Recently, I was traveling, and got a question from a friend of mine: Can I put a video in an email without sending it as an attachment? The answer is, “No.” But you can do it. Or at least the recipient of your email will think you did (unless they know this simple trick). Either way: you’re getting the video to your …
iTunes Doesn’t Support Let’s Encrypt Certificates
Update (March 19, 2017): iTunes has quietly added Let’s Encrypt to their list of officially supported SSL certificate providers. We’re going to test this out to confirm that it is indeed working. We’ll update this once we’ve confirmed it! Recently, we learned a painful lesson about using SSL Certificates on a website that hosts a podcast. Our website serves not only …
A Competitor Sabotages Your Facebook Rating. Now What?
We live in an age where $5 can wreak carnage on a reputation. A Boston jewelry store in business for 135 years had built a stellar reputation in the community, and it translated into a five-star rating on many websites, but most importantly maybe their Facebook page. Their rating of 4.8 stars was built by urging happy customers to leave …
The Wild West Market Redefines Twitter Likes
Trigger Warning! This post officially flips the Twitter terminology from “favorite” to “like.” If this might cause you emotional turmoil, you may want to proceed with care. Twitter has changed its Favorite button to a Like button. But long before it did that, users made their own changes to the Like/Favorite button, changing the Twitter response landscape dramatically. The change …
Guerilla Marketing Through Slideshare
So you want to build a mailing list and one of the avenues you plan to use is Slideshare. But from previous experience, you know that most Slideshare productions gain the equivalent traction of ice on ice. That would be, none. But there is a sweet little method that can pop your creation onto Slideshare’s radar that the Grow the …
The 1-Cent Click: the Holy Grail of Facebook Ads?
Facebook drives advertisements based on proven social engagement. But it can be a bit of a chicken-and-egg challenge to get engagement before running the ad, or without having a large following from the start. But Grow the Dream Show co-host Josh Muccio employed a nifty little hack that jump-started his ad campaign with a bunch of engagement — before he really launched …
Content Marketing: How It’s Done…How It’s Not Done
How It’s Done We love the entrepreneur and small business owner. But today we at the Grow the Dream Show have examples of a little guy getting it wrong and a big corporation getting it really right. First, an example of Pure Killer Content by a major corporation. SC Johnson’s Ziploc Division created a Facebook post that, reasonably enough, is …
Apple (and all other) Ad Blockers Can Be Bypassed
The brouhaha over Apple extending the battle against an overwhelming wave of annoying digital ads points back to something that never seems to change — regardless of how much technology changes. Content is King. Sure, old news is no news. But when some say the sky is falling, it’s not bad to point out that Henny Penny was wrong. Chicken Little …
Startling Revelations From #INBOUND15
Now that some of the fatigue has worn off from last week’s INBOUND Conference in Boston and I’ve had a little time to process everything, some of the most important realizations from the event are bubbling to the top. And what’s surprising me most of all is that the things I took away from the event are both nothing new and nothing short …
2 Secret Ingredients for Outstanding Blog Content
So you’ve decided to start blogging for your business and feel like you have a basic handle on how to create content… great! I applaud your effort and want to support you in this endeavor. I have been helping businesses grow through blogging for over 5 years and have learned a few things that I would love to share with you. …