Executive Coaching

8 Irresistible Marketing and Leadership Links

May 11, 2012 By Bruce Hunter Leave a Comment

This week in C-NOTES:

3 Ways to Fix Your Broken Marketing
6 Things Comedians Can Teach You About Public Speaking
Networking Tips: Go From Awkward to Awesome
10 Winning Lessons From Maverick Entrepreneur Mark Cuban

If you want more useful resources and links than the eight we highlight in our weekly roundup, follow @corebizstyle on Twitter.

Blogging

The Noob Guide to Link Building - Oli Gardner (of Unbounce) displayed a playful writing style mixed with pixel perfect graphic design, and a GPS of a roadmap to take your site from mile marker zero to one hundred in six months. It’s nothing short of amazing.

Want a 150% Boost in Traffic? Then Use This Idiot-Proof Guide to Google Authorship Markup – By implementing Google’s authorship markup and getting the rich snippet to show up for their content, Catalyst dramatically improved their performance in search engines. You can to by following these tips.

Marketing

5 Ways Social Media Can Increase Your Revenue From Existing Customers - This post will give you 5 tips to gain more revenue from your existing customers using social media.

3 Ways to Fix Your Broken Marketing - Get the following three crucial elements right or wrong and you can give your marketing a pass or fail, before it’s even started.

Networking Tips: Go From Awkward to Awesome - Networking events aren’t really that hard: Plan your work, work your plan. Here’s how.

26 Tips for Success with Location-Based Marketing - In this post, we’ll introduce 26 tips, an A-Z guide for location-based marketing.

Leadership Skills

10 Winning Lessons From Maverick Entrepreneur Mark Cuban - Keep reading for ten winning lessons from Cuban’s $2.3 billion success.

6 Things Comedians Can Teach You About Public Speaking - Comedians know that the secret to keeping an audience engaged is following the commandments of powerful public speaking. Here are their secrets.

These are the links we think matter the most this week. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: Awkward, Dallas Maverick, Google, Mark Cuban, Public speaking, social media, Twitter, Unbounce

7 Essential Links For the Successful Marketer

April 27, 2012 By Bruce Hunter 1 Comment

This week in C-NOTES:

50 Great Thoughts on Success
What I Learned About Great Meetings From Steve Jobs
12 Essential Tools For the Content Marketer

If you want more useful resources and links than the eight we highlight in our weekly roundup, follow @corebizstyle on Twitter.

Blogging

Link Building Strategies – The Complete List - Yes, the rumors are true. I’ve put together the most comprehensive list of link building strategies on the Web. If there’s any post on my blog you should bookmark for future reference, this is the one.

Building Blog Products That Sell 4: Price Your Product - If you’re late to this particular party, we’ve been spending the last few weeks examining ways to monetize your blog in an era when readers are holding onto their wallets more tightly than ever.Sure, you can make money by selling ads if all you care about is revenue. Any link farm can do the same thing. But by extending one’s blog into different media, a diligent blogger can create and sell products that no one else can duplicate.

5 Steps to Getting More Targeted Website Traffic with SEO Copywriting- Sometimes search engine optimization gets a bad rap because so many people abuse it. That’s too bad, because SEO copywriting is a great (and smart) way to drive traffic to your site or blog.

Marketing

5 Ways To Build a Solid Email List - Email marketing is a powerful tool that can extend your reach beyond your website and create new sales opportunities. If you simply sell to customers when they happen to visit your site, you have an all-or-nothing chance of making a sale. Should they leave without making a purchase, there’s no guarantee they’ll return later.

12 Essential Tools For the Content Marketer - One of the questions marketers get asked most often starts like this. “I think I get content marketing, but what kind of content works best?” The short answer is that there are at least twelve types of content you can utilize as part of any content marketing plan.

Leadership Skills

50 Great Thoughts on Success - Are you completely successful? By the time you get to the bottom of this page, you may be.

What I Learned About Great Meetings From Steve Jobs - The principle of keeping meetings small and made up of smart people is deeply woven into the religion of electronics behemoth Apple and is key to any organization that wants to nurture quality thinking.

