So I was visiting a toy library with my little daughter (11 months old) last week and the owner was a really neat lady who had a fantastic business model. She had started and now owned and managed this toy library herself (Toybrary, Austin). You pay a monthly fee and check out any toy you … Read more
4/21, yesterday, Mobilegeddon hit. It’s set to affect the web on a larger scale than most of the other updates Google has made. And we’re already 24 hours into the Mobilegeddon. (At least the aftermath isn’t leaving the web broken and smoking.) A year ago, Marketing Land reported that 60% of Internet users were on … Read more
Welcome to my Great Content Roundup, folks! Today, I’m looking at a big question that applies to businesses of all sizes. When do you start promoting yourself (your content, your business) too much? The only exception I could think of is local ice-cream shops – I probably wouldn’t ever get tired of seeing their posts, … Read more
Excuse the hiatus, folks – it’s been exactly 5 weeks since I wrote a Great Content Roundup! What exactly was I doing that was more important than the Great Content Roundup? Ha, you got me. Actually, I was moving from Corpus Christi, Texas to Austin, Texas—the land of beautiful parks, trails, lakes, creeks, and even … Read more
Thanks for joining me this week, everyone! How’s your social media doing? I know: it’s a loaded question. But it’s one that’s frequently in discussion. Should I keep or kill my Facebook page? (That’s a question I’ve asked myself, given that our Facebook page rarely to never blows up the way our Twitter does.) Should … Read more
Howdy, folks! This week, I wanted to talk about something I’ve seen everywhere online recently, either in tangible topics or in a thought behind the topic. It’s the fact that “NOW is the best time to jump on the bandwagon of content.” And I don’t really like to call it a bandwagon. It’s more like … Read more
Viral content. It turns heads. It stops us in our tracks. We HAVE to look. We have to read (at least a little of it). What makes content viral, and how do you get a piece of the game so you can experience the results of heavily trafficked, popular content? I have some awesome resources … Read more
Greetings, folks! On week three of the great content roundup, I wanted to specifically pull out links that talk about content and SEO in 2015. I’ve been seeing some great stuff on the Internet circulating around this hot topic and wanted to share my favorites from this week. As you know from … Read more
Hi everyone! Today, I’m choosing to talk all about great content curation tools. I think there are awesome ways you can find and curate great content for your business, website, blog, and readers. Tools make life so much easier—right? Lets Curate It #1. Scoop.It. If you’re not on this awesome platform already, you should … Read more
We’re starting a series of curated posts, called The Great Content Roundup. Welcome to Week 1! What to Expect? In these “roundup” posts, we will summarize and link to anywhere from 5-15 posts in one blog post. These articles and pieces we link to will be the ones that we found held value and … Read more