Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In today’s competitive market, every business needs a solid online presence. As an agency content writer, I have worked with marketing firms to fill gaps for their clients. Are you looking to publish three blogs a month? One key to achieving this is high-quality content. Collaboration is critical to long-term success.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Since 2010, Anne McAuley Lopez has been writing content for businesses and nonprofits in partnership with social media managers, nonprofit marketing professionals, and digital marketing agencies. Many freelancers specialize in niche markets to set themselves apart. What exactly is the role of a content author?

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In the digital age, customer communication preferences are always evolving, and marketing teams need to remain agile to keep up. Understanding marketing trends is crucial to helping brands evolve their marketing communication strategy to meet customer expectations and stay ahead of the competition.

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The Idea Logical Company

MAY 8, 2024

My insight into the commercial world of book publishing is no longer informed by daily contact with people making their living in it. I was gifted an advance reading copy that tells me the book will be published on July 2, 2024.) Before the Erie Canal, publishers were distributed among Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

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Buffer

JULY 23, 2024

And then we attended a webinar where we learned about platforms that help businesses write and publish press releases that get picked up by major news outlets like The Associated Press.   I was blown away: Within a week of publishing this first press release, we saw our web traffic increase by 220 percent.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“I have no idea where my book is published.” These are just a few of the comments I’ve heard from authors sharing their experiences with the hybrid publishing companies they’ve chosen to work with. So if you’re an author starting out on your publishing journey, it’s important to know what to look out for. What royalties?

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 5, 2024

What Is Local Search Marketing? Local search marketing is the process of optimizing a local business online presence. In other words, local search engine marketing aims to increase the chances of your business showing up in search results when customers look for specific products or services in a particular location.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But in recent years, the concept of timeliness in a content marketing calendar has become less about utility and more about jumping on trends for the sake of relevancy. Seasonality, in regards to content marketing strategy, means aligning your content with what your audience is naturally thinking about.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The publishing landscape is complicated! Especially when we are first starting out, we need someone to distill that publishing landscape for us. If you are submitting a full book without an agent, you will likely be looking for small, independent publishers. We want a resource that is dependable, consistent, and navigable.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 27, 2025

Most people who want to write a book are so caught up in the challenge of writing that they dont spend much time thinking about the many things they will likely have to spend money on as they move from idea to published book to promotions. In this article, I identify four main areas where you can spend money on your book. But most of us dont.

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Express Writers

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Learn the secret behind brand consistency in content marketing and five tips to help you improve your brand consistency. In content marketing, brand consistency includes: Consistent images Consistent content Consistent video More importantly, brand consistency is creating a personality for your brand. What Is Brand Consistency?

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ContentWriters

APRIL 9, 2025

Learn more about why technical writing is crucial for marketing success below. In marketing specifically, technical writing guides audiences through the buyer’s journey, offering educational resources that simplify decision-making. Beyond just informing, technical content plays a decisive role in marketing.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today’s post is by Elizabeth Held, who publishes the newsletter What To Read If on Substack. When I mentioned to Christine Larson, author of Love in the Time of Self-Publishing , that more than a dozen romance writers had donated to an auction to help my neighborhood bookstore make repairs from flood damage, she immediately lit up.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 31, 2023

Photo by karina zhukovskaya Note from Jane: In the earliest days of my career, I served as managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, and one of the nicest parts of my job was calling up winners of our writing contests, including the National Self-Published Book Awards. Fast forward to 2023. reply, “I’m a writer.” Get organized.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 17, 2024

This week, my sophomore novel Valley Verified came out into the world—exactly one year after my debut novel The Fraud Squad was published. Back then, I was blissfully ignorant of the intricacies of the publishing industry. Photo by Ryan Graybill on Unsplash Today’s post is by novelist Kyla Zhao.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 17, 2024

AI-generated image using prompt “book publishing executives receiving lots of money from a technology company.” This week, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) announced the ability for publishers and other rights holders to include AI training rights as part of licensing arrangements. What is the CCC?

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Amazon • Bookshop By the time The Bookseller released in 2015, Harper had been throwing around the marketing and PR muscle that every author dreams of. The editor who took over, more interested in publishing nonfiction than fiction, politely passed. Herein lies a disconnect between what big publishers want and what many authors want.

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Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Theres a cornucopia of newsletters, blogs and podcasts available to publishers, authors, and book people, so we asked those who follow the industry what they actually read. Mark William , Editor in Chief of the New Publishing Standard, posts A View From the Beach on LinkedIn.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 11, 2025

The gap in the market looked glaringly obvious to me. So I rushed to fill it, focusing all my energy on getting the book to market quickly, publishing myself. Once it was published, I started the hard work I had deferred: sharing the ideas, blogging, speaking, defending the framework, and learning from others.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Whenever I teach on nonfiction book proposals, I open up the conversation by talking about market potential ($) and how to convince agents or editors that your project has it. And that’s exactly why book proposals exist: to make the business case that persuades agents and editors that there is in fact a market for your work.