These are the links we think matter the most this week. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: business, Content marketing, marketing, Search engine optimization, Search engine optimization copywriting, Steve Jobs, Twitter

10 Marketing and Leadership Links That Help You Get to the Top

April 19, 2012 By Bruce Hunter 1 Comment

This week in C-NOTES:

Social Media: 40 Ways to Build a Loyal Audience
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
15 Business Lessons From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

If you want more useful resources and links than the eight we highlight in our weekly roundup, follow @corebizstyle on Twitter.

Blogging

The Real Secret to 1000 Blog Subscribers in 60 Days or Less – You can still cultivate connections with powerful people and get yourself a 1,000 new subscribers in less than 60 days. Let me show you how!

How to Get More Traffic to Your Blog with Corbett Barr - Smart Passive Income friend and confidant, Corbett Barr from ThinkTraffic.net, joins me in a unique, hi-def video interview where I ask him a number of questions about getting more traffic to your blog, especially if you’re just starting out or you’ve hit a plateau and need to get off of it.

Marketing

Game of Thrones: 6 Sales Lessons - What do you need to know before going into battle for a big deal? The HBO hit has a few lessons that might apply.

Putting the Social Back Into Social Media: 40 Ways to Build a Loyal Audience - Your content could be truly useful and valuable. But without one critical element, you could find yourself writing to the wind for years. What is that one element? And how do you use it to build an engaged and responsive audience?

58 Ways to Create Persuasive Content Your Audience Will Love - Would you like to become a better writer? Would you like to create content that people will remember, tweet, and plus? How about content that inspires your audience to click, subscribe or buy?

5 Ways Businesses are Using Facebook Timelines - Are you wondering how businesses are creatively using Facebook’s Timeline features?

Leadership Skills

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs – The real lessons from Steve Jobs have to be drawn from looking at what he actually accomplished. Here are what I consider the keys to his success.

15 Business Lessons From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos - What does it take to create the world’s largest online retailer, amass a personal wealth of over $18 billion, and be chosen as Time’s Person of the Year? Better ask Jeff Bezos.

Learning to Flex Your Leadership Muscles – To be a great CEO, you’ll need to learn how to be a great leader, not just a great manager. Here is a blueprint to make it happen.

The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes - A treasure trove of unearthed interviews, conducted by the writer who knew him best, reveals how Jobs’s ultimate success at Apple can be traced directly to his so-called wilderness years.

These are the links we think matter the most this week. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon.com, Apple, business, Facebook, HBO, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs

8 Marketing and Leadership Links for Extraordinary Performance

April 12, 2012 By Bruce Hunter 1 Comment

This week in C-NOTES:

4 Ways to Use Twitter For Customer Service and Support
Why Your Marketing is Missing the Mark (And How You Can Fix It)
10 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence

If you want more useful resources and links than the eight we highlight in our weekly roundup, follow @corebizstyle on Twitter.

Blogging

A Systematic Approach to Writing Successful Blog Posts - You can work hard on building a blog without having defined your “success,” but if you do, how will you know if you’re progressing successfully? In this post I’m going to show you a system for creating successful blog posts, every time.

10 Lessons Seth Godin Can Teach You About Blogging – While many people view him as “America’s greatest marketer,” there is a lot to learn from him about blogging. Let’s explore 10 of those lessons.

Seven Link Building Mistakes You Ought to Avoid - If you were looking at your Google Analytics around the dates of March 21-23, then there is a good chance you saw some changes to your site. Some significant changes have been made through those updates that can affect your link-building strategy…so let’s explore those changes.

Marketing

Why Your Marketing is Missing the Mark (And How You Can Fix It) - We want to be happy. We want to have our lives improved, either through the addition of something positive or the subtraction of something that causes stress and hassle. ??Are you doing that in your business?

4 Ways to Use Twitter For Customer Service and Support - Do you have customers? Are they on Twitter? Are you using this amazing tool to support your customers?

5 Top Google+ Tools and Apps For Marketing Pros - Are you looking for Google+ apps and resources to enhance your marketing? This article reveals five categories of tools and apps you can employ to greatly enhance your Google+ experience.

