Abridged with the author’s permission from the ACS Creative blog. Readability is one of the most important characteristics of great blog copy. It’s the quality that makes the information you provide in your business blog easy—or hard—for others to read and understand. Putting Your Blog Copy to the Test One of the easiest ways to [...]
Category Archives: Writing and Editing
Abridged with the author’s permission from the Global Copywriting blog. When was the last time you had an assignment? One of the great benefits of content marketing is getting published without having to go through a query process. While I love the autonomy of publishing my own content—most of it through my blog—being “on assignment” [...]
Reprinted with the author’s permission from Convince & Convert. This is an era without information gatekeepers, and every company needs to think of itself as its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper. This puts a spotlight on businesses’ ability to tell their own stories with nuance and impact. Those stories don’t have to be solely [...]
Reprinted with the author’s permission from the Vertical Measures blog. Since Earth Month has come to a close, spend the next few days month recycling something other than just your garbage, and instead, recycle your content! Coming up with ideas for compelling content isn’t always easy, so when particular content pieces are successful, you want [...]
Reprinted with the author’s permission from Post Advertising. Seth Godin wrote a recent blog post about how, frequently, the relationships between brands and audiences can be out of alignment. Godin coins the perfect brand-consumer relationship as “I want your company to help me, and your company wants to help me. We’re both focused on helping the [...]
Reprinted with the author’s permission from Freelance Copywriter’s Blog. Many businesses think their website copy has to be stiff and corporate. They want to come across as professional so they must use language that impresses. As they write their copy they thumb through the pages of their much loved thesaurus to find the most impressive [...]
Reprinted with the author’s permission from the Big Star Copywriting blog. Have you ever thought about putting a little fun into your copy? Does your current copywriting engage in a way that a game does? Does your copy make people laugh, or smile? Do your customers actually enjoy what they read? As a copywriter, I [...]
Originally posted on the Content Marketing Institute. Reprinted and abridged with permission. There is an old yarn that, when it comes to a ham and eggs breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. The most common question I get from clients when I recommend a healthy diet of content is, “And how [...]
Originally posted on MarketingProfs. Reprinted with permission. In a recent speech, Rick Segal, worldwide president of GyroHSR, stated that B2B marketing is obsolete. Following the speech, he participated in an interview with B2B Online. In it, he not only claimed that B2B marketing is obsolete, but that it “very well may be dead.” The reasons [...]
Abridged with the author’s permission from TopRank Online Marketing Blog. Over the past 7 years of blogging, one could say I’ve become quite familiar. Online Marketing Blog has received a lot of kudos recently but more importantly, our experience with reviewing others’ blogs has been a learning experience to say the least. Here are a [...]
