Author Archive for Patsi Krakoff – Page 85

Biz Blog Writing: It’s time to make money.

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"Business blogging is not about ‘do you have time to write?’… but do you have time to make money!" said wise man Des Walsh at the Small Business Blogging panel at Blog World Expo 08.

The best business partner in the world, Denise Wakeman, was on one of the best panels there, How to Plan, Build and Promote a Small Business Blog. You can read notes on Twitter.com by clicking on the link.

And, to help you learn even more, here are the handouts the panel provided:

Download small_business_blog1.pdf

Download small_business_blog2.pdf

The other panelists were Rich Brooks of Flyte New Media and John T. Unger, the Typepad Hacks guy. These are two of the savviest guys around when it comes to blog knowledge.

So then the big question most of us ask about blog writing, how do you turn readers into buyers? My deceased great-grandmother, an ancient purveyor of wisdom, used to say, "Slowly, slowly… catchee monkey!"

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Joe Pulizzi reveals how he uses content marketing to get great results

Last week I asked a question over on LinkedIn:

If you’re a coach or consultant, how are you using content on the Web to market your services? What gets you the best results?

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Joe Pulizzi,  who runs Junta 42 responded:

"Blogging
works the best for me. Consistent blogging has been able to expand my speaking
business internationally, which would have been difficult to do any other way."

Joe is co-author of Get Content. Get Customers , and an expert on Content Marketing. So I was very interested in learning his responses to my email interview. Here they are:

1. Tell us what your profession is, and who your typical clients are.

Author, Speaker, Evangelist and Consultant for content marketing. Our
typical consulting clients are small-to-medium sized businesses and
media companies.

2. What marketing tools do you use on the Web?

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Content Marketing Interview with Kathleen Gage

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Kathleen Gage has had tremendous success marketing her services online with content. She has a unique ability to mix  spiritual principles into helping people, especially authors, make money.

Denise and I have partnered with Kathleen twice now to deliver our Law of Action mentoring series. We know first hand how fabulous she is both as a colleague and as a teacher.

Here are her examples of how she uses content to marketing online.

1. Tell us what your profession is, and who your typical clients are.

  • Internet marketing advisor for spiritually minded speakers,
    authors, coaches and consultants who are ready to turn their knowledge
    into money-making products and services.
  • I am a published author and a conference keynote speaker as well.

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Content Marketing Interview with Allison Nazarian, copywriter and founder of Get It in Writing

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Allison Nazarian is a young copywriter with a lot to offer. She uses content to market her services on the Web, and helps her clients to do so through her company Get It in Writing.

In our continuing series of interviews about content marketing, we share her experiences here:

1. Tell us what your profession is, and who your typical clients are.

The core expertise of my company, Get It In Writing, is copywriting.
This branches out into more broad marketing consulting for certain
clients. Typical clients run the gamut from one-person entrepreneurial
ventures to Fortune 500 and publicly-traded corporations. 

All need
WORDS (ie copy) for websites, blogs, newsletters, print pieces (though
print is less and less popular, I must say), press materials, sales
kits, etc. 

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“No Sell” Content – Are you publishing something new each quarter?

Joe Pulizzi of Junta 42 blog has a great post today called Six Strategies for Keeping Content Fresh – this is a must read.

What I like about this post:

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It starts off with a personal story, and he has a photo (it’s
even taken by his 5-year-old son – how’s that for authenticity and
transparency!)

He ties it into a numbered tips list with wide appeal to professionals and businesses who have web pages (website or blogs).


#5 – Go "No Sell" with Content –
is pertinent to those of use who write a special report, or
free ebook, or white paper, and sit back waiting for the results to
come pouring in…

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Content for Coaches and Consultants: new site launches

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If you’re a coach or consultant and specialize in leadership development you’ll be interested to know about a new site Denise and I launched this week: www.ContentforCoachesandConsultants.com.

Long name, I know, but I wanted to be clear about what we’re offering for sale: content for coaches and consultants. This is a division of Krakoff Wakeman & Associates, Inc.

I invite you all to visit www.ContentforCoachesandConsultants.com and please invite anyone you know who is looking for quality content on leadership development and other topics.

Here’s a little history of how this evolved. In 1999 I launched Coaching Matters, providing printed newsletters to coaches. Then I stopped offering print services and went to email versions.

I changed the name to Customized Newsletter Services for coaches, but because of the name, we got a lot of requests from other kinds of professionals to do their newsletters, formatting, design, etc. Then we got into email distribution of ezines, becoming a one-stop provider of emailed newsletters.

I ended up handling some tasks I should never go near: detailed tech work, coding, designing, and the dreaded issues of email deliverability. Fortunately, I found the right people to expertly handle those tasks.

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Alex Geana: Portrait of how one professional uses content to market online

Content marketing means different things to different people. So I went out to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and to coaches and consultants I respect who are using Web content to market their services. The results have been terrific.

For one thing, I realize that I am entrenched in marketing the way I do it. It helps me greatly to see how others use it differently. I hope you’ll find these series of content marketing interviews enlightening and helpful.

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Here’s an interview with a smart young professional writer with a creative and eclectic business style, Alex Geana.

1. Tell us what your profession is, and who your typical clients are.

I’m a communications and online marketing consultant. I’m just starting
my own practice and have a budding list of clients. It varies,
depending on their need.

I’m excited about working with the great American Realist Clark Hulings
he’s a master painter with a strong following in noted circles, yet
wants to reach a broader audience. We’re working on an online marketing
campaign to do just that.

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How to Write Content That Markets Your Company (Or, What would Seth do?)

Chris Baggott cracks me up. I asked him how he uses content to market his company’s services, and he sent me this video that shows his Seth Godin doll hanging out in the background! What great use of video content to educate and entertain your peeps…take a look:

Content or Marketing or Both? All Content Is Marketing

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Where does content start, and marketing begin?

This great question is being asked by the 2008 MIMA Summit, a midwest conference on interactive marketing.Feed_mimasummitlogofinal_small_2

I say, "All content is marketing."

The more you can educate readers, entertain them, engage them and strive to make their lives richer, the better they will feel about your products, your services, and your company.

It works because of what Professor Robert Cialdini and many other scientists describe as the reciprocity trigger. We are hardwired in our brains to feel disposed to give back when we receive something.

Long before the concept of money evolved, our ancestors traded, bartered and exchanged goods, services and food. These habits of giving and receiving laid down neural networks in our brains — they created automatic responses in our psyche.

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I’m not above asking…

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If you think this blog offers valuable information about writing, please nominate it for Michael Stelzner’s best writing blog list: http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2008/08/28/nominate/

There are some great writing blogs on the list that I encourage you to check out. I know this little blog doesn’t have a chance of making the top ten, but I’d sure appreciate being nominated. Thanks, guys.