Top 25 Digital Marketing Articles – Week of 01/19/18
This week’s roundup, includes tips to choose the right Social Media platform for your business, improve the Conversion rate of your website across different channels, and create landing pages from an SEO perspective.
Learn how to improve sales with Email Marketing, and maintain your Online Reputation. We’ve covered all of this news and, much more, below!
From the UpCity Blog:
- This week’s Agency Playbook play will be discussing how to find new talent and identify the best candidates for your agency.
- Charis Dickson gives tips on making sure everything goes according to plan on the day of your launch.
- The best way to connect with and convert e-commerce customers is through email marketing with these strategies.
- Kelly Shelton explores the secret to selling SEO to artisan and niche business owners.
Content Marketing:
- Anne Leuman offers tips to help marketers become more data informed and enhance their Content Marketing efforts.
- Learn how a Content Marketing strategy can be the foundation for a nonexistent integrated digital marketing strategy, from Robert Rose’sblog.
- Jeff Haden’s blog serves as a comprehensive Content Marketing guide to develop the right strategy and create Content that can deliver real results for your business.
- Gitanjali Rajput emphasizes the need for recycling old Content, including images and ensuring your presence on social media to enhance your Content Marketing efforts.
Conversion Optimization:
- Learn how to gate Content for more engagement and Conversions, from Sharon Hurley Hall’s blog.
- Follow the valuable tips from Ruchika Sharma to improve the Conversion rate of your website across different channels.
- Robert Jones draws special attention to bandit testing, a CRO testing method that is less used.
- Julia Samoilenko highlights effective ways of using social media, for driving leads to your website.
Email Marketing:
- John E Lincoln’s blog presents Email Marketing campaign ideas that are proven to drive sales.
- Tony Lael draws special attention to the inbound marketing methodology that can make Email Marketing campaigns successful.
- Judith Michel highlights the Email Marketing mistakes that should be avoided and offers guidance to improve the performance of your Email Marketing campaigns.
- Peter Sandeen emphasizes the need for making offers and using a content strategy in your Emails, to enhance your Email Marketing efforts.
Mobile Optimization:
- Stevan Mcgrath highlights the Mobile SEO facts that are important for any business that is transitioning to a Mobile-first approach.
- Zayan Guedim draws special attention to the expected repercussions of the Mobile-First update on marketers, traffic and web services.
Local Optimization:
- Billy Crawford offers Local SEO tips to help marketers benefit the most from their Google My Business listing.
Reputation Management:
- Follow the valuable tips from Fadi Tawil to improve and maintain your Online Reputation.
Search Engine Optimization:
- Get clued up on the elements that would hugely impact SEO in the year 2018, from Colton Miller’s blog.
- John Vargo’s blog discusses the scenario of SEO for voice search queries.
- Janice Wood offers guidance to create landing pages from an SEO perspective.
- John Locke highlights the importance of website design in SEO.
Social Optimization:
- Learn how Social Media can bring awareness about your business, enhance your SEO efforts and talk about your offerings, from Cade Gaede’s blog.
- Anna Ray offers guidance to choose the right Social Media platform for your business.
- Follow the tips from Andre Kay for taking your Social Media Marketing efforts to a new high in the year 2018.
- Garrett Moon offers helpful tips to optimize your Social Media posts.
3 Creative Ways to Boost Content Efforts in 2018
When it comes to earning SEO juice, we all know that content is the search marketer’s preferred egress. After all, content is more than 70 percent responsible for awarding organic rank. One of the biggest challenges faced by content marketers is fading into a routine where one is fettered to a rinse and repeat sequence. Amping up your content with some pizzazz and sparkle will help improve SEO efforts and conversion rates because, ultimately, the glitz and glam will attract more search traffic AND target the right types of buyers who will engage with your content thus sending valuable signals to those finicky Google bots. Presented for your consideration are three creative ways that the best innovative inbound digital marketing agencies jazz up their content to enable growth for their clients.