Leadership Skills

10 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence - Learning from the best is one of the most effective ways to infuse successful strategies into your career. Here are 10 lessons that successful CEOs can teach you about getting results.

12 Ways to Attack Any Challenge - Stuck in a rut? Need to accomplish the impossible? Step right up. Here’s how to get started.

These are the links we think matter the most this week for extraordinary performance. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: apps, Chief executive officer, Google, Google Analytics, marketing, Search engine optimization, Seth Godin, Twitter

9 Remarkable Marketing and Leadership Articles For Winners

April 5, 2012 By Bruce Hunter 1 Comment

This week in C-NOTES:

20 Days/20 Minutes to a High-Quality, Highly Engaged Twitter Following
The Copyblogger “Secret” to creating Better Content
12 Smart Ways to Get Your Work Done Without Multitasking

If you want more useful resources and links than the seven we highlight in our weekly roundup, follow @corebizstyle on Twitter.

Blogging

3 Reasons No One Comes Back to Your Blog- and How to Fix It - There are three main reasons why people don’t come back to your site after they initially find their way to it, whether that’s via a guest post, Google, or social media.

5 Creative Tips to Increase Blog Traffic and Boost Your Business - Keep reading to discover why many blogs fail and what you can do to boost your traffic and brand.

How to Build Links Through Guest Blogging - Here’s how you can get the most out of guest blogging and link building to drive more traffic to your website:

Marketing

The Copyblogger “Secret” to creating Better Content - The “secret” might seem like common sense, but your fellow content marketers aren’t getting it right … which is a great opportunity for you.

20 Days to a High-Quality, Highly – Engaged Twitter Following (in just 20 minutes a day) - How do you get that quality following without buying followers or simply following 1,000 people and hope they follow you back?

What More Social Shares? Don’t Ignore These 3 Things - Making your content compelling and visually appealing in social streams is key for increasing shares and visibility.

Leadership Skills

5 Things Remarkable Bosses Never Do - What you don’t do can sometimes make a bigger impact than what you do.

12 Smart Ways to Get Your Work Done Without Multitasking - Read on and find out how to get your work done on time without any multitasking.

Best Procrastination Tip Ever - Your first thought as you look at this article will be, “I’ll read this later.”But don’t. Let the urge to switch to a new task pass. Read this now.

These are the links we think matter the most this week to give you the competitive edge. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: blog, Copyblogger, Google, guest blogging, procrastination, Search engine optimization, social media, Twitter

10 Must-Read Marketing and Leadership Links To Dominate Your Competition

March 28, 2012 By Bruce Hunter Leave a Comment

This week in C-NOTES:

5 Tips for Moving Social Media Leads Into the Sales Funnel
A Fool Proof Formula For Easily Creating Compelling Content
4 Must Do’s to Step Up, Stand Out, and Get Noticed by the CEO

If you want more useful resources and links than the seven we highlight in our weekly roundup, follow @corebizstyle on Twitter.

Blogging

Pinterest Basics For Bloggers - Does your world only revolve around Facebook and Twitter? Now it’s time to move on: in case you haven’t heard, Pinterest is the new rising star of social media.

14 Ways to Get More Comment on Your Blog Posts – Are You interested in a Simple 3 Part Formula to Get More Comments on Your Blog Posts?

Marketing

The Taylor Swift Guide to Growing a Massive Fan Base - There’s a reason for all of Swift’s success. And it’s not because she’s the best singer-song writer in the world (although she’s actually pretty darn good at that, too). It’s because she knows how to connect with people. She knows how to tug at their heart strings and wrap them around her finger. Funny thing is, she doesn’t do it with her music alone.

5 Tips for Moving Social Media Leads Into the Sales Funnel - Have you been able to turn your fans and followers into active prospects?

A Fool Proof Formula For Easily Creating Compelling Content - Today I’m going to share that secret with you. The secret to prolifically creating excellent content isn’t inspiration or brilliance — it’s found in structure, planning, and research.

