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How can you ensure you don’t make email marketing mistakes that break trust between your brand and your audience?
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Is the content on your site more than 3 years old? Then you need to overhaul it during this website redesign. Let’s game plan how to make the process seamless.
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Marketers need to remember the golden rule of plain language: Complexity does not communicate authority.
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What makes your audience tick — what compels them to purchase your product, schedule an appointment, request a quote, click “share” or fill out a form?
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Every single content shop, whether internal or external, needs great project managers.
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Practice makes perfect, taste and looks both matter and more content lessons from the Great British Baking Show.
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Procrastination isn’t always bad or harmful. Sometimes we need that non-writing time to deliver compelling, strong content.
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If Silicon Valley companies are serious about doing no harm and bringing the world together, they will have to self-regulate.
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Why is it even a question if content marketers should produce quality content or not?
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What is up with email marketing right now?
Have you noticed the “whiny toddler” emails you’re getting lately? The insistent subject lines, the aggressive, wheedling tones, the shrill shouting for your attention?
I was recently at a conference and the amount of email I got from vendors was ridiculous —
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Ever stepped on a scale and hated the number you saw?
A side-by-side comparison was floating around Facebook recently. It showed the same woman taking a selfie. On the left she looked thin but flabby. On the right she was built and beautiful.
The caption? “I weigh 165 lbs.
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I am sick of reading everyone’s trends for 2017 about content value: “For 2017 it’s not quantity, it’s quality.”
“Marketers will be producing for value, not volume.”
“You’ll see better content out there, not more content out there.”
Right. Because marketers are always looking to produce content with no value.
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For years now, content strategists have pleaded with the design community to put content first. And as a whole, the design community is positive, recognizing that content strategy is imperative to an excellent product.
However, when it comes to revising or critiquing content, we’ve fallen short of the design community.
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Confession: I’m getting tired of content marketers writing about content marketing.
But guess what I'm about to do ....
Here’s my new theory: There’s more stuff about content marketing than good examples of content marketing out there.
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