Online Marketing


Recent Online Marketing Articles

New Ways to Advertise on Social Media

Can't keep up with all the updates from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube? Read on for latest changes you should know about.  Read more

Oops: 10 Common Mistakes on Twitter

Even advanced users make basic mistakes on Twitter. Don't be one of them.  Read more

Selling in the Post-Internet Age

The Internet has utterly transformed the way that companies buy and sell.  Read more

Hard Truth About Search Optimization

Search is key to online marketing, but it can't do everything for you. The fact is, most clicks from search go to a just a handful of websites.  Read more

Perfect PR and SEO Relationship: 3 Tips

Collaboration between PR and SEO teams can lead to new content, better publicity, and even new business. Here's how to make it work.  Read more

How My Site Gets Tons of Traffic From Pinterest

My company, Greatist, is the fastest growing health-and-wellness site on the Web. We wouldn't have that label without these tricks for using Pinterest.  Read more

Create Your Own Active Online Community

Google+, Facebook, and LinkedIn can provide a lucrative opportunity if you can attract an engaged audience. Here's how to do it.  Read more

Does Facebook Work for B2B Marketing?

Some firms have had success, while others say the social network does little for them. Inc.com talks to Facebook's small business director to learn more.  Read more

7 Ways to Tell Stories (Truthful Ones) to Sell Online

Want to make social media work for you? Tell a story. A personal, honest one about you, or an employee. Not effective? Try again.  Read more

Make Your Writing Pop: 8 Tips

With email and social media, everyone writes all the time now. Are you any good at it? Here are eight ways to improve.  Read more

Photos Are Social Media Gold

Here are five ways to use images to grow your follower base on social media.  Read more

5 Mistakes You're Making Online

For a powerful online presence, what you don't do is as important as what you should be doing.  Read more

Who Should (and Shouldn't) Use Social Media 

The wine and social-media entrepreneur on the how to fit the social medium to your message.  Watch video

3 Social Media Lessons From Marco Rubio's Awkward Televised Water Grab

Here's what Poland Spring got right--and wrong--when its bottle landed in a viral video.  Read more

5 Reasons to Stop Checking Facebook at Work

A handful of studies confirm what you likely already suspected: Your Facebook habit is hurting you--in more ways than one.  Read more

8 Tips to Prevent a Social-Media Meltdown

You can ignore social media, but that won't make it go away. Here's how to manage when it goes off the rails.  Read more

The Best Content Marketing Is Free

You could outsource this marketing, or you could tap a rich--but free--source of content right in front of you.  Read more

Help Your Business Get Social: 3 Free Tools

Get a lot of bang for no bucks with these free business-oriented platforms.  Read more

Work is Good. Spread the Word.

Let's create a vast tide of workplace optimism to make the world a better place.  Read more

Vanity Keywords: A Useless SEM Strategy

Ranking for 'Vanity Keywords' simply doesn't achieve the same marketing ROI as a long-tail approach. Here's why the practice should be put to rest.  Read more

5 Easy Steps to Get Started on LinkedIn

If your customers are other businesses or have specific industry interests, you might want to give LinkedIn a second look.  Read more

New Rules for SEO Success in 2013

Measuring SEO success by your ranking position for your favorite keywords means falling behind the curve.  Read more

6 Email Marketing Myths

Everyone knows you shouldn't send the same email twice, right? Wrong.  Read more

Seth Godin: Why Small Businesses Fail

The famous marketing expert explains how small businesses can hone their market efforts.  Read more

Amazon Deletes Negative Reviews and Gets Away With It...But Can You?

Reviews and ratings can build you up--or take you down. Tips to harness them successfully.  Read more

Create an Awesome Welcome Email: 7 Tips

That first email is like the all-important first impression on a hot date. Here's how to pique your customers' interest.  Read more

Use Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to Find (and Vet) New Hires 

On social networks, you can learn what prospective candidates are like long before you meet them, says Dave Kerpen, co-founder of Likeable Media.  Watch video

How Smart Companies Use PR to Get the Word Out

What you need to know to market your new business idea, without spending much (or at all).  Read more

Easy Ways to Polish Your Online Reputation

Chances are, people are searching your name online. Will you like what they find?  Read more

'We Had No Idea What the Numbers Would Look Like' 

To get customers to come back, Wayfair co-founder Niraj Shah had to reorganize his 200 home goods websites.  Watch video

Posting on Facebook? First Figure Out Why

Too many companies waste their time on social media. Ten objectives you should consider before you Tweet or post an update.  Read more

Is Marketing Truly Necessary?

A marketing group is only useful if it's measurably increasing revenue or reducing sales costs.  Read more

4 Reasons Customers Won't Trust You

These four common (but easily-correctable) errors tell your customers you can't be trusted.  Read more

How to Write an Insanely Popular Blog

The most popularly shared articles online, regardless of industry, topic, or even author, often share these similar traits.  Read more

5 Seemingly-Small Secrets to Hyper Growth

The co-founder of Likeable Media explains how the company's culture has contributed to its five-year catapult to $5 million in annual sales.  Read more