Blogging Wizard
MAY 14, 2024
Curious about a few blogging statistics, such as how many blogs exist in the world and how many words you need in order to write the perfect blog post? Blogging.
Nick Ursborne
MAY 12, 2024
As a budding young copywriter in the early 1980s, I worked with an art director as my partner, and our work was overseen by the agency’s creative director. Creative directors were at the top of the pile in Creative Departments. They were the best of the best, and inspired the work of everyone. They shaped the overall creative output of the agency. They also used their experience and judgement to decide whether any particular piece of work was good enough.
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Contently
MAY 13, 2024
We get it: Articles about the death of third-party cookies feel a little like a Boy Who Cried Wolf situation. Google has reportedly been rolling out this shift for years. The company first announced the move in February 2020—only to postpone the implementation timeline every year since. According to Forrester, in 2023, more than half of global marketers thought the whole thing was a bluff.
Content Marketing Institute
MAY 14, 2024
The TikTok “ban” grabs the headlines. But TikTok’s impact on other social media algorithms has a bigger impact for marketers. Is your content and marketing strategy ready?
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
Jane Friedman
MAY 14, 2024
Photo by Fallon Michael on Unsplash Today’s post is by author Gina DeMillo Wagner , author of Forces of Nature. Amazon • Bookshop When my memoir Forces of Nature was on submission with publishers, one editor said she loved the story, but couldn’t get past the fact that I had written it in present tense. In her mind, I’d broken a universal rule: Memoir is about the past and therefore should always be past tense.
Blogging Wizard
MAY 14, 2024
Looking for the best customer feedback tools on the market? You’re in the right place. I tested out all the leading tools for collecting user feedback and made a shortlist.
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Content Marketing Institute
MAY 17, 2024
OpenAI and Google’s AI ecosystems made headlines this week. They’re going all in on analyzing images, video, and speech features. But it’s what they didn’t say or do this week that marketers should pay attention to.
Jane Friedman
MAY 15, 2024
Photo by Alex Vámos on Unsplash Today’s post is by Angela Ackerman, co-author of the new second edition of The Emotion Amplifier Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Stress and Volatility. Readers connect with characters who are true-to-life, so as we build our story’s cast, we want to ensure they think and behave as real people do. This is especially important when it comes to inner conflict as readers are exposed to a character’s personal struggles and insecurities.
BKA Content
MAY 17, 2024
How Crawl Depth Can Impact SEO Any time you use a search engine, a behind-the-scenes process of crawling, indexing and ranking determines which non-paid results you see. Understanding the basics of how this process works helps you take a more effective approach toward organic search engine optimization on your own website. Find out how to structure your site to increase crawl depth and make it possible for more of your pages to appear in results for relevant searches.
Ahrefs
MAY 16, 2024
Here are 14 practical ways to get faster, more efficient SEO results with help from your robot overlords friends.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.
Content Marketing Institute
MAY 16, 2024
You spend a lot of resources on the content published on your brand’s site. Why not get a credibility boost and a wider audience for it? Put on your PR hat (or get with the PR team) and get pitching with these tips.
Jane Friedman
MAY 16, 2024
Today’s post is by author Brenda E Smith. I realized a lifelong dream when I self-published my first book in August 2023. I followed all the marketing advice I received about entering the publishing world, including creating a website and selecting an email service provider. On the last page of my book, I added a reader magnet meant to collect email addresses of enthusiastic readers who would enjoy receiving my newsletters.
BKA Content
MAY 16, 2024
The 7 Best SEO Reporting Software Tools in 2024 In order to unleash the full potential of search engine optimization (SEO), you need to use the right tools for the job. SEO software tools can help you track custom data sets and optimize your content strategy. With so many options, how can you know which is the best tool for you? What Are The Best SEO Reporting Tools?
Ahrefs
MAY 13, 2024
Each year we pick, vet, and categorize a list of up-to-date statistics to give you insights from trusted sources on Google search trends.
Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker
Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 Ever wondered how to write a compelling press release, or what are current best practices for pitching your news to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each piece of news you pitch!
Content Marketing Institute
MAY 15, 2024
Context matters in your content. Contextual links matter in your SEO strategy. Discover three strategies to acquire contextual links to boost your content in the eyes of Google and the linking sites’ audiences.
