When you have an integrated marketing strategy, you can drive your online marketing program with confidence. That means planning on paper, including mapping out a purpose statement, value statements, customer personas (or segmenting), calculating customer lifetime value, and defining ways to improve and narrowly target all marketing material. Internally-directed marketing strategies, which many companies say […]
In this golden age of the personal publisher, introverts must play to their strengths within content marketing. If you’ve ever read the book ‘Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking’, then you’ll understand exactly what I’m saying. We introverts need to speak up, but in our own quiet way. Are you […]
Over the past six weeks, I’ve been learning different ways to improve business. Not just mine, but every client business that I help as well. I went to the business improvement conference ‘52 Ways’ put on by Business Blueprint. Dale talked a lot about systems and clever online apps, i.e. shortcuts to success. Apps for […]
Copywriter confession #1. I confess I have written thousands and thousands of uncaring words: words that persuade; words that strive to create authority, words that lure the reader into a promotion. Then again, I have also written words that stemmed from the heart. These words are on my personal blog. Often I only post […]
Some of us have worked in offices, others are stuck in one right now, trying to deal with the unwritten rules and weird personas all around us. If this is you and you have some time to read on the commute, I think you’ll have a laugh at Everyday Ways to Win in Office Life. As I […]
Earlier on, we talked about how authors need to get book listings, like on BookLife (post here). Today’s discovery is Promocave, which not only lets you list and promote your book for free, it also helps us authors with a webinar about Amazon SEO (1 hr 36 m), among other training topics. Author Jorge Olsen gives a new […]
Over the holiday season, I was researching how to rank on Amazon for clients’ books and my own books. I have discovered things you can do with keywords, categories, and even the annual program Amazon Advantage to improve rankings. That said, Amazon isn’t everything and every avenue. In fact, it’s just a start. I found this […]
When people want to get content written for their website, they believe they want a content writer. But starting with the word content is deceptive. Content could be blog news, media releases, free reports/guides, PDF brochures, or it could just mean the main website pages. More than just what the writing is, the difference is focus. […]
More than 20 years ago I found out that some words have more powerful emotional resonance than others. These ‘power words’ are often used by copywriters — usually in headlines — to induce a subconscious reaction. Copywriting is any writing that persuades or influences. I wanted to use powerful words in client sales copy and other writing, and so, Power of […]
Understanding sales conversion principles is a necessity in any profitable business. This is because if you understand which types of media and messages get a good response, you can focus more on these and save by culling the non-performing avenues. Plus, once you get beyond a simple solo operation, tracking all print ad responses, social […]
