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...
by Don | Mar 3, 2022 | Content Marketing, E-newsletters
Have you ever heard the saying, “the cobbler’s kids have no shoes”? It refers to how sometimes people who are experts at something in their professional life neglect this very thing in their personal life. You know … like a cobbler’s children walking around barefoot...
by Don | Jan 6, 2022 | Content Marketing
It’s fun to look back sometimes at how certain things that happened in your life led you to where you are now. For example, when I decided to give full-time freelance writing a shot 13 years ago, things were very different than they are today. Some marketers had just...