The Alliance of Verbal and Visual
The best universities offer Humanities courses that combine the study of poetry and prose with painting and sculpture. They believe the best way for academics to have full, knowledge depths into particular genres is to see how humanity is represented through both verbal and visual art forms. In other words, to truly understand man’s experience in the Industrial Revolution, one should read Dickens’ ‘Hard Times’ while contemplating Turner’s painting ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’.
Just as academics are consumers of history’s artistic experiences, online buyers can experience a deeper den of knowledge and have a better experience by having a visual form that accompanies a blog or article. This is where YouTube creates opportunities for businesses to make more intimate connections with potential customers and current clients. In addition, YouTube videos appear in organic searches, so when leveraged with content, SEO can be greatly improved while creating sales growth.
For example, my brother and I are big Star Wars nerds. I want to get him a high-quality custom lightsaber for his birthday. I am willing to make it myself, or find a company who can create a custom solution. I did a Google search for “how to make a lightsaber”, and with 817,000 results the first four organically ranking are YouTube videos as shown in this screenshot.

Content marketers have a tremendous opportunity to create loved, informative blogs and cross-reference these with adjoining YouTube videos. These videos can be visual representations of previously written blogs or they can expand on previous blog topics.
If a company that makes lightsabers writes an article on the difference between Jedi lightsabers in the original canon vs. the new canon, then the company could publish a video showing how fans from Anglo-Saxon ancestry can incorporate their family’s crest into a Jedi original canon lightsaber design. This brings me to the second way creative marketers can jazz up their content: Niche Groups.
Focus Content on Niche Groups
Niche groups may be smaller segments of your consumer audience, but they are extremely vocal and therefore add a ton of value. These are people within your content generation community and those with topical interests. In continuing the above example of a niche audience passionate about their ancestral identity and the symbols associated with their family’s lineage, this would be a great niche audience to target because they purchase items that showcase their heritage, weaponry is closely related to Anglo-Saxon identities, and (according to a Quora Report) 90 percent of Americans have seen at least one of the Star Wars films and more than 60 percent of Americans consider themselves fans of the franchise. Clearly, there is an opportunity for companies that make lightsabers to reach out to a niche group like this one, sell some product, and get delighted customers singing their praise all over social media.

Regal Cinemas, one of the largest movie theater chains in the U.S., engaged visitors to their theaters with interactive displays that served as the perfect photo backdrops for Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat.
Create content for the smaller, louder groups in your sphere of influence. In regards to our example of lightsaber companies, there are groups who loudly gripe over Disney’s acquisition of the franchise, those who continue to fight with Star Trek fan groups over which franchise is superior, and those who even take classes in learning made-up languages used in the various worlds of Star Wars. When small, loud groups feel like their voices aren’t being heard elsewhere, businesses can build solid brand advocacy in these groups by creating clever content that triggers their emotions.
Start Collecting Content Creators
Third, but not last, look for highly successful content creators. Types to consider fall under these categories:
- Writers who have a portfolio of hit pieces
- Media contributors
- Journalists
- Marketing agency writers
The authors of hit pieces are those who produce content that is widely shared and talked about. They have appeal and a voice that attracts fans, and they often have the skills required to write for a wide variety of audiences. Media contributors and journalists are also ideal targets because they are often underpaid and are hungry to make more money while building up a portfolio. Content writers from digital marketing agencies are also ideal because they have the business growth mindset and the skills to write content with the incentive to have it shared and dispersed all over social media.
There are a number of tools you can use, BuzzSumo being the most popular one used by marketing agencies. This tool allows you to search for, for example, lightsabers and see what the most shared content is with set time frames. You can discover that an article titled “How I Taught my 10 Year-Old Son to Build a Kylo Ren Lightsaber” got the most hits and social shares over the last three months. You can see who the author is, and, oh look, she works for this agency in Tampa and does freelance work on the side.

This is one of the best hacks you can do because it’s not technically “cheating” and it doesn’t run the risk of angering the Google gods. Also, this is an ideal way to recruit known individuals with a high likeliness they will create amazing content that will do extremely well and resonate with lots of readers.
