Five Smart Ways to Drive Traffic (and Clients) to Your Online Portfolio
In a rather startling statistic, digital media experts now estimate that the average wired and tired American sees anywhere from 4,000 to...
One Billion Reasons Why Marketers Should Pay Attention to Instagram’s Updates
In the last decade, content marketing has grown from being a mostly unfamiliar term to becoming the lifeblood of brands who want to touch...
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,...
Up-and-Coming Martech You Need to Know: From Funnel Insights to Handwriting Robots
Marketing technology, or martech, plays an integral role in any modern business. After all, martech makes it possible to play on the...
For the Love of Your Freelancing Peers: 5 Cloying Clichés to Avoid in Career Advice
Run, don’t walk! Literally every time I log into Facebook, I’m presented with someone else’s career dilemma and a long thread of...
Google, Facebook, Instagram Offer New Ad Tools to Entice Marketers to Spend
Knowledge is power. But when information is flowing around you on a consistent basis, how can you tell what is most important to know?...
In the Case of an Unhappy Client, What’s a Freelancer to Do?
The perfect freelancer scenario goes something like this. Client desperately needs help. Client finds superstar freelancer based on a...
6 Competitive Ways to Do Content Marketing With Smart Speakers
Siri, Alexa, and Google are household names now. These voice assistants and the compact devices that house their digital components are...
Australian Writer Lindy Alexander on Being a Self-Employed Creative in Oz
As ClearVoice expands our talent roster and client list internationally, we’ve begun reaching out to top-tier freelancers in foreign but...
Enticing Millennials: Four Pros Share Content They Love… That Worked
What content engages millennials? We asked creative pros for Vice, Tastemade, Ranker, and Knew Money to share content they love and why...
Will ‘New’ Twitter Be the Same Old Story? (And Three Updates to Notice)
What’s new about “new” Twitter? Though Twitter has always been a major player in the world of social media, for many small or...
6 Surefire Strategies for Promoting and Maximizing the Value of Long-Form Content (5 of 5)
If you followed our series, you now should understand the value of long-form content (LFC) and have examples of brands who kick butt at...
Artificial Intelligence Options Compared for NLP: Which to Use for Your Chatbot
Having helped build several dozen chatbots over the last two years, I’ve come to understand that a multifaceted evaluation of the natural...
Importance of Brand Consistency: 7 Key Approaches for Keeping Aligned
What is brand consistency? Brand consistency is the pattern of expression that affects what people think about your company. The more...
Newsletter Strategy: How to Attract (and Keep) Subscribers (5 of 5)
In this series, we’re exploring the emerging and shifting world of newsletters. While once considered link-farm engines, today’s modern...
Snapchat, Facebook Headed in Opposite Directions — Where Should You Focus Your Efforts?
Snapchat is up, Facebook is down — and it’s time for you to start making some hard platform decisions. Doubtless, you have heard a bit...
Long-Form Content: Creating Ebooks That Convert (4 of 5)
We described the value of long-form content in previous posts highlighting how they can educate, inform, inspire, and convert prospective...
Thinking About Influencer Marketing? 10 Realistic Warnings Before You Begin
For all the exposés that have run on Adweek and DigiDay recently, dozens of business owners or executives still decide daily to “dive...
Newsletter Strategy: Your 7-Day Guide to Creating an Email Newsletter, From Draft to ‘SendR
In this series, we’re exploring the emerging and shifting world of newsletters. While once considered link-farm engines, today’s modern...



