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Ahrefs

JULY 30, 2024

To find out, I asked 26 marketers (from Ahrefs and elsewhere) to recommend a book that influenced their marketing work. Here are their recommendations: Author: Daniel Priestley First published: 2015 Recommended by: Joshua Hardwick Here’s why Joshua recommends this book: … Read more ›

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ContentWriters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Businesses deciding when to publish a white paper must thoroughly understand their audience. The first step in identifying how often you should publish a white paper is researching your industry. If you have a lot of changes in your industry or your business, you likely need to publish a white paper frequently. How frequently?

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“Recommend” submissions are considered for circulation to lit agents and publishers. Question In the eighth decade of my life and after having three books traditionally published—a travel memoir 50 years ago and two novels more recently—I am pondering the wisdom of writing a very personal memoir. There’s self-publishing.

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Backlinko

JULY 26, 2024

26% of respondents claim blogs deliver “strong marketing results”. 26% of respondents claim blogs deliver “strong marketing results”. The typical length of a blog post is 1427 words ( Orbit Media ) 61% of bloggers typically publish content between 500 and 1500 words long. Check out these stats on the benefits of blogging.

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Do you want to get paid to write for Christian markets? That’s because many writers overlook Christian markets, assuming they’re too small. TIP: Remember that if you pitch a market on this list (or any markets), it’s vital to read the writer’s guidelines carefully. They also publish poetry.

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ContentWriters

JANUARY 30, 2025

For example, Content Marketing Institute is the leading global content marketing education and training organization. Check the publisher: Are they a government agency or a professional institution? To market a product? An earlier version of this post was published in June, 2019 by Chris B. To inform the public?

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Backlinko

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Sign up and I’ll email to let you know about my favorite piece of content we’ve published each week. You’ll know by now that we only hit publish on a piece of content if we think it’s the best article on its topic on the internet. So you can trust that the newsletter is going to provide consistent value.

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Animalz

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Often, we attribute such insights to books — Growth Hacking , Inbound Marketing , The Lean Startup. Many other content marketers tell us the same on sales and customer calls. I’m pretty happy if people still talk about one of my articles a few weeks after I hit publish. Words can plant ideas in your mind forever.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 25, 2024

How can you successfully self-publish in Germany? This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket , which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. A year later, I published my first book, and I got to make a living from it almost immediately.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 16, 2025

Photo by Pavel Danilyuk Todays post is excerpted from From Pitch to Print: The Nonfiction Writers 10-Step Plan to Getting Published by Dr. Jennifer Dorsey. Bookshop Amazon Many authors I work with are often surprised to find that marketing for their book actually begins well in advance of finding a publishing path.

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

  We poured over millions of posts, Reels, Tweets, TikToks, Shorts, videos, and more to pinpoint when the best-performing content was published.  Specific timeslots see more engagement than others, which is an important consideration in your  social media marketing strategy. and Tuesday at 9 a.m. on Monday and Thursday. 

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 11, 2024

But it can’t attract an audience without all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into content publishing. Content creation gets a lot of attention. Walk step by step through a content production process that has worked well for over 10 years.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

From disinformation to privacy violations and incitements to violence, social media’s vast influence has prompted significant legal scrutiny and regulatory responses — which is why it’s important to stay informed on social media laws and how they impact your marketing.

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

But then I’d be afraid to hit publish so editing became fraught, too. It’s been part of content marketing for a long time. Content marketers have always looked for hacks to create more content faster, to get more results with less effort. I wrestled to get my ideas down on paper. I hated writing first drafts.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 28, 2025

Benchmark publishing frequency charts are nice, but they shouldnt be your only research. To help decide how often to publish on multiple channels, develop a strategy with this expert advice. After all, audiences arent homogenous.

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BKA Content

JANUARY 14, 2025

Example of How To Improve an SEO Blog Post With Google Gemini Lets say we want to optimize a post on “content marketing for law firms” from the BKA Content blog. Heres what we would do: Step 1: Search content marketing for law firms in Google. Ready to level up your SEO? Lets make it happen.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

We started writing blog content in 2011—back when Facebook fan pages and Klout scores were the marketing trends of the moment. Here’s what the exercise taught me—and what I think other content marketers can learn from my experience. Needless to say, a lot has changed since then. There was no easy way to fix this.

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