social Business, giving you lots of tips on how to quite easily add Slideshare to your content marketing plan and even become a superstar there. Yes,…