Derek Halpern

20 Tips Guaranteed to Increase Your Blog Following

CBT: Class of 2014 - West Point

Building a solid blog following is critical to achieving your blog goals. This requires multiple sources of blog readership. To this end, the biggest challenge most bloggers have is getting new visitors to become repeat visitors. Here are twenty tips guaranteed to turn new visitors into loyal readers without having to work at getting them to return each time. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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Social Media: How to Deepen Participant Relationships

Build relationships

Despite its engagement focus, social media can be a difficult environment in which to build deep, long-term customer relationships. Most social media participants fall into the 90% join but lurk, 9% do something easy such as sharing where limited effort or investment is required and 1% are your advocates. As a result, it’s difficult to continue these relationships outside social media to generate yield profitable revenue. Here are twelve ways to build your email house file to extend relationships and drive conversions. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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How To Make Your Content Marketing Go Viral [Research]

3 secrets to go viral

When it comes to content marketing, the advice experts often give is create remarkable content. Why? It attracts readers, shares and sales. More importantly, remarkable content tends to go viral. Here are three elements to increase content virality and three secrets to remarkable content. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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