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Flesch Reading Ease: What It Is and Why It Matters

ContentWriters

When you improve the accessibility of your content, you can improve its web traffic and engagement. Studies show that readers tend to disengage when text feels overly complex or verbose, which can lead to lower engagement and conversions. Your audience should breeze through your writing without losing interest. In the 1970s, J.

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Content Gamification Turns Marketing Into a Playground for Engagement

Contently

It’s surprisingly useful for hooking audiences and boosting long-term engagement. but it adds features like challenges, rewards, and leaderboards that encourage active participation and ongoing engagement. , but it adds features like challenges, rewards, and leaderboards that encourage active participation and ongoing engagement.

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Interactive Content: How Quizzes, Games, and Polls Make for Engaging Results

Content Marketing Institute

Host a poll. Create a game. Interactive content comes in so many forms, but not enough marketers take advantage of it. Discover the possibilities, tools, and big results.

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Sometimes It IS About the Research

Jane Friedman

Destroy this unread, she wrote years later into her diary from 18681869, when her best friends engagement led her to contemplate death. Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Todays post is by author, book coach and historian Christina Larocco. It didnt seem like an ethical dilemma. So, was it wrong to advocate for these papers to be digitized?

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

💡 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.

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If You Don’t Define and Present Yourself Online, Others Will Do It for You

Jane Friedman

Many web designers offer free site audits, and I interviewed three potential collaborators within my fixed budget before engaging with one for my revamped site. I was active enough at the time that I could enjoy my online obscurity. Not a recipe for online success, but that kind of success wasnt currency until the 2010s. He hated it.

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When It Lights Up–and When It Doesn’t

Jane Friedman

Also, as a member of a small team, she felt a lot of pressure to excel, not to let anyone down. To begin, it was essential that she learn some new game developer software. She applied herself. Frustration and anxiety ensued. Then one day, her brain and her being pulled all the new information and experiences together. They arent evil at all.

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