Backlinko
MAY 13, 2024
Local rank trackers automate the process of tracking local search engine rankings. Allowing you to save time while getting more profound insights. For example, Stratedia , a marketing agency, improved its clients’ results after investing in Semrush Local, a suite of local SEO tools. This enabled Stratedia to strengthen its offerings, from listing management to improving clients’ local visibility.
BKA Content
MAY 15, 2024
The 8 Best Content Optimization Tools To Use in 2024 Digital marketing is an important part of your business strategy. Search engine optimization gives your company a way to rank higher on Google’s search results. Creating quality content and using smart strategies can help you connect with your ideal clients. Content optimization tools can make this process easier.
Jasper
MAY 11, 2024
Standing out as a realtor can be hard, especially when you’re selling something like a home. Check out these real estate ad examples for some inspiration.
Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners
This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.
Contently
MAY 11, 2024
My partner and I have a sacred weekend ritual: Pizza Fridays. A few weeks ago, we found ourselves in Minneapolis, a city neither of us know well, for the occasion. Naturally, we turned to our go-to expert on all things local and delicious: Google. A quick search for “best pizza near me” yielded several promising prospects, and we selected one for our weekly fix.
Ahrefs
MAY 16, 2024
Tracking the right metrics is crucial for SEO (search engine optimization) success.
BKA Content
MAY 13, 2024
What Is the Best Ecommerce Platform for SEO in 2024? For an ecommerce business, your website is the backbone of the company. Where brick-and-mortar stores have elements such as signage on the front of the store billboards to create visibility, ecommerce stores rely on marketing tactics like SEO for visibility. This is why using the right ecommerce platform is crucial to the success of the business.
Freelance Union
MAY 17, 2024
This article is sponsored by Creative Expressions. Click Here to sign up for their free grant writing webinar at the Freelancers Hub on June 4th. Grants for creatives can spark both feelings of excitement and confusion. The key to demystifying this process is in the essence of creatives aligning with their purpose and skillset. This creates a strong foundation for knowing which grants are best suited for you!
Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode
Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o
CopyBlogger
MAY 16, 2024
The problem with most best practice advice for marketing online courses is that it’s geared towards people who already have. Continue Reading The post How To Market Online Courses And Get Customers Now appeared first on Copyblogger.
Publishing Trends
MAY 17, 2024
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Sci-fi Saw it First: How JG Ballard Explored Ai Writing in the 1970s Nobel Laureate Alice Munro Dies at 92 Living a Literary Life at Manderley Press Wiley Closes 19 Journals After Academic Fraud Was Found Minnesota Legislatures Approve Bill Prohibiting Book Bans in Public School Libraries
Blogging From Paradise
MAY 11, 2024
As I watch a torrential and gusty downpour here in the mountains of Costa Rica I want to list the pros and cons of […]
Freelance Union
MAY 13, 2024
This post is provided by our partner, MetroPlusHealth. Find affordable health plans for New Yorkers of all ages from MetroPlusHealth. It may not be as trendy as Pilates or power yoga, but running is still a great aerobic workout to burn fat and reduce stress. Experts have long linked many health benefits to running. It helps increase HDL (good) cholesterol, helps with weight loss, builds strong bones, improves balance and coordination, lowers your risk for heart disease and diabe
Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing
Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.
Jasper
MAY 14, 2024
OpenAI recently announced its new omnimodel, GPT-4o. Let's talk more about what that means.
Make a Living Writing
MAY 13, 2024
An onomatopoeia is much simpler than it sounds. It is a word that imitates a sound like whack or meow. So if you are trying to find a new way to make your words pop off the page, try incorporating more onomatopoeia examples into your work. This is not just for fiction and children’s book writers, onomatopoeia can be easily and effectively used in all kinds of writing.
Backlinko
MAY 13, 2024
Local rank trackers automate the process of tracking local search engine rankings. Allowing you to save time while getting more profound insights. For example, Stratedia , a marketing agency, improved its clients’ results after investing in Semrush Local, a suite of local SEO tools. This enabled Stratedia to strengthen its offerings, from listing management to improving clients’ local visibility.
Brafton
MAY 16, 2024
At first sight, multilingual content marketing sounds like a dream come true. Yet another target market where folks just happen to speak another language. More people = more brand awareness = more business, right? Since you found this blog post, you probably already had a feeling that multilingual SEO is not that easy. Maybe that instinct was accompanied by traumatizing memories of your Spanish teacher trying to hammer into your brain why the moon is female and the sun is male.
Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service
Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.
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