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Get Out of Your Head

It’s hard to write for clients if you’re always in your own head. But, not just your head, but your voice. The voice in your head that’s speaking while you’re writing. For a long time I only had one voice. You got Tris or you got nothing. It didn’t work so well. Sure, it worked…

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Let writers write, then edit

It’s been misattributed to Ernest Hemingway for years, but “write drunk, edit sober” holds a lot more truth than you’d first think. Here’s why. While, yes, there is some evidence a couple drinks help creativity, let’s think more practically. Think about “write drunk” as when you’re in the zone, and words, ideas, and connections are…

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Creating a Great-and useful-Content Calendar

What’s your favorite way to build a content calendar? I go between Asana and Trello myself, but more importantly, does your content calendar have everything you need to power a content marketing creation engine? All content calendars need: Title/Subject where the piece is in the process who is doing the writing who is approving when…

3 Ways to Start Writing Great Content
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3 Ways to Start Writing Great Content

Simple things to kick start your content marketing Doesn’t matter who you are, marketer or not, you’ve heard content marketing is the new best practice for all marketing. Create great content and leads will pour in, sales will increase, and all will be good with the world. There’s more than a touch of hyperbole in…

If you create content to go viral, you’ve already failed
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If you create content to go viral, you’ve already failed

You can’t plan on it. You can’t create for it. I see a lot of posts and tips on how to make your content go viral. Or how to get thousands of likes. Or shares. Or comments. I have a real problem with these posts. I believe these posts miss the point of marketing. They…

To Blog or Not To Blog, That’s the Wrong Question
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To Blog or Not To Blog, That’s the Wrong Question

Content marketing isn’t solely about blogging or about words—It’s about connecting If you had asked me ten, even five, years ago if your company should have a blog, I would have answered with an emphatic: Yes! But it’s 2018 and times have changed. Blogging and social media marketing has morphed and coalesced into content marketing…