Start Helping, Stop Selling
We recently attended the New Media Expo and had the opportunity to hear Jay Baer, a social media strategist, author, speaker and President of Convince and Convert. Baer presented, Youtility: How Smart Companies Are...
How a Social Media Resource Page Can Rock Your Biz
We thought we'd mix it up a bit and share how to pull all those networks together with a fab example (from an unexpected source) of a social media resource page from Knitting Universe.
Living in a Post Google Penguin SEO World
Knowing how to navigate the Google Penguin SEO changes that have happened can mean the difference between a site that receives traffic from Google and one that doesn’t.
VerticalResponse Celebrates 12 Years of Growth [Infographic]
Happy birthday to us! Here at VerticalResponse, 2013 marks 12 awesome years of helping small businesses and non-profits succeed with their marketing. Thanks to our amazing customers (who sent a whopping 8.4 billion...
Crunched for Time? How to Prioritize Your Public Relations Plan
If you’re the owner of a small biz, you probably do it all: You’re the salesperson, head of HR, bookkeeper, office manager, maybe even the janitor. Adding “public relations extraordinaire” to that always-expanding...
Does Your Biz Need a Mobile App?
Scrolling through Facebook posts recently we couldn't help but notice there were a number of companies touting their new mobile apps. Which made us wonder, does your business need a mobile app to stay competitive?
3 Sins of Using a Purchased Email Marketing List
When you're just getting started with your business, or trying to grow it quickly, growing your email marketing list may seem like a huge waste of time when you can go out and purchase a list. Seems okay right? Not...
9 Free Killer Keyword Research Tools
When launching, adjusting or creating search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns, you work with a ton of keywords (words you choose and want to rank well in search engine results)....
What Does the Future Hold for Email and Social Marketing?
2013 has arrived, and with it comes thoughts and ideas of how email and social marketing will evolve. While we can’t predict what will become the next big social media channel this year, we can give you some...