500+ Events to Jump-Start Your 2020-2021 Editorial Calendar [Template]
Special Note: This post was created before the COVID-19 pandemic. Events noted in this post or on the calendar template are not updated...
Freelancer Bootcamp: 7 Tips to Avoid Hitting the Big White Wall of Writer’s Block
Rent is due on the first whether you’re inspired or not. If you’re a freelancer who makes a living copywriting, you don’t have the luxury...
12 Tips to Help You Ideate Content, From Content Strategists and Creators
Marketing managers have a hundred things on their minds — from creating coupons and approving media buys to reviewing last quarter’s P&L...
Are You Staying on Trend? Target Better With Key Marketing Research Tools
Is your company’s growth slowing down? Have you reached a plateau? It’s time to refresh your marketing plan; but first, you need some...
Content Ideas for 4 Industries Where Creative Content Is More Challenging
Hot take: The peak, ridiculously sexy and over-budgeted category in advertising is fragrance — in a close heat with luxury automotive,...
Content Curation Tool Comparisons: Feedly vs. Pocket vs. Wakelet
Content curation tools help marketers aggregate, filter, organize and share relevant content from around the web. Businesses rely on...
Best Wondery Podcasts: Five Series to Tune Into, From the Next Big Podcast Network
Podcast startup Wondery claims a sweet spot in content creation and curation within the booming but highly competitive podcast landscape....
How to Brand Yourself With a Creative Portfolio in the Most Badass Way Possible: Six Moves Worth Ste
Personal branding is how you represent yourself and your work to the world. Whether you’re a freelance writer or a creative professional,...
Planning Content for Your Fundraising Campaigns in Symphonic Movements
One of the world’s best known and frequently played symphonies, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 opens with four dramatic notes repeated:...
You Can’t Be Serious: An April Fools’ Prank Campaign Retrospective
Social media has turned April Fools’ Day into a sort of Super Bowl for online pranks. Certain companies put as much thought into creating...
Brands Marketing at the Championship Level for March MadnessÂ
Home viewing parties, bar brackets events, giant pyramids of soft drinks and beers in grocery stores… Not everyone in the country...
Freelancer Brain Food to Get Your Creativity Flowing: Work Hard. Keep Snacks Nearby.
Focus is sometimes elusive and the internet only makes it more difficult. You go from checking your email to a promo you received from...
St. Patrick’s Day Marketing Traditions: Guinness to ‘Green Ice Cream in a Can’
Unless you’re a brand that can easily incorporate bearded magical beings, shamrocks, or mint into your seasonal advertising, St....
For Your Consideration… A Retrospective of Oscar-Ancillary Content Marketing
It seems like only one product category would go all-out in campaigning around the Academy Awards: movies (inclusive of the talent who...
Behind the Scenes: 6 Great Writing Lessons Learned at a ‘Family Guy’ Table-Read
Image courtesy of Fox Broadcasting Company It’s not every day you get to attend a table-read for one of your great TV loves of all-time....
How Brands Warm Up to Valentine’s Day: Classic to… Um… Soggy Campaigns
Marketers have historically loved Valentine’s Day even more than consumers do — because we know, there’s nothing like social pressure to...
Let’s Flashback to Buzzed-About Super Bowl Commercials of the Past Decade
This week — specifically, the first week of February — is a big one in the context of modern-day advertising and marketing. The Super...
How the Creator of the ‘Mortified’ Phenom Turned America’s Diaries Into a Global Movemen
David Nadelberg, founder of ‘Mortified’, says, “The thing I always say is and it sounds really simple: If you want someone to talk about...
Easily Request Content Ideas From Writers With Pitching from ClearVoice
Perfect world: You have a content strategist on staff who turns out tons of amazing, fleshed out content ideas/concepts at the drop of a...



















