As I‘ve moved up in my marketing career, I’ve realized how important it is to be on the same page as the CEO. In this recent episode of Marketing Against the Grain, we explore this topic and offer tips for enhancing your communications with executive leadership. Here are five actionable insights that CMOs and marketing…

Headlines have enormous power. They must attract and convince visitors to consume your content. And they have only a few words to accomplish that. To help with this great responsibility, follow this seven-step process and bonus tips.

Taking a social media marketing course will help you level-up your existing skills or jumpstart a career in marketing management. And this is a good time: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a 10% rate of job growth is expected for social media marketing managers from 2020 to 2030. To help you stand out…

There’s often doubt. Giving someone the benefit of that doubt enables us to move forward, and that requires us to realize that our doubt might be unfounded. Systems that assume goodwill create possibility, connection and utility far easier than those that don’t. Being invited to find a place in those systems is a privilege worth…

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Before we dive in, let’s set the right expectations: no tool will give you your competitor’s exact traffic data. However, it’s still well enough to see what works for them, copy their best ideas, or set realistic benchmarks. We’ll cover:… Read more ›

This suggests (correlation does not necessarily imply causation!) that obsessing over your content score is unlikely to lead to significantly higher Google rankings. Does that mean content optimization scores are pointless? No. You just need to know how best to… Read more ›

In this article, I’ll use my 10 years of SEO agency experience to give you the inside scoop on the most trusted tools SEO agencies use to provide their clients with the best SEO insights. For SEO agencies, finding the… Read more ›

They can also improve operational efficiency and provide insights for executives to make better decisions, faster. Here are the top 8 use cases of our API and how you can leverage actionable SEO and website data in a jiffy. Reporting… Read more ›

With more locations come greater challenges requiring a more nuanced approach than a typical local SEO campaign. In this guide, I share successful strategies I’ve used to scale SEO for local and national franchises. It’s split up into three key… Read more ›