I've been blogging since 2005, but this blog at kevinsandlin.com has been in existence since 2015. The chart below shows you the annual growth and views and visitors over these past four years. These for years have taught me that, while social media seems to drive awareness and clicks, SEO … Keep reading >>>
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You blog, we promote – ATL Tech Blogs
Atlanta Tech Blogs has just reached a fun vanity metric: 20,000 organic twitter followers. Yay. Lots of digital marketing lessons have been learned over the past 3 years about how to gain a solid social media following without spending any money (hint: content, content, and more content). But however we … Keep reading >>>
How to Breathe Life into Your Blog Posts
The unfortunate methodology (habit) of many people who blog is to write a blog post and then immediately share it on their social media channels. Now's when you say, "Uh, ok, so what's wrong with that?" It's not wrong. It's just not complete. The goal of your blog posts - … Keep reading >>>
Your Content Planets (Blog Posts) Revolve Around Your Sun Content
In your solar system of content marketing, your sun is your biggest, most important and influential piece of content. Next are your planets. Your planets revolve around, reflect, and get their energy from your "sun". In all but one of the seven examples of "sun" content, the planets you create … Keep reading >>>
Hacking Content Marketing at The Combine
Every digital property has (at least) one thing in common: content. Blank websites and apps don't get much traction. But creating content is hard. It takes time. At The Combine, we've learned very quickly that new fresh content on thecombine.co is our best source of inbound traction. That's a simple … Keep reading >>>
Blogging on WordPress Just Got So Much Easier
Blog much? I do. I used to blog every day here, but lately, I’ve been so busy creating content for The Combine, Konstru, and PZFlex that I have maybe blogged once a month on my personal site. As with many other things in life, sometimes we put off doing a … Keep reading >>>
Drivin’ N Writin’
Do you talk on the phone when you're driving? When I have calls to make, I plan them for when I know I'll be in my car with time to talk and - especially in Atlanta - time to sit in traffic and do nothing else. However, I do not … Keep reading >>>
Drivin' N Writin'
Do you talk on the phone when you're driving? When I have calls to make, I plan them for when I know I'll be in my car with time to talk and - especially in Atlanta - time to sit in traffic and do nothing else. However, I do not … Keep reading >>>
Two Free Digital Marketing eBooks from Atlanta Tech Blogs
It's been a long time coming, but I'm finally happy to share that I've created two eBooks from learning, doing, and teaching blogging and digital marketing over the past couple of years. The two ebooks are available for free to anyone who subscribes to the Atlanta Tech Blogs Daily Digest … Keep reading >>>
I signed up to teach one class, and ended up teaching 46
In addition to writing a bunch of blog posts, the second half of my business in 2015 was teaching classes at General Assembly. This one kind of started on a whim. In late summer of 2014, just a few months after shutting down CD8A, I learned that GA was opening … Keep reading >>>