Posts Categorized: Marketing

BriteVerify: An Inexpensive Tool for Shaping Up Your Email List

If you’ve been collecting names and emails for your e-newsletter and are now ready to begin using them, it’s a good idea to verify that the emails are valid before you import them to your e-newsletter list.

Why?

Because most email marketing services (such as MailChimp, AWeber, and Constant Contact) base their monthly fees on the total number of subscribers.

This article explains how BriteVerify works and includes examples of how two Blogging Bistro clients used the service to axe the deadwood from their email lists.

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How to Use BuzzSumo To Find Influencers

The right person at the right time can transform your business. Influence can be as simple as a friendly journalist who writes an article about your company.

In this tutorial by guest columnist, Bruce Harpham, you’ll learn a simple technique to quickly identify influential people in your field.

How to Target Influential People

  1. Learn Their Language: Once you find an influential person, you can study what kind of language they use. This information shows you what kind of terms and words are popular.
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Think of each blog post as a doorway to your business.

Blog: The Most Powerful Tool in Your Marketing Toolbox

Thinking about blogging this year?

Websites that include a blog integrated into the site (NOT hosted separately on Blogspot or some other blog hosting service) typically have 434% more indexed pages.

Blog posts are doorways to your business. Publish a blog post once a week this year, and give your customers 52 doors to open.

This article and accompanying infographic explains how to use the “doorway” method to help new customers discover you.

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The Psychology of Color, Plus a Few Bizarre Color Factoids [Infographic]

Quiz:

  1. What is the color of intellect, knowledge, and wisdom?
  2. What color are bees unable to see?
  3. What is the “happiest” color in the color spectrum?
  4. What color most attracts mosquitos?

You’ll find the answers to these and other color-related questions in the infographic below. (If you’re too lazy to read the infographic, I’ve provided the answers at the end of the infographic.)

Be sure to check out yesterday’s guest column by Steve Bezella on The Psychology of Color for Marketing.

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The Psychology of Color for Effective Marketing

By Gary L. Bezella
Guest Columnist

Color changes people. Colors affect our mood, personality, and buying choices. The right color can boost your advertising effectiveness, but the wrong colors can hamper your marketing.

It’s important to understand the psychology of color to ensure heavy traffic from your advertising. But never let the color of your advertising overpower its overall message.

Here are common colors used in marketing and why you should – or shouldn’t – use them.

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Why the ‘Spray and Pray’ Marketing Method Doesn’t Work

When authors ask me to help them with their online marketing, they usually open with:

“My agent told me I need a Facebook ‘fan’ page, so I had my son create one for me. But I haven’t posted anything to it. I don’t even know how to use it. Help!”

Most writers struggle to balance the demands of writing and marketing our writing. Unsure about how to woo readers, we use the ‘spray and pray’ marketing method: we create a blog and multiple social media accounts, spray out random updates and pray someone pays attention.

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‘Fly, You Fools!’ Hobbit Fans Will Get a Kick out of this Unexpected Briefing [Video]

If you’ve ever slumped in your airplane seat, half listening to the flight attendant explain how to buckle your seatbelt, you’re going to appreciate this video.

Air New Zealand partnered with WETA Workshop to create a hobbit-themed safety video. It contains all the typical safety warnings, but is done in such a creative manner that you can’t help but watch it. All of it.

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Panhandler Marketing: Six Things Hobos Get Very Right

“Hey Lady, can you spare a dollar? I need to feed my kids.” In my town, panhandlers have become fixtures. I’m not a huge fan of their blight to small business who spend precious time shooing them away. Regardless, whether you deem them a nuisance or not, it seems they’ve landed on some marketing genius through real […]

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9 Critical Marketing Lessons I Learned from the Kirby Vacuum Salesman

Picture this scenario: My workday opened with a two-hour meeting at the offices of one of my clients. On the way home, I swung by Costco to pick up some essentials (we have teenage sons, so milk, bread, and bananas are always in short supply). As I meandered through the pots and pans aisle on […]

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The Truth About Elevator Pitches and Brand Messaging

How should you develop — and deliver your brand message? How can you prove to your boss that social media is, indeed, a wise investment? How do you plan an effective social media strategy– without overdoing it? The following four articles provide excellent ideas. Click the headline to access the full article. No one ever […]

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