How to Write Conversationally: 7 Tips to Engage and Delight Your Audience

By Henneke

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How often do you shrug your shoulders and press delete after reading a marketing email?

Many marketing messages make us cringe. They don’t sound like a human being wrote them. They don’t engage. They lack personality and feel cold-hearted.

It’s not surprising.

At school, we learned grammar rules. We learned how to write and spell, but we didn’t learn how to use language to connect with our readers. We didn’t learn how to engage, persuade, and inspire.

But readers crave a human touch.

When we read conversational content, we instantly feel a connection with the writer. We feel like we’re getting …read more      

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6 Steps to Create a Bare Bones and Profitable Social Media Plan

By Neil Patel

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You can’t achieve success in any area of marketing without taking action.

But it’s possible to take action too quickly.

You want to take action only after you have a solid initial plan to act on; otherwise, you’ll end up doing things that don’t produce any results and only waste your time.

When I see how many marketers approach social media, it’s clear to me they don’t have a plan.

They randomly connect with users, post things, and sometimes send messages to those users.

By basic logic, random actions lead to random results.

And that’s not what we want as marketers.

Instead, you need a plan. …read more      

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What Is a Content Marketer?

By Demian Farnworth

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Long ago, copywriting legend John Carlton told me that the best copywriters didn’t just master their own discipline; they also mastered related disciplines — like marketing, SEO, and negotiations.

This is true for content marketers, as well.

A content marketer is a master of many disciplines. But what exactly does that mean? What sort of disciplines and skills are we talking about? And what types of knowledge and experience are necessary to be a content marketer?

I’ll answer those questions and more, but before I do, I’ll first loosely define the term “content marketer.”

Then, I’ll tell you how …read more      

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Get More From Landing Pages: 6 Ways to Use Them More Effectively

By Neil Patel

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It’s the aim of most marketing and sales efforts:

Conversion.

All your work is designed to get visitors, leads, and even customers to take the next step.

Getting them more involved with your brand and products is necessary to drive sales.

There are obviously many ways of doing this. Blog posts, emails, e-books, and more.

But there’s one option that is almost always better at converting traffic to the next step:

Landing pages.

A landing page has a single goal, which you define. It might be to sign up to an email list, buy a product, or create an account for your site.

Everything on the page …read more      

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3 Resources to Help Invigorate Your Standard Content Routine

By Stefanie Flaxman

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You’re probably familiar with “art imitating life” and “life imitating art.” I know I am.

We can apply this idea to content marketing, as well.

Your content may imitate life if it’s engaging, entertaining, and useful. You take recognizable, relatable elements from life and infuse them into your content to connect with your audience members’ worldviews.

But how can life imitate your content?

Well, winning content marketing is often the product of trying different experiments to see what works best for your message and your business. These experiments help you get to know your audience better …read more      

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