Online Content

  Going the safe route with your press releases does little to separate your release from the countless thousands of others going out each day. The proven, safe way lacks innovation, while shaking things up a bit by including QR codes in marketing materials can reap massive benefits. While you don’t have to create the world’s largest QR code, you can still effectively utilize one by plugging it into a press release. Invented a bit before their time, QR codes didn’t make much of an impact at first, but they…

  If content is king, then a consumer’s attention span is his fickle, cruel mistress. The always entertaining Farhad Manjoo over at Slate recently explored just how much content is actually consumed by visitors to their website every day, and the results are startling. Here are the big highlights of what they found (because we don’t want you leaving before getting to the good stuff): 5% of visitors to a web page will not look at anything other than a headline or photo. 43% of visitors will leave after reading…

  Imagine Google as a beautiful girl. You want to win her heart, so you shower her with attention and ply her with gifts in hopes that she will ignore her other suitors and pick you. But things go wrong. You grow obsessed, appearing at her door in the middle of the night with a brain surgeon after she complained earlier of a slight headache, and she ditches you. Instead, she falls for the man who charms her grandmother and wins over her friends. That is how search engine optimization…

One could be forgiven for thinking the zombie apocalypse had made an early arrival in Beijing. Every morning, millions of commuters squeeze into the Chinese capital’s subways, buses and taxis. Moving as one, they shamble along, and much of the time more heads are bent over smartphones than not. If you peer over the shoulders of your fellow commuters here, it’s easy enough to see what they’re doing. Some watch movies or play games, but a surprising number of travelers are reading: novels, the morning news, and quite often, microblog…

  As my ongoing quest for great infographics continues, it seems I am running into more and more about how to master content marketing. While content marketing has been at the forefront of many minds for the last few years, it’s clear that as Google continues to revamp its search algorithms, even more focus is being centred on how to make good, quality content that can be both found and shared. And, if you are one of the small number of  marketers that isn’t thinking about this…oops! Created by Designbysoap, my #Infographic…