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The Power of Premium Domain Names

For those of you that haven’t heard of the profession before, domaining is big business. The buying and selling of domain names continues to rise as digital and websites are quickly becoming the new real estate as so much of the physical world is in jeopardy with ongoing concerns of the global pandemic. Premium domain names can really give your business a head start when it comes to search volume and brand recognition. Buying an existing domain means you don’t have to start from scratch, which can save you time.



How did we get here? The first domain name – symbolics.com was registered all the way back in 1985! By 1988, ICANN was founded to manage critical names and numbers for DNS. The .com domain name extension, while not the only extension, continues to be the most valuable and recognizable.



How much do some premium domains fetch in the open market, you may wonder? In 2019, there was a notable premium domain name – voice.com – that sold for a whopping $30 million. If you have an existing business, make sure someone doesn’t get your domain before you do. Elon Musk had to shell out $11 million to get tesla.com.



There is even more brand value when it comes to purchasing vanity phone numbers to go along with premium domain names. Customers often remember phone numbers with phrases in advertisements and when it’s time for them to call you up for your services.



Learn more about the power of a premium domain name along with vanity phone numbers in the visual deep dive below:









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Crafting A Business Strategy That Actually Lasts

Crafting A Business Strategy That Actually Lasts written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing































Agency Spark Podcast with Alex Brueckmann



The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here!



In this episode of the Agency Spark Podcast, Sara interviews Alex Brueckmann. Alex is an entrepreneur, author, executive coach, and board advisor. He built, scaled, and exited companies in Europe and Canada, and led client projects across the world. His areas of expertise are strategy development, leadership development, and entrepreneurship. His passion lies in helping clients built profitable businesses rooted in purpose.



Questions Sara asks Alex Brueckmann:







Tell me about how you help clients build profitable businesses rooted in purpose?


How do you help guide businesses to what their purpose or passion is?


Once a businesses purpose statement is defined, what are the next steps to actually making an impact?


Talk to me about how refining your businesses purpose statement can actually help the hiring and employee retention process?


What are your recommendations for crafting a strategy that lasts?


What are some common struggles you see for businesses trying to follow through on their strategy?


What do you say to those who believe there are strategists and those who aren’t?




Learn more about Alex Brueckmann:





Website


LinkedIn


Download his free Intentional Strategy Toolkit for entrepreneurs and (small) business owners here!




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How To Speak With No Fear

How To Speak With No Fear written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing































Agency Spark Podcast with Mike Acker



The Agency Spark Podcast, hosted by Sara Nay, is a collection of interviews from thought leaders in the marketing consultancy and agency space. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today. Check out the new Spark Lab Consulting website here!



In this episode of the Agency Spark Podcast, Sara interviews Mike Acker. Mike is an executive and communication coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of four books including the bestselling Speak With No Fear, which has appeared on numerous booklists even getting designated as the #1 book on overcoming fear of speaking on Forbes.com.



Questions Sara asks Mike Acker:







Tell me a little about your background and ultimately what led you to write so many books over the years?


What are some of the different strategies you use when coaching people how to speak and communicate effectively?


How do you help clients approach writing and preparing their speeches?


Why is smiling, pausing, and taking time to breathe so important?




Learn more about Mike Acker:





MikeAcker.com


LinkedIn


Mike’s Books




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The Unstoppable CEO – The Ultimate Marketing Engine

The Unstoppable CEO – The Ultimate Marketing Engine written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing



Any business can grow and scale in good times.



Can your business thrive and survive through tough times?



Modern marketing isn’t about tactics anymore, it’s about transformation over transaction. Learn how to create happier customers by helping them transform, and then watch as those customers drive your referral engine to new heights.



In this episode of the Unstoppable CEO podcast, I talked with host, Steve Gordon, about my new book The Ultimate Marketing Engine, “hourglass marketing”, and how you can rev your marketing engine by making your business more meaningful to your customers.



