by Patrick Baker | Dec 21, 2016 | Blogging, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Export, Marketing Planning, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, Sales, Social Media, Wordpress Wednesday
We’ve all spent another year on the “pale blue dot” that orbits the Sun. And now, as many of us ponder what to read over summer to prepare us for another journey through space and time, it can be useful to see what other people found helpful through...
by Patrick Baker | Oct 19, 2016 | Blogging, Communication, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Wordpress Wednesday
Okay, I’ll risk my authority in the business blogging space and share with you an explosive resource for adding triggers to your kickass blog post writing. The resource is a powerful document that contains 365 “power words” for you to store in your...
by Patrick Baker | Aug 24, 2016 | Blogging, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Wordpress Wednesday
Many years ago, former prime minister, John Howard, said he wanted Australians to be comfortable and relaxed and now, in 2016, you will have that experience when you play with what’s new in WordPress 4.6. Most of the changes in the latest version of WordPress...
by Patrick Baker | Aug 8, 2016 | Content Marketing, Copywriting, Home page slider, Marketing Monday
What is marketing? So-called clever marketing tricks that take constant money and effort? Well, that’s one way to do it. But there’s another way too — a better way that takes less energy and gets better results.
And it starts with a story…
by Patrick Baker | Aug 3, 2016 | Blogging, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Online Marketing, SEO, Wordpress Wednesday
I am working on half a dozen projects at the moment that all involve picking up the pieces where someone has tried making their own WordPress website in an attempt to NOT have to hire a WordPress expert. If you’ve ever heard one of my keynotes or seminar...
by Patrick Baker | Jul 6, 2016 | Communication, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Customer Service, Online Marketing, Sales, Wordpress Wednesday |
I know we’ve just had an 8-week election campaign and are settling in for an 8-week vote counting and coalition-forming period, and my colleague, Mark, used the election to highlight marketing messaging, but there is something else invaluable from the political...
by Patrick Baker | Jun 22, 2016 | Blogging, Communication, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Online Marketing, SEO, Social Media, Wordpress Wednesday
How long should a blog post be? In a digital marketing workshop in Murray Bridge tonight for Regional Development Australia and the Department of State Development, I was asked this question and shared my Google-endorsed answer: as long or as short as it needs to be....
by Patrick Baker | Jun 15, 2016 | Blogging, Communication, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Online Marketing, SEO, Wordpress Wednesday
One of the greatest stumbling blocks to getting the most out of your WordPress website is coming up with blog content ideas so you can exploit the web’s best blogging system for your marketing success. As I mentioned last week in The Google maps guide to...
by Patrick Baker | Jun 8, 2016 | Blogging, Communication, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Online Marketing, Wordpress Wednesday
Today’s post is more of a quick reflection to reveal a truth about the pathway to online content when you are blogging. The realisation occurred to me today as I drove to Gawler early this morning to run a marketing workshop for RDA Barossa, as part of the...
by Patrick Baker | May 18, 2016 | Blogging, Communication, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Online Marketing, Sales, Wordpress Wednesday
Do you need help coming up with business blogging ideas? My guess is that after you have awoken to the power and value of blogging as a personal, professional and business discipline, you will then be on the hunt for content ideas. In one of my marketing workshops...
by Patrick Baker | Apr 27, 2016 | Blogging, Copywriting, Online Marketing, SEO, Wordpress Wednesday |
One of the many changes and tweaks in WordPress 4.5, which rolled out recently, was a new, more elegant way of creating making text into a hyperlink. To try to match WordPress’ newfound elegance, I will try to keep this article as brief and easy to read and...
by Patrick Baker | Apr 6, 2016 | Blogging, Communication, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Online Marketing, Social Media, Wordpress Wednesday
Last week, I attended the Digital Futures event held in Adelaide by InDaily and mUmBRELLA, to explore how digital technology is impacting business and society. One of the panelists, Eric Beecher, who is a lauded journalist and editor, made a strong case for the notion...