A few marketing ideas and trends have popped up onto my radar. Because sharing is caring, here are five I’ve been thinking about. Brand love as content marketing strategy I came across this article about how companies are creating “brand love” content to get engagement on Twitter....
Because we are about to turn the calendar over to Q4, it’s time to start thinking ahead to kicking ass next year. As you review and update your marketing strategy, don’t forget about the critical role copywriting plays in your success. An intentional strategy coupled...
It’s been years since I talked about how to use blog categories and tags properly, and it’s high time we revisited this important topic. Sexy? No. Critical to a great experience on your website? You better believe it. It’s all about that search function In June, my...
After years of seesawing relevance and start-and-stop attempts at actually making money, two new Twitter features that allow users to monetize their content are opening up. Because I recently wrote about Substack and content monetization in general, this led me to ask: What content will...
For years I’ve been railing against using business jargon and buzzwords in your marketing. As it turns out, journalists can’t stand them either. In fact, it might get your pitch for a story immediately thrown in the trash. According to this new report from Cision, journalists...
Facebook marketing is dead – kind of. It works in three very select situations, only one of which involves posting directly on your page. (Facebook advertising, on the other hand, is very much alive.) Long gone are the days when a brand’s post would show up...
In a word: yes. Though you only need 300 words on a page so search engines (Google) can index it, you should be writing long blog posts. The data says so. What the data says about blog post length The ideal length is 1,600 words according to...
Something interesting is happening this year. I’m starting to hear from an increasing number of prospective clients who are perfect strangers. They weren’t referred to me, and we’ve never met in person or online. This is how I know my marketing is working. It’s taken a...
Substack is a hybrid blogging and email marketing app that kind of snuck up on me. I heard about it, and then I started seeing it mentioned all over the place. Now I’m digging in to better understand it – and share my research with...
How many times have I told you to watch your email open and click-through rates? A lot, right? It recently occurred to me that I've never covered specifically how to carry this out. This blog post fixes that. Let’s dive into the details of how...