Ideas are a dime a dozen, even the great ones. It’s the execution that counts. So, if you’ve got a great idea, get going. Start building, start creating, start testing. Start solving problems. There’s nothing in your way.
Content Marketing: Content as a Promise
Make a promise to your audience. Then consistently deliver on that promise. That’s content marketing, in a nutshell. Building authority, credibility, and most importantly, earning the right to ask for the sale down the road.
Getting Started with Marketing Optimization: Interview with Todd Meisler
Small business owners are strapped for time, which is why a little optimization can make a huge impact. On today’s episode, Michael Boezi interviews Todd Meisler, a marketing optimization specialist, about the steps you can take to optimize your marketing processes.
Content Strategy: Content as an Asset
Content strategy can make you a lot more efficient if you treat your content as a business asset. With a little strategic planning up front, your content can be a renewable resource—an investment rather than a cost.
Separating Strategy and Tactics in Content Marketing
For content marketing to be effective, you need two things: 1) a strategy; and 2) a set of tactics to execute the strategy. Here’s how to make sure that they are working together in service of your business goals.
Is Content Marketing Right for Your Business?
Content marketing take a lot of time and effort, so you want to be sure that it’s a good investment. In the seventh episode of “Marketing without the Marketing,” Michael Boezi talks about how to determine whether or not your business is likely to benefit from content marketing.
How Your Audience Creates More Audience
In the sixth episode of “Marketing without the Marketing,” Michael Boezi talks about how you should abandon self-promotion and motivate your audience to bring you more audience.
The Three Core Elements of Content Marketing
In the fifth episode of “Marketing without the Marketing,” Michael Boezi talks about consistency, persistence, and patience—the three “core elements” of content marketing.
Building the Foundation of Your Content Strategy
In the fourth episode of “Marketing without the Marketing,” Michael Boezi talks about how to establish an online presence with The Three Pillars of Online Branding: Web, blog, and social.
Why Content Marketing is Your Only Choice
In the third episode of “Marketing without the Marketing,” Michael Boezi talks about how to cut the marketing speak and get better results using a content strategy instead.
Who Can Benefit from Content Strategy?
In the second episode of “Marketing without the Marketing,” Michael Boezi looks at his two audiences and the only metric that matters when measuring the effectiveness of your content strategy.
Introduction to Content Strategy
In the first episode of “Marketing without the Marketing,” Michael Boezi gets into the basics of content strategy for building an audience.