I’ve been at this copywriting thing for awhile now, coming up on 35 years. During this time, I’ve read countless books and articles and attended more seminars and workshops about how to improve your copywriting than I can count. But I don’t think I have come across a more clear…
This year marks 35 years since I walked across the stage at the University of Florida in Gainesville to receive my college diploma. Ironically, this is also the year that my daughter Natalie will walk across the stage to receive her college diploma from Georgia College University. Natalie has a…
In the world of marketing, all customers and prospects can be divided into one of two broad categories: retail and business. Similarly, all marketing efforts fall into one of two categories: business-to-consumer — or what marketers cleverly call B2C marketing — and business-to-business, or B2B marketing. During my career, I’ve…
The past few months I’ve been talking about how to create a new content marketing program from scratch. The last article described how to build a content marketing team and create a workflow map to ensure that your content is published and distributed on a regular basis. Today I’m going…
Last month, I started a new blog series that describes step by step how to create a new content marketing program from scratch. The first article focused on the importance of committing to your program, defining the audience for your content, creating a strategy and selecting the right distribution channels.…
I’ve been writing a lot about content marketing lately, since that’s what I specialize in. Last month I shared some tips for creating better content and before that I talked about content marketing trends that are hot right now. Now it’s time to really dig in to the “meat and…
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…