Author Archives: Michele Linn

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What My Kitchen Remodel Taught Me About Content Marketing

Abridged with the author’s permission from Savvy B2B Marketing. Since moving into our 1940’s bungalow, my husband and I regularly discussed, “What should we do with our small, original kitchen?” Seven years later, we finally decided to update the kitchen. Working through the process of deciding what to do, finding the right contractor and renovating [...]

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Seven Tips for Managing Group Blogs

Abridged with the author’s permission from Savvy B2B Marketing. This past week, a few people have mentioned to me that they are embarking on group blogging. In fact, we just received a comment from someone who is starting a blog: “Our biggest challenge will probably be publishing a continuous flow of interesting posts seeing everything [...]

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Plan Your Content Far in Advance

Reprinted with the author’s permission from Savvy B2B Marketing. Several years ago, I was working full time and getting my MBA. Knowing how busy I would be, I planned my family’s weekly menus before the start of one semester—for 13 weeks. From there, I made a list of all of the ingredients we would need, [...]

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Get Users to Relevant Content, Not Just the New Stuff

Reprinted with the author’s permission from Savvy B2B Marketing. Ever have one of those posts that sticks with you? Well, I have been thinking about a post from Doug Kessler on Library Marketing for a few months. While the term Library Marketing may be new, the concept is probably is something you have considered. As [...]

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Three Habits of Highly Effective Content Marketers

Reprinted with the author’s permission from Savvy B2B Marketing. Over the past couple of months, I’ve had the pleasure participating as one of the authors for some really interesting and eye-opening research from Junta42 and MarketingProfs on the topic of B2B content marketing. Last Wednesday, we released the results. Hop on over the Content Marketing [...]

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Realistic Tips for Your New Marketing Initiative

Abridged with the author’s permission from Marketing Profs Daily Fix. This year, my husband and are getting some yard work done, and the landscaper offered plant a garden for me. I really considered this as I thought, “Hey this is my opportunity! Getting started is always the tough part, right?” But then I got realistic. [...]

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How to Choose the Right Keywords for Your B2B Content

Reprinted from the Savvy B2B Marketing blog with the author’s permission. Marketers often think about keywords when optimizing a website for search, but keywords are equally important is for ALL content you create, such as blog posts, white papers, eBooks, press releases, etc. It’s a great idea to develop a list of keywords that you [...]

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Do You Really Need All That B2B Content?

Reprinted from the Savvy B2B Marketing blog with the author’s permission. Over the holidays, I was on a cleaning rampage. I organized my basement and in the process, I got rid of boxes of books, and a minivan full of miscellany. It felt great! Similarly, I think it’s a good idea to occasionally “clean house” [...]

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Ten Steps to Create an Email Series

This two-part post originally ran as one on the Savvy B2B Marketing blog. Reprinted with the author’s permission. In a recent post I discussed the value of email series. Here are 10 steps to get you started. Step 1: Select your topic. It’s best to make your email series as focused as possible (and, as [...]

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Recycle Your Best Content in an Email Series

This two-part post originally ran as one on the Savvy B2B Marketing blog. Reprinted with the author’s permission. Do you have great content that is buried on your blog? Or maybe you have older content that is still very relevant but you’re not quite sure how to use it in your marketing campaign? If you [...]

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