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The Rise of “Fake News” and Its Impact on Sourcing
Every since the 2016 Presidential election campaign, the term “fake news” has become part of the American lexicon. It was during this time that legitimate-looking news sites started popping up on the Internet and in social media feeds with all kinds of reports about...
The 10 Biggest Content Marketing Challenges Faced By Marketers Today
The rise of content marketing is one of the biggest marketing trends in recent memory. Content marketing itself isn’t really new — businesses have been using “content” to tell their stories and attract new customers since modern marketing and advertising first started...
What’s Up With Social Media Marketing Heading Into 2018?
Unless you’ve been living underneath a rock the past few years, you’re aware of the prevalence of social media in our world. Almost everyone today participates in some kind of social media activity, whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram or one of the...
8 Copywriting Tips to Improve Your Writing
I’m very blessed to have been a professional writer for my entire 30-plus year career. I knew early on that writing was my God-given natural talent, and I also really enjoyed it. So it’s pretty cool to make a living at something that I’m not only good at, but also...
How to Search Engine Optimize Your Blogs
Ranking high in the search engines is the most important marketing task for many companies, especially those that rely on Internet searches and online traffic to generate leads, customers and new business. Google “boost my website SEO” or something similar and you’ll...
How to Create Better SEO Content
In last month’s blog, I shared some thoughts from SEO and PPC freelancer Jenny Munn about the state of SEO copywriting in 2017. Jenny is one of the sharpest SEO experts I know — if you missed the blog, click here to read it now. Based on the feedback I got, SEO...
The State of SEO Copywriting in 2017
Among all the different types of marketing out there today, I think that search engine optimization (or SEO) marketing and copywriting are the most misunderstood. Ironically, they’re also the type of marketing that many people think they know a lot about. The field of...
Content Repurposing: Don’t Let Your Content Go to Waste!
I hate waste. I guess you could say this is one of my personality idiosyncrasies. If I don’t finish a meal at a restaurant, I’m definitely asking for a doggie bag — and not for my dog! And around my house, they call me the “leftover king” because I’m always coming up...
5 Tips for Improving Your E-Newsletter
One of the first things on my to-do list when I went full-time self-employed about eight years ago was to launch an e-newsletter. I’d spent my career writing newsletters, both print and electronic, so I knew first-hand how effective they were as a marketing tool....
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