In last month’s blog we looked at some of the interesting (at least to me!) data contained in the Content Marketing Institute’s recent B2B Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends report. This is an extensive report that’s chocked-full of valuable data, so I spent some more time this week combing through…
In last month’s newsletter I featured an interview with my friend and Internet marketing expert Jeff Powell, Vice President/CFO of Prosperous Internet Marketing, a full-service digital marketing agency in Pensacola, Fla. Click here to read the article if you missed it. He stressed that content marketing is an integral part…
No marketing program today would be complete without an online component to it. But what exactly is online or Internet marketing? Google “Internet marketing” and you’ll get “about 7,920,000,000” results. That’s nearly 8 billion search results if you don’t feel like translating all the zeros. Instead of wading through billions of online…
When I launched my freelance writing business 10 years ago, one of the first things I needed to do was build a website. Even though there were do-it-yourself kits you could use to build your own website, I’m not much of a “tech” guy so I knew I’d be better…
Email has been in widespread use for about 30 years now. During this time, it has become both a blessing and a curse. On the positive side, email has made it easy to communicate in writing with anyone, anywhere and at any time. But on the negative side, most people…
It’s been almost 10 years since I took the plunge into self-employment by becoming a full-time freelance writer. From a marketing perspective, the first thing on my to-do list as a self-employed professional was to build a website. Even in 2009, you had to have a website if you wanted…
Way back in 1982 when I decided to major in advertising, I thought I’d be an advertising copywriter and work for a big-time agency on high-profile campaigns for major brands. Basically, I envisioned myself as Don Draper before the iconic Mad Mencharter was dreamed up. Things didn’t quite turn out…
When the Internet first went mainstream in the mid-to-late 1990s, I was working as a copywriter and editor for a custom publishing firm in Atlanta. I clearly remember the excitement of watching a brand new communication medium arise and learning all the nuances involved in writing for online consumption. I’ll…