by Don | Aug 17, 2023 | Content Marketing, General Tips
I moved to Atlanta in 1997 to work as an editor for a publishing company that had a unique editorial model: Most of their articles were submitted by non-professional writers who were experts in a particular field. The obvious benefit was that there was no cost for the...
by Don | Jul 6, 2023 | Content Marketing
Good public speakers have long known that the best way to draw the audience in is to tell compelling stories. The same principle applies to content marketing. This is why case studies are one of the most effective content marketing tactics and an integral tool in the...
by Don | Feb 23, 2023 | Content Marketing
At the risk of dating myself, I remember when digital publishing first came on the scene in the early 1990s. Before this, layout, typesetting and pagination were done manually by cutting with Exacto knives and pasting with glue. I can still remember watching...
by Don | Jan 19, 2023 | Content Marketing
If you’d asked me what I do for a living five or 10 years ago, I’d have said I’m a freelance copywriter. But if you ask me now, I’ll say I’m a content creator. The difference is subtle but understanding it is critical to successful content marketing. The goal of...
by Don | Dec 12, 2022 | Content Marketing
In my last blog I explained how content marketing is really just a fancy new term for a concept that has been around for a long time — more than 100 years, depending on how you define it. So what is the definition of content marketing? Here’s a short, simple...
by Don | Nov 7, 2022 | Content Marketing
I have worked in the content field for (gulp) almost 40 years. It started in 1985 when, as a 22-year-old with a freshly minted Journalism degree, I started working for a newsletter publishing company. This was supposed to be a brief stop on the way to fame and fortune...
