How I Repurpose Content
How to repurpose content to reach new audiences and broaden your reach online. Make one idea work in many ways and you’ll maximize your time.
How I Curate Content for Social Media
How to curate content for social media. How to discover and share valuable articles on social media and tips for organizing your content.
What is Content Marketing?
Content marketing is attracting customers with content written with them in mind, with the goal of solving specific problems.
Content marketing isn’t advertising; it’s customer service. You serve your customer by providing content that makes their lives easier.
12 Things to Do After You Write a Blog Post
When I sit down to write a blog post, I’ve got the hardest part out of the way — the idea. The rest of the process — the writing and finding the best images comes pretty easy to me. So easy that sometimes I’m tempted to click the Publish button a little prematurely. This post is a checklist of things to do before releasing your new blog post to the world.
Blogging for Business: What to Write About
How to Generate Blog Topics Your Readers Will Love If you’re blogging for business, you know you need to write content on a consistent basis, but don’t we all get stumped from time to time? Sometimes it seems like the ideas just won’t come and if you’re on a...
Start a Blog From Scratch — An Easy Guide
How to Start a Blog From Scratch If you’ve read anything about online marketing in the past few years, you know that you need a blog. You need a blog to draw traffic to your website, to help your audience see your more personal and approachable side, and, of...
Websites: What You Need to Know
Websites: The Basics Websites are as necessary to your business as a phone number, whether you’re brick and mortar or exclusively online. WordPress is the best solution for a small business website, as it allows you to retain control over your site and make...
Keywords Aren't Just For SEO
If you spend time with a search engine optimization (SEO) expert, they’ll tell you to come up with 10 – 15 marketing keywords that you want to be found for online. FYI, I know very little about SEO and I value my clients enough to refer them to a real...
Grammar and Punctuation: Make a Great First Impression
You’ve just written a business report, blog post, news article, copy for your website or marketing piece, and you’re ready to hit Publish. But wait — are you sure your copy is error free? Every word you publish under your name or the name of your business...
How to Understand Your Customers and Increase Sales
If you’d like to increase sales, I have an exercise for you. I want you to begin to define your avatar(s). You may have more than one, in fact, you probably will. Wait – what’s an avatar? You may also have heard them referred to as personas. Same thing....
Do I Need to Blog? Yes. Here's Why.
I get this question often from clients who don’t think they have the time to write original content: Do I need to blog? My answer is nearly always the same: Yes. Yes, and yes. Why is Blogging So Important? Google. I’m really talking about all search...
Social Media Success: What Small Business Can Learn From Big Brands
Do You Manage Social Media for Small Business? If you manage social media for small business, you know that social media and the Web continue to be important for small organizations, freelancers, and entrepreneurs; in fact, more so than ever. Your website and online...
The Top 10 WordPress Questions My Clients Ask
I work with WordPress a lot. I design and build websites for clients and coach them on how to edit and add content to their sites. As I work with users of many different levels of experience, I take note of their WordPress questions, as it’s hard for me to...
Editing is Important — Use the Right Words
I’ve always thought it would be fun to be a technical consultant on a hit TV show. Most shows have advisors of some sort; they are the physicians, attorneys, computer experts, or other professionals who teach actors to correctly pronounce long, complicated...
Feedly: Find and Share Great Content
An effective social media presence is wholly dependent on content. For most of us, it’s a mix of original and shared content. The articles you share should be well written and helpful to others. But how do you find shareable, quality content? Enter Feedly. All...
5 Ways to Make Your Audience Want to Sing
Marketing is a lot like attending a rock concert. Who’s your favorite musician or band? Simon and Garfunkel get first place with me, but Billy Joel is definitely a close second. I first saw him in concert in the late 70s, when I was in college. He played at...