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10 Tips to Improve Your Copywriting Skills
As a professional copywriter, writing comes pretty easy for me. But that doesn’t mean I’m not constantly striving to improve my copywriting skills. So I really enjoyed an article my friend and colleague Gordon Graham, aka That Whitepaper Guy, wrote recently that...
Content Marketing: Resolve to “Just Do It” In 2017
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...
How SEO and Content Marketing Go Hand in Hand
I remember when the Internet first started to become mainstream in the late 1990s or so. I had recently started working as a writer/editor for a custom publishing company in Atlanta and was using the Internet more and more for the kind of research I used to have to do...
Use Psychology to Write Better Marketing Emails
The last few months I’ve been talking about ways to improve email marketing results. I believe that great marketing emails start with great writing — which I guess is what you’d expect me to say, since I’m a writer. However, I realize there’s a lot more that goes into...
How to Write Great Marketing Emails
In last month’s article, I shared a few tips for writing better emails and got some nice responses with more tips and also some a few email pet peeves. For example, one reader said she hates it when people don’t change the subject line in old email chains to reflect a...
Writing Great Emails: Top 10 Tips
Do you remember when email first hit the scene? My first exposure to email was around 1988 when the publishing company I was working for installed internal email on our IBM 286 PCs. (Google this old PC and look at the pictures for a real stroll down memory lane!) I...
Sales vs. Marketing: How They’re Different — and Why It Matters
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 the plan....
Content Writing vs. Copywriting: What’s the Difference?
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...
Social Media Marketing: Living Up to the Hype
I have to admit that when it comes to social media marketing, I might have underestimated the power of this relatively new medium. Based on what I’m seeing, social media marketing very well might actually live up to all the hype that digital marketers have been giving...
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