Mailbrew Marketing Weekly - Marketing Weekly #88

Is giving free content away bad for business? • Enterprise Networking Explained: Types, Benefits, and Trends • How To Dominate a Niche With Content Velocity • 9 Things I Did to Make $5k/Month within 2 Years of Content Marketing • Speed Up Your Writing — 5 Tips That Will Get You Writing Faster and Help You Achieve Maximum… • How to Write a Blog Post Introduction That Grabs and Holds Attention • What it says about you when you call it “user journey” instead of “funnel” • I Thought My Mission Could Carry My Business, But I Needed a Good Product, Too • 6 Things I Love About Zapier’s SEO Strategy: A Case Study • Old Google, New Tricks 🐶
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Blogs

How to Write a Blog Post Introduction That Grabs and Holds Attention
Brian ClarkAug 11

Now that you’ve studied headline writing, it’s time to learn how to write a blog post introduction. Your blog post...

The post How to Write a Blog Post Introduction That Grabs and Holds Attention appeared first on Copyblogger.

What it says about you when you call it “user journey” instead of “funnel”
Anna SaraynaAug 10

A user journey is a more detailed variation of a sales funnel. Here's why you should use this approach in your marketing instead.

The post What it says about you when you call it “user journey” instead of “funnel” appeared first on Copywriting for startups and marketers.

I Thought My Mission Could Carry My Business, But I Needed a Good Product, Too
Maddy McAllisterAug 10
When Maddy McAllister started her social-impact jewelry company, she thought her mission alone would draw in customers. But she quickly realized they cared more about the quality of the product. Here’s how she turned the business around to have a deeper impact in the long run.
6 Things I Love About Zapier’s SEO Strategy: A Case Study
Mateusz MakosiewiczAug 12
Yet, Zapier’s blog alone brings 1.6M organic visits every month. That’s traffic worth about $3.7M and 67.5% of its overall organic traffic.  So let’s see why Zapier didn’t turn away from SEO and how it managed to make SEO work
Read more ›

Newsletters

Old Google, New Tricks 🐶
Victoria KellyAug 11

Google is giving us plenty of time to change our ways. See how in this week's recap.

The post Old Google, New Tricks 🐶 appeared first on Carney.


Podcasts

The 5 Stages Of Marketing Every Business Moves Their Customers Through

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I'm doing a solo show, and I'm gonna talk about something that I've been talking a lot about lately called the Customer Success Track.

Key Takeaway:

After working with tons of small businesses and clients for the last 30+ years, …

This Ecomm Site Breaks All The Rules And Still Wins Big
Copyblogger Media LLCAug 10

On this week’s episode, Tim Stoddart (@timstodz) and Ethan Brooks (@damn_ethan) talk about the incredible case study of Meh.com, an ecomm site that breaks all the rules and still finds massive success.

Cool Stuff Mentioned In The Show

More than Meets the Eye
John Wall and Christopher PennAug 11

In this Marketing Over Coffee: In this episode learn about Gladwell on Virtual Work, Multimodal AI, Yacht Rock, and more! Direct Link to File Brought to you by our sponsors: LinkedIn and Superside! Chris at MAICON Multi-Modal – Type in text, get a photo. SEC in on Rally, crackdown on …


Just a friendly reminder that Google Ad Reps are not your friend.

They are not marketers, and they do not understand the nuances of intent. They are sales people for Google, and the only things that makes sense to them is:

  • Google's machine learning knows all and you should trust it (It doesn't and you shouldn't)
  • More clicks = Successful campaign …
Please remember to make your audience the hero in your storytelling

Stop starting every sentence with "I" or "We"

Start by telling a story that your audience can see themselves in.

Your goal is to show them that you understand:

  • Where they’re at
  • What they’re going through
  • What they need
  • What success looks like for them
  • What transformation they want for …
Offered a job I'm not qualified for.

I applied for a product marketing job with this really great tech company. They really liked me and offered me A job but it wasn't THE job I applied for. They offered me a digital marketing position. Frankly, I would be an idiot to turn it down - great benefits, …



Marketing Jobs on the Swipe Files Job Board →


Twitter

alexgarcia_atx
Alex Garcia 🔍 @alexgarcia_atx

A superpower everyone should develop: Copywriting.

Amazon, the second most valuable brand in the world, puts an emphasis on teaching its employees how to write.

Here are the 9 tips to write like an Amazonian:

1.5kAug 12 · 7:27 AM
Julian
Julian Shapiro @Julian

Bi-annual public service announcement:

If you want to avoid 95% of promotional spam in your inbox, just set up a Gmail filter that moves any email with the word "Unsubscribe" into a separate folder.

Welcome to a clean inbox.

480Aug 13 · 9:59 AM
lennysan
Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan

In my research into the product-market fit journeys of the most successful B2C startups, I found that there are essentially five archetypes of finding PMF:

1. Lightning in a bottle: Immediately clear, up and to the right

212Aug 10 · 9:43 AM
Aazarshad
Aazar Shad @Aazarshad

There are 2.1 billion search results for marketing resources.

But 99% aren't worth learning.

Here are 10 marketing resources that are too good to be free:

328Aug 13 · 5:57 AM
amandanat
Amanda Natividad @amandanat

The greatest superpower anyone can have — and, yes, anyone can have it — is to genuinely want to see other people win. That’s it.

