Title: Ranking Your Business Higher in Google Search Using Content Marketing

When your clients look for you on Google, on what page do you rank? Does your business rank highly for the keywords that matter for your business, and your industry? Research shows that businesses that rank below the first page of results on Google only receive 0.78% of the clicks. In fact, the first five organic search results account for over 67% of all clicks.

In this talk, we’ll present ways to use keyword research and analyze competitors on Google, informing your content marketing strategy.

Key Takeaways:

• How to do competitor research
• Using Google Keyword Planner
• Following Industry Trends and Influencers
• How to set up Google My Business (local search)
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips
• Setting up Google Ads (pay-per-click)

According to Internet Live Stats, around 3.5 billion searches are performed daily on Google, and ranking high for relevant content will drive business growth. A great content marketing strategy starts with competitor research to generate ideas for growth. In addition, finding areas missed by competitors allows you to carve out a niche and build business.

Your content marketing strategy should be at the core of your overall business strategy. In short, your content strategy will determine how well your overall marketing efforts work. This will determine how your business ranks on Google, and how well it can attract new customers.

Recorded: January 13, 2022

About Michel:

Michel Ann Sharritt, Vice President and Co-founder of CueCamp and Situated Research, has over 25 years of experience in designing amazing user experiences across both websites and social media. Her background in behavioral psychology supports her understanding of users’ needs and goals while interacting with technology. She has a creative touch for designing amazing user experiences across websites and interactive media.

Michel has the creative ability to design marketing strategies for businesses of various sizes, using a combination of web design, interactive marketing, and social media. Her full-service marketing agency, CueCamp, is a strategic social media partner offering results-driven social media campaigns for businesses of all sizes. Focused on brand engagement and ROI, CueCamp designs comprehensive strategic marketing plans to elevate brand awareness using advanced marketing automation tools.

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Title: Using Hashtag Research to Generate Content for Social Media Marketing

Engaging your audience on social media can be a daunting task for small businesses. Besides creating clever marketing, businesses need to research their audience to discover topics that are both interesting and engaging. When creating social media posts on Instagram, those containing a hashtag average 12.6% higher engagement than those without a hashtag. In addition, using certain hashtags can put your post in front of an audience that you are trying to target. So, how can you use hashtag research to find interesting topics to create highly engaging content for your target market?

Key Takeaways:

• Influencers and trending hashtags: following popular trends, influencers, and memes
• Custom-branded & product hashtags: how to build a following
• Competitor analysis: following hashtags that are relevant for your business / industry to track competitors
• Hashtag / keyword competitiveness, vs. popularity: popular hashtags vs niche hashtags for higher relevancy
• Tips for relevancy: using a handful of hashtags to keep posts from looking like spam, and making use of the comments section

In this workshop, you’ll learn some of the best ways to conduct hashtag research to encourage interaction. We present a list of guidelines to generate engaging Instagram posts that yield results. Also, you will learn how to identify potential influencers that matter for your business and industry, and ways to research competitors. The tips presented in this workshop will help you generate marketing content of higher relevancy for your target audience.

Recorded: November 4, 2021

About Michel:

Michel Ann Sharritt, Vice President and Co-founder of CueCamp and Situated Research, has over 25 years of experience in designing amazing user experiences across both websites and social media. Her background in behavioral psychology supports her understanding of users’ needs and goals while interacting with technology. She has a creative touch for designing amazing user experiences across websites and interactive media.

Michel has the creative ability to design marketing strategies for businesses of various sizes, using a combination of web design, interactive marketing, and social media. Her full-service marketing agency, CueCamp, is a strategic social media partner offering results-driven social media campaigns for businesses of all sizes. Focused on brand engagement and ROI, CueCamp designs comprehensive strategic marketing plans to elevate brand awareness using advanced marketing automation tools.

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