Inbound marketing is a pretty big subject area, but Atomicdust, a St. Louis based brand marketing agency, got to the heart of things this morning when they shared insights on conversion-focused websites with an audience of clients, marketers and at least one content strategist – me. Mike Spakowski, Jesse McGowan and Danielle Hohmeier talked about…
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A website content audit will improve your sales
There are many reasons to do a website content audit but by far the most important is to make sure the dollars you spend on content development are really improving your business. For most businesses this means supporting and growing sales. A content audit allows you to map your website to your business goals. It…
Marketing collateral is not useful to sales reps
Is your sales force using all those beautifully designed, expensive marketing materials your marketing department and creative agencies are producing? According to a survey “State of the Sales Rep” published by Barinshark in October, frustrated sales people across America are engaged in productivity-busting activities because they don’t have the sales materials they need to do their jobs.…
Put web content before website development & design
Content is the currency of the Internet. No matter how clever, graphically beautiful, or technically impressive your website, it exists to convey information. Despite this, website content is often an afterthought. A website should look great and it does need to work smoothly, but the Internet is not a beauty pageant. Your website is a…
Will Google’s keyword encryption kill content marketing?
It may have been on the cards for a while, but last week when Google announced it was encrypting all keywords and cutting everyone off from vital organic-search keyword data, it came as a bit of a shock. I won’t deny it, my eyes watered. What is a content marketer to do? You need all…
Who is writing your website content?
With more than 1,722,071,000,000 (1.7 trillion) pages on the web, how do you get noticed? The answer is easy. Provide fantastic content. Content is king because it is the most important element of your web presence. Without it, you have nothing. People visit your website because they are looking for something specific. They come for…
Keep the big picture in focus with a strategic content marketing editorial calendar
An editorial calendar will keep your content development on track, but how can you use it to align your content to your organization’s long-term strategic goals? First, you have to convert the business goals into content goals. Then you map your content topics to your plan and use your editorial calendar to schedule the stories…
Content marketers need to plan like an editor
If you look at a blank screen and wonder, “what shall I write about today”, you are not thinking like an editor. Editors take their responsibility to publish valuable content very seriously. To plan, manage and track their stories, magazine editors use editorial calendars. From the 50-foot overview of upcoming story ideas that are planned…
Learn a quick and easy blog writing technique at Write NOW Sept. 17
I will be joining the Write NOW group next Tues, Sept. 17 at the HIVE44, Fenton, MO. to demonstrate a quick and easy blog writing technique that is perfect for both B2B and B2C content development and creation. This writing structure is so easy and so effective you will be able to use it as a foundational structure for…
Creating an “authority” voice for a thought leadership brand
You are an expert and you know your subject inside out. However, in this digital world, you are only an authority if your audience says so. If you are building your “authority” voice online you need people to talk about you. Put a slightly different way, your authority does not come from you. Authority comes…
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Board Member since 2012
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Board Member since 2014
American Copy Editors Society (ACES)
