RICH COLLINS’ BLOG
Who blogs anymore, right? This guy. While the medium has changed significantly over time, it’s still a valuable tool for content marketing and a great way to share a message. My written work has appeared in magazines (NHtoDo Magazine, Merrimack Valley Magazine), local newspapers (The Conway Daily Sun, The Portsmouth Herald, Seacoastonline.com) and on various business blogs and print materials, websites and social media campaigns. In addition, I have been involved with the podcasting world, as both a co-host on the NH Brand Project as well as the top ranking outdoor podcast, the Fish Nerds. I don’t write as much as I used to but it is still an essential part of content marketing. Remember, #ContentIsKing!
How To Tell If You’re Being Scammed (Before It’s Too Late)
How to Tell When (If) You’re Being Scammed It’s unfortunate, but “scammer” seems to be the new profession for millions of shady characters across the globe. It’s easy to do, highly lucrative, and nearly impossible to trace (and prosecute) particularly if the scam...
Demystifying Digital Marketing with Rich Collins, Thirst Productions
Demystifying Digital Marketing. What it is, what it does, why you need it (even if you think you don’t!) This Live (now recorded) presentation is an overview of current marketing trends and some of the digital tools and techniques available to small to mid-sized...
How to Future-Proof Your Brand
Uncertain times may have you wondering if you've done enough to protect your business's survival. No one goes into business to fail, and future-proofing your business will be essential to your continued success. There are many ways you can protect your business's...
Why It’s Important to Begin Leveraging Your Social Media When Your Business Is Still Small
Today, launching and creating a successful business is not reserved only for those with deep pockets but is also readily available to anyone with the right idea and enough determination and willpower. Knowing why it is important to begin leveraging your social media...
Corporate Bling!
Just got my first new logo-ized shirts thanks to a California Company called Create-A-Shirt. https://www.createashirt.com/
Simple Ways Your Business Can Improve a Customer’s Online Experience
One of the leading causes of stagnant or declining sales within a company is a poor customer experience online. Even the best products can fail to sell as well as they could if they don't have an optimal online platform. Many business owners say that they simply don't...
The Inside Scoop on Buying Facebook Reviews
Customers want reassurances before they invest money in a product or service. Choosing a business based solely on an advertising slogan or a slick advertisement can come back to haunt consumers. Reading reviews does provide a decent insight into what to expect. Or...
How Data Parsing Benefits Small Businesses
Data parsing is a set of rules that helps businesses make better use of their data. When used effectively, this practice helps a business understand and validate their data provided that the business can make the data fit into their structures. Here are some ways that...
5 Tips for Reducing Customer Friction and Increasing Sales
Your company won't survive if it can't generate enough revenue. Therefore, you need to take whatever steps are necessary to remove any potential barriers that customers could face when they’re trying to make a purchase. By improving the customer shopping experience,...
7 Strategies for Managing Marketing Risk
No business has an unlimited marketing budget. When you are deciding where to put your money, it is a good idea to use information technology and the available digital tools to analyze what marketing to do and when to do it. Keep in mind that no piece of software or...
5 Reasons Marketing Automation Will Dominate The Next Decade
Savvy business owners already understand the importance of marketing automation in today's increasingly wired (and wireless) world. Not only can marketing automation help you reach your audience in more effective and tangible ways, but it can also help you to save...
How Technology Can Assist Your Customer-Feedback Strategy | Thirst Productions, Portsmouth, NH
It is simply not enough to run advertisements in this day and age. To keep your brand relevant and increase your customer base, you need to stay in tune with what your customer needs. The best way to do that? By gathering and listening to customer feedback. Monitoring...
4 Reasons Your Business Needs Elasticsearch
As information for business analytics becomes increasingly complex, new tools for interpreting business intelligence sourced from a wide range of datasets become increasingly important. Elasticsearch is an open-source, non-relational database...
4 Online Platforms You Should Be Utilizing
As is true with everyone, we are always looking for smarter and more effective ways to grow their market and network. With the advent of countless business-centered platforms, it can be difficult to determine which ones are actually helpful. Here are 4 online...
On Flexible Work Arrangements and Working From Home
Flexible Work Arrangements Flexible work arrangements seem to be all the rage, and many employers have seen great success offering remote work and/or staggered scheduling for their employees. I am fortunate enough to have the experience, and the flexibility to be able...
Freelance Writing and Blog Development Portsmouth, NH
All things considered, I’m also a pretty talented writer. Fast, fluent, and I carry a professional, yet amusing voice to my work that most robot, machine-like copywriters simply cannot. I have published numerous blogs, magazine articles, and...
Great Bay Stewards – Nonprofit Organization – WordPress Redesign
Website refresh project for nonprofit organization - www.greatbaystewards.org
Black Friday Turns Altruistic – Patagonia’s plans to donate 100 percent of sales on this day of retail inhumanity.
Upon learning of the passing of North Face founder Douglas Tompkins, I felt inspired to speak out about corporate philanthropy and some of the great work being done by companies with a conscience. However, it’s a genuinely tricky endeavor because the altruistic...