How Powerful Is Instagram Influencer Marketing? [Infographic]

New research reveals staggering growth for Instagram influencer marketing, with no sign of slowing in the coming year.
Why Smarter Marketing Strategy Is Better Strategy

It’s time to let go of old school social media practices, where likes and follows mean winning. Refresh your marketing strategy with tips from this infographic.
The Ultimate Guide to Infographic Marketing

This guide will help you design and promote the best, most valuable infographics possible to engage and grow your audience.
The 6 Ways to Organize a Content Team

Here is how content teams are organized, based on new research from Rundown in their 2016 Content Report – includes infographic
10 Insightful Marketing Charts from 2015

Data visualizations aren’t just fun to look at—most of us couldn’t make sense of data without them. Here are 10 of the very best from 2015.
Drive Sales and Increase Conversions With These Types of Content

Don’t let those cold pitches become the cornerstone of your content strategy. Make great content that your sales team can get behind.
How Small Businesses Can Use Visual Content and Increase Conversions

What do big companies have that small businesses don’t? Maybe they have more resources or online followers, or maybe they have more budget to spend on advertising and site design. However, none of this should deter you. Using visual content effectively online is all about knowing how to do it right.
Infographic – 86 Percent of Users May Leave a Website When Asked to Create an Account

Convince & Convert sponsor and provider of social media sign-on technology Janrain has put together some research on user behavior around online web forms and registration pages. Have you considered the value that registration forms are creating (or taking away) from your website? Here’s what they found: Download this infographic as a PDF – http://info.janrain.com/acton/attachment/1205/f-00fb/0/-/-/-/-/file.pdf
5 Ways to Use Pinterest to Boost Press Release Results
Pinterest is taking over social media like a tsunami of college students on a pizza delivery guy. Why not? It’s fun, highly addictive and – newly announced as the 3rd most popular social network in the World – it’s creeping up on Facebook with 11+ million users. So how can you leverage that popularity to […]
How to Make Social Media Infographics That Get Noticed
Video production by my friends at Candidio. Fast, inexpensive, great service. (Abbreviated transcript below. Please watch video for entire interview.) Jay: Welcome everybody. It’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert, joined today by a very special guest, my friend Mark Smiciklas from Intersection Consulting in lovely Vancouver, Canada and author of the new book “The […]
5 Reasons Pinterest is Addicting and 4 Weaknesses That May Kill it

Like Google searches for M.I.A. after her Super Bowl middle finger salute, the growth of Pinterest is positively ferocious. A 329 percent increase in unique visitors in 90 days is the kind of rocket ship acceleration that is usually far more myth than reality, even in social media start-up circles. Why this newfound obsession with […]
Is Content Marketing a Necessity For Your Brand?

Content Marketing – Give Them Something to Talk About If customers and prospects are already chattering about your brand on the social Web, your social media initiative can focus primarily on becoming an authentic part of those existing conversations. If someone throws you a surprise party, you just need to show up – you don’t […]
5 Step Process for Social Media Success

Social media makes big companies feel small again, and gives small companies a natural advantage because they are closer to their customers. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, you have interesting stories to tell. Finding and sharing them is the first step toward social media success. What is your process for harvesting stories within […]