Listen to the Unstoppable CEO Podcast episode here.







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Hybrid Workplace: Innovation for the Future

While the pandemic has been difficult to manage for all, certain aspects of it turned out to be better in a sense for many workers. For the first time, many members of the workforce got a taste of the dream work environment – or so we thought. While remote work definitely has its perks, there are some serious drawbacks as well. So why don’t we all just return to the office? Between the coronavirus pandemic, vaccinations, social distancing, and a record number of people choosing to quit rather than return to the office, it isn’t always so simple. Perhaps the hybrid workplace can help?



It’s important to note that while many employees might rather work from home, not all jobs are possible to be done fully remotely after all. So let’s not be too quick to abandon the office for good.



Let’s look at a more flexible and accommodating way to work that should make everyone happy – the hybrid workplace. Ideally, a worker can get the best of both worlds, combining the flexibility of remote work along with the stability and structure that the office environment can afford us. From the business perspective, hybrid workplaces can be a boon for a better use of office space and improve employee satisfaction as it can be more accommodating to their work style.



There are still challenges to this approach such as planning office space, inclusion, the potential for less career advancement (as some management will continue to reward in-office only staff), and collaboration, but we’re still getting there.



Learn more about why the hybrid workplace may be the wave of the future in the visual deep dive below:









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Delivering Happiness At Work And Beyond

Delivering Happiness At Work And Beyond written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing







Marketing Podcast with Jenn Lim







In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Jen Limm. Jen is the CEO of Delivering Happiness, a company she and Tony Hsieh (the late CEO of Zappos.com) co-founded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. She’s also the author of Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact.













Key Takeaway:



The bottom line is — if you have more happy employees, you’ll have happier customers, and then you’ll actually have a more profitable, sustainable, and meaningful impact on the world.



In this episode, Jenn Lim, the co-founder and CEO of Delivering Happiness, talks about concepts from her new book — Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact. Jenn shares how to cultivate a culture that can adapt to change, be highly profitable, and support all its people…starting with yourself.



Questions I ask Jenn Lim:





[1:49] How do you actually go about doing the work of creating happier company cultures?


[4:10] Has the organization’s mission that stemmed from the book Delivering Happiness changed over the last ten years?


[5:41] Can you unpack the word ‘purpose’ and how the very idea of identifying your purpose can be very daunting for people nowadays?


[9:14] Do you have any tips that can help people better understand their purpose without it being such an overwhelming task?


[11:27] Helping people find a personal purpose is really so that they can connect with the company’s mission. Do those two things run counter sometimes?


[13:04] In the book, there is a workbook people can download and write their answers on. Can you talk more about it in more detail?


[16:40] I’m sure you’ve done some research about the ROI of happiness specifically with organizations. Can you share any data you have about companies who have embraced this idea of bringing happiness into the workplace and what value it brings?


[19:47] Where can people find out more about your book and the work you’re doing at Delivering Happiness?






More About Jenn Lim:





Delivering Happiness


Her book – Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact.





More About The Certified Marketing Manager Program Powered By Duct Tape Marketing:





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10 Best Social Media Marketing Tools for 2021







Social Media has become a very important part of people’s daily lives. During the early days of its inception, it became quite popular with the youth, however, these days you can find people of every age group connecting together.



People share their daily adventures through written posts, photographs, and videos. People have at a certain level started relying on social media to spend time together than actually meeting up to do so.



This development in trend has opened the gates of opportunities for businesses to tap into the huge user base to promote their products and services.



Advertisements and promotions have soared up in general, however, businesses also post promotional and traffic generation posts.



While the process of drafting and strategically posting content might seem fun in the beginning, it certainly takes a toll over time.



To help the social media marketers in doing their jobs, saving them time, and essentially helping them focus on the important things, several social media marketing tools are available.



Let’s discuss some of these useful social media marketing tools-:



1. Biteable



Biteable is a video creating platform where businesses or organizations can make short informative video content to post on social media. Biteable provides several video templates and backing tracks to choose from and improvise.



The free plan contains several features, but there are certain shortcomings like watermarks and limitations on commercial usage. Paid plans aren’t expensive, moreover, they make the videos commercially viable plus they provide additional features.



2. Buffer



Buffer is a social media management platform that basically allows the user to post content on different social media platforms strategically.



Its analytics feature allows us to monitor several metrics like engagements, impressions, etc., which can be used to optimize the content.



Other features include content sharing through the Chrome extension, team management, link shortening, etc.



3. Buzzsumo



Buzzsumo is an analytics platform that allows social media marketers to research content ideas based on the content sharing info of domains.



It also helps find influencers for a certain content topic. Using Buzzsumo, users can keep track of the competition and develop the content accordingly. It also provides APIs that can be integrated and automated for further research and analytical purposes.



4. Missinglttr



Missinglttr is a content creation tool especially helpful to bloggers. It drafts several posts out of a single blog which can be then used for initial targeting and later retargeting.



Some features provided by Missinglttr that assists content creators are- content templates, custom URL generator, scheduling posts, and much more.



5. MeetEdgar



MeetEdgar is an automated content manager that helps the generation of traffic, content scheduling and rescheduling, content creation, and content sharing.



The auto-refill que helps develop content without having to worry about it. We can share a diverse range of content using the category-based scheduling tool. It is not free, but the costs aren’t too expensive.



6. Hootsuite



Hootsuite is a social media management tool that allows multiple channel management from its platform. We can also perform team management and schedule our timing of content reposting and updating.



It can be integrated with several social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Reddit, Google +, Twitter, etc., and provides analytics segmentation based on the different platforms for better research and optimization.



7. Mention



Mention is an analysis and social media management tool that provides several features- the listen feature that allows users to explore important conversations across the social media platforms and derive important customer sentiment.



The monitor feature is helpful to derive product or service trends by analyzing the online mentions. Moreover, the publish feature helps publish content collectively and react to the engagements on social media channels.



8. Brand 24



Brand 24 is an interactive social media monitoring and tracking tool that can be used to monitor specific mentions across the internet.



Moreover, it represents the mentions under three scenarios- positive for a positively represented mention, negative for a negative mention, and neutral for others.



It can be integrated with the team collaboration application Slack and provides automated reports on a daily and weekly basis which can be exported as PDFs, Excels, or graphical images.



9. Famm.io



Famm.io is an online reputation management and social media analytics tool which can be used to monitor brand visibility through gathering information on the mentions of the brand across the internet and social media.



It provides data regarding the dynamics of a particular keyword’s mentions that can help analyze the situations and results. It also helps find content creators and influencers.



10. YouScan



YouScan is a social media monitoring tool, however, it provides extensive visual analytics and image recognition service as well.



It is quite costly with the Standard plan at $1000 per month making it unviable for low budget entrepreneurs.



YouScan provides several features- tracking social media, blogs, and news mentions in real-time, obtaining visual insights from graphic content (logo recognition, object detection, etc.).



In YouScan, users can also develop customized dashboards with appropriate filters and develop custom reports. YouScan helps analyze online content not only on the textual level but also on the visual level.



Conclusion



Time is an important asset and the tools that save our valuable time need to be valued. Moreover, it’s essential to empirically analyze our operations to be able to optimize it properly.



Without proper analysis in place, we are necessarily moving blindfolded. We have thus briefly discussed 10 top tools that would assist a social media marketer in both – saving them time and analyzing important metrics.



To find out what suits you best, test them, and go with the one that helps you the most.



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Author Information:-



Author Name:- Harikrishna Kundariya



Biography:- Harikrishna Kundariya, a marketer, developer, IoT, ChatBot & Blockchain savvy, designer, co-founder, Director of eSparkBiz Technologies, A Mobile App Development Company. His 8+ experience enables him to provide digital solutions to new start-ups based on IoT and ChatBot.



Website URL:- https://www.esparkinfo.com/



Social Media Profiles:-

Twitter: https://twitter.com/eSparkBizFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/esparkbizLinkedIn:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/harikrishna-kundariya-7a71693a/



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Top 10 Content Marketing Tools for the Year 2021

No machine can replace human minds when it comes to deploying effective marketing strategies. However, the content marketing software nowadays provides a lot more options to enhance your marketing campaign that would result in achieving rapid growth in your business.



There are hundreds of content marketing software available and each has various distinctive features that serve different marketing purposes. In this article, we have presented the top 10 content marketing platforms that would surely encourage you to apply unique marketing strategies for expanding your business.



10 Industry-best Content Marketing Platform



Semrush







Semrush is one of the most robust end-to-end content marketing platforms that helps you create data-focused content marketing strategies according to your customers’ needs. You can go through it’s content distribution guide too.



This tool is helpful in segmenting content marketing workflow. You can plan each category from ideation to planning, creation and measurement.


Editorial Calendar is another feature that allows users to add topics that will help them manage all the activities and review campaign performance.


The platform also offers a rich text editor where you can review the content concerning your target keyword. It gives insights on SEO, content readability, and tone of voice.




Ulysses





Ulysses is the first choice for thousands of writers and content creators to satisfy their writing and drafting needs.


Unfortunately, this content marketing tool is only available for users who own Mac, iPad, and iPhone. This could be considered as its solitary drawback.


It is less buggy than other competitors and has a wide range of features. It is stable and offers a more organised content strategy compared to Google Docs.


If you are looking to manage tons of content, then Ulysses is for you as it allows you to set goals, review stats, and create flawless designs.




Google Docs





Google Docs is to content marketing what a mother is to home. This is the platform where all of the work gets done before the final showdown.


It has a simple user interface and provides an excellent user experience. It is best suited for collaboration and the company’s internal data management.


The best feature that comes along with Google Docs is that you can upload any file directly to your CMS.


More importantly, Google Docs is completely free and has functionalities and features similar to MS Office.




WordPress





In August 2018, VentureBeat reported that WordPress covers 30% of the internet. Hence, we can say that it is the most popular and widely used CMS platform in the world.


WordPress is an open-source CMS platform that helps you build and host feature-rich websites.


Besides, there are tons of plugins and customized features available in WordPress which you can integrate with your website as per your business requirements.


Most Bloggers and digital marketers recommend WordPress as it is a highly customizable CMS platform.




Ahrefs







If you ask any SEO analysts, they would surely put Ahrefs as their favourite SEO tool to be used every day.



It has covered everything you ask for. It allows you to track the ranking of your targeted keywords. It also helps you analyse keywords ranking and performance of your competitors.


It would be unfair to say that one is fully aware of all the functions of Ahrefs. It has so many features such as keyword research, site analyser, top page reports, and content gap review.


It is also renowned as content ideation and strategy planning tool that empowers you to achieve high performance in content marketing.




Canva





Canva is the popular content marketing software that works as your graphic designer. If you want to instil graphic designs in your content, Canva could be your sure shot.


It has flexible engagement plans. It has three versions till now: Free, Paid version for $12.95 per month, and Custom Enterprising Pricing.


Functionalities in Canvas are easy to use so any beginner level designer can play around with it and create amazing graphics.


The tool is also used for social media marketing where you can create blog images, cover photos, posters that are used for the same marketing purpose.




HubSpot





HubSpot is the industry-best CMS software that offers many content marketing tools such as powerful form builder, pop up tools, live chat & chatbots, and WordPress plugins for marketing.


HubSpot is the most powerful content marketing automation platform that helps you manage everything using free CRM.


HubSpot is like a pillar of your company that helps you at each stage of growth and build an effective marketing campaign.




HubSpot helps you strengthen the foundation of your business and generate a high return on investment in your business through content marketing campaigns. Nowadays many top level web development companies prefer hubspot CRM.




Hemingway





Hemingway is the best writing editor one could have, it’s like having a writing coach who corrects your mistakes.


The Hemingway content marketing tool lets you know the rate of passive voice used in the content and also tells you about the readability index of your content.


Hemingway comes in both free and paid versions. You need to pay $19.99 as a one-time payment for the desktop version.


Hemingway can help you evaluate your content before publishing. It also suggests you re-do the sentences or avoid writing fancy words in the content.




Grammarly





Grammarly has completely changed the game. It’s like your AI English teacher who introduces you to the grammatical mistakes from your content.


Grammarly helps you detect plagiarised parts from the content and also provides reference links where the content is already available.


Besides, it also provides suggestions depending upon your sentence structure. It suggests different words that can be replaced with appropriate ones.


Based on general readers, Grammarly also ensures to create flawless content which doesn’t include any hard-read or high-end words.




Trello





When you are preparing a huge volume of content for your marketing purpose, then you must have a tool that can manage all the processes. Here’s when Trello comes into the picture.


Trello is basically a project management tool that is also used in other domains such as growth experiment, sales pipelines, product feature roadmap.


Trello as an editorial calendar is quite a useful tool that allows you to manage the operations and review the performance of your employees during the project.


You can set an automatic notification for the respective tasks. It is lightweight and easily operational compared to other project management tools.




Conclusion



We hope that this article helps you find the best content marketing tools that can be used for implementing effective marketing strategies. Tell us which content marketing tool you would use to market your product or service.



Author Bio:Name: Jigar Agrawal (Digital Marketing Manager @eSparkBiz)Jigar Agarwal is Passionate about anything related to Digital Marketing. Wants to unlock the world of technology and Social Media where every day there is a chance of new possibility as well as innovation. As per their last 6 year experience he highly recommended SEMRUSH. Check the best Semrush Pricing plan for more information.



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Conversations About Collaboration Podcast – The Ultimate Marketing Engine

Conversations About Collaboration Podcast – The Ultimate Marketing Engine written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing



I sat down with Phil Simon, host of the Conversations About Collaboration podcast, to talk about concepts from my new book, The Ultimate Marketing Engine: 5 Steps to Ridiculously Consistent Growth.



In this episode, we discussed the collaborative nature of marketing, Monday.com, customer journeys, automation, and referrals.



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Why Playing The Long Game Is Essential To Success

Why Playing The Long Game Is Essential To Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing







Marketing Podcast with Dorie Clark







In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Dorie Clark. Dorie is a Duke & Columbia University Business Professor, ranked one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers 50. She’s also the author of Reinventing You and Stand Out.













Key Takeaway:



We as humans too often push ourselves past our limit. We constantly feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind. Because of this, we keep our heads down, focused on the next thing, and the next, without a moment to breathe.



In this episode, Dorie Clark talks about concepts from her new book, The Long Game, where she dives into how to break out of this endless cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful lives we all seek. It’s about doing small things over time to achieve our goals—and being willing to keep at them, even when they seem pointless, boring, or hard. By doing this, we can tap into the power of small changes that, made today, will have an enormous and disproportionate impact on our future success.



Questions I ask Dorie Clark:





[1:29] Do you think the world needs another get rich quick book?


[1:50] Doesn’t the world just want quick fixes?


[4:30] Is this meant to be a more personal book or is this how to build a business book?


[5:39] Why is saying no so hard for people?


[12:43] Saying no, giving yourself time to think is about setting boundaries – so how do you start establishing those boundaries?


[15:25] What’s your approach to being able to identify what those ‘right’ goals are?


[18:10] Can you unpack this idea of strategic leverage from your book?


[21:02] How we can use independence, curiosity, and resilience to achieve entrepreneurial success?


[23:13] What’s the best way for people to learn more about you and your work?






More About Dorie Clark:





Her new book — The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World


Long Game Strategic Thinking Self-Assessment




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