INC MARKETING PLACE AUTHOR

Thomas Mark

Editor, Blogger & Senior SEO Analyst
I’m Thomas — Editor & Admin of Inc Marketing Place, Blogger, and Senior SEO Analyst. I write at Inc Marketing Place, sharing practical insights on SEO, branding, content marketing, and online business growth. I focus on creating clear, easy-to-understand content for marketers, entrepreneurs, and growing businesses.
Expertise: SEO, Branding & Content Marketing
Experience: 6 Years
Thomas Mark - Inc Marketing Place Author
Social Media Engagement Strategy: How to Increase Engagement

Social Media Engagement Strategy: How to Increase Engagement

Sep 21, 2026

Posting more doesn’t automatically buy you engagement — likes and follower counts can climb while comments and shares stay flat. A social media engagement strategy is the plan that closes that gap: it picks content built to be replied to, sets a response

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Social Media Marketing Tips to Improve Reach & Engagement

Social Media Marketing Tips to Improve Reach & Engagement

Sep 21, 2026

Most tip lists for social media give you twenty ideas with no indication of which ones the evidence actually backs. This guide leads with the one tactic 2026 data supports most strongly, then covers the rest of the social media marketing strategy that

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Influencer Marketing: Complete Guide to Strategy & Campaigns

Influencer Marketing: Complete Guide to Strategy & Campaigns

Sep 17, 2026

“Influencer marketing” used to mean mailing a free product to someone with a decent following and hoping for the best. That era is long gone. What has replaced it looks a lot more like professional media buying — with pricing benchmarks, contract standards,

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Social Media Analytics: Complete Guide to Tracking Performance

Social Media Analytics: Complete Guide to Tracking Performance

Sep 16, 2026

If you’ve ever sat in a leadership meeting and watched a CMO’s eyes glaze over at a slide full of follower counts, you already know the problem with most social media reporting. I notice followers, likes and impressions look good in a screenshot

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Social Media Advertising: Complete Guide to Paid Social Ads

Social Media Advertising: Complete Guide to Paid Social Ads

Sep 16, 2026

In the two years social media advertising has quietly changed. It used to focus on who you targeted. Now it focuses on what you showed them. This is not a marketing cliché. It is a shift, inside every major ad platform. The shift

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Social Media Marketing Strategy: Complete Guide for Business

Social Media Marketing Strategy: Complete Guide for Business

Sep 16, 2026

Most Social Media Marketing Strategy fail for a boring reason: nobody wrote one down. Teams post because the content calendar says Tuesday is a post day, not because a specific piece of content is supposed to move a specific person closer to a

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Social Media Management: Complete Guide for Businesses

Social Media Management: Complete Guide for Businesses

Sep 16, 2026

Most social media management guides are stuck in 2021. They tell you to post interact with your audience and watch numbers that don’t really matter. None of that is wrong, exactly — it’s just no longer the whole job. Here’s what’s actually changed.

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Brand Mentions & Digital PR: The SEO Advantage in 2026

Brand Mentions & Digital PR: The SEO Advantage in 2026

Sep 15, 2026

Backlinks used to be the whole story in off-page SEO. They’re still important — but they’re no longer the only signal that matters. As AI-driven search tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google’s AI Overviews synthesize answers instead of just listing links, they lean

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Guest Posting for SEO: The Complete 2026 Playbook

Guest Posting for SEO: The Complete 2026 Playbook

Sep 15, 2026

Guest blogging has been reportedly “dead” more than just about any other SEO strategy, and yet it still delivers genuine contextual links, referral traffic, and brand trust to the sites who are doing it right. The difference in 2026 isn’t whether guest posting

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Best Backlink Building Strategies for 2026 (Proven Tactics)

Best Backlink Building Strategies for 2026 (Proven Tactics)

Sep 15, 2026

Most backlink advice hasn’t caught up with 2026. Cold outreach templates still get forwarded around, “build more links” still gets repeated as a strategy on its own, and skyscraper campaigns still get recommended without anyone mentioning that reply rates have collapsed since Brian

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