Tweet Having guest bloggers post content for your blog can be a great tool to get more readers to visit your site. Typically, guest blogging involves a good deal of cross-promotion, which can be beneficial for all parties involved. Guest blogging has recently become much more common, likely because bloggers are seeing the good things…
Tag Archive: Content Marketing
Content Marketing Focus: Lessons from Steve Allen
Tweet Having a hard time staying focused on your business content marketing? Focus-schmocus. Sometimes you start off doing one thing and end up an expert at something else. Life is like that. I look at content marketing as an experiment or adventure. Some things work well and you do more of them. Others, well, let’s…
Scribd: Just Another Document Sharing Site?
Tweet I may be a late bloomer, but I just discovered Scribd. I found it when I was doing research for my webinar series, Social Media KISS (Keep it Simple and Serene) for Authors. It is the most popular document sharing site available, with over 50,000 uploads each day. Yes, that number is correct. This…
Bloggers: Brush Up on Your Writing Skills
Tweet Business bloggers: just how good are your writing skills? Most bloggers and those who run small businesses that publish blogs are not natural-born writers, or even trained writers. Most businesspeople studied things such as marketing, communication, or business. It’s not often they’ve studied English or creative writing. Yet it’s becoming expected that businesses have…
Better Content Marketing:
Words and Numbers Matter
Tweet As a psychologist, I’m fascinated by how our brains work. When writing online content, I try to apply neuroscience to understanding why some copy outperforms others. When writing for business, i.e. content marketing, you want to get the words right, so that your web pages, blogs and e-newsletters get results for your business. Words…
SEO: 3 Things Journalists and Bloggers Can Learn
Tweet From what I see, many bloggers aren’t using hyperlinks when they publish blog posts. Worse, in some cases, they aren’t teaching writers about this in online writing courses. I just attended a week-long writer’s conference in San Miguel. and although there were a few workshops on blogging and online creative non-fiction writing, not one…
Relationship Marketing Messages that Work:
How to Use Send-Out Cards
Tweet Relationship marketing is getting simpler with inexpensive tools. Yesterday I got one of those ‘Send-Out’ cards in the mail from a colleague whose webinar I attended. It’s a great way to practice the fine art of relationship marketing. Send-Out cards, although printed, look as if they’re hand-written, and can be used to get the…
Content Marketing with Blogs:
6 Steps to Writing Awesome Fresh Content
Tweet What private Hell do you go through to write fresh blog content? How do you pick a blog topic that will score with search engines AND solve a problem your target audience frequently has? Do you scour the dungeon of your mind for new slants on old stuff? I don’t know any business professional…
2013: No Marketing Goals This Year, Just One Word
Tweet No goals for 2013. I’m not setting any marketing goals this year. Goals are bad. I am not kidding, and there’s research to prove it. This isn’t just me trying to avoid feelings of failure when I’m not seeing immediate results. Here’s an excerpt from Peter Bregman’s blog Consider Not Setting Goals for 2013…
5 Reasons to Hire a Content Marketing Writer for Your Business
Tweet “Content is king.” Bill Gates said it, so it must be true. Gates uttered this one-liner way back in 1996, but the flurry of updates to Google search algorithms during 2012 has ensured that his words still resonate. Most businesses (be they blog owners, start-ups, or established brands) now know that if they want…
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