If you're the type to make New Year’s Resolutions, here’s one that, as a marketer, you’d do well to put at the top of your list: Create and share content. Because in my opinion, content marketing is the most tool available to marketers for generating quality leads in a cost-effective way.…
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…
In just the past month, I’ve seen two different blogs tackling the topic of content writing vs. copywriting. Since I’ve been a professional writer for going on 31 years now, these blogs definitely piqued my interest. In fact, this distinction isn’t something I’d ever really thought about before. In reading…
As a freelance writer, I produce lots of different kinds of content for my clients in the financial services and business-to-business sectors. Every week I write blogs, articles, newsletters, white papers, case studies — you name it and I’ve probably written it. I usually don’t get much feedback, good or…
I usually hesitate to throw around terms like “revolutionary” and “game-changing.” But I think it’s fair to use terms like this when discussing content marketing. In just a few short years, content marketing has catapulted to the top of many marketers’ priority lists. I’ve written extensively in previous articles about…
One of the first things I did when I went full-time freelance about five years ago was get a website built. A good friend of mine who’s a website developer offered to build my site for a great price — actually for free! — so I said, “Sure, thanks!” And…
We have been talking about the rise of content marketing as a 21st century marketing tool over the past couple of months. The idea behind content marketing is to use different forms of content to engage with prospects in a non-sales capacity, as well as provide value-added resources to customers…
As we discussed last month, content marketing has become one of the hottest topics in marketing today. “Content marketing” is fancy lingo to describe the many different ways (primarily digital) businesses are using content to engage with prospects in a non-sales capacity and build long-term customer loyalty. Content can take…