Sparks flew at Content Marketing World 2024. Will they help you slow down long enough to bring joy, courage, enchantment, and connection back to your work? There’s only one way to find out. Try these ideas in your work.
Mid-June, 2024. A full page of indecipherable glyphs runs in The Seattle Times, with the only clue a typewritten-style note at the bottom: “Printed at the request of LONGLEGS.” A week later, a user named Mr_Downstairs leaves strings of glyphs in the comments on Letterboxd. Image Source Billboards pop up; a partially obscured face peers…
There’s a huge difference between carrying a stethoscope and being a doctor. And being a clown requires far more than getting a clown suit. Entrepreneurs with business cards, slick websites and mission statements are confused. That’s not the hard part. If the costume puts you in the right frame of mind, that’s great. But the…
Stop wasting hours on ineffective keyword research. In this actionable guide, Tom Capper reveals three proven strategies to streamline your SEO workflow and focus on keywords that actually drive traffic. Tom reveals why treating keyword research as entry-level work could be costing your business significant opportunities.
Once you decide to write a book about strategy, it raises the bar for having a strategy for the launch. People generally focus far too much on the launch of a project. Rocketships need a perfect launch, because just about everything after the launch is simply ballistic. But most of us don’t work at Cape…
As a content marketer, a website audit is vital to my work. An analogy I like to use is that optimizing an existing website for search engines without conducting a thorough audit is akin to steering a boat without a rudder. It’s directionless, at the mercy of the wind and waves (or in this case,…
Good marketing is always about the customers, period. That’s the most important lesson I’ve learned from all my wins and losses as a marketer. To launch successful marketing campaigns, you must know every detail about your audience — their goals, aspirations, pain points, and more. And building buyer personas is a good place to start….
Ever wonder how Salesforce keeps coming up with so many content ideas that make a measurable impact on the company’s business? The story behind the company’s latest award winner reveals its winning roadmap.
Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on this simple convention. The most direct way to improve your writing is to make your sentences shorter. I was reading a magazine article yesterday and was rapidly losing interest. The topic appealed to me, but I couldn’t keep reading….
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