Maintaining a business blog is time-consuming. However, if you have clear objectives in mind, the effort very well could be worth your while. As you establish your blog, define your goals to determine whether to keep it alive. Below are five common uses for feeding regular content into a business blog. (photo courtesy digitalart) 1….
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Business Blogs and the Parisbas Tennis Open
Is your blog like my tennis, a hit or a miss? Are you writing posts that are clear winners for your readers? Are you serving valuable, relevant content within the lines of your readers’ needs? This week I’m watching the world’s best players battle it out on the courts at the Parisbas Tennis Open in Indian Wells,…
The Ladder of Emotional Values: Pleasure Reigns
What emotions are people seeking to satisfy online? What can we understand about human motivations and values in order for content marketing to work? Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs tells us we are motivated to satisfy our basic needs first (food, shelter, clothing), before we seek to obtain satisfaction for social, intellectual and spiritual needs. A similar hierarchy…
The Naked Blog: Dress Up Your Words
What can you learn about blog writing and content marketing from the theater? As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve attended local theater productions, including performances on The Naked Stage. (Photos courtesy Stuart Miles) If you’re not familiar with this kind of theater format, the actors read their lines, sitting on stools, dressed in black, without benefit of costumes, scenery, makeup,…
Basic Human Motivation: 4 Ways to Engage Readers
If you are writing content designed to persuade and influence, you need to know what makes people tick. (photo courtesy of digitalart/FreeDigitalPhotos.net) There are universal drives that are common in all human beings, across cultures, across the globe. When you create content that appeals to either of these four basic drives, you can’t help but engage the hearts…
Content Marketing that Speaks to the Old Brain
You get better results with your content marketing when you speak to the “old brain,” the one that’s also known as the primitive brain or the survival brain. Knowing how the brain works will help you write better as well as help you with presentations to influence others. There are a few principles to remember, and here’s…
5 Reasons Content Marketing is Getting Harder
I hate to be a purveyor of gloom, there’s too much of that around these days. But I’ve been thinking about this and want to share my thoughts with you. Here are some reasons content marketing is getting more challenging. There exists: A shift away from focusing on your products and services (what you know…
Writing Compelling Content:
What Drives Your Readers?
In a recent blog post, Compelling Content: What Are Your Readers’ Hot Buttons?, we explored the top 10 hot buttons and the use of emotional words and phrases to tap into these issues. Here’s another model based on only 4 drivers. 4 Drives in a Nutshell Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices (Jossey Bass, 2001),…
5 Content Marketing Questions:
Get Readers to Take Action
What will make your web readers take action or not? Content marketing isn’t successful without results. So when writing a blog post or a web page, keep these key questions in mind. You want to inspire readers to pick up the phone, click here, sign up, register, or remember your brand. Here’s a final note…
5 Content Marketing Questions:
#3 What’s Possible?
In Maria Velosa’s Web Copy That Sells book, there is a 5-step blueprint for writing on the Web. This is really what content marketing is all about. When you answer the following 5 questions, your writing tasks are simplified and your copy becomes clear. What is the problem (pain, predicament)? Why hasn’t this problem been solved? What…
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Hi, I'm Dr. Patsi Krakoff, an experienced content marketing specialist with a background in journalism and a doctorate degree in psychology. I've been providing online marketing content and consulting for coaches, consultants, authors, and speakers for the past 11 years.
I live and work from my home in the village of Ajijic in Mexico... why? Because it's Paradise! I enjoy tennis every day, and connecting with smart professionals online. How can I help you? Leave a comment and say hello...
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