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5 Magazines That Pay $450 to $3500 per Article To Write • The 4 Rules of Success for Creating Your Brand’s Audio Strategy • How Fast Is SEO? (Answered for Beginners) • Is My Website Still Working For My Business? • 15 Tried and Tested Content Promotion Strategies for Your Blog • Writing Voice 101: Add Color and Richness … Without Making Us Want to Barf • The email click-through rate formula recommended by ActiveCampaign • Build Week at Buffer: What It Is and How We’re Approaching It • Find Influencers: 6 Easy Steps to Choose the Right Ones • The Pageview Paradox: How Great Results Cause Poor Performance
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Blogs

Writing Voice 101: Add Color and Richness … Without Making Us Want to Barf
Sonia SimoneAug 18

Your writing voice should make your subjects clear and interesting. Assuming you aren’t working on the next Waiting for Godot,...

The post Writing Voice 101: Add Color and Richness … Without Making Us Want to Barf appeared first on Copyblogger.

The email click-through rate formula recommended by ActiveCampaign
Anna SaraynaAug 17

Use ActiveCampaign's email click-through rate formula to determine the effectiveness of your email campaigns. Plus tips to improve your CTR.

The post The email click-through rate formula recommended by ActiveCampaign appeared first on Copywriting for startups and marketers.

Build Week at Buffer: What It Is and How We’re Approaching It
Joel GascoigneAug 18
Read all about the idea behind Build Week, what it means, and how we're approaching it.
Find Influencers: 6 Easy Steps to Choose the Right Ones
Himanshu GuptaAug 19
how to find influencersTo help you, we’ve mapped out six steps you can follow to find the right influencers. But before that, let’s understand whom you’d describe as the “right” one for your brand and why it’s so important.  Simply put, the right
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The Pageview Paradox: How Great Results Cause Poor Performance
Ryan LawAug 16

Here’s the pageview paradox: many of the things that we do to improve our marketing metrics actually hinder long-term business growth.  This happens through two mechanisms. The actions we take to increase our performance metrics also serve to quietly, almost invisibly, frustrate potential customers, and because of our fixation on …

How to Do B2B Content Marketing without Domain Expertise
Olivia BarrowAug 16
In our sales meetings with prospective clients, we frequently face one recurring objection from people that operate in extremely specialized or technical niches. They’re already bought into our whole approach to content marketing (ranking for bottom of the funnel pain point-related terms, getting the right customer-content fit, recognizing the value …

Newsletters

I Wish I Was a Baller
Victoria KellyAug 18

And a little bit taller. Get your TikTok and paid ads to new heights in this week's recap.

The post I Wish I Was a Baller appeared first on Carney.


Podcasts

How To Create A Culture Of Learning And Growth

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interview Whitney Johnson. Whitney is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors. She is one of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. Whitney is an expert in smart growth leadership, and …

This Model Should Not Work… But It Does
Copyblogger Media LLCAug 17

On this week’s episode, Tim Stoddart (@timstodz) and Ethan Brooks (@damn_ethan) talk about Psychology Today, a publication older than Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, and People, whose success defies expectations. Tune in to hear why their model is so surprising, the specific …

Marketing Your Book
John Wall and Christopher PennAug 18

In this Marketing Over Coffee: In this summer special learn about all the tactics you can use to market a book! Direct Link to File Brought to you by our sponsors: LinkedIn and Trust Insights! LinkedIn – We’ve got a special offer for Marketing over Coffee Listeners, you can redeem …


Anyone else hate working 9 to 5?

Anyone else not cut out for a 9-to-5? I'm slowly but surely coming to this realization, that I'm just not passionate about a 9-to-5. I hate it, in fact. Staring at a computer screen all day, analyzing budgets and numbers on Excel. I can't believe I worked so hard in …

What is your research process like ?

How do you conduct competitor analysis, target audience research - pain points and goals, brand analysis etc?

Step by step framework would be appreciated

Ex : If I were to look for B2B SaaS

I’m exhausted by this industry

Context: I’m in B2B working at a well known SaaS company..pre-IPO stage.

I’m tired of marketing and this industry. I’m tired of the relentless fire drills, emergencies, and arbitrary deadlines (mostly same day)

I’m tired of changing expectations from my manager..some so trivial in the context of making progress like …



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Twitter

aprildunford
April Dunford @aprildunford

Product walkthrough demos generally suck (I've seen a lot of them). I think doing a good one is easy. Here's how I like to think about it - 1/13

256Aug 19 · 7:51 AM
KateBour
Katelyn Bourgoin ⚡️ @KateBour

If someone promises to teach you an “easy way to make money”…

Chances are you’re *their* easy money

233Aug 19 · 5:24 AM
aleyda
Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦 @aleyda

Google's Content Quality & Helpfulness Questions 🙋🏻‍♀️ - A Checklist with Questions to Ask in English and Spanish:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