How to Optimize Your Business For Local Search and Social Marketing – if you have a local business or one that targets audiences in a specific geolocation, then you will want to move beyond general guides for search and social optimization. This post will take you through several marketing strategies for local search and social media marketing.

8 Social SEO Strategies to Start Using Right Now – Would you like to Know the Social Media Strategies you need to start using right now?

Leadership Skills

4 Must Do’s to Step Up, Stand Out, and Get Noticed by the CEO - Master these four strategies if you are serious about getting a key to the C-Suite – they are not optional.

How to Become Great at Anything – What is the One Thing You Need to to Become Great at Anything?

5 Qualities of People Who Change the World - To the mavericks, the misfits, the renegades, rebels and those of you who might have been written off, this one is for you. It’s the greatest time in history. Your time has come.

These are the links we think matter the most this week to bring up the level on your marketing and leadership game. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: blogging, competiton, Facebook, leadership, linkedin, links, markeing, pinterest, resources, seo, weekly roundup

7 Articles to Power Up Your Marketing and Leadership Game

March 21, 2012 By Bruce Hunter Leave a Comment

This week in C-NOTES:

9 Social Media Marketing Tips From the Pros
Timeline for Facebook Pages: THE COMPLETE GUIDE
The Single Thing You Need to be a Better Leader

If you want more useful resources and links than the seven we highlight in our weekly roundup, follow @corebizstyle on Twitter.

Blogging

How to Write Headlines That Work – A basic definition of why good headlines matter, followed by the individual constructions of eight major headline categories, courtesy of Mr. Bob Bly. Read this post alone, and you’ll know more about headlines than most working writers.

How to Rank on the First Page of Google Through Videos – Don’t you ever wish there was a way to land on the first page of search results that didn’t involve the back-breaking work of traditional SEO?

Marketing

9 Social Media Marketing Tips From the Pros - Are you looking for some new ideas to simplify your social media marketing? Do you wonder how others use social media to attract customers? We asked the pros for their hottest social media tips. Here’s their advice to help you power up your social media marketing.

5 Ways to Get More Traffic with Content Marketing – There’s more — a lot more — to online marketing than traffic. But if you can’t attract a critical “minimum viable audience” of traffic, you’re dead before you get started. Here’s how to use content to get the attention of those all-important prospects — the men and women who are in the market to buy what you have to sell.

Timeline for Facebook Pages: THE COMPLETE GUIDE - Whether you like it or not, the Timeline format is coming to Facebook Pages, and you have until March 30th to figure it out. If you’re lost and you don’t know what Timeline is or how it works, don’t worry – I’m here to break it down and make it easy for you to understand.

Leadership Skills

The Single Thing You Need to Be a Better Leader - You can improve your entire organization with one thing. Trust.You build it by demonstrating concern for, and commitment to, the well-being of your employees and your customers. Leaders like Tony Hsieh of Zappos do this consistently, which is why the company he founded is ranked near the top of the list of Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.”

6 Negotiation Mistakes That Can Cost You – In this economy, negotiating with vendors is a vital survival tactic for any business. Here are six mistakes to avoid so you can strike the best possible deal.

These are the links we think matter the most this week to bring up the level on your marketing and leadership game. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: articles, blogging, leadership skills, links, marketing, social media, weekly roundup

8 Marketing and Leadership Articles to Keep You One Step Ahead

March 15, 2012 By Bruce Hunter 3 Comments

This week in C-NOTES:

The Marketer’s Guide to the New Facebook Pages
3 Things You Need to Do to Stay off Your Customers’ Sh*t Lists
21 Best Tools and Apps to Work Smarter

If you want more useful resources and links than the eight we highlight in our weekly roundup, follow @corebizstyle on Twitter.

Blogging

How to Convert Visitors from Your About Page – In general, there are three types of conversions that you can pursue from your About page: sales, leads and newsletter signups. Let’s look at each of these in turn to determine when to implement each option and how to integrate each one effectively.

