Tyler Hakes | Aug 28, 2017 | Content Marketing, Guides, Marketing, SEO
Content marketing is tough. Often, companies think that it seems like the easiest strategy for growth. After all, all you have to do is write stuff and post it on your website–right? Of course, that’s an incredible simplification. Much, much more work and...
Tyler Hakes | Aug 4, 2017 | Content Marketing, Marketing
All great content marketing has one thing in common. It speaks to a specific audience. It addresses their needs. It solves their problems. In order to accomplish this, we need to first understand our prospective buyer and the dimensions that make them unique. We need...
Tyler Hakes | Apr 27, 2017 | Marketing, SEO, Startups
If you’re a startup, you probably already know that one of the best marketing channels you can master is search. With the right SEO for your startup, you can bring in hundreds or even thousands of targeted visitors looking for your product or service every day and...
Tyler Hakes | Apr 11, 2017 | Content Marketing, Marketing, SEO
I started working in content marketing nearly (ahem) 10 years ago. Admittedly, I had no clue what the hell I was doing. I had just graduated from college with a degree in journalism and knew I liked to write. I was running a tiny online magazine (mostly for fun,...
Tyler Hakes | Feb 28, 2017 | Content Marketing, Marketing
Hiring a content marketing agency can be scary as hell. I know because I’ve been on the other side of the table. I’ve been the one talking to agencies, holding a bag of money, trying to decide where to place my bet. It was nerve racking. Every agency promised me the...
Tyler Hakes | Jan 3, 2017 | Content Marketing, Marketing
Too many people simply “do content marketing.” There’s no strategy behind it. It’s not tied into the business in any real sense. It’s just an item on the to-do list that they keep doing each and every week, without ever getting much from it. And if that’s what...