I have expanded the Checklist that featured E-A-T related questions to include also Helpful Update related ones to assess your content 👌

222Aug 19 · 1:51 AM
ecomchasedimond
Chase Dimond | Email Marketing Nerd 📧 @ecomchasedimond

Email Marketers:

Here are some subject line ideas:

- You will not regret this (Trust)
- Get your gift before X (Curiosity)
- Last chance to get X at Y% off (Urgency)
- How to get X without Y (Narrative)
- Take a look at our new X (Priming)

Use these

Watch your open rate go up

134Aug 20 · 7:48 AM
Aazarshad
Aazar Shad @Aazarshad

8 Facebook Ads ideas proven to work:

- Us vs Them
- Before and after
- Press release screenshot
- Problem - Agitation - Solution UGC
- Founder stories
- 3 reasons why
- Tiktok made me buy it (Yes for fb it works too)
- Single image ad that make problem "pop"

What else?

143Aug 19 · 5:15 AM
Kevin_Indig
Kevin_Indig @Kevin_Indig

Google just announced an algorithm update that sounds important in my ears.

I translated the announcement into actionables:

173Aug 18 · 2:23 PM
MattNavarra
Matt Navarra @MattNavarra

The 10 most followed TikTok accounts in 2022

10. @dixiedamelio 57.4 million followers
9. @CznBurak 62.7m
8. @tiktok 64.6m
7. @KimberlyLoaiza_ 66.5m
6. @zachking 69.2m
5. Will Smith 72m
4. @whoisaddison 88.6m
3. @bellapoarch 91.1m
2. @charlidamelio 145.4m
1. @KhabyLame 148.4m

161Aug 18 · 3:02 AM
TheCoolestCool
Ross Simmonds @TheCoolestCool

If you’re a SaaS marketer, you need to study Gusto.

The SEO & growth strategies they used become a $9.5B startup and reach 200k customers is so impressive.

Here's a few things you can learn from them 🧵

71Aug 19 · 1:10 PM
amandanat
Amanda Natividad @amandanat

Cold email done... right? I am undecided.

7Aug 19 · 8:28 AM
theandreboso
Andrea Bosoni @theandreboso

Signs you’re a real marketer:

- Always delete UTM parameters before sharing links
- Never click on sponsored results to save brands money
- Pay more attention to ads than to your friends’ pics

Congratulations you’re one of us!

21Aug 18 · 6:41 AM
mkobach
Matthew Kobach @mkobach

If you work at a start-up and ever find yourself thinking “but that’s not MY job”, you shouldn’t be working at a start-up.

30Aug 17 · 3:53 PM
Dmurr68
Daniel Murray @Dmurr68

Name a marketing tool/software that you couldn't live without?

I'll start: @canva

17Aug 19 · 9:15 AM
wilreynolds
Wil Reynolds @wilreynolds

Google has a big update coming, I got a chance to sit with their team & get a feel for what this means. Here are a few of my thoughts, with an example of the kind of non helpful content I've seen ranking and will be looking out for as this update rolls out
seerinteractive.com/blog/helpful-c…

43Aug 18 · 11:12 AM
lennysan
Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan

One of @shishirmehrotra’s favorite interview questions (and the answer)

4Aug 19 · 12:12 PM
heyblake
Blake Emal @heyblake

Printers have the worst UX of any product in history

14Aug 19 · 7:23 AM
JoelKlettke
Joel Klettke @JoelKlettke

Step 1: Read competitor reviews; make a list of common complaints.

Step 2: If you're stronger than they are in those areas, intentionally curate case studies/testimonials about it

Step 3: Use that collateral in ads, cold outreach, and all manner of corporate warfare

Love u

17Aug 18 · 1:38 PM
randfish
Rand Fishkin @randfish

A founder friend asked about switching to Hubspot's CMS vs. staying on Wordpress.

Anyone have experiences/suggestions to share?

12Aug 17 · 10:24 AM
milesbeckler
Miles Beckler @milesbeckler

Shoutout to thw 5am rise and grind crew...

To all those who get up and work on their fortune before heading to work for the man.

I salute you.

0Aug 19 · 5:03 AM
jayacunzo
Jay Acunzo @jayacunzo

“Hey Jay, how’s the business world?”

“Well, ‘Write for humans, not bots’ is considered groundbreaking advice. So.”

2Aug 20 · 5:23 PM
JHTScherck
JH Scherck @JHTScherck

This is going to, maybe, at best, impact AI generated gibberish.

Remember that Google isn't trying to tell us how to prepare for changes, they are playing a public relations game after the results have been routinely criticized by consumers.
blog.google/products/searc…

2Aug 18 · 1:14 PM
timsoulo
Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 @timsoulo

Do you measure the ROI of your Content Marketing efforts?

15Aug 17 · 9:04 PM

Thanks for reading!

Have a great week. 🤓


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