165Aug 10 · 8:33 AM
ecomchasedimond
Chase Dimond | Email Marketing Nerd 📧 @ecomchasedimond

Marketers:

Here are some evergreen emails you can send to your list:

- Myth email
- FAQ email
- Educational email
- Secret about X email
- Actionable tips email
- No. 1 mistake email
- What to do if X email

Bookmark this one…

103Aug 13 · 7:28 AM
KateBour
Katelyn Bourgoin ⚡️ @KateBour

Marketing is applied psychology

When you understand what makes people tick, click, and buy, you’ll market smarter

123Aug 12 · 3:51 AM
TaylorLagace
Taylor Lagace @TaylorLagace

My agency has generated 8+ figures for our clients using the TikTok Creator Marketplace.

It’s a goldmine, and it’s still virtually untapped.

Here are 3 simple steps for you to follow & do the same thing:

101Aug 12 · 12:01 PM
MattNavarra
Matt Navarra @MattNavarra

95% of U.S teens say they use YouTube
67% TikTok
62% Instagram
59% Snapchat
----
32% Facebook
23% Twitter
20% Twitch
17% WhatsApp
14% Reddit
5% Tumblr

153Aug 10 · 11:14 AM
jmoserr
Jeremy Moser @jmoserr

7 marketing and business tools I love:

1. Simplified → content calendar
2. Spark Mail → email efficiency
3. Bear Notes → note-taking
4. Semrush & Ahrefs → SEO
5. Notion → business wiki
6. TickTick → daily tasks
7. Pitch → slide decks

What tools do you use?

58Aug 11 · 7:52 AM
aleyda
Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦 @aleyda

Google announces Featured Snippets Update:

"Our systems can now understand the notion of consensus, which is when multiple high-quality sources on the web all agree on the same fact... we also build information literacy features in Google Search" 👇

blog.google/products/searc…

57Aug 11 · 5:40 AM
mkobach
Matthew Kobach @mkobach

Move to a big city at least once.

Even if it’s just to learn that you prefer a smaller city.

11Aug 10 · 4:52 PM
Kevin_Indig
Kevin_Indig @Kevin_Indig

Imagine you paid $4,000 for a research report and then see this

9Aug 11 · 3:54 PM
randfish
Rand Fishkin @randfish

Remember how:
Messaging apps killed email?
Social networking killed search?
VR killed traditional games?
Crypto killed govt-backed currencies?

Oh wait. None of those happened.

Why do thought leaders & reporters keep amplifying these narratives?

Multiple. Things. Can. Exist.

16Aug 11 · 2:48 PM
wilreynolds
Wil Reynolds @wilreynolds

Everyday is a chance to put some good in the world. Today isn't over.

Goodable
Goodable @Goodable

Last month, Everett lost his favorite toy at an amusement park.

His mom went online to see if anyone could help track him down.

Within hours, someone at the amusement park had found Sammie, and drove him back to Everett.

This was his reaction.

15Aug 12 · 11:01 AM
Dmurr68
Daniel Murray @Dmurr68

At its core, marketing is ALL ABOUT understanding people.

If you know how and why people think and act the way they do, you can improve your marketing.

19Aug 12 · 2:00 PM
hnshah
hiten.eth @hnshah

Grab all the memories you can

8Aug 13 · 12:32 PM
theandreboso
Andrea Bosoni @theandreboso

I really hate seeing so many companies making it hard for customers to cancel.

It might slightly improve retention but it also makes sure most of them will never come back.

3Aug 10 · 3:17 AM
JHTScherck
JH Scherck @JHTScherck

The SEO industry conflates being personable on SEO twitter with being effective at the craft.

There's no correlation. Posting less might even correlate to being more effective.

Either way, I'm definitely not recommending anyone until I've seen or bought their work firsthand.

4Aug 10 · 2:51 PM
JoelKlettke
Joel Klettke @JoelKlettke

Tomorrow I will run a half marathon trail race in the mountains

Do I feel ready? No

Will I pull it together in an incredible act of determination and will? Also no

But I will finish

1Aug 12 · 6:24 AM
milesbeckler
Miles Beckler @milesbeckler

Watching 'niche site twitter' FOMO into optimizing their handles to add 'niche site' in order to boost vanity metrics is a trip.

Meanwhile, I'm brokering deals with affiliates and scaling ads to have a ~$60k week from just 1 brand!?!

Don't FOMO into the wrong game y'all!

2Aug 10 · 6:57 AM
aprildunford
April Dunford @aprildunford

Still on vacation and all you get from me this week is flat water and birds.
Next week should I write a thread about a) PMF vs Positioning b) positioning for marketplaces or c) why product walkthrough demos suck or d) other stuff? Let me know and I will post next week 🙂

0Aug 10 · 10:48 AM
jimmy_daly
Jimmy Daly @jimmy_daly

for a post we're working on...

what's the single most useful article you've read about content marketing?

* no self-promo
* ideally written many years ago
* something you re-read and reflect on regularly

i'll post mine below 😎

11Aug 10 · 12:16 PM

Thanks for reading!

Have a great week. 🤓


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