B2B Marketing Blog

If there’s one thing we at Bold Digital Architects understand very well, it’s that talent isn’t hindered by borders. In this day and age, where the entire world is at your fingertips and most of what we do happens online anyway, it would be a shameful waste of opportunity to look for skilled team members in a radius smaller than 6,371 km.

2019 was the year Google made two serious updates to its search engine: adding playable episodes in search results alongside the usual sites, images, and news, and implementing BERT that will affect about 10% of search queries with its focus on a better understanding of natural language/conversational queries. 

E-A-T rating is one significant aspect of Google’s continuing attempts to “make” businesses, brands, and content creators of all kinds create useful content by focusing on quality. Because quality can be subjective, the search engine company uses Quality Rater Guidelines to make the content better for actual human users, instead of search engines (those guidelines are super underrated if you ask me - I’m willing to guess most people don’t know they’re public domain). 

In my years as a content manager here at Bold, I've overseen the creation of hundreds of blogs, written by dozens of different writers. As I come from a journalistic background, it took me time to realize search engines need to be considered. 

If you haven’t heard or used Google NLP API, you’ve seriously missed out on a great opportunity to optimize your content. Here’s your chance to rectify that oversight. 

Inbound 2019 was incredible. It’s was a chance to take a 3 day break, learn, develop and get inspired by and from like-minded people. So much was going on. Elizabeth Gilbert was there, talking about the importance of relaxing, setting priorities, setting boundaries and having a visceral knowledge that “it’s all going to be alright”. Alex Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit spoke of the importance of gender equality, the struggles of combining motherhood and career and his vision of implementing..

It’s an exciting time for marketers as we’re approaching a busy fall season teeming with events dedicated to the industry specialists (and all others who are interested). 

A while ago I stumbled upon a guide of 56 growth hacking resources to follow by Roy Povarchik. Prior to encountering that guide I had been following several resources and subscribed to quite a few newsletters but I didn’t have a system in place for staying on top of my game. I was playing defence rather than offence with respect to my online knowledge consumption. I’m a huge believer in routines and this guide was a missing piece in my puzzle as it helped me set one up.

I know this post is going to upset some people - we all want to feel we’re doing the right thing and it’s super offensive to hear that despite this being the norm, if you’re basing your initial startup’s funding on your friends and family - you’re being very unfair and selfish.

If you’ve already done it - I wish you and everyone involved the best of luck. I really do. If you haven't, I hope this will make you reconsider.

I know it seems like a valid road to go down, I know so many people..