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A Cup of Content and Content a la mode: A merger made for YOU!
Our customers spoke, and we listened! While Kim was having meetings with a tremendous influx of new potential customers, she kept hearing the same thing over and over: Wait--what is Content a la mode? Most people know Kim from A Cup of Content. She did weekly live...
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Who are you? Building genuine relationships in 2019 with customers starts with YOU
My daughter and I have a joint Apple Playlist called #bossup where she shares her favorite tunes and I try to educate her on all the amazing music from my life. (haha emoji) She recently added “Girl in the Mirror” by Bebe Rexha from The Ugly Dolls soundtrack. Some of...
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Should your business be on Pinterest?
Pinterest for business...for your business? Not sure your business should be on Pinterest? With all this talk about big marketing businesses leaving Pinterest (like Social Media Examiner's YouTube video on The Journey), I'm getting more questions about whether...
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How to build a content marketing calendar
How to build a content marketing calendar I've been struggling with getting back into the swing of things after the holidays, but I know that "I'll just do it next month" isn't the right response. So let's talk about what you can do at any time to generate content for...
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Social Signals: Do they factor into your SEO?
What are Social Signals, and do they factor in SEO? One thing you should know about how I run SEO over at Content a la mode: I do a LOT of testing before I teach search engine optimization to my members here at A Cup of Content. One of those tests that is tried and...
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What are ALT Tags, and why are they important for SEO?
What are ALT Tags, and why are they important for SEO? One of the first questions new members often ask me is “What are ALT tags?” While I go into a much deeper explanation in A Cup of Content’s membership, I thought it deserved a bit of explanation over here on the...
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What is SEO content?
I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times: You need to be blogging. And it’s true. But why do you need to be blogging? Why do you need to produce SEO content like that on a regular basis? What is SEO content? And how do you blog? And what does it do for your website?...
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#TheCoffeeBreakLIVE Episode 21: Creating Episodic Content
#TheCoffeeBreakLIVE is back! Topic for Episode 21: Episodic content and your business. The CoffeeBot joins us as always, so be sure to type LIVE in the comments to get friendly reminders of when we go live each week! (You can even do this on ANY replay of...
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#TheCoffeeBreakLIVE: Episode 20
#TheCoffeeBreakLIVE is back! Topic for Episode 20: The Power of Value: How to be a value creator. The CoffeeBot will join us as always, so be sure to type LIVE in the comments to get friendly reminders of when we go live each week! #TheCoffeeBreakLIVE...
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#TheCoffeeBreakLive: Episode 19
#TheCoffeeBreakLIVE is back! Topic for Episode 19: we're talking about that dreaded question: the cost of hiring out content marketing vs. doing it yourself.
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#TheCoffeeBreakLive: Episode 18
#TheCoffeeBreakLIVE is back! Topic for Episode 18: What marketers will not tell you about content (because they don't know it, either).
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#TheCoffeeBreakLive: Episode 17
#TheCoffeeBreakLIVE is back with Season 2! Topic for Episode 17: why live video is a blessing when it's NOT a curse. How can you avoid the curse part?
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Guest podcast appearance: Build Live Give Podcast with Paul Higgins
Check out Kim's guest appearance on the Build Live Give podcast with Paul Higgins! Kim and Paul met in the Membership Guys Facebook group; Paul asked a question about a membership about people with polycystic kidney disease and, since Kim's daughter was...
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IGTV Episode 1: Thinking of doing video? Do this one thing.
Video+Content Episode 1: The one thing you need to do to get started with video [TRANSCRIPT] Hey, there! Today I’m going to share with you the one—and probably the most important—thing you need to do when you’re thinking of getting into the video space. I...
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#TheCoffeeBreakLive: Episode 16
#TheCoffeeBreakLIVE is back! Topics for Episode 16: new update on Instagram AND YouTube's finally getting in the hashtag game.
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NEW! Video series: Video+Coffee
We added a new video series on IGTV: Video+Coffee So excited to be kicking off our new video series: Video+Coffee! This new, highly caffeinated show will bring you all things video content, from creative ways to use video in your business to live show tips and tricks...
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