Archive for February, 2015

What’s the best day to publish blog posts? At Media Shower, we get this question all the time. I will give the short answer for those with attention deficit disorder, and a slightly longer answer for those who want to understand.

Jeremy Durant of Bop Design knows that content plays an enormous role in the success of marketing a business. He understands that social media, branding, and content are all major players in the marketing world of today. In this interview, Jeremy shares some of what Bop Design offers clients. On your website, it says thatRead More…

I am on the phone with a potential client. We’ll call him Mr. L. “What we’re using,” Mr. L tells me, “is a long-tail content strategy.” “How’s it working?” I ask. “It’s okay,” he admits. “But we need help creating 1,000 content pieces a month.” “Our price for a great blog post is $49, soRead More…

It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw. This is the first sentence of Michael Crichton’s excellent autobiography Travels, and those words have stuck with me since I read the book twenty years ago. Crichton was trained as a doctor, and he starts with a story of working on aRead More…

I’m talking with a prospective client. We’ll call her Ms. X, because that makes her seem more mysterious. Ms. X is the marketing manager of a large company. She wants to get more traffic to the company website, and is thinking of starting a content marketing program. “What I want to know,” Ms. X asksRead More…

I recently received an email from a client with the subject line: Subject: DANGER! Naturally, my heart leapt into my throat. Surely the email was announcing a forest fire, or an imminent Russian invasion of America. I opened the email to find it was an introduction to one of their partners, whose name was BobRead More…

ZippyCart is a great online resource for any eCommerce professional, providing information, news on current trends and expert advice. Susan D took the time to speak with us about her business as well as share information on different needs and considerations for eCommerce businesses, regardless of size and establishment. With a background in eCommerce, sheRead More…

True story: We recently had a prospective customer call into our sales line. This was a bright guy, a well-educated VP of Marketing for a large company. He was looking for someone to run his company’s content marketing efforts, he told us, and he had read an article online where Media Shower was rated #1.Read More…