Calvyn Lee Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in late 2022 has sparked tremendous interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and how generative AI tools can be used for content creation and other marketing applications. AI represents one set of capabilities to consider among many marketing technology options.

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Rock Content

MARCH 11, 2024

Exploring the content marketing ROI myth is essential for businesses to understand the true value and impact of their marketing efforts. Each year, businesses consider what they can afford to spend on content marketing and what they get from it. The benefits of content marketing can be subtle, though.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 21, 2024

The decision to hire a new SEO agency brings high hopes for what might be achieved together. Whether it’s your first time or tenth, streamlining the ramp-up period when onboarding a new SEO agency will save you effort in the long run and lay the path to a productive partnership. What KPIs are you currently tracking?

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Search Engine Land

JULY 25, 2023

Identifying organic SEO KPIs and evaluating your organic traffic’s performance can be quite challenging. Their aim was to identify industry-specific benchmarks for organic search in 2023, which will enable enterprise organizations to assess the effectiveness of their organic SEO efforts better. See how your site compares!

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The real purpose and benefit of SEO isn’t just increasing pageviews or optimizing keywords – it’s about aligning with the true north of business goals and helping to achieve them through search. A myopic focus on inputs, outputs, and details that may or may not move the needle often leads SEOs to miss the forest for the trees.

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Rock Content

APRIL 12, 2024

But what exactly is SEO for small business, and what does it entail? More importantly, what can you start doing today to give your SEO strategy a much-needed boost? What Is SEO Strategy for Small Business? What Sets Local SEO Apart? It’s important to understand the primary difference between SEO and local SEO.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

SEO agencies place a high value on client satisfaction and trust. SEO reports are integral to agency work, report creation being one of the primary challenges associated with it. Fortunately, there’s a solution: automated SEO reports. What is automated SEO reporting? This results in minimal manual effort.

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Backlinko

MARCH 11, 2024

Marketing tech stack is always evolving. Marketing automation software enables improved efficiency with various features from customer segmentation to campaign management. What’s the marketing automation industry market size, what are the adoption rates of marketing automation and which benefits it brings to businesses?

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SMA Marketing

JANUARY 11, 2024

The digital marketing industry loves its acronyms. In the video below, I explain the meaning of today’s most popular digital marketing acronyms. Video Transcript One of the things that the digital marketing industry loves is acronyms. Video Transcript One of the things that the digital marketing industry loves is acronyms.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

A documented industrial marketing strategy is critical for success. Did you know 80% of successful content marketers have a documented content marketing strategy? Implementing hit-or-miss content marketing tactics is not likely to produce the results you want. Table of Contents What is an Industrial Marketing Strategy?

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 28, 2023

If you're new to marketing, you might have a skewed perception of it. Marketing is much more than that. Here, I'll walk you through some beginner-friendly marketing channels and how to build your first marketing strategy. Unlike a pop-up ad, this type of marketing isn‘t disruptive. Check out this helpful guide.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

B2B content marketing is an indispensable strategy for businesses looking to establish their brand, engage their target audience, and drive conversions. What is B2B content marketing? B2B content marketing is the creation and distribution of content, in all its forms, related to your business and relevant to customers.

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Martech

JANUARY 2, 2024

There is much talk about how marketers can leverage customer data. However, this also means thinking about how this same customer data needs to flow throughout all the marketing platforms marketers use to do their day-to-day jobs. We have already seen how marketers can leverage conversion data in top-of-funnel activities.

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Martech

JANUARY 10, 2022

Understanding your current marketing processes, knowing how to measure success, and being able to identify where you are looking for improvements, are all critical pieces of the SEO platform decision-making process. Employing people to implement and use SEO platforms is a prerequisite to success. Who will own enterprise SEO?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

We often hear that SEO takes several months to a year to have an impact. In the marketing era of “do more with less,” SEOs have more pressure than ever before to generate impact from the work they do. In the marketing era of “do more with less,” SEOs have more pressure than ever before to generate impact from the work they do.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Large Language Models (LLMs) remain a hot topic in SEO – especially with the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other generative AI tools with user-friendly chat interfaces. It’s so easy to get excited about the potential of generative AI and what it means for an SEO strategy. The conversation allows SEO to steady the course.

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Sachs Marketing Group

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Before partnering with an SEO agency, asking pertinent questions is pivotal. This proactive inquiry sets the foundation for transparent communication, mutual expectations, and a partnership to achieve measurable, successful results in your digital marketing efforts. What is your approach to SEO?

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Rock Content

APRIL 22, 2024

What’s the biggest difference between marketing that makes money and marketing that’s just a huge waste of time? “It all comes down to knowing a few simple, but incredibly important marketing analytics and metrics,” says Adam Erhart. What is Digital Marketing? Other experts back up this assertion.

