Archive for Content Marketing – Page 61

The Content Marketing Two-Step Trap

Fifties-dance Every where you go on the Web these days you hear blog and Twitter talk about "Content Marketing."

Seems it's the new buzz word among Internet marketers. But if you're like me, an independent professional who does her own marketing, and who doesn't use paid advertising, you're no stranger to Content Marketing. You've already been doing it.

Anytime you write content on the Web (or elsewhere) you present yourself, your personality, and your knowledge so that readers get to know you. They like you (you hope!), they begin to trust you, and they eventually become clients or customers, or at least regular readers.

Or not. It's not always easy to write quality content that works to actually bring in business.

Although it seems self-evident, it's not. Why not?

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Can You Be Nice AND Sell the Sh*t Out of Your Stuff?

Aggressive-blonde-business-woman-2 A smart biz mentor once told me that success is in the 1% nuances. He said the difference between someone selling and making money online and someone doing all the work and NOT making money is in the details, those little tweaks to your email and web copy content marketing.

If you're like me, you don't want to come across like an internet marketing sleeze-bag and hype yourself up so bad you're embarrassed to read your own stuff. Especially if you're selling your own writing or services. There's something funny about selling yourself.

I just had a sale on my article and e-newsletters subscriptions and boy, did it start out slow. Happily, it ended with a bang of new orders. So I had a chance to analyze my own marketing efforts. Here's what I found.

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Content for Coaches: Save 15% during Memorial Day Sale

CorrectedBanner  Just a quick heads up if you're an executive or leadership coach or consultant in need of quality content for your newsletters and blogs.

You can get 15% off of article and newsletter services subscriptions at my other site, Content for Coaches, if you order before Tuesday May 26, 2009.

If you're interested, go to ContentforCoachesandConsultants.com and click on the article subscriptions and ezine services pages.

When you order, use the coupon code SUBSCRIBE-15 and get 15% off annual orders of $400 or more. I usually do a sale twice a year on articles with reprint rights, but this is the first time I've offered a discount on higher priced services like the All-in-One Ezine services.

You can get complete services: content, formatting, template design, distribution and database management and save $360 off the annual fee of $2400. That's a pretty sweet deal, if you consider how much time and money it costs to do a quality e-newsletter yourself.

Take a look at the article titles page to see if the Content for Coaches article topics are appropriate for you and your business.

Marketing for Nice People Makes You Laugh Out Loud…

Devil_angel I'm taking a course called Marketing for Nice People with two of my favorite peeps on the Web, Sonia Simone and Naomi Dunford. These two have teamed up to deliver some really important lessons on content marketing for your business. They take a devil/angel approach, and you can guess which one wears the horns…

Click here to view more details about Marketing for Nice People…

If you're familiar with Naomi Dunford's blog, Ittybiz, you know she's got one of the most famous potty-mouths around, but she's also got a heart of gold, writing smarts, and is one keen biz whiz. She knows how to make money online, and knows how to teach you to do the same.

Sonia is the gifted writer/marketer behind the blog Remarkable Communications. She's such a talented writer that Brian Clark snapped her up as one of his permanent guest writers on Copyblogger.

If you want to know more about these two, I suggest you read this brilliant interview, Content Marketing Gets Real. Then go sign up for Marketing for Nice People, it's a gas (as we used to say)…Click here to view more details

Here's a sample lesson from something called 101 Tweaks to Fix Your Marketing and Your Business:

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5 Expert Tips on How Small Businesses
Should “DO” Content Marketing

My One Best Tip for How B2B Marketers
Should “Do” Content Marketing

Notebook-with-pencil Don’t you love it when you get asked for “your one tip?” Actually, I do love it, even though it’s always hard to figure out what just “one tip” would be. It kinda helps me sort out all the stuff that goes through my mind and find bare essentials.

(This question reminds me of the game where you ask someone what three books they’d want with them on a desert island… how can you decide on only three?)

Anyway, Ambal Balakrishnan of ClickDocuments asked me this question and I thought I’d share my answers with you:

1. What is your one tip on how B2B marketers should do content marketing?

I hear so much being blogged and tweeted about “Content Marketing” these days, it’s like the Buzz-du-Jour. I’m sure it means different things to different people, depending on the size of your company and the type of products or services you’re trying to market.

Forget “how to do content marketing.” Just remember one key thing: be real. That means that you have to talk to readers and customers like real human beings do.

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Top 20 Things You Should Know About SEO Copywriting

Heather-lloyd-martin-200x180 According to SEO expert Heather Lloyd-Martin, here are the top 20 things you need to learn about small business SEO copywriting. (And if you're not sure what SEO copywriting is, then you really need to learn this and sign up for Heather's online course!

   1. How to give your customers the exact information they need, exactly when they need it!
   2. How the search engines work (and what it means to you)
   3. Tried and true marketing “power words” that get results
   4. Powerful low-budget small business keyphrase research strategies
   5. How you can make more money during seasonal sales

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Content Marketing Contest Winners:
Targeting Boomer Women

HerMentorCenter-banner Congratulations to Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D. and Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D. of HerMentorCenter and NourishingRelationships blog: this pair of dynamic professionals won the drawing for a free Content Marketing Review for May.

If you signed up and didn't win, don't worry, you still can win in the next  drawing. If you haven't signed up yet, be sure to get on the list: click here to enter the contest.

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Small Business SEO Copywriting Training
with Heather Lloyd-Martin

HeatherLloydMartin-online_training_promo For a long time, I've advocated organic search techniques, i.e., write for readers, focus on your expertise and the problems you solve, and let the search engines do their job correctly.

Not any longer. Although I still don't believe that you should write content for search engine spiders or robots, I do believe that Search Engine Optimization techniques have greatly improved and blended with copywriting for spectacular results.

Bottom line: if you write your own copy, if you are chief content marketing strategist for your business, then you need to learn the basics of search engine copywriting.

 Here's a way to learn from one of the best experts on the web:


Small Business SEO Copywriting Training by Heather Lloyd-Martin –
This is a great way to learn what all those techie people know about how to get really good search results for your business. It's not that hard to learn how to do this yourself. Trust me.

Related post: Keywords: 3 Steps to Knowing What, Which, & Why

Be Happy – or Get Mad and Get Writing!

Emotional-choices Here's a question for you to think about …Does it help you to write when you're happy…or angry? I think about this a lot.

For example, I'm reading a couple of books on happiness right now. Did you know that the US isn't even in the top ten countries based on a measure of people's happiness?

This is from an article in Forbes, World's Happiest Places by Lauren Sherman:

Where in the world do people feel most content with their lives?

According to a new report released by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based group of 30 countries with democratic governments that provides economic and social statistics and data, happiness levels are highest in northern European countries.

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