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How to Create Engaging Content in the “Boring” Industries

engaging content

One of the strategies that you can implement when preparing a marketing strategy is content marketing. Many marketers are stuck on the phase of developing an editorial plan because they cannot come up with any topic that wouldn’t bore the readers to death.

This article gives you a way out of this situation.

What are the Boring Industries?

First things first, let’s define what boring industries are. Accounting, insurance, banking, and law almost certainly fall under this category. Plumbing, roofing, real estate and many others do as well.

In fact, most industries can be called boring because the content they can produce is not newsworthy. What are the interesting industries then? Eco-friendly shopping bags or hipster shoes? They’re not interesting, they’re trendy. CarbonClick is one site you can see list of sustainable and ethical fashion brands.

If you continue to describe industries as interesting and boring, think of crab fishing. It is an industry, where lots of bearded men sail the sea in gloomy weather and perform a series of boring and repetitive tasks to get some crabs out the water and sell them. Yet it has its own Discovery Channel documentary that millions of people enjoyed.

It is not about the industry itself. Rather, it is about your ability to show the most interesting things in the industry. If the oil industry could do it, as a case study in Forbes suggests, you can do it too.

HTTPS

You use the internet for everything, right? It is common knowledge. We all do that. Finding out potential competition? Do a Google search. Feeling the need to remodel your home? Google it. Want to buy a book you can’t get in real stores? Internet. Like I said, everything!

In the midst of your internet experience, you might have noticed something but chose to ignore it. If you have ever waited for your site to load, you might have looked at the URL bar and noticed that the sites you visit generally fall into two categories: one has an “HTTP” written on it, while some other site might have had an “HTTPS”.

At face value, these things would not matter. In fact, why would they even matter? You are browsing the internet for information, or for making a purchase, the HTTP and HTTPS are the least of your concerns, right? Well, kind of. These “protocols” are irrelevant, but they are important.

The HTTP and HTTPS protocols are important. They are related to website security. For regular folk, it can determine the authenticity of the site, and for site owners and digital marketers, having a correct (Spoiler Alert, it’s HTTPS) protocol can boost your traffic and sales considerably.

Today, I will be writing about the SEO advantages of using HTTPS. But before that, we have to begin at the basics.

One of the most important things for brands today is to make sure they are present in social media. It’s the best way to expand your business, find new clients and customers, evolve your marketing campaign, and it provides a number of amazing benefits every business owner should use. However, with the internet expanding so fast, and with the development of new technologies, it has become imperative to ensure the safety of your brand’s social media.

If you’re a business owner, social media can provide you with all the necessary tools and resources which can help you expand your business quite a lot. However, if you’re not careful with your social media accounts, your business can suffer greatly. With so many brands falling victim to brand-damaging situations on social media, you have to learn the best way to deal with this problem.

As a freelancer who works solely from home for the last 5 years, I can tell you – mastering social media presence and branding isn’t an easy task, but it’s not impossible to achieve either. You will need to put some time and effort into learning and understanding the most important things about branding in social media, but there is quite a lot to gain. I’ve made this short guide through some of the ways business owners use to protect their brands on social media. So, let’s not waste time and let’s get straight to it.

With its soaring active user count, Instagram has become the hottest social media property. And a lot of the platform’s growth can be attributed to the rising popularity of ephemeral content. As more and more people gravitate to both creating and consuming this type of content, brands have also jumped on the bandwagon.

If you haven’t crafted an ephemeral content strategy yet, this article serves as a guide to how you can use the trending format to grow your brand, and ultimately, your business.

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Featured snippets can increase organic traffic to a page by up to 516%, as found in a study by Search Engine Land. While many webmasters focus solely on ranking in the regular search results, featured snippets create a new opportunity to surpass the competition.

Ahead, you are going to learn how to optimize your content and SEO to achieve featured snippets in Google, and ultimately generate more organic traffic.

What are Featured Snippets?

Every marketer aspires to achieve the #1 rank in Google, but how about position #0? This is what many are starting to call featured snippets, as they appear higher than other search results.

Featured snippets are specially selected answers that are placed in a block below any ads but above the other organic results. You’ve most likely seen them before, and they look like this:

The future of SEO is right behind the corner whether you like it or not. That is why you have to accept this fact and move on along with upgrading our SEO and digital marketing strategies to make them even more appealing to the future realities.

In the article below, I would discuss 8 the most outstanding SEO trends and techniques that are waiting for us in 2019. Also, I would touch on the challenges and pitfalls in the way of obtaining a top rank in your search engine in the new upcoming year.

Many of you are pretty familiar with what search engine is and what it was back in the days, however, it is really intriguing to observe how it is evolving right now. Stick and stones might break my bones, but things like domain authority, backlink profile and for instance, authorship is the SEO of the past. Now, it is all about your reputation.

Nevertheless, despite the fact that reputation is undoubtedly essential, you got to continuously amplify it with new technologies keeping pace with your fastidious client; which means you have to improve your user experience all the time – no excuses.

Let’s see how user experience might show itself off in 2019.

Gantt Charts for SEO

Every SEO campaign requires a certain level of preparation and planning. Oftentimes, it includes keyword selection, writing strong page titles and meta tags, developing, implementing a link building programme and what not. The entire process of devising a kickass strategy could be both challenging and arduous without proper planning and tracking.

Hubspot explains a good SEO strategy as the process of organizing a website’s content by topic, which helps search engines like Google understand a user’s intent when searching.

These days many teams have started using Gantt chart software to plan, run, and control their SEO strategies. To all those, who don’t know much about Gantt charts, we have a brief overview for you.

Marketing Strategies

In e-commerce, building your digital storefront is no longer the main challenge.

With today’s lineup of e-commerce platforms, plugins, and themes, anyone can set up an online shop without writing a single line of code.

However, just because you can create a fully functional online shopping experience, doesn’t mean you should expect to close your first sale on the same day.

After getting your online store up and running, the bulk of your time will be dedicated to bringing in potential customers. Quite frankly, this is a daunting challenge to those who are untrained in the landscape of online marketing.

If you never ran a successful online marketing campaign before, you’ve come to the right place. In this post, we will discuss the top 4 marketing strategies that online store owners can run on a budget.

Let’s begin.

Email Automation

As per a Statista report, 98.4% of email users in America check their email at least once daily while 34% check it ‘throughout the day.’

The realm of sales and marketing have experienced dynamic changes in the recent years, especially in the B2B segment. Emails are the best sales channel that can be used throughout the stages of a sales process. If effectively used, it can increase the number of prospects in your sales funnel. In this article, we will be talking about using email automation software for boosting your sales. Read More

How to Write Effective Email Subject Lines

Effective Email Subjective Line

Time to pull the rug from under you. Remember in the early 90s when Donald Trump said, “If everybody is doing one thing, it is probably a good idea to do the opposite.” It is hard to deny his logic when he is now a billionaire and a president, and it is hard to deny his idea when people have lost millions due to mortgage bubbles, the net bubble, and even the current bitcoin craze because they followed the crowd. Go online right now and you will find reams of advice on email marketing and email subject lines. The sole purpose of this article is to debunk what you are reading online and to offer some examples of companies who are “Nailing” the email subject line and getting consistent clicks and conversions.

How to Create Engaging Content in the “Boring” Industries

What are the Boring Industries?

The SEO Advantages of Using HTTPS

How to Optimize Your Website for Featured Snippets

What are Featured Snippets?

How to Use Gantt Charts For Your Next SEO Campaign

4 Marketing Strategies that Every Online Store Owner Needs to Know

How to Boost Sales Using Email Automation

How to Write Effective Email Subject Lines