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Success with content marketing is about so much more than “copy”—it’s about the full content experience: How content looks, sounds, feels, and functions, all from the reader’s perspective. Join me here for insights into content marketing, from strategy and execution to writing and editing and from digital selling to thought leadership. And because I’m just a tad “woo,” you’ll also find some articles on woo-type topics :)
Relationship Marketing: A Case For Empathy With Moore Family Law Group
Through this case study, discover effective relationship marketing strategies to enhance client engagement and trust, fostering deeper connections and business success.
How to Write Success Stories that Sales Uses and Buyers Read
Tired of poorly written success stories that sales reps ignore and buyers click away from? Learn how to craft customer wins that fuel the sales pipeline.
2024 Thought Leadership: 3 Essential Strategies for Entrepreneurs
Aiming for thought leadership? This article gives you 3 strategies for being trailblazer, using vulnerability as a compass, and holding community as your guiding light.
5 Steps to Unlocking ChatGPT’s Power for Content Creation
Explore a proven 5-step process that elevates AI-generated content to new heights. Learn how to collaborate with ChatGPT for results that both Google and readers love.
Are ChatGPT Prompts Letting You Down? This Might Be Why
Discover the pitfalls of relying on ChatGPT prompts for content creation. This article offers insights into why pre-designed prompts often fail for content creators.
5 Steps for Guiding ChatGPT to Develop Your LinkedIn Content
Learn to craft LinkedIn posts with ChatGPT: from custom instructions and creative briefs to emoji use and editing. A complete guide to engaging LinkedIn content.
6 Steps for Using ChatGPT in Your Next Email Marketing Campaign
Intrigued, I put the AI to the test, landing on six steps you can take with ChatGPT to get great results from your next email marketing campaign.
Newsjacking Barbie: 5 Ways Your Brand can Profit from the Barbie Craze
B2C and B2B companies and even personal brands can take advantage of Barbiemania. Here are 5 ways you can profit from Barbie's latest news cycle.
Wow! 3 Ways to Make Your Brand Shine with WOW-Worthy Content
Want stand out content? Discover three techniques for creating it, including using your passions, hobbies, and unconventional elements like poems and personal artwork.
Bye Bye Blah: 3 Ways to Spice Up Your Marketing Content with Fresh, Detailed Language
Want to spice up and differentiate your marketing content? This article shows you how to do so with three techniques, including the least-obvious and food-sex techniques.
Ha Ha! 3 Ways to Differentiate Your Marketing Content with Subtle Humor
In this article, the first of a 3-part series on how to differentiate by expressing yourself with verve and color, discover how to infuse your content with subtle humor.
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Empathy, Editing, & Paper Cuts: Keys to Marketing Content that Sells
What's standing between you and more sales? It could be paper cuts caused by your marketing content. Discover the cure for content problems that hurt prospects and sales.
5 Easy Ways to Boost the Performance of Your Marketing Content
Your business likely has pieces in its content arsenal that have fallen flat or aren’t performing well. Use these tips to quickly improve content quality.
Welcome to the Wild, Wild West of the Internet
Whether you've just arrived on the Internet scene or you've been around, as I have, for 20+ years, you may someday find yourself in the same dazed state I often find myself in: Lost and confused in the Wild, Wild West of the Internet.
Stop Selling
You might not think you can sell, but I bet you can.
What follows is a true story.
I was at a long, enjoyable lunch at Brixx (pizza, yum!) with a gal I met on Facebook. We both happen to live in the Asheville area. We both also hail from Philly and surrounds.
The Winning Content Formula
Believe it or not, there's more to creating winning content than having great writing skills. In this post, I outline the three elements you need even more than great writing to create winning content—content that leads more people to say YES to your offers.
How to blow a sale #1,324,295
Yesterday, something happened that took me aback.
Like, I literally sat at my desk for several minutes, looking up and down, and back and forth, between the air above my head in the room in front of me and a text I received through Messenger.
Before I show you ...
Please! I barely know you. The offense of asking for the sale too soon.
Are you wooing visitors to your website? Or are you assaulting them with marriage proposals too soon?
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