10 Common Social Media Statements Verified or Debunked
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Active Listening: Techniques and Examples for Crafting Better Content
Understanding the difference between just hearing words and actively listening can help you create content that better meets the needs of...
Top 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Developing a Social Media Ad Spend Strategy
You are probably aware that social media has continued to develop as a pay-to-play medium, but if your organization is like many, you...
5 Vital 2021 SEO Strategies to Focus on Now
What’s your SEO strategy for 2021? In all the messiness of 2020, you probably haven’t had much time to think about the future while...
8 Tips for Staying Sane, Current and Consistent With Your Content
My content creator, social media and marketing colleagues are exhausted. It’s been a heck of a year, whether business slowed way down or...
Could “Fastvertising” Be Solid Fuel to Power Your Content Marketing?
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3 Common SEO Misconceptions (and How to Achieve Long-Term Success)
SEO has changed drastically over the decades. Gone are the days when content marketers and SEO experts relied on tactics such as keyword...
Where Does Martech Fit in the Creative Agency Triumvirate?
In ancient Rome, the Triumvirate balanced power for more effective governmental management. Well, that was the goal… For any professional...
Regain Customer Loyalty With Content — an Interview With Jay Baer
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How to Create Long-Form Content That Begs to Be Consumed
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Parallel Structure: Make Your Content More Powerful and Precise
Two things likely happened when you decided to click and read this piece about parallel structure. You either had a flashback to...
How Do You Know If Your Content Shift Should Be Temporary or Permanent?
In the content free-fall that is 2020, many of us have found our carefully crafted initial content strategies falling by the wayside in...
Plan Your Next Blog Topics by Playing to People’s Strengths
When was the last time you thought about what your blog actually does? A blog brings people together. It is a fine orchestration of...
Reasons to Adapt Your Content Marketing Plan — and One Time You Shouldn’t
Like any other part of business strategy, content marketing is an ever-changing dialogue. In fact, part of the task of a freelance...
4 Industries That Are Thriving (and Ramping up Content Marketing) Post-COVID
Millions have been laid off as a result of COVID-19, and certain industries are not coming back any time soon. But other industries — or...
When Tracking Links Might Kill Your Content
For a while now I’ve noticed that in some pitches I receive from publicists, there’s a sneaky tracking link included with exhortations to...
Encompass Your Brand Voice to Make Your Content Richer
The long-form content trend continues. Over the past five years, content marketing teams across an extensive range of industries have...
Content and the Health Industry: A Guide to Success
The health and wellness industry is booming. Worth close to $5 trillion globally, the health industry remains one of the fastest-growing...



















