Interview the Boss, Like a Boss: 10 Tips for Getting the Best From the C-Suite
One of the challenges of working in branded content is that you’re constantly chasing down and interviewing senior executives —...
2019 Survey Results: What’s Your Biggest Challenge With Content?
Whether you’re a marketer or not, engaging in active listening can be one of the most important methods to broaden your learning. So...
How to Create Targeted Content for Every Stage of Your Marketing Automation Funnel
We automate so many things in our life — online grocery shopping, scheduling a monthly cleaning lady, monthly credit card auto payments...
8 Proven Ways to Make Readers Pay Attention to Your Promo Writing
Imagine this: Your organization has just released a new product or is anxious to announce a new initiative. Your giddy executives call...
Business Jargon to Consider Retiring (Seriously Park the Nouning and Verbing)
Business jargon is a set of specialized words and phrases used by individuals in an industry or profession. Business jargon can be a...
5 Ways to Convince Editors You Can Write for a New Niche
As with any transformation, the process from point A to point B will take time, endurance and, of course, a thick skin. For writers who...
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...
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 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...
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...
Use ClearVoice’s Account-Based Casting Call Tool to Scale Business Content, Fast
You know that ClearVoice is a user-friendly and writer-friendly platform to connect companies with marketing content creators. And, you...
The Best Content Marketing Platform for Creating Content
No matter the size of your marketing team or company, the likelihood that you’ll need to outsource some of your marketing tasks is ever...
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 Know If Your Freelance Business Website Is Outdated — And What To Do
Having a dot-com isn’t just trendy, it’s mandatory if you want to set yourself apart in an ever-competitive freelance industry. As the...



















