Five Ways To Improve Your Headlines Headlines matter. This isn’t a marketing newsflash. Back in the Mad Men era, David Ogilvy famously said: On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. […]
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Bad business writing costs American businesses nearly $400 billion every year. Yup, $400 billion—with a “B.” That’s according to Josh Bernoff, who conducted a survey about businesspeople who write at work. He says American workers spend 22% of their time at work reading, and also believes that more than a quarter of that time—6%—is wasted due
Effective copywriting is all about building trust with your audience, understanding their needs and then convincing them that your solution can alleviate their pain most efficiently. Before you can sell them anything, you need to build a strong foundation of trust. Once you have that relationship, it becomes much easier to sell someone. Think about
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Content is now a permanent fixture of the digital enterprise. Whether in-house or through third-party studios, whether as a C-level function or as the job of interns, brands are making content as a matter of course and distributing it to varying degrees of success. In today’s fragmented media environment, the adage “content is king” has
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When we think of keyword research, it is usually applied to the more technical side of promotion. Brands use it to see what SEO tactics they need to use in order to narrow down their place in a market or what their competitors are doing to generate search referral traffic. Keyword research is a staple
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Move over, baseball. America’s new national pastime is binge-watching. Ask your friends what they did over the weekend, and several will probably admit to burning through several seasons of Game of Thrones. Streaming platforms, such as Netflix and Hulu, revolutionized the way people consume TV shows. Society’s changing behavior has caused the likes of HBO
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The advent of the Internet made instant worldwide communication commonplace. As the old saying goes, where there is communication there is commerce. The natural outcome of the reach and availability of the web was e-commerce. Using content to boost your e-commerce sales is a strategy that is now used by many business owners to reach
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The term ‘knowledge economy’ was coined and used sneeringly as a term to denote the monetization of education. In reality, the knowledge economy is so much more, and it is something many marketers can capitalize upon to drive growth for their business and better serve their customers. The modern knowledge economy is an economic state
Creating a website for your business doesn’t have to be a headache and it certainly doesn’t require hiring an expensive design agency to create it for you. Depending on the type of business you own, there are several quick and affordable solutions. There are three main categories of business websites: Simple and information website that
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If you’ve been in content marketing for a while, you’re probably familiar with different content production and development models. Two common ones are hub-and-spoke and skyscraper content. It should be noted that there are other models as well, but these are two of the more popular approaches people take. How do you determine which one
