10 Reasons Why You Should Ditch Facebook for a Business Blog

For many new business owners Facebook is the first port of call when it comes to marketing their services. Everybody uses it and it’s free to setup a business page so it’s easy to see why so many turn to them first. Does that mean it’s the best route for your business though? The infographic below from Word View Editing gives you 10 reasons why a business blog is a better solution than Facebook.

Content Marketing Tips, Help & Advice

Q: 8 Rules You Must Follow to Prevent Your Content Marketing Strategy From Failing

Are you creating content as part of your overall marketing strategy? Is the content you are creating resonating with your target audience? If your content doesn't seem to be doing the trick take a look at the infographic below from Austin & Williams gives you 8 rules you should follow for a more effective content marketing strategy.

Q: 13 Blogging Statistics That Will Make You Change Your Strategy Immediately

The advantages of blogging as part of a content marketing strategy are clear for all to see (we hope). But the way you go about it may be about to change. The infographic below from Social Marketing Writing gives you 13 blogging statistics your probably didn’t know. Some of these were an eye opener for us, particularly point number 3 about how much traffic increases once you reach 51 or more posts. Do any of these stats make you want to change your strategy?

Q: 13 Ways to Measure Content Marketing Success

So you’ve got on board with the whole content marketing movement. You’ve setup a blog, you’re building your social media presence, but how do you know if what you’re doing is working? The infographic below from TechWyse gives you 13 KPI’s you can use to measure your content marketing success.

Q: 5 Ways to Use Video to Market Your Business

Video can be a great way to give your customers a load of information without them having to browse through your site to find it. We tell our customers what we do and why they should choose us with a 2 minute explainer video on our home page . There are a number of ways to use video as part of your marketing strategy, the infographic below gives you 5 of them.

Q: 16 of the Craziest Things People Search for on Google

This isn't your usual "How To" marketing post but when we saw this infographic by Search Factory we just couldn't resist sharing it. Some of the stuff people are searching for is both scary and hilarious. Here are 16 of the craziest things people search for on Google. How many of those have you searched for lately?

Q: 17 Steps to Create Blog Posts that Google Will Love

So you've setup a blog and are now looking for ways to get more eyeballs on your posts via Google? Gone are the days of stuffing an article with keywords and fluff that doesn't provide any real value. Google has got smarter and now rewards posts that are written with the reader in mind. The infographic below from Kuno Creative gives you 17 steps to create blog posts that both your readers and Google will love.

Q: 6 Ways to Use Your Blog to Influence Your Readers

We've talked about how blogging can improve your SEO for a while now, but that isn't the only way you can benefit from having one. Whenever you publish a new blog post it gives you an opportunity to influence your readers in a non-salesy way. The infographic below from Writtent gives you 6 ways readers can be influenced by a blog. Joint highest on that list is "get support and answers" which is what we aim to provide here.