3 Myths of Guest Writing for Big Websites…and 6 Tactics for Doing it Well - I work with writers every day, and I hear the three “Myths of Guest Blogging” you’ll see below again and again. Let’s dispel them right now, before we get into the good stuff …

Link Building Tools We Use at Distilled - This is the most comprehensive list of link building tools we have seen this year.

Marketing

The Marketer’s Guide to the New Facebook Pages - What’s New About the FaceBook Pages design? Before we dig deep into the details, let’s take a look at some of the major changes to the Facebook pages’ design.

4 Tips for Creating Your LInkedIn Company Page - Does your business have a LinkedIn company page? Keep reading for tips to create and grow a following for your Linkedin company page.

Leadership Skills

21 Best Tools and Apps to Significantly Boost Your Work Productivity – We’ve researched 21 of the best work productivity tools and apps on the market today. These technology assistants will help you work smarter, stay organized, and get more done in less time.

3 Things Every Company Can Do To Stay Off Customers’ Sht*t Lists - What it takes to stay off your customers Sh*t list. It doesn’t mean beating the world’s greatest service providers like Apple and Zappos. But brands that earn loyalty and love through services tend to take the following approach:

5 E-mails Successful People Don’t Send – There are certain types of e-mails you should never send. You might feel good firing them off, but sending them undermines your effectiveness. Whatever you decide about whether some workplace communications are necessary, don’t ever send the ones that follow.

These are the links we think matter the most for your personal and professional success. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: articles, blogging, leadership skills, marketing, weekly roundup

10 Must-Read Blog Posts That Will Take Your Business to the Next Level

March 2, 2012 By Bruce Hunter 1 Comment

Welcome to our weekly review where we take a look at 10 blog posts we think matter the most in blogging, social media, SEO, and small business development.

Blogging

How to Learn From Customers Who Unsubscribe - We take a closer look at why customers opt out of your e-mails and the benefits of being unceremoniously dropped (yes, there are benefits). And we’ll talk about what you can do after they’ve left.

Looking Good: Simple Ways to Create Sensational Blog Images -This blog post gives some simple and easy ways to create and generate original and eyecatching imagery for blogs, without needing to be a designer. So, let’s get looking good. Problogger is where bloggers worldwide go to develop and expand their blog’s reach. Darren Rowse created this site and it is the go to resource for turning your passion for blogging into extra revenue . His book, Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income, is a best selling practical guide to creating and maintaining a blog that will generate a six figure income.

The One Skill that Makes an Online Entrepreneur Unstoppable - This Copyblogger blog post covers What’s the most important skill you must have in order to be successful as an entrepreneur, especially in an online business. Brian Clark is the founder of Copyblogger and the master of design and traffic solutions for WordPress.

35 WordPress Plugins that Will Immediately Transform Your Website – This is a comprehensive guide to the must-have free and premium WordPress plugins that will help you get results that matter.

How to Figure Out What People Want to Buy From You – This is a great blog post from Derek Halpern on how to find out what your blog readers want to buy.

SEO

10 Ways to get More Traffic, Attention and Higher Rankings Through Social Sharing – This is another great post from Neil Patel who is the cofounder of two internet companies Crazy Egg and KISSMetrics. Through his entrepreneurial career he has helped Amazon, AOL, GM, HP and many other companies make money on the web. This guy knows his stuff.

11 Google Analytics Tricks to Use For Your Website – In this article, I am going to tell you some Google Analytics tricks that you should use for your website.

Small Business Development

5 Things Women Should Never Say When Negotiating – American Express’s Open Forum is a great resource for anything related to running a small business. How can you negotiate better terms for yourself and thereby help close the gender wage gap? Start by staying away from the following phrases.

The MarketPlace is Deaf - Tom Asacker is timely and thought provoking. When he writes people read.

Social Media

New Facebook Business Page Timeline – Top 5 HotSpots Including Do’s and Don’ts – Here are the top 5 hotspot with do’s and dont’s to keep your business page branded and within Facebook’s terms.

These are the blog posts we think matter the most this week. What are yours?

Filed Under: Executive Coaching, Social Media, Strategic Marketing Tagged With: blog posts, blogging, resources, seo, Small Business, social media

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