This post was originally published in April, 2018 and updated in July, 2020. Ever feel like your content marketing efforts are okay at best? Now and then, a reader opts in to your email list. You’re making juuuust enough sales to keep your brand surviving.
Facts: If you don’t have any content marketing goals, you’re wasting your time cranking out fresh content each week. What?? 🤯 …It’s true. It’s even more frustrating if your content is beautifully written. It could be unique, inspiring, and engaging. It’s the kind of creative
Wondering how to position your brand? Not sure who or what you’re targeting? Or, are you struggling with content planning and creation? I’m willing to bet you a pretty penny or three it’s because you don’t have any marketing personas created. 💰 Personas are a
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we live. As of today, it has spread to nearly eight million individuals and claimed 435,662 lives. Across the world, 87% of students are out of school. 88% of organizations have mandated or encouraged their employees to
Content marketing is on target to be a $400 billion industry within the next year or two, with 70 percent of businesses actively engaged in it. Want to learn how to do it? Now’s a great time. But you’ll need the skills and technical expertise
Content marketing isn’t going anywhere – if anything, about to slay traditional online advertising for good. Don’t believe me? Check this out: The content marketing industry is expected to grow by $270 billion over the next four years, becoming worth over $412 billion by as
Digital marketing vs. content marketing. Knowing one from the other can mean the difference between success and failure in your online marketing endeavors. Because yes, you can be hugely successful when you market online. For instance, consider Buffer. What Buffer did in its initial growth
Let’s cut to the chase. Your audience doesn’t care about the content you publish the way they did before COVID-19. (It’s why I’ve pushed ‘pause’ on a BUNCH of irrelevant topics on our content calendar.) For example, if you own a popular travel blog, you’ve
Did you know? Over 6 billion searches/day happen in Google. One goal you should have as a content creator is to make sure that your content ranks well in relevant searches. Even if you have all of the right content strategies in place when it
Content and marketing and strategy – oh my! It seems like there are endless combinations of those three simple words floating around these days. Yet, despite the fact that they all seem to use the same words, they’re each a bit different. Grasping those differences
