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March 3: RANK BETTER ON GOOGLE WITH THIS SIMPLE SEO CHECKLIST – PART 2

By Matt Givner

This is Part 2 in our 3-part series aiming to provide you with a simple, straightforward SEO checklist to consult when creating content that you’d like to rank highly on Google.

December 17: RANK BETTER ON GOOGLE WITH THIS SIMPLE SEO CHECKLIST – PART 1

By Matt Givner

Here’s a handy list of tips and questions to keep in mind before, during, and after you write up your next content piece that will help you catch the attention of the search engines while still delivering valuable content to your readers.

November 24: ONLINE MARKETING TIPS FOR THE HOLIDAYS

By Matt Givner

‘Tis the season to be shopping, fa la la la la… Is your business ready to make the most out of the holiday shopping season?

October 14: THE BEST TIMES TO POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA

By Matt Givner

Social media is a powerful way for your brand to connect with customers, announce important information, and spread key messaging to relevant audiences. However, your social media posts could be all for naught if no one ever sees them!

October 7: SEO IS DEAD. LONG LIVE SEO: HOW TO RANK HIGHLY ON GOOGLE

By Matt Givner

SEO is dead. Link-building and keyword-rich content is no longer enough. That’s why savvy SEO firms are increasingly adding content marketing to their overall suite of services, helping businesses create content that answers the questions customers are asking and publishing it to places where they can find it. Long live SEO.

September 2: SOCIAL MEDIA: CREATE CONTENT FOR EACH STEP OF YOUR SALES FUNNEL

By Matt Givner

By now, the phrase “content marketing” is probably one that you have seen or heard before, but may not understand entirely. To put it briefly: content marketing is the process by which a company or organization creates and distributes content that is designed to provide helpful information to a particular target audience.

August 26: PUBLIC RELATIONS: 5 WAYS TO CATCH A JOURNALIST’S EYE

By Danielle Ford

Pitching reporters can be discouraging. You put the research into creating a stellar media list, craft a perfect pitch, and start e-mailing away, only to be met with…silence. Here are a few tips to increase the chances you’ll hear back when pitching!

August 19: SOCIAL MEDIA: 5 B2B CONTENT MARKETING TIPS

by Matthew Givner

Given the priority prospective buyers place on high-quality, engaging, and informative content, companies must ensure that their content marketing efforts are up to the task. Here are 5 B2B Content Marketing Tips to help your brand make sure the content it produces is distributed effectively to its target audience.

August 5: PUBLIC RELATIONS: A SIMPLE TEST TO MAKE YOUR BRAND MESSAGES STICK, EVERY TIME

By Danielle Ford

At a recent CEO Summit, Caryn Marooney, Head of Technology Communications for Facebook, summarized the test she uses to help develop messaging. She calls it the RIBS test – as in, “will the story stick to your ribs?”

 

July 29: SOCIAL MEDIA: EOP MEDIA: A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY

by Matthew Givner

When it comes to designing a comprehensive plan to drive attention and engagement, brands are confronted with a panoply of tactics and strategies from which to choose. With flashy buzzwords and industry lingo constantly paraded in front of their eyes by savvy gurus, it’s no wonder one of the most common questions brands ask us is: “Where do I start?

July 22: PUBLIC RELATIONS: THE ART OF A KILLER APOLOGY – TAKING A LESSON IN PR FROM JUSTIN BIEBER

by Danielle Ford

While Justin Bieber has been in the news for quite a few scandals and instances of “tasteless behavior” of late, the story of his 5-year-old racist joke was handled with grace. He apologized immediately, in a striking contrast to the 15-year-old in the video, rang sincere, contrite and all grown up. As far as apologies in public scandals go, this one makes a great template for stars and other figures in hot water.

June 25: SOCIAL MEDIA: SOCIAL MEDIA BLUNDERS AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

By Matthew Givner

Probably the biggest (and one of the better known) examples of a huge social media blunder involves Amy’s Baking Company. The restaurant, located in Scottsdale, AZ, was featured on an episode of Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares, and the episode did not reflect…

June 23: PUBLIC RELATIONS: IS GOOGLE’S NEW ALGORITHM APOCALYPTIC FOR PR WIRE SERVICES?

Last week some major wire services, such as PRWeb and PR Newswire, lost a lot of traffic overnight. It looks like Google dropped the hammer on most wire services with its latest algorithm update. And it’s bad. Really bad. What happened? After Google announced it…

June 19: PUBLIC RELATIONS: THE UNTAPPED WORLD CUP MARKET FOR PROMOTIONS AND MARKETING: FEMALE FANS

 

June 17: LONDON CALLING: FINANCING AVAILABLE

By James Wall

London calling: Financing available Look across the pond for capital James Wall writing for the ColoradoBiz magazine: In Colorado, we are coming out of a recession in which our smaller, growth-oriented companies hunkered down, preserved capital and did what they could to stay alive.  Now that…

June 10INVESTOR RELATIONS: INFOGRAPHIC – WHY AIM IS A SOLID BET FOR COLORADO COMPANIES

By Matthew Givner

June 5SOCIAL MEDIA: MARKETERS, TAKE ‘DIGITAL’ OUT OF YOUR VOCABULARY BY DREW MCLELLAN

By Drew McLellan

“Going digital” isn’t a passing trend.Companies are learning — and proving — that building a flexible, integrated agency with a digital emphasis is essential. And that lesson is still being learned the hard way, even at the world’s most prestigious organizations…

May 27: SOCIAL MEDIA: YOUR FACEBOOK MARKETING EFFORTS AREN’T WORKING. HERE’S WHY

By Matthew Givner

For quite a while, Facebook marketing represented one of the best (and least expensive) ways for companies to build a following of fans, serve them interesting content, and engage with them in real time. Brands leapt at the opportunity to promote their messaging to an interested audience, and companies began chasing Page Likes like it was nobody’s business…

May 19BRANDING: POSITIONING YOUR BRAND TO STAND OUT

By Danielle Ford

An integral part to having smoothly running, cohesive PR, marketing, and advertising campaigns is a solid brand. However, a brand is more than just your core values, logo, and copy – once you have that, how do you relate your brand to your audience in a way that captivates and draws them in?

May 13BRANDING: THE AGENCY 33 VALUE PROPOSITION

By Vincent Dipas

We often help companies figure out just what their value proposition is and what the supporting messages are. So it’s a fun exercise to explain to people what the Agency 33 value proposition is. I will list out some elements of the Agency 33 value proposition here…

April 30PUBLIC RELATIONS: HOW TO WRITE A GREAT PRESS RELEASE

By Andrew Laing

Press releases are the “bread and butter” of Public Relations.  And press releases can be used effectively by companies of all sizes to disseminate useful information, be it the launch of a new product, a promotion, an award, a grand opening and much more.  Your aim is to get your information out there, and, more importantly, to get reporters or news organizations to pick up on your story…

April 25INVESTOR RELATIONS: LONDON’S AIM A SOLID BET FOR COLORADO GROWTH COMPANIES

By James Wall

In Colorado, we are coming out of a recession in which our smaller, growth-oriented companies hunkered down, preserved capital and did what they could to stay alive.  Now that the economy has bounced back, the need for growth capital at these companies is high…