Demand Generation Blog

Your SEO writing game may be on point. You’re including keywords, inbound and outbound links, optimizing URL’s and headings and adding image alt text.  However, to make a truly valuable piece of content that is not only educational, but interesting and entertaining is the key to keeping your readers coming back for more.  Even if you work in what can be considered a “boring” industry, it doesn’t mean your writing needs to reflect that.  Great writers have the ability to make even the most mundane topics appear interesting.  But you don’t need to be Shakespeare to make your writing stand out.  Here are a few tips to add some sizzle to your company blog.

Content marketing is a strategic approach to creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content.  The idea is to attract a highly targeted audience and encourage potential customers to perform an action that identifies their needs, interests and level of qualification.

Successful social media marketing takes careful planning and a variety of interesting content.  Mixing up your posts so that you’re not too promotional and provide a bit of education and entertainment is essential in driving engagement.  A social media calendar is the first step in setting up your social media campaigns, but how do you get started?  Here we’ve organized a typical week of posts that has helped us to gain social media traction.

Enabling partners of all types to leverage vendor content, messaging, branding, and demand generation initiatives in their local markets is critical to driving a winning customer experience. - Forrester

There has been a lot of talk about the so-called death of email.  Much of this has to do with low open and click rates from mass marketing emails.  Email is nowhere near dead, you just need to know how to optimize them to stand out from the pack.  Your subject line is the most important aspect when it comes to getting someone to open your messages.  If they never open, they certainly can’t click or convert.  Here we’ve put together 10 tips for optimizing your email subject lines.