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Every business needs to come up with creative ways to drive sales.

Sure, you may be doing well today, but how are you planning on making money tomorrow? What about next month or next year?

Whether your company sells a physical product or offers a service, the subscription business model is something that you should consider using to generate recurring sales.

Historically, implementing a subscription business model has proven to be highly profitable.

In the last five years, this model has grown by more than 100%.

Businesses that know how to offer valuable subscriptions end up with extremely loyal customers, which is why it’s such an effective customer retention strategy.

Even ecommerce brands have been using subscriptions to drive sales.

That’s because the consumer market has accepted this model, causing it to grow in popularity over the last year.

Once you’re able to get customers to pay for a subscription, you’ll get recurring sales on a monthly or annual basis.

As a result, your company will be in a great position for sustainable growth over time.

But if you’ve never implemented a subscription model to your business, it might be a little bit intimidating for you. Where do you start?

Some of you may have already set up a subscription model for your business. But unfort… Read More

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Posted by Tom.Capper

By now, you’ve probably heard as much as you can bear about mobile first indexing. For me, there’s been one topic that’s been conspicuously missing from all this discussion, though, and that’s the impact on internal linking and previous internal linking best practices.

In the past, there have been a few popular methods for providing crawl paths for search engines — bulky main navigations, HTML sitemap-style pages that exist purely for internal linking, or blocks of links at the bottom of indexed pages. Larger sites have typically used at least two or often three of these methods. I’ll explain in this post why all of these are now looking pretty shaky, and what I suggest you do about it.

Quick refresher: WTF are “internal linking” & “mobile-first,” Tom?

Internal linking is and always has been a vital component of SEO — it’s easy to forget in all the noise about external link building that some of our most powerful tools to affect the link graph are right under our noses. If you’re looking to brush up on internal linking in general, it’s a topic that gets pretty complex pretty quickly, but there are a couple of resources I can recommend to get started:

This top-level Whiteboard Friday from RandThis 30-minute audit guide from me

I’ve also written in the past that links may be mattering less and less as a ranking factor for the most competitive terms, and though that may be true, they’re still the … Read More

There is a myth that has been centuries in the making.

It is a lie that has stopped many from starting their dream.

Prevented people from displaying their genius.

Stopped people succeeding.

The myth?

That being an artist, a creator or successful is only for a special few.

That lie is that innovation and creativity starts with a genius moment. That being creative is waiting for inspiration to show up.

And that it is only for the chosen few.

But…..

It isn’t mystical.

It isn’t a divine gift.

You don’t have to be special.

It is mundane.

It is a process. A habit.

Listen for the whisper

It starts with an inkling. A feeling. But if you aren’t listening you will miss it.

The busyness of life often drowns that whisper.

That still small voice.

It is lost in the noise.

We see it everywhere.

Headphones on.

Ear buds plugged in.

White cables hanging from heads.

We are filling our heads with noise, buzz and tunes all the time.

We need to say no to more noise and say yes to more silence then the creative process has the space to evolve.

So what is the process? How does your genius emerge?

#1. Consume for ins… Read More

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore Facebook Groups admin tools and updates. Our special guest this week is Holly Homer. Tune In to […]

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