Managing Tips for Managing Editors
Whether you’re the editor for a high-volume site online, a trade publication or a supermarket glossy, you’re putting in hours of...
Feeling Stuck? The 5-Step Guide to Switching Your Writing Niche
Confession: I used to be a dating blogger. And I mean a full-blown Carrie Bradshaw wannabe who detailed every last minute of her...
9 Tips for Getting Exceptional Content at Your Next Live Event
Your company is putting a lot of spend toward a live event — maybe one that’s a standalone, produced by your company. Or maybe you’re...
9 Types of Videos That Will Jumpstart Your Marketing Efforts
The days of video being the “future” of marketing efforts are no more. Today, there is more than enough evidence that the future is...
The Best Email Tracking Apps to Analyze and Refine Your Marketing Efforts
How many times have you sent an email and wondered if the recipient received it? Did he or she click on the links or open the...
8 Tips for Winning Freelance Writing Proposals
Struggling to secure those freelance writing jobs you’ve been applying for? You may need a quick refresher on writing a winning proposal...
3 Keys to Improving Content Marketing for Your Freelance Business
True story, I once let a dentist work on my teeth that had bad breath. And I have to say I questioned his abilities. Why am I starting...
How to Figure Out If You’re in the Right Writing Niche
If you’ve been lucky enough to find your life partner — you know the feeling when it’s just right. Those who are single (or remember,...
How to Increase the Life Span of a Piece of Content
A good piece of content is like a seed. If it is planted in fertile soil (your digital eco-system), not only will your content seed grow,...
Best Practices When Requesting Ideas and Pitches From Creatives
Part of what many marketers want from content creators is an instant ramp-up of ideas and different windows into the subject matter. That...
10 Tips on How to Analyze and Improve Your Chatbot for Better Results
Chatbots: What are they exactly? And why are they all the rave today? If you are unfamiliar with what chatbots are and how they work, you...
How to Switch Niches: What Is a Content Niche?
Like many journalists, my career has taken plenty of twists and turns along the way. My first internship was in the beauty department of...
How to Use Buyer Personas to Create Character-Driven Content
Every year the widely celebrated “documented content strategy” stat orbits the marketing atmosphere. As soon as the latest research is...
Creating a Brand Voice Guide: 4 Key Considerations (and Great Examples)
What are the defining characteristics of your brand voice? What is your brand’s backstory? If your brand wrote a letter to its customers...
Why SEO Is a Long Play: Leading Stats on How Long It Takes to Rank
“How long will it take for my site to show up on Google?” is a question I get regularly from clients and students. For clients, I...
6 Tips Women Writers Swear By to Support Their Female Colleagues
Since hashtags are becoming a new language that every professional must become fluent in, here are a few you can likely decipher without...
Building a Twitter List and Checking It Twice
Did you know that 5,787 tweets are tweeted out every second? That adds up to about 500 million tweets each day. That might seem like a...
Best Screen-Recording Software for Marketers: Camtasia vs. Screencast-O-Matic
Among the many hats a marketer wears, one of the most important is communication. As a strong advocate of written communication, I’m a...
Digital Nomading: How to Make It a Lifestyle
Traveling is one of the most powerful ways to challenge your mindset and your flexibility, forcing you to learn on the fly and adjust as...



















