What Does Above the Fold Mean in Terms of Digital Assets?

What Does Above the Fold Mean in Terms of Digital Assets?

The phrase “above the fold” originates from newspapers. It refers to all content literally above the folded line on the front page. It’s the most…

Back to Basics: Setting the Stage for a Powerful Multichannel Digital Strategy That Scales

Back to Basics: Setting the Stage for a Powerful Multichannel Digital Strategy That Scales

Part 1: Content Strategy  It’s time to rethink your entire marketing and advertising strategy. No, really, it is. iOS 14 promises to curtail Facebook and…

How Much Content Do You Really Need?

How Much Content Do You Really Need?

Marketers are always talking about content—how important it is for driving leads, building brand identity, developing loyal audiences, and more. However, there’s one question every…

How to Find Winning Blog Topics with SEO

How to Find Winning Blog Topics with SEO

Writer’s Block when Blogging—we have all experienced it. We sit down and are all set to write, but we don’t know what to write about….

6 Tips to Maximize Content Production

6 Tips to Maximize Content Production

We’ve all heard the classic saying that “content is king,” but is that still the case? If so, how can you maximize your output of…

What Makes a Good Link? How to Qualify Link Building Opportunities

What Makes a Good Link? How to Qualify Link Building Opportunities

Understanding link building and identifying link building opportunities is only half the battle when it comes to implementing an effective link building strategy. What really…

How to Maximize the Reach of Your B2B Blog Posts

How to Maximize the Reach of Your B2B Blog Posts

69% of B2B Marketers are increasing content marketing budgets or holding steady from their budgets last year. Meaning, the content marketing space is noisy and…

A Podcast Guide for Marketers

A Podcast Guide for Marketers

Even before the stay-at-home order was in place, I was an avid listener of podcasts. I subscribed to a few and frequently explored new podcasts…

Automated Lead Generation on Facebook Messenger

Automated Lead Generation on Facebook Messenger

In August 2019, Facebook released a new feature that makes it easier for businesses to chat with customers in Messenger. Facebook claims that their new…

Content to Conversion: What Works for B2B Marketers

Content to Conversion: What Works for B2B Marketers

B2B purchase decisions are typically high value and expensive decisions. These decisions develop over a longer period of time than B2C and require relevant and…

How and Why to Run a Content Inventory

How and Why to Run a Content Inventory

Want to make your content marketing tasks a bit easier in 2019? Start the year off fresh with a content inventory.   Wait, What’s a…

The New Look of LinkedIn Groups

The New Look of LinkedIn Groups

LinkedIn has completely overhauled their LinkedIn Group’s experience, and I have to say that I am loving it. Back in February, LinkedIn completely scrapped their…

Email Personalization with a Purpose

Email Personalization with a Purpose

Email personalization continues to be a top email design trend. And with more marketers putting an emphasis on data quality, there are many opportunities for…

5 Content Marketing Goals Worth Pursuing

5 Content Marketing Goals Worth Pursuing

If you’re reading this blog I’m sure that by now you’ve done some research and have heard the phrase, “Content is King.” Well, for most…

A User Generated Content Guide for Community Banks and Credit Unions

A User Generated Content Guide for Community Banks and Credit Unions

Once upon a time, community banks and credit unions cornered the market on personalized communications and a neighbor-to-neighbor experience for their customers. But now, with…

How to Create Content Marketing Strategy that Customers and Search Engines Will Love

How to Create Content Marketing Strategy that Customers and Search Engines Will Love

When creating content, one of the biggest challenges we have is marketers is the balance between writing for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and writing for…

Free Content Calendar for SEO and Social Media in 2019 – 2020

Free Content Calendar for SEO and Social Media in 2019 – 2020

What Gets Measured Gets Managed – A FREE Content Calendar For SEO and Social Media Peter Drucker was a legendary business thinker. If you’ve never…

The Difference Between Content Marketing and Content Strategy

The Difference Between Content Marketing and Content Strategy

If you’re wondering whether you’re working from a content strategy or simply doing content marketing, there are four important questions you can ask yourself to…

5 Ways to Put Your User Reviews to Work

5 Ways to Put Your User Reviews to Work

Welcome to the age of the influencer, where consumers trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendation. For marketers, that means what those reviews…

5 Ways to Shake Up Your Call to Action Buttons

5 Ways to Shake Up Your Call to Action Buttons

How many times have you hit a “submit” or “join” button in your lifetime? I’ll tell you – too many. Call-to-action buttons are just another touchpoint…

What InspiroBot Means for the Future of Content Marketing

What InspiroBot Means for the Future of Content Marketing

Meet InspiroBot, the internet’s first artificial intelligence bot solely dedicated to generating unlimited inspirational quotes.   The results are an intriguing mix of terrifying, hilarious,…

The Problem with Marketing Messages

The Problem with Marketing Messages

I hate to say this, but your carefully crafted marketing message isn’t enough.   I know you spent hours working on it, and even more…

7 Elements of an Effective Content Calendar

7 Elements of an Effective Content Calendar

Regularly publishing quality content can be difficult for any business, even those with a wealth of marketing resources. It’s so easy to put content creation…

How Empathy Will Make Your Content Marketing More Effective

How Empathy Will Make Your Content Marketing More Effective

We’ve all stumbled across content that is a little too transparent with its goal. We’ve read a blog post that feels like an exhausting sales…

Content Marketing Trends in 2017

Content Marketing Trends in 2017

Content marketing is a vast and ever-changing industry, so I thought I’d take some time to look into my crystal ball and see what the next year might bring. Naturally, I can’t actually see the future, but I like to stay as up to the minute as possible. Here are the content trends I think will dominate content marketing 2017.

What Google Doesn’t Know Can Change Your Content Marketing

What Google Doesn’t Know Can Change Your Content Marketing

It’s easy to think that your favorite search engine knows everything. It’s our go-to source for new information, after all. You “Google” everything you don’t know, and Google always has an answer.

But there is one critical thing that search engines don’t know, and it can completely change the way content marketers think about content creation.

Search engines still don’t know what you are going to search for.

The 2017 Digital Trends Forecast

The 2017 Digital Trends Forecast

It’s never too early to start forecasting what’s going to be ‘the next big thing’ in the digital marketing and tech landscape in 2017. emfluence has compiled trends and expectations from across our agency team members to bring you an array of predictions for what to look for, and more importantly plan for in 2017. The boldest prediction of all? 60% of the time our predictions are right, every time.