April 26, 2024

The Emmy winner’s guide to telling a simple brand story

How I learned to turn multiple brand messages into a coherent brand story by watching television Who’d have thought watching my favorite sitcom would one day benefit a client? There are only two television programs I would set my calendar to. One of them is How I Met Your Mother. Not only is it entertaining, […]

Business blogging: Get rid of ‘dead blog syndrome’ once and for all

It’s a common scenario for many companies. Someone reads the latest statistics on the success others are having with business blogging. Maybe it’s the Hubspot report that says businesses that blog 3-5 times a month have twice the  Web traffic and inbound leads of companies that don’t. Getting in on that action seems like a […]

He risked his future on this content strategy. Would you have done it?

What if you were to create content that helps your customers spend LESS time discovering your products? Content that leads them directly to their purchase destination, potentially cutting off opportunities to view other products that may lead to add-on sales? That is an approach to content marketing that turns conventional wisdom on its head. It […]

Why content marketing flops

 You don’t have to be a dummy to make the most common mistake in marketing. Lots of smart people do it every day. In fact, it is often because they know so much about their business that they fall into a trap that makes their content marketing a big old belly flop. That trap is […]