Don’t Be Satisfied with Old Approach Content
2017 has already taught us that buyers no longer rely on sales teams to educate them on products and services. Consumers are savvy shoppers who do on-the-spot research looking for in-depth solutions to their pains and needs. As we are already into 2018, content efforts must be boosted to meet and exceed buyer demands, and by following these three tips you can expect to see this be the year that your
20 Best Insurance Blogs You Should Be Reading
Insurance marketing is something that many agents struggle to understand. This listing of 20 of the best insurance marketing blogs is a great resource for new marketers and agents who are also marketing professionals looking to expand their skill set to include marketing specific to insurance agents and insurance businesses. Our list includes blogs that are with traditional insurance marketing, digital marketing, and social marketing. Let’s get started!




















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Facts + Statistics: Child safety
Causes of death from unintentional injuries among children differ significantly by age. For children under the age of 1 year, the most common cause of death was suffocation in 2015, the most recent year available. For children age 1 to 4 drowning was the most common cause of death followed closely by motor vehicle crashes. Motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for children ages 5 to 9 and 10 to 14.
Top Five Causes of Children's Unintentional Injury Deaths by Age, 2015
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Source: National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Motor vehicle crash deaths
In the vast majority of youth motor vehicle fatalities, the child was a passenger in a vehicle; 20 percent were pedestrians; 3 percent were bicyclists. Crash deaths have declined dramatically since 1975 for all children under the age of 12, according to data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Passenger Vehicle Occupant Deaths And Rate Per Million Children Through Age 12, 1975-2015
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Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Motor Vehicle Deaths Per 100,000 Persons By Age, 2015
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Children Killed Or Injured in Vehicle Crashes By Age, 2015
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Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Restraint use
Child safety seats have reduced the number of children’s deaths from motor vehicle crashes. The National Highway Traffic Administration says that the seats reduce fatal injuries by 71 percent for children under 1 year old and by 54 percent for toddlers age 1 to 4. Child safety seats or adult seat belts have saved an estimated 10,940 lives of children under the age of 5 in passenger vehicles from 1975 to 2015.
Restraint Use Among Fatally Injured Children In Passenger Vehicles By Age, 1985
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Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Restraint Use Among Fatally Injured Children In Passenger Vehicles By Age, 2015
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Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Recreation
Among children up to the age of 14, football was the most dangerous sport, causing almost 206,000 injuries in 2015. Basketball and bicycle riding ranked second and third, causing 175,000 and 168,000 injuries, respectively. Soccer and swimming round out the top five, with 106,000 and 97,000 injuries.
Concern is growing about the risks of sports-related concussions as lawsuits filed by injured professional football players have generated national headlines. The problem also affects thousands of young people who engage in a variety of sports. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in 2012, an estimated 329,290 children (age 19 or younger) were treated in U.S. emergency departments for sports and recreation-related injuries that included a diagnosis of concussion or traumatic brain injury.
Top 10 Sports By Number of Injuries For Children Through the Age of 14, 2015
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(1) Treated in hospital emergency departments. Excludes skiing.
(2) Includes injuries associated with swimming, swimming pools, pool slides, diving or diving boards and swimming pool equipment.
(3) Includes exercise equipment and exercise activity.
(2) Includes injuries associated with swimming, swimming pools, pool slides, diving or diving boards and swimming pool equipment.
(3) Includes exercise equipment and exercise activity.
Source: National Safety Council. (2017). Injury Facts®, 2017 Edition. Itasca, IL.
Pedalcyclists Killed And Fatality Rates, 2015 (1)
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(1) Includes riders of bicycles and other non-motorized vehicles powered by pedals, such as tricycles and unicycles.
(2) Includes pedalcyclists of unknown age.
(2) Includes pedalcyclists of unknown age.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Bureau of the Census.
Pedalcyclists Injured And Injury Rates, 2015 (1)
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(1) Includes riders of bicycles and other non-motorized vehicles powered by pedals, such as tricycles and unicycles.
(2) Less than 500 injured.
(2) Less than 500 injured.
Note: Injured totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Bureau of the Census.
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