If your brand is committed to content marketing, you need a content calendar. When used correctly, this valuable tool will help focus and optimize your marketing efforts. Without a calendar, you risk wasting your budget and time on ad campaigns that don’t address your goals or turning off potential leads with emails that don’t address…
In kicking off this month of content about web content (so meta!), I said that I always think of any website as the digital front door of a brand. It is often the first time a person personally experiences a brand. It only takes 50 milliseconds for users to form an opinion of a website. It’s up…
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A call to action (CTA) is one of the most important elements of any website. If visitors see a CTA that provides a clear, compelling reason to take action, they will. It’s the final step in a visitor’s journey through your site. It’s one thing to drive traffic to your site; it’s another thing to…
It’s a new month and that means a new theme for this blog and my LinkedIn newsletter, Content Marketing Musings. I decided to focus on web content this month. Web content is more than words on a website. It’s also images, video, graphics, and audio. All of it affects how a website is consumed by…
Happy Memorial Day weekend! I can’t believe the month is almost over. For this last blog on Content versus Copy month, I will focus on User-Generated Content (UGC). UGC has become a big part of many companies’ marketing strategies and for a good reason. UGC is the digital version of word of mouth. UGC is…
It’s been a hectic week and I am way behind on work. That is not a complaint. I am so happy to be busy. But deadlines are looming so, dear reader, I hope you won’t mind that this blog is more of a listicle. I think it may still be useful information for those of…
I’m not a parent but I can imagine most parents hear the Buy Why? question from their kids almost every day, usually with a whiny tone and at a loud volume. I also can understand how tempting it is to reply, “Because I said so!” just like our parents did to us. How many of…
I wrote this week’s newsletter about the difference between long-form and short-form content. Aside from the number of words, the most important difference between the two is your intended audience, channel, and goals. In other words, strategic intention is critical to the success of your marketing content. What is Intention? I love this definition of…
Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash When clients ask me for topic ideas for their blogs or content library, I always ask them, “What do your customers want?” Your customers are your best source of information for any brand or marketing question you may have. After all, they are your target audience. They are the…
