Archive for the ‘Content Marketing’ Category

Best Practices for Leveraging Content Across Multiple Social Media Channels

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023

There are a wide range of social media channels available to today’s marketers. There are so many that it can be challenging to decide which to use—and how to use them most efficiently and cost-effectively. Yes, there are costs involved in posting to social media, even if you do it yourself. Time is money, and, especially for do-it-yourselfers, time spent on social media means an inability to spend it on other potentially higher-value activities that uniquely require your expertise. Let’s take a look at some best practice recommendations from social media experts and business owners who have learned how to juggle posting across multiple channels. (more…)

AI for Content Creation

Tuesday, May 16th, 2023

A Facebook headline reads, “How to Generate Blog Posts in 1 Minute Using AI.” It’s a sponsored post from Jasper (more about this later), and while the concept is certainly intriguing and tempting—especially when facing a mountain of blog posts to create for various clients—there’s a certain amount of skepticism that goes along with it. Is the hype too good to be true? (more…)

Zigging When They Zag: The Potential of Traditional Marketing Communication

Tuesday, May 9th, 2023

The digital environment is quite cluttered these days and becoming more so. Consumers benefit from access to a massive amount of information literally available at their fingertips—and often being pushed to them by marketers yelling “pick me, me, me.” But with so much activity in the digital environment, sometimes it takes a different approach to stand out: (more…)

Don’t Assume Your Customers Know What You, or “Everybody,” Knows!

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023

“You don’t pay unless we win!”

That’s the compelling marketing claim made by a large and very successful law firm. If you’re a consumer thinking about suing someone—an individual or a company—for a loss or injury you’ve received, such a no-risk offer would be compelling indeed.

But here’s the thing. (more…)

The Trouble With E-Mail “Sequence” Campaigns

Monday, April 24th, 2023

I was working with a client recently to develop an e-mail campaign that they wanted to send out to a list of prospects in a particular order. We were spending quite a bit of time discussing the order and the variation—and progression—in content for these emails.

And then it dawned on me!

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What Lies Ahead for Marketers in 2023

Tuesday, January 10th, 2023

As we enter 2023, I can’t help but notice lots of commentary about what we can expect on a variety of fronts, including marketing. As I think about marketing in 2023, a few things spring to mind, maybe because I was doing a lot of reading about them during the last week or so of the year while I was enjoying some downtime. But, I see three key trends for 2023: a continued focus on local marketing, disruption from ChatGPT, and increasingly sophisticated use of data and analytics.

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Content Hacks for Companies on a Tight Budget

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022

Content, as part of a successful marketing endeavor, is a big deal these days and I suspect (and hope) it will continue to be. Content–from social media posts, to blog posts, website content, case studies, white papers, ebooks, etc., etc., is used by marketers of all kinds to attract audience, raise awareness and, ultimately drive some desired end action.

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Digital Marketing and the Small Business: A Perfect Match

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

Most small businesses don’t have the big budgets that big brands have. Yet they need to make an impact through their marketing and communication efforts. That, obviously, can be a challenge.

Digital marketing, though, represents significant opportunity for small businesses.

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10 Copywriting Tips to Get Better Results

Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

Whether you’re writing a brochure, copy for a newspaper ad, a script for a radio announcement, or a page or blog for your web site, there are some tried and true techniques that can help you make sure that your copy gets the results you’re looking for.

Think about writing copy as making a sales pitch to a customer. Your goal is to persuade that customer to do something–most likely to purchase your product or service. Here’s how: (more…)

Continued High Demand for High Quality Content

Tuesday, October 25th, 2022

The world has changed in many ways over the past several years, especially due to the widespread impact of the pandemic–largely bad, but with some good. Like the recognition among many companies that many employees can work effectively, and productively, outside of traditional work settings. And the quick growth in access to digital health services, bringing care to people in rural areas who might not otherwise have had such great access. (more…)