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Martech

JANUARY 13, 2022

“There are roughly three and a half billion Google searches made every day,” said Craig Dunham, CEO of enterprise SEO platform Deepcrawl, at our recent MarTech conference. Here are some strategic actions he recommends marketers take to ensure their online properties are optimized for the search-first age. Apply SEO testing automation.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 17, 2023

Yahoo Loses Market Share As Some Firefox Users Return To Google 2015: Google had become increasingly aggressive in trying to lure back users. A Dilbert On Search Engine Keyword Research 2014: There was a fun search marketing-related Dilbert strip on the topic of doing and presenting your keyword research to your boss.

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Marketers in large organizations often deliver great work that falls through the cracks. Between juggling market research, campaign ideation, and collaborative projects, it can be challenging to take a step back and reflect on just how much work you've done — much less on communicating those accomplishments to marketing executives.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 9, 2024

One of the things I love about SEO is its inherent duality. However, it’s easy to think of SEO as predominantly left-brained. SEO tactics tend to rely heavily on data and numerical figures. When it comes to SEO, our goal is not really to gain the coveted top blue link. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

At a time when brand reputation and visibility are critical, blending SEO with digital PR is a must. This article gives an overview of integrating SEO into digital PR to achieve business goals, plus best practices for effective collaboration and communication. Why support digital PR efforts with tested SEO strategies?

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in September 2021, the announcement of Apple’s iOS 15 data privacy changes triggered a mass hysteria among email marketers, with some even proclaiming that email marketing as we know it could come to an end. For starters, 47% of email marketers say the impact of data privacy changes was neutral on their email marketing strategy.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When it comes to influencer marketing , C-suite execs want more than just good engagement. In this article, we dive deep into the benefits of influencer marketing, and ones that matter the most to your C-Suite. Plus, the three critical components of an effective influencer marketing strategy you need to know.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SEO is a vast and complex practice, part art and part science. Managing an SEO team usually means that you’re taking on the world with some talented people. So, how can you lead an SEO team effectively, helping to grow their skill sets in the right direction? Redirect practical-minded SEO experts toward results-driven tasks.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 11, 2024

Love it or hate it, as marketers, we’re all aboard this fast-moving train. Quick Takeaways In 2024, the significant increase in spending on video ad campaigns underscores the critical role of video in marketing strategies. Here’s a stat to chew on: US marketers are now spending 41.9%

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

If you want to scale your company, you might be wondering about KPIs and how they can help your business grow. Reviewing performance through key performance indicators (KPIs), tells your team when you've met the mark or fallen short. But how do you pick the right KPIs for your business? Why are KPIs important?

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Backlinko

MAY 8, 2024

Investing in lawyer SEO can keep a steady stream of leads flowing into your firm year-round. These results come from a thoughtful law firm SEO strategy. Ready to create an SEO strategy that increases your organic traffic? What Is Law Firm SEO? Is SEO Important for Lawyers? This one page sends an estimated 2.2K

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Rock Content

AUGUST 6, 2023

The way a brand approaches its marketing can say a lot about what it values and seeks to achieve. Setting strategic marketing goals, then, is a must. With them, your marketing team can better develop precise strategies and tactics that will have a higher chance of reaching success.

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Martech

JULY 18, 2023

I’ve been working in the digital marketing world for just shy of 25 years now, and one thing has not changed: Too many web build projects start with design. We were designing websites without any content (we did ask), no SEO strategy (we asked here, too) and very little discussion about realistic KPIs tied to revenue growth (yup, we asked).

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to Smart Insights , 45 percent of companies don’t have a clearly defined digital marketing strategy; 17 percent of companies have a digital marketing strategy in place, but it’s separate from their marketing plan. They don’t have the strategy, tactics, or tools they need to market their business well.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In today’s expansive yet interconnected digital marketing landscape, creating a successful online presence requires a deep understanding of various marketing channels. As search marketers, the onus is on us to: Delve deeper into these emerging marketing channels. Learn their mechanics.

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Rock Content

JANUARY 6, 2024

If you want your product to reach your target demographic, you need to market it. Today, we will tell you about multilingual marketing – what it is, why it’s so important, and how to implement it properly. What is Multilingual Content Marketing? Luckily, multilanguage content marketing can help you change this.

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 5, 2024

As a marketer, I asked myself: What ASO marketing strategy did they use? What is ASO Marketing? ASO Marketing Tactics to Master ASO Marketing in Action (With Technology) Best Practices of ASO Marketing What is ASO Marketing? Diversifying your marketing efforts. I decided to find out.

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Rock Content

MARCH 19, 2024

The rise of the creator economy is just one example, but it’s one that forever changed the face of digital marketing as we know it. Here we’ll go over the benefits of incorporating creator-driven content into your marketing campaigns, as well as how to do it right. Many actually prefer creator-driven content to the alternatives.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 8, 2021

Is anybody successful with content marketing? Content marketing with a thoughtful strategy and plan doesn’t usually provide the ROI (return on investment) expected. For anybody to be successful with content marketing, you must define success. SMART goals and KPIs are critical in understanding success. Set SMART Goals.

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