Christina Walker | Author at https://writtent.com/
If you’ve been doing business online for any amount of time, you’ve probably heard a new phrase about using proprietary information to attract and retain customers. You’ve heard it’s all the rage–search engines love it, prospects love it, sometimes it even goes viral.
It is using any type of content to attract prospects and convert them to customers, and to reconvert previous customers to repeat buyers.
So you’ve decided to pursue content marketing and started a blog for your business. Now what?
If you’re like most content producers, tracking all your content projects and making sure they get published and shared is an organizational nightmare. If you provide content services for your clients in addition to your own content marketing objectives, it’s even worse.
Although content marketing became popular and powerful thanks to SEO and blogging, it applies to many other marketing initiatives you could pursue for your business. Email newsletters are the perfect example.
But like business blogging, newsletters for business sometimes have a bit of a learning curve.
If you’ve been wondering how to write a newsletter, the good news is it’s relatively easy. Once you make all the preliminary decisions about your e-newsletter, then all you have to do is plan the editorial calendar, get everything written, send it out, and track the results.
You’ve probably heard that blogging can do wonders for your business–improve your SEO, attract more visitors to your website, build trust and brand loyalty, generate more leads and sales, and more. The problem is that figuring out how to start a blog for your business isn’t as easy as starting a personal blog.
In the first installment of this series, How to Start a Blog: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Business Blog, Part 1, we listed most of the back-end tasks of starting a corporate blog. In Part 2, we’ll talk about the fun parts–branding and content creation.
If you’re seriously thinking about jumping on the content marketing bandwagon, you need a business blog. Your blog is where you’ll point all your social media fans and followers, where you’ll accumulate a treasure trove of information for customers and employees alike, where your expertise and thought leadership will really shine.
In short, your business blog is where you can engage with people and build your brand like never before.
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If you’ve been marketing your business online for any amount of time, you know that content marketing can be super powerful.
You probably also know that blogging is one of the best ways to make content marketing work for you.
But if you’ve never blogged before, or don’t know how to start a business blog, blogging and content marketing can be a little intimidating. The problem is,
finding reputable resources to help you get started can be tricky, too.
Article writing can be a huge part of your content marketing strategy. Done right, article marketing has a lot of benefits. Article writing can:
Article writing can also be an important component in your off-page SEO strategy by pointing quality, one-way links to your site. Because articles focus on the reader, not the link itself, these links are much more valuable, especially when you publish your articles on directories with high PageRank.
Whether you’re a professional writer yourself or a marketer tasked with writing powerful, effective content, you need to write like a pro to get the job done. Use these top 10 secrets of professional copywriters to make your copy stand out from the competition and get results.
Do you struggle at creating titles and headings that capture attention and compel visitors to keep reading? The kind of powerful titles and subject lines that draw readers in like moths to the flame and keep them coming back for more?
Learning how to write a newsletter is relatively easy. Constantly generating newsletter content ideas is not.
That’s why we’ve put together this list of 24 powerful content ideas, plus a few additional resources to help you come up with even more ideas for your newsletter. With this handy list, you’ll never have to worry about what types of content to include in your next newsletter