Author : Christopher Null
Christopher Null is the founder and owner of Null Media LLC. A 20-year veteran of the magazine and internet trade, he's worked for some of the biggest names on the web and in publishing, including Yahoo!, Intuit, Ziff-Davis Media, Future Networks, McGraw-Hill, and CMP Media.
Christopher Null is the founder and owner of Null Media LLC. A 20-year veteran of the magazine and internet trade, he's worked for some of the biggest names on the web and in publishing, including Yahoo!, Intuit, Ziff-Davis Media, Future Networks, McGraw-Hill, and CMP Media.
The Problem with Guest Posts on your Blog
When working on an editorial strategy for their blogs, clients often ask me about “guest posts.” Why write our own content, the argument goes, when there are numerous industry luminaries willing to write content for our blog for free? If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and I generally advise against [...]
Continue ReadingWhat Should Your Business Blog About?
Online, the old adage that “anything goes” may be true, but on your business blog, you need to think about your posting strategy before you write a blog post. What should you write about? Well, it depends on your business. These tips should serve as a guide to help you get started. 1. The Industry [...]
Continue ReadingIs Quality Important in Blogs?
Check out a few blogs online — even A-list blogs or blogs published by major news outlets — and you’ll quickly start to notice something: No one seems to be editing this stuff. They’re riddled with grammatical errors, typos, dead links, and more. Why is this? The quick answer is that, yeah, no one is [...]
Continue ReadingDoes Facebook Still Matter?
The stillborn Facebook IPO will likely be the biggest business story of the year, but the follow-up is one of more practical import. Specifically, does your business really need Facebook any more? It’s not a question of reach: With nearly a billion users, everyone you’re likely to sell anything to is on Facebook. The question [...]
Continue ReadingMore High Praise for the Intuit Small Business Blog
Serious praise from business2community.com for our work for Intuit — and for Intuit’s approach to content marketing and social media in general. Business bloggers take note! Intuit’s small business blog is a really excellent example of business blogging done right. For starters, it’s updated one to three times a day, so the content is fresh [...]
Continue ReadingThe Problem with “Corporate Blogs”
I’m constantly thinking about how we can help improve the state of corporate blogging in the world, and it’s a tough challenge. I think the main problem is the word corporate. Much as a “corporate suit” doesn’t inspire confidence and a “corporate office park” doesn’t make you want to hang out for the day, a [...]
Continue Reading9 Tips: Building a Great Business Blog
Want to build a great business blog but don’t know where to start? Consider these nine tips to help get you on your way. 1. Blog daily if possible, or at least a few times a week. 2. Understand your reader/audience. When preparing every post, think about who you want to read it and what [...]
Continue ReadingIntuit Wins Best Corporate Blog Award
Very honored that the Intuit Small Business Blog — which Null Media helps to manage and provides extensive content and editorial services for — has been announced the winner of BtoB Magazine’s Best Corporate Blog award for 2012! We’ll be collecting the award personally next month, and hopefully it will be proudly displayed in Intuit’s [...]
Continue ReadingWant More Business? Blog!
Just ran across this statistic from Hubspot: How much business blogging is best? To answer to those questions, I looked at data from 1,531 HubSpot customers (mostly small- and medium-sized businesses). 795 of the businesses in my sample blogged, 736 didn’t. The data was crystal clear: Companies that blog have far better marketing results. Specifically, the [...]
Continue ReadingNew Year’s Resolution for Businesses Large and Small
Here’s a resolution that all businesses can probably do a better job of honoring: Start talking to your customers. Whether it’s through Twitter, Facebook, a blog, or even an FAQ on your website, start a dialogue with customers and commit to sticking with it for the rest of the year. Can’t remember to keep your [...]
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