Content Publishing for Brands Changes Traditional Marketing

When the biggest brands in the world turn to Content Publishing versus relying on traditional marketing, what does it mean for the rest of us? The ability for a brand to control their own content is still an under appreciated concept. Paid media is not always an option for all brands, simply because well… it [...]

Your Policies Need to Evolve With Your Market

I remember when I got my first Smartphone. It was an Ericsson P800. At the time it was absolutely cutting edge. I couldn’t wait to use it on a plane in flight mode just because I could. Then guess what? The airline staff didn’t believe that my device had such a function. They’d never heard [...]

4 Reasons Social Media Marketing Is Chewing-Up Your Time

Nobody’s dying words were “I wish I tweeted more.” There’s no denying the power of social media marketing, but I don’t believe in the hype that it’s a 24/7/365 job, or that you or your employees should be tweeting at late hours until their fingers are raw. If the only way you can make social [...]

10 Pinterest Do’s That’ll Make You a Better Marketer

With the ever revolving world of online marketing, more and more entrepreneurs are targeting internet savvy customers through social media marketing. This includes Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest and others. Pinterest has slowly emerged as a leading online resource promoting online business. While this platform caters to visually driven products, it can work for almost any [...]

Google+: It’s Bigger On the Inside.

Fans of  Doctor Who will be familiar with the TARDIS, the Time Lord’s spacecraft that doubles as a time machine. The outstanding feature of the TARDIS is that from the outside it looks like an antique London Police Box. Once you enter though, you’re in the nerve centre of a unimaginably massive and complex vessel. Google+ is a portal that [...]

Five Fat Phrases Clogging Up Your Content

A big trend in health and fitness these days is being “lean.” Lean meat, lean muscle, (heck, even Sheryl Sandberg wants us to Lean in.) Getting lean is about narrowing something down to its essence — just the good stuff. It’s a philosophy that makes sense, not just for our bodies, but for our content, [...]

4 Things to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

I’ve been using my client experiences and questions as inspiration for my articles here on SteamFeed, and one question I have come across quite often is how do I speed up my WordPress site? With so many photoblogs these days and even more oversold shared hosting no wonder this question is coming up more and more often. [...]

Top 5 Social Media Questions Marketers Want Answered

If you’re like most people I’m sure there are new social media questions popping up in your head all the time. Luckily a couple of weeks ago SocialMediaExaminer.com released their annual Social Media Marketing Industry Report (definitely worth checking out!) where they collected information from over 3,000 marketers. The core of the report focused on how [...]

9 Social Media Tools To Make Your Life Easier

Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amount of time it takes to keep up with social media? Do you wish you had a few tools in your chest to help you accomplish your goals? Well, you are not alone! Recently, the Social Media Examiner put our their annual social media marketing industry report, aptly titled [...]

Letting the Lion Out: The ‘Why’ of Your Business

A few weeks ago at CoffeeCon, I learned something: Do not drink too much caffeine or you will face an uncomfortable buzz. Sigh. But I left with a few even more memorable lessons I want to share to get you thinking about why you do what you do and perhaps, some new ways to network. [...]