Now Available: Disqus Polls

Today, we’re thrilled to launch Disqus Polls, a powerful new tool that enables publishers to easily create and embed interactive polls directly onto their site, boosting audience engagement and collecting valuable insights. After weeks of feedback from early adopters, we’ve fine-tuned Polls to deliver the best experience for publishers and their audiences, and now, Polls are available to everyone!

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Now Available: Disqus Polls
How to Define Your Audience Persona

How to Define Your Audience Persona

Audience personas are the keystone of all of your marketing efforts. If you don’t know who your audience is, then you can’t expect to convince people to buy from you or subscribe to you. You need to pinpoint who they are, what they need, and how you can serve them. Today we’re going to help you start creating your persona(s).
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Taking Advantage of Instagram Hashtags

Taking Advantage of Instagram Hashtags

If you don’t have an ad budget, then you may struggle to reach a significant number of Instagram users, but don’t worry - it’s still possible to connect with them organically. Instagram is a powerful tool to get people to interact with your brand and visit your website.
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Webinar Production for Small Businesses

Webinar Production for Small Businesses

Webinars are an excellent tactic to nurture your leads. What are webinars exactly? Glad you asked! Webinars are seminars or lessons taught online, usually with a live audience. Why are they so good at converting viewers into buyers? Webinars allow you to engage your audience in a more personal way. They can put a face to your business and let them communicate with you on a more intimate level.
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Squeezing Content Creation Into Your Daily Routine

Squeezing Content Creation Into Your Daily Routine

Creating content is the foundation of a successful content marketing strategy. You need to continuously put out new material because the internet never takes the day off. It’s an everyday battle to stay relevant! This can be especially tiring if you are a social media manager as social media is always “on.” Here are a few content creation tips to improve your workflow, no matter how busy your schedule becomes.
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Content Audits: What They Are and Why You Need One

Content Audits: What They Are and Why You Need One

Your content team is running like a high functioning engine. You’re pushing out content fast, but how do you know if the content is truly engaging your audience? A content audit can help you figure out if your content is meeting your marketing goals. While content audits can be a bit time consuming, we have some tricks to help you make it faster!
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Email Marketing 101

Email Marketing 101

The statement “Email marketing is dead” is something that I hear time and time again, and I am sure a few if you have been told this too. Well, today I am here to tell you that not only is it alive and well, but it’s making a lot of businesses money!
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Leveraging Content Calendars to Improve Consistency

Leveraging Content Calendars to Improve Consistency

Anyone who has ever written content for email campaigns, social media posts, or any other marketing vehicle knows how exciting it can be. However, the excitement can quickly come to a screeching halt when you are juggling four email campaigns, three social media posts, the internal company newsletter, and a PR release. When you look at it this way, it’s quite easy to see how things can quickly get out of hand amongst the chaos.
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How to Increase Blog Comments and Engagement With Visuals

How to Increase Blog Comments and Engagement With Visuals

You have a few different goals with your company blog. First, you want to drive traffic to your blog content. Then you want to inform your audience. And last, you want your readers to engage with your content, whether it’s by leaving a comment, sharing your post or making a purchase.
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How to Repurpose Your Podcast

How to Repurpose Your Podcast

Based on the feedback from how to get started with podcasts, we understand that a lot of time and effort goes into creating a podcast episode. They can be an effective way to promote your brand. 32% of Americans listen to podcasts at least once a month (that’s approximately 150 million people!). Repurposing your podcast into different formats can help you reach that 68% of Americans who aren’t frequent podcast listeners.
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Why Is Video Marketing So Effective?

Why Is Video Marketing So Effective?

On YouTube alone, people spend 1 billion hours watching videos every day. Consumers not only love watching videos online, but they’re also willing to shell out cold hard cash if they like what they see. Marketers often think they need fancy equipment and decked-out studios to make videos for their marketing campaigns. But that’s not always true!
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Reader Journey Mapping: Why & How

Reader Journey Mapping: Why & How

As we’ve written about in our recent blog posts, all writers are selling something. Whether that be a physical product or service, or selling their content and asking you to pay for it with your time and attention. Whether you’ve been doing this for one day or ten years, you’ve probably noticed that selling online is an entirely different ball game. Today, online sales teams can track your buying patterns and tailor content or offers just for you. Likewise, consumers can investigate you and compare your content, products, or services to those of your competitors. With all this info at their fingertips, consumers now expect personalization.
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