Alaniz, Author at Alaniz Marketing

Guide to PR Public Relations

Mastering the Media Pitch: Top Journalists Tell You How to Get Their Attention

This blog post is part of “The Ultimate Guide to Public Relations” blog series. With public relations professionals outnumbering journalists nearly 5:1, pitching to the press can feel like a blood sport. A survey of 500 leading digital publishers conducted by the Harvard Business Review found that on average, 45…

AlanizSeptember 1, 2015

Digital Marketing Inbound Marketing Lead Gen

What Is Inbound Marketing And Why Should You Care?

This blog post is part of “The Ultimate Guide to Lead Generation” blog series. Inbound marketing is all about attracting people to your website—pulling leads in rather than pushing out (outbound) messages through advertising and PR. It is based on the premise that if you have a viable product or…

AlanizAugust 26, 2015

Digital Marketing Strategy

Why You Must Be Marketing With Video

In the time it’s taken YouTube to become the world’s second largest search engine —receiving more than one billion unique visitors every month–– brands have realized how video extends the lifespan and scope of their reach. According to Cisco, within the next two years 69 percent of all consumer internet…

AlanizAugust 20, 2015

Content Marketing Digital Marketing Inbound Marketing Strategy

What Is Content Marketing And How Can It Help Your Business?

Content marketing helps businesses get found online. I belong to a networking group. We’re supposed to refer business to one another. Each time I describe what I do—content marketing lead generation—peoples’ eyes cloud and they nod. The nod says, “I want you to think I know what you’re talking about.”…

AlanizAugust 17, 2015

Guide to PR Public Relations Tradeshow

Ban The Booth Babes, Get Qualified Leads At Trade Shows

This blog post is part of “The Ultimate Guide to Public Relations” blog series. If you want to get qualified leads at Trade Shows, ban the both babes. The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story in June indicating that tech companies are moving away from using attractive female models, aka “booth…

AlanizJuly 20, 2015

Digital Marketing Inbound Marketing

You May Not Know It, But Your Marketing Team Needs An English Major

I was an English major in college. Reading and writing were about the only things I was good at. But the question everyone asked English majors (and just about every other liberal arts major) back then was, “what are you going to do with it?” The most common answer was…

AlanizJuly 17, 2015

Digital Marketing Inbound Marketing Lead Gen

Why Truth is the Best Content Marketing [Tips]

This blog post is part of “The Ultimate Guide to Lead Generation” blog series. Truth is the best content marketing, especially inbound marketing for the business to business world. What does this mean? It’s not about truth in a preachy way. It means that the best way to attract qualified…

AlanizJune 19, 2015

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Six ways to turn your website into a 24 hour sales person

Done right, a website can be a 24-hour sales person, fielding requests for information, qualifying leads, and converting leads to customers. How? By creating the right kind of content, and building in tools to automate some of the more routine tasks involved in inside sales. Consider this: people are searching…

AlanizMay 7, 2015

Digital Marketing Inbound Marketing

Inbound marketing for B2B: It’s different and here’s how

Inbound marketing for B2B — businesses marketing to other businesses — is much different than inbound marketing for consumers. Businesses are rational. They make purchases when they have to. They research thoroughly to get the best value–which is not always the same thing as the best price. They know their…

AlanizApril 30, 2015

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