The Agents of Change Digital Marketing Podcast

Building an audience to ensure your podcast is successful is a no brainer. But how you choose to go about that can make all the difference between getting a few random downloads or getting a dedicated audience of listeners waiting with baited breath for each new episode that they loyally download and listen to from start to finish every time. Your goal should be to find those dedicated listeners t...

Hopefully by now we all know that Pinterest is more than wedding dresses, cupcakes and DIY projects. It can actually be a pretty powerful marketing tool used to drive business, if you follow a few key tips. Like with any platform, you should never just throw money behind a campaign for promotion unless organically it’s got some legs on it already. So, learning what content to pin - and what your a...

Most businesses come up with all of their products and services first, and then go out and try to market them. But what about developing those things with your audience, in a collaborative fashion? Sort of like taking a "find them first and see what they need" approach. The key to any good marketing strategy is to market to the key audience that wants what you have, but what’s the most effective w...

You’ve got yourself a website and a blog, but how do you get people to notice you? You can’t just post a few blog entries, sit back, and wait for the traffic to come. So how do you get noticed, find an audience and keep them? There’s more to content creation than just writing a few articles. Learning how to write effectively to reach the people searching for your topics will be your key to success...

You cannot truly learn anything until you have to teach it to somebody else. And with so many platforms out there – blogs, podcasts, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, etc – how do you find the most effective way to reach and advertise to your audience? But more important than knowing where your audience hangs out, you need to find out how your personal voice can lend a different perspective and spin on...

When Snapchat first came on the scene, it was widely known as the “sexting platform”, where teens and millennials ruled the demographic. But like many social media platforms, marketers began to see it’s potential for businesses as a powerful marketing tool, making it the fastest growing social network to date. One of the aspects that sets Snapchat apart from its competing platforms, is that these...

Creating customer loyalty is the very backbone of many small businesses. But creating customer loyalty doesn’t just happen overnight, sometimes your customers need a little nudge to encourage them to keep coming back. And what better way to encourage them than by making it as easy for them as possible. The key is in connecting the transaction to the loyalty aspect for your customers. The philosoph...

To describe a webinar as an "effective tool" would be a huge understatement. They allow you to reach, teach and sell products and services to your target audience in one fell swoop. Webinars provide a vast number of benefits all with the same goal; to boost, support and build your business. They allow you to build your business contacts - and more importantly - your precious and valuable email lis...

You’ve just created a website, or maybe your latest blogpost, and you need some visuals to go with it to help grab your audience. But where do you look? Sure, there are billions of photos and graphics online, but how do you choose the best one, and what are the legal ramifications of using those visuals? There are many things to consider when choosing visuals for your projects. For example, are yo...

With so many social media platforms at our fingertips, LinkedIn is an often neglected choice by business owners when considering marketing options. It could be that once you stop thinking of it as just a social media site but rather a bulked up CRM tool, then you can take advantage of the options it offers. It’s clear that more business owners and marketers would utilize LinkedIn more if they were...

Whether or not your particular business depends on ratings to get customers, it’s still unsettling to see even one bad review, and even harder not to take it personally. But once that bad review is posted, how do you move on from that, and is it really as bad for our business as we think it is? In the business world, reputation means a great deal. What better way to build that reputation than by e...

One of the first priorities of any business - especially brick and mortar businesses - is to find and implement a marketing automation system. And with so many out there to choose from, you can just pick one at random and go from there, right? Wrong. One of the biggest mistakes businesses make is trying to implement a marketing automation system without first mapping out their processes. What they...

Social media is not only a benefit, but an absolute must for any business. Sure, you can send a few tweets, shoot out a couple Facebook posts and blog like your life depended on it, but it’s actually a bit more nuanced than that. Just because you’re sending content to the people on your lists doesn’t mean you’re connecting with everyone you could - or should - be reaching. Sometimes you need to gi...

We love to receive feedback, comments and questions from our listeners and relish the opportunity to answer any specific questions or pain points that you may have. Recently we received an email from a communications and marketing student from Canada seeking some information specifically around the area of blogging. So we decided to help her out with her school homework and answer some of her burn...

Podcasts are a great online marketing tool for your business. They are portable, and therefore a more personal way, to connect with your audience. Whether you’re thinking of starting one or just getting into it, there are a few tips you’ll want to follow to ensure your podcast’s success. It’s no coincidence that the number of podcast downloads has increased as more people have gotten smartphones....

Mixing in pictures, graphics and photos with your content and advertising is nothing new, but are you doing it effectively to get more bang for your buck as far as your audience is concerned? When you can effectively lay out your conversation point for your audience and convince them right away that the content is worth reading, then you’ve won half the battle already. It’s also a fact that the hu...

Does just the thought of speaking in public make your heart beat faster, your palms sweat and you feel like you might faint? You’re certainly not alone. The fear of public speaking is the highest ranked fear, even over death. Over death!? The biggest problem to overcome is how to control our natural “fight or flight” instinct. Although we can’t - and shouldn’t - try to eliminate that natural respo...

We’ve all come across these people - a seemingly rare breed - that either seem to have a knack for being ahead of the next big trend, or come up with amazing and creative ideas with what appears to be an effortless ease. How do they do that, and more importantly, how can we do that? Well, it’s a bit more than just that old, standby advice of “thinking outside the box”. Making sure you’re telling t...

We’ve entered an age where less people receive their news and current events information in print but rather search for it online. And as the purveyors of news and information, our goal is to deliver this information in the most efficient, concise way, while still providing meaningful engagement to our audience. You could say that social media has come full circle and brought us back to “person to...

Let’s face it, starting a new business can be time consuming. We all want to start selling our products and services and earning some money as soon as possible. But did you know that trying to rush the process could result in you a becoming an unfavorable statistic of the less than 30% still surviving after the first 10 years?   Finding, getting to know and earning the trust from your key audience...

Marketing research can give a business a much better idea of if their current business plan is working, what tweaks might need to be made, whether they’re meeting their customers needs and what kinds of new products or services might be profitable for them. Unfortunately, many businesses don’t set aside the funds for this kind of research, or simply don’t see the long term importance of such a tas...

The significance of inbound marketing is undeniable. Consumers are smarter, savvier, know what they want and have innumerable resources to get it. So it’s our goal as business owners to be wherever our potential customers are looking for us. Pay per click advertising has a proven track record as an effective strategy for inbound marketing. It’s fast, nimble, far reaching and makes managing and tra...

You’ve heard it a million times from everyone you come in contact with that you have to build your list, you’re nothing without your email list. But what good is a huge list if at least half of the names on it have no communication with you or your business at all? If only there was a way to figure out which of those people were solid leads with a deep, vested interest in your products or services...

A large percentage of the profiles that are currently on LinkedIn are incorrectly utilizing the platform as nothing more than a place to post their resume. First impressions are crucial, and with so many social media platforms out there, these first impressions are becoming more and more digital versus in person. What does your LinkedIn profile say about you? By just spending a little bit of time...

Every business, regardless of the size of both the company or the community it is in, faces a certain amount of struggles and adversity. The key in overcoming them is to concentrate on what your strengths and advantages are and use those to leverage success. You need to stand out from your competition, whether you are one of 300  or only 3 of a particular business in your community. A common assum...