I fully admit I’m terminally uncool. But as a marketer, I can’t let my lack of swag (rizz? drip?) be an excuse for being behind the times. And with nearly 2 billion users, that means I’ve gotta get on Instagram. Luckily, I’m surrounded by veteran marketers and social media experts who are teaching me how…
If you’re looking for a video marketing guide, you’re not alone. Of all businesses, 90% use video marketing as part of their overall digital marketing strategy. And 68% of marketers who aren’t using video plan to build a video strategy in 2024. There’s no strategy like video marketing for educating, generating leads, and converting customers….
I became a marketer because I love storytelling — a craft that I and many other content strategists treat like an art. Like all art, storytelling requires creativity, vision, skill, and practice. The result of this discipline? Marketing campaigns that really pull your audience in. When I think about storytelling in business, my mind goes…
Of all landing page submissions, 55% come from lead magnets, and ebooks are one of the best lead magnets you can offer. You don’t need to be a designer by trade to design beautiful ebooks yourself. With the right resources, like free ebook templates, and the right approach, you can deliver valuable content to your…
Your website homepage is your company’s first impression for most customers, and first impressions are everything. Your landing page needs to make a killer first impression to encourage potential customers to stick around and engage. In this guide, I’ll share some best practices for homepage design along with brilliant homepage design examples that have implemented…
Headlines have enormous power. They must attract and convince visitors to consume your content. And they have only a few words to accomplish that. To help with this great responsibility, follow this seven-step process and bonus tips.
Taking a social media marketing course will help you level-up your existing skills or jumpstart a career in marketing management. And this is a good time: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a 10% rate of job growth is expected for social media marketing managers from 2020 to 2030. To help you stand out…
There’s often doubt. Giving someone the benefit of that doubt enables us to move forward, and that requires us to realize that our doubt might be unfounded. Systems that assume goodwill create possibility, connection and utility far easier than those that don’t. Being invited to find a place in those systems is a privilege worth…
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This suggests (correlation does not necessarily imply causation!) that obsessing over your content score is unlikely to lead to significantly higher Google rankings. Does that mean content optimization scores are pointless? No. You just need to know how best to… Read more ›