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...
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...
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...
Should You Be a Content Marketing Writer?
You’ve considered many variations of a creative career, from writing scripts to being a social media coordinator to being a professor....
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...
How to Make Content Marketing Magic With $5K, $10K, and $15K Per Month
How to Make Content Marketing Magic With $5K, $10K, and $15K Per Month This webinar was recorded in May 2019. Replay the webinar....
Video Marketing: Video Killed the Content Star?
Once upon a time on August 1, 1981, a video music channel called MTV was born. Ironically, the first music video ever played was “Video...
How to Write a Brand Positioning Statement With Steely Confidence (and Examples)
What is a brand positioning statement? A positioning statement expresses the essence of a brand with precision. This persuasive one-line...
Get More From Your Investment With a Solid Video Content Strategy
“Video is WAY too expensive. We just can’t do video right now…we really want to…next year, next year.” Meanwhile, in the other marketing...
How to Develop Great B2B Buyer Personas (With Templates)
A B2B buyer persona represents your ideal client decision-maker. When developing your buyer persona, address all the issues and aspects...
Head-to-Head Review: Comparing Majestic vs. Ahrefs
Regardless of popular belief, SEO is still important today for any business’s online strategy. Yet one of the most important...
Learning Freytag’s Pyramid: 5 Cool Examples of How to Use It in Marketing
What is Freytag’s Pyramid? Devised by 19th century German playwright Gustav Freytag, Freytag’s Pyramid is a paradigm of dramatic...
4 Key Steps to Analyzing the Martech Sophistication of Your Buyer
Most companies already participating in content marketing utilize some level of buyer personas, ranging from a more basic understanding,...
More Than Words: Online Courses to Improve Your Freelancer Toolbox (and Stay Competitive)
These days, it’s usually not enough to be a professional wordsmith. As the content marketing landscape evolves at a dizzying pace,...
The Hot Seat: Alan Philips on Brand Marketing, Perpetual Beta and More
The media landscape is a scorcher these days, am I right? Journalism — whether in business, politics, restaurant reviews and world news —...
8 Interviewing Skills for Writing Like an Expert on Anything (Even If You’re Not Neil deGrasse
Do you have the essential interviewing skills that can help you write like a professional journalist? Great interviewers embrace...
Study: Don’t Sleep on Mobile Ads’ Effectiveness at Bedtime
Is your 2019 shaping into a great year for your digital content creation and marketing efforts? If yes, keep reading for more insights to...
8 Strategies in Content Marketing for Education and Nonprofits: New Trends, More Lessons
Content marketing costs 62 percent less than outbound marketing and generates three times as many leads per dollar spent. (Source: Demand...



















