Google Analytics (GA) is a digital marketer’s best friend. I use it all the time to check metrics, spot trends, and see what type of content my audience appreciates the most. Of course, there are other tools you could use to analyze your metrics, but they’re not as valuable as GA for two reasons. First, [click to continue…]
Copywriting may be the most important and foundational skill in all of marketing. Every ad campaign requires it and it’s used across every single marketing channel. As a marketer, I’m so thankful that I spend some of my early years improving my own copywriting skills. That time continues to pay massive dividends in my career [click to continue…]
Copywriting may be the most important and foundational skill in all of marketing. Every ad campaign requires it and it’s used across every single marketing channel. As a marketer, I’m so thankful that I spend some of my early years improving my own copywriting skills. That time continues to pay massive dividends in my career [click to continue…]
I’m not going to lecture you. You already know that content marketing can be a very successful form of marketing. You also know that producing great content takes a lot of time or money, sometimes both. But there’s something that you might not know, at least not for sure. Just because a piece of content [click to continue…]
If you’ve tried (and failed) at blogging, don’t feel bad. You’re not alone. Creating content, especially good content, is hard work. It takes a long time. Most of the time, you don’t see instant rewards. So, how do some people write three, five, or even ten articles every week? You might think that they work [click to continue…]
Marketing is a chance for education. Sometimes, marketing takes the form of entertainment, but often, you get to assume the role of a teacher. This is really powerful. You can become one of the few educational influences in most people’s lives after they leave school. Beyond helping your business grow, inbound marketing allows you to [click to continue…]
How much content have you written in the past month? Are you happy with that amount? Most marketers answer no to that question. In fact, 44% of marketers say that producing consistent content is one of their biggest challenges: Believe me, I get it. Creating a high amount of high quality content on a regular [click to continue…]
What do you think of the content that your competitors publish? My guess? It’s not great. It’s easy to judge others but tough to evaluate ourselves. I guarantee that all your competitors think the same thing—that most content in your niche is junk. And yet…they believe that theirs is the exception. No doubt you think [click to continue…]
So, people are coming to your website, and that’s great. But how many of them are actually buying something from you? Chances are it’s less than 1% of your visitor base. But don’t worry! You can actually influence your visitors to make a purchase. How? you may ask. Well, I’ve created an infographic that will show you [click to continue…]
The term “content marketing” is a wide umbrella. It encompasses a plethora of different strategies and techniques. But at the end of the day, one of your primary goals is to create content that ranks as highly as possible on search engine results pages (SERPs). This is important because organic traffic is the number one [click to continue…]
How to Get Your Boss to Invest More Money in Content Marketing This YearContent marketing has come a long way over the last 10 years. More and more companies have come to realize the tremendous return and savings from investing in inbound marketing like blogs, white papers, and video. Still, there’s a surprising number of [click to continue…]
Content marketing growth isn’t always explosive, but should it be slow? No, it shouldn’t. You should have steady, measurable growth on a monthly basis in most cases. That’s why it pains me to see so many marketers create content and be satisfied when barely anyone sees it. You don’t need tens of thousands of views for [click to continue…]
Content marketing growth isn’t always explosive, but should it be slow? No, it shouldn’t. You should have steady, measurable growth on a monthly basis in most cases. That’s why it pains me to see so many marketers create content and be satisfied when barely anyone sees it. You don’t need tens of thousands of views for [click to continue…]
How many articles have you read about creating great content? Quite a few, hopefully… Creating valuable to your readers content is one of the key components of effective content marketing. But here’s the problem: How do you combine the lessons from all those articles? They all teach you something valuable, but consolidating all those useful techniques [click to continue…]
Content marketing is amazing for attracting your target audience and building a relationship with it. There is just one problem, though… How do you do it? I share a lot of content marketing tips in my posts, but those posts usually assume you’re already doing content marketing, at least to some degree. But if you haven’t started yet, [click to continue…]
