by Don | Nov 4, 2016 | Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
I remember when the Internet first started to become mainstream in the late 1990s or so. I had recently started working as a writer/editor for a custom publishing company in Atlanta and was using the Internet more and more for the kind of research I used to have to do...
by Don | Sep 19, 2016 | E-newsletters
The last few months I’ve been talking about ways to improve email marketing results. I believe that great marketing emails start with great writing — which I guess is what you’d expect me to say, since I’m a writer. However, I realize there’s a lot more that goes into...
by Don | Jul 19, 2016 | E-newsletters
In last month’s article, I shared a few tips for writing better emails and got some nice responses with more tips and also some a few email pet peeves. For example, one reader said she hates it when people don’t change the subject line in old email chains to reflect a...
by Don | Jun 7, 2016 | E-newsletters
Do you remember when email first hit the scene? My first exposure to email was around 1988 when the publishing company I was working for installed internal email on our IBM 286 PCs. (Google this old PC and look at the pictures for a real stroll down memory lane!) I...
by Don | Apr 29, 2016 | Content Marketing
I was talking with a good friend earlier this week who just started a new sales job. His boss gave him a marketing budget for the year and told him to create a marketing plan, so my friend wanted to pick my brain about where content marketing might fit into the plan....