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...
by Don | Sep 3, 2021 | Content Marketing
Last month I offered a peek behind the curtain at a successful content marketing program being run by one of my clients, Personal Capital. I got some good response to that article so I thought I’d do another client profile by describing the content marketing program...
by Don | Jul 23, 2021 | Content Marketing
I spend most of my time as a freelance financial writer creating articles and blogs that are part of my clients’ content marketing programs. As freelancer, I’m not always privy to the details of these programs, but one of my clients let me peek behind the curtains a...
