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Facilitate the Buyer Journey

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Facilitate the Buyer Journey

Unless you are in a very rare industry, buyers for your business will go through a journey. I don’t care if you sell cat litter or life coaching: there is a process customers take to go from awareness to purchase.

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How to Market in a Pop Culture Vacuum

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How to Market in a Pop Culture Vacuum

The COVID-19 pandemic brought on a pop culture vacuum. Live concerts were canceled, weddings postponed and even the unthinkable: baseball and...

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Boost Your Email Open Rates

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Boost Your Email Open Rates

It takes time to write good emails. Whether you are crafting personalized messages or blasting a notice to your list, are you struggling to get a...

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Is Your Audience Burned Out?

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Is Your Audience Burned Out?

Digital engagement is a delicate balance. Too many emails, posts and threads can have someone hitting unsubscribe or unfollow. Too little and you...

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Stop Selling and Start Connecting

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Stop Selling and Start Connecting

We all have a fill in the blank: “in order to build my business, I need to _____.” Most often, what we say here will reflect revenue-generating...

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Good News, Everyone!

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Good News, Everyone!

The connections you make in PR endeavors often encircle news outlets, news cycles, journalists and other people with a platform. It’s vital to have a...

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How to Diversify Your Messages

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How to Diversify Your Messages

The democratization of the internet has invited more players than ever into the competition of the marketplace. What does this mean? It means that...

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Five Ways to Improve Your Emails

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Five Ways to Improve Your Emails

As you improve your effectiveness in making business connections, one depressing stat can remain: open rates for emails. Whether or not you use a...

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Earned Media v. Advertising

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Earned Media v. Advertising

Whether you earn it or pay for it, publicity is rarely free. The nature of the investment that you make may impact how customers view you. Knowing...

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Listening Skills: How You Hear & Are Heard

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Listening Skills: How You Hear & Are Heard

It’s no secret that people who find lasting success, at the end of the day, are “people people.” When you are a people person, you recognize the...

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How to Do PR in a World of Influencers

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How to Do PR in a World of Influencers

A seismic shift has occurred in the way people make connections. Fame was historically earned through achievements in a noteworthy or public field....

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Use Customer Intelligence for Targeted Copywriting

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Use Customer Intelligence for Targeted Copywriting

The goal of skilled copywriting is to write something that is so relevant, so relatable, so TRUE to the reader’s experience that they have immediate...

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Getting More Mileage from your Marketing: How to Recycle Content

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Getting More Mileage from your Marketing: How to Recycle Content

Successfully marketing any business requires a lot of effort. There are so many marketing channels out there, and each of them demand unique types of...

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How to Write a Thought Leadership Article With a Professional Writer

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How to Write a Thought Leadership Article With a Professional Writer

It’s becoming increasingly important for leaders to cast themselves as a thought leader. Unlocking that perception from your colleagues and peers...

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How to Interview a Copywriter

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How to Interview a Copywriter

I’ve been on both sides of the table in this conversation (actually, I am all of the time): interviewee and interviewer. Walking away from these...

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Five Tips for Writing Short-Form Ad Copy

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Five Tips for Writing Short-Form Ad Copy

When it comes to marketing writing, there are two distinct categories: long-form and short-form. We all know long-form well: blog articles, white...

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Four Tips for Effective Business Writing

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Four Tips for Effective Business Writing

Mastering the art of writing for business audiences can transform the trajectory of your career. It’s a skill that, on the face of it, seems simple....

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5 Ways to Showcase Workplace Culture on Social Media

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5 Ways to Showcase Workplace Culture on Social Media

If you are looking for corporate buzzwords, you will not go far in your search without seeing something regarding company culture. The trend that...

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Copywriting vs. Content Writing: Breaking Down the Differences

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Copywriting vs. Content Writing: Breaking Down the Differences

Both copywriting and content writing play an important role in the marketing strategy of virtually all successful businesses. Together, they enable...

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Reinventing Your Newsletter Marketing Strategy

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Reinventing Your Newsletter Marketing Strategy

I recently got talking to a business that made me realize that a lot of brands are approaching their newsletter marketing strategy the wrong way....

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Measuring the ROI of Content Marketing

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Measuring the ROI of Content Marketing

Content marketing plays an important role in any business: helping to grow your brand, supercharge your sales process, and ultimately, convert more...

