Instagram seems straightforward. But if your goal is to sustain engagement, scale your reach, and drive meaningful customer actions, it can be deceptively challenging. Just ask the popular Accidentally Wes Anderson account creator. Continue reading
Guest Blogging: A Step-by-Step Guide
Unsuccessful prospective guest bloggers act like door-to-door salespeople. Successful prospective guest bloggers act like invited guests who show up with a nice host gift. How can you be the door knockers welcomed by publishing sites? Continue reading
Creative + Logic = Most Helpful Content Experiences
Is your content marketing right brain (creative) or left brain (logical)? Or both? If you didn’t say both, your audience is missing out. Learn the difference a structured approach makes to help your content work smarter. Continue reading
The Most Important Lesson Learned at Content Marketing World
The motivation for Content Marketing World’s headliner keynotes – Henry Rollins and Mindy Kaling – are vastly different. But these two high-profile, highly successful creatives possess the same essential ingredient for success. Continue reading
Cure Your Conference Hangover (and Better Your Content Marketing)
Your head hurts just thinking about what you should do based on what you learned at the conference – so many ideas, notes, new connections – to help your content marketing program. Cure your conference hangover with these 16 tips. Continue reading
How to Get Sales and Marketing in the Same Kitchen
Omelets and scrambled eggs have the same ingredients. Yet one is an elevated dish and the other a banal breakfast. The difference? It’s the same as the one that distinguishes an aligned sales-and-content-marketing strategy from a disparate one.
Organizational Silos? How to Battle Content Chaos and Win
Our hero was presented a formidable task. The CMO just announced he was going to solve the “content problem.” His mission? To battle the chaos resulting from large teams operating in silos. Could he and his team do it?
Want More Opens and Fewer Unsubscribes? Fix These 35 Email Mistakes
Consumers open an average of 3.5 brand emails a week. To be among those, you better get to work on perfecting this popular format and distribution vehicle. And you can start by reading (and fixing) these 35 mistakes.
30 Ways to Waste Your Content Marketing Time
At month’s end, do you have more questions than answers about your content marketing program? Why is that post still not done? Why did video views drop? Why isn’t sales more supportive? The unifying answer revolves around one thing.