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The BEST Content Marketing Strategy for Small Business and Startups

The Purpose of your content marketing strategy should be to help your brand “go the extra mile” in serving your clientele and communities.

The expression, “go the extra mile” is defined as To go beyond what is necessary or expected in order to please someone, achieve something, or get something done correctly.

The origins of this expression can be traced back to the New Testament (Matthew 5:41), “And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twice.”

Livestreaming To Build Your Brand with Tony Rockliff
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More and more businesses are realizing the value of videos for the web, whether they be branding or promo videos, FaceBook or Instagram video ads or headers, animated logos, training videos, testimonial videos, product or service explainer videos, or any number of other video types.

But many businesses either don't know how to make such videos, or feel that they can't afford to get them made.

Tony has decades of experience as a record producer, recording engineer, composer, videographer, writer, and marketing specialist and has worked with many popular and well-known recording artists during his many years in the music business. 

He has also given numerous seminars helping artists with their lives and helping them promote themselves more effectively.

Recording artists Tony has worked within various recording capacities include: Mary Wells, Lamont Dozier, Kim Fowley, David Carradine, Cat Stevens, Billy Ocean, Beck, Nigel Olsson & Dee Murray (Elton John), Regina Bell, The Temptations, Alan Parsons, George Martin, Nicky Hopkins, Bill Bruford (Yes), Colin Young (The Foundations), Dokken, Stacey Keach, Chuck Lorre, David Pomeranz, David Campbell, Harriet Schock, Paul Carrack (Warm Dust/Ace), Brian Johnson (Geordie/AC-DC), Matchbox, Dean (Jan & Dean), Ray Manzarek (Doors), Elaine Page (Evita), Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep), John

Gilston & Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band), Pat Travers, Albert Lee, Aynsley Dunbar, Stanley Clarke, Sha Na Na, Chick Corea, and numerous others.

Among the record companies, he’s recorded for as a producer are Decca, Youngblood, AIR (George Martin’s company), Sony, Columbia, Red Bus, Hansa, Mowest (UK Motown), Bus Stop, Magnet, S.O.S., LBL, Breaker, and Trend Records. As a songwriter, he’s had publishing deals with Intune, Dick James Music (Beatles publisher) Red Bus, De Walden Music, Birth, Casanova, and Creative Music (K-Tel).

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Omnipresence Is Omnipotent

Unless people know who you are, no one will pay attention to what you represent. You have to get people to know you which means that you have to get attention. 

The more attention you get, the more places you will be; the more people you are with, the more you can be everywhere.

Show me one great company that has not accomplished omnipresence. Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Google, Starbucks, AT&T, Bank of America, Apple, Ford Motor Company, Visa, American Express, Wal-Mart—these names are everywhere. 

There are also individuals who have accomplished omnipresence so well that the world immediately recognizes their names, such as Steve Jobs, Oprah, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Bush, Barack Obama, Abe Lincoln, Elvis, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Walt Disney, Will Smith, Mother Teresa, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, and so on. 

Whether you like them or not, each of these people has created such a name for himself or herself that most people know who they are—or at the very least, recognize their name and align it with importance.

The Power of Email Marketing + Strong Content

Emotionally Committed To Your Brand- The Grit Factor

Commitment isn’t easy, but when we stay committed it has the ability to help us achieve goals we may have only once dreamed of. 

Commitment is the ability to stick with something long after the initial excitement is gone. Commitment is a decision to stick with a project, idea, relationship, or goal – even when it’s not easy.

“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” – Art Turock

Workplace Safety Tips with Tyler Foley
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Your corporate culture IS your safety culture. 

hat culture is reflected daily in their operations INCLUDING their safety program. Because of the culture, there is an overwhelming sense of pride in both organizations that manifests itself daily in the behaviors and choices that the employees of both companies make. As such, both businesses flourish regardless of the state of the economy and have superior safety records independent of the norms of their respective industry averages.

Safety is the tangible end goal. What you have to do to get there is another story.
Not having worker engagement leads to unseen dangers working in a seemingly safe environment. 

Ultimately businesses have personal and professional losses occur including the loss of investment in people and products. We will assist you with expert analysis to safeguard your employees and your company.

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The Most Vital Factor in Your Content & Social Media Strategy

Content is at the heart of social media. “Content is king,” they say, and it takes many forms: text, images, photos, videos, and emojis. But it’s not the individual components that give content a royal stance, it’s the story it tells and the emotions it generates in its audience.

That’s why you need a content strategy to define your brand’s storyline and ensure you fully reap the benefits of social media.

When building your social content strategy, remember that engagement is an integral part of how social media platforms work: The more your content resonates with your audience, the further it will be distributed on the social platform to be seen by more people — and if you’re lucky, it might even go viral.

There’s never a guarantee your content will go viral, but a structured approach to building your strategy will increase your chances.

To make your strategy successful, you should tell a story with your social media content, be ambitious, use automation as your invisible friend and creativity as your magic wand. And above all, maintain your rhythm and consistency throughout the entire process.

IT’S NEVER BEEN EASIER IN HUMAN HISTORY TO BECOME WEALTHY

How is that?

*More opportunities to learn about wealth, investing, business, marketing, and selling.

* University learning is no longer required. Learn from YouTube, podcasts, ebooks, online courses, and blogs. (Many are free; others quite inexpensive.)

* Greater, easier, and rapid opportunities to network with powerful and effective individuals.

* Massive leverage of technology to connect and serve global audiences.

* Faster methods to learn what works and what doesn’t. Reiteration from failure can be almost instantaneous.

* Start-up costs do not necessarily prevent entry to market. Almost anyone can start part-time, at home.

Particularly in western culture, poverty is clearly a self-perpetuating state.

Word Of Mouth Marketing: The Simple Math That Generates More Referrals

The power of a personal recommendation.

And as a business owner, that’s the kind of marketing you want behind your brand.

That is the core of word of mouth marketing and is the marketing strategy that you should be using right now.

What Is Word-of-Mouth Marketing?

Word of mouth marketing, often called word of mouth advertising, is a marketing strategy based on personal recommendations. It has been around since the beginning of time, though in traditional marketing, these recommendations were genuinely given by word of mouth.

The difference between traditional WOM advertising and word of mouth advertising today is the lightning speed at which personal recommendations can be shared online.

Especially through social media.

Now, many of these personal recommendations come from an influencer on social media, an online review, or a happy customer simply sharing their positive experience.

Top 2 Reasons Word-of-Mouth Marketing Works:

1. Social Currency
2. Triggers

Social currency relies on the idea of exclusivity. In short, we like to feel special.

Hearing about an underground club or secret menu item triggers our need to belong to an exclusive group.

Will Posting Your Politics Hurt Your Brand? 

It may not be fair, but your clients will associate your words with your brand. Even if your Facebook or Twitter feed is separate from your company’s feed, it’s likely that your customers follow both. While you’re allowed to have an opinion, think hard before you make the decision to express it online.