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Writing for Your Target Audience

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Writing for Your Target Audience

Let’s be honest; content for tech companies can get pretty dull. Customers shopping around for the perfect piece of hardware or software often feel...

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How to Use Content to Supercharge Your Sales Team

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How to Use Content to Supercharge Your Sales Team

Revenue growth is the number one priority for many businesses. But as we all know, driving sustained, profitable growth is far from easy. Doing so...

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negamarketing

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Negamarketing

We are all sick of marketing. We're sick of being told what we want, being told something is better than it is, being told this is the best price it...

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Equipping Employees to Create Content

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Equipping Employees to Create Content

Many businesses consider their people to be their most valuable assets. And with good reason: your people are the creative spark that drive...

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How to Write Lead Magnets

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How to Write Lead Magnets

Lead = prospective customer

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Two Simple Steps to Reduce Bounce Rates and Increase Conversions

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Two Simple Steps to Reduce Bounce Rates and Increase Conversions

This will be short and sweet. I read two stats today from Compass Co Blog:

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What is a Landing Page

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What is a Landing Page?

Creating a landing page is a frequently utilized technique for marketing businesses of every size. A landing page is simply a website page with a...

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Brand Guide for Your Business

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Brand Guide for Your Business

A brand guide is simply a set of parameters for what your brand looks like and sounds like. If you were online dating, the brand guide would be the...

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How to Create a Sales Funnel

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How to Create a Sales Funnel

As your business grows, you will want to grow in your ability to market to customers. This means using some tools that will help you efficiently...

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Customer Pain Points: Hurts So Good

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Customer Pain Points: Hurts So Good

Using pain points is a long tradition in marketing. Pain points are essentially the areas in which your target customer feels pain. This can be...

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Your Brand Voice

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Your Brand Voice

Establishing a clear and recognizable brand voice is an important exercise for start-ups and small businesses that want to show up in the...

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Find Your Website Competition

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Find Your Website Competition

Tip: there is a list of resources for competitor research at the end of this article - jump there if you just want the quick & dirty.

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How to Write an Elevator Pitch

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How to Write an Elevator Pitch

An elevator pitch is a sales pitch that is short and succinct enough to be told during an elevator ride. In other words, writing an elevator pitch...

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Customer Behavior Analysis: Get It = Predict It

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Customer Behavior Analysis: Get It = Predict It

As you write ads, craft messaging and tell your story, do you ever wish you had a crystal ball to predict how it will be perceived? I suspect many of...

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Book Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport

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Book Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport

Good writers read a lot of books. And hopefully pull off better sentences than that one. I read all of the time. All kinds of books. Serious books,...

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Segment Your Audience: Demographics

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Segment Your Audience: Demographics

Unless you have a single product that you deliver to a very specific kind of person, you should practice audience segmentation. Segmenting your...

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Book Review: The Power of Wow by Zappos

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Book Review: The Power of Wow by Zappos

So, funny story, I'm in the library in the "new" section and I grab a light blue book that looks like a quick read on marketing or brand-building or...

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What is Copywriting?

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What is Copywriting?

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Business Copy

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4 Kinds of Business Copy

So, there's no Bible for start-ups. Like, here are the six steps everyone takes and here is the gospel truth for how to begin, continue and succeed....

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10 Reasons Your Website Doesn't Work

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10 Reasons Your Website Doesn't Work

There are two common misconceptions about the internet. In my experience, people pendulum swing between these polarities:

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call to action

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Optimize CTAs On Your Webpage

YOU get a CTA and YOU get a CTA and YOU get a CTA .

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BRAND PERSONALITY

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What is Your Marketing Personality?

Popular brands are made and broken by whether they can find the right marketing voice to stand out from the crowd. A marketing personality is...

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How to Write a Website

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How to Write a Website

Websites may feel like a dime a dozen. You sign up for Wix or Wordpress or something, pick a template with the right colors, upload a few rad pics...

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Lead Nurturing Sequences

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Lead Nurturing Sequences

A Word About the Flywheel A while ago, the great giant Hubspot published a notion that digital marketers (and regular marketers, I guess, if those...

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how to write a sales letter

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How to Write a Sales Letter

Writing a sales letter may feel old school but am 10,000% sure it can work for your business. A classic pitch has some sound components. When...

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how to make a content calendar

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How to Make a Content Calendar

Content calendars are important. If you don't have a coherent structure, you're going to end up missing stuff. Reality: everyone thinks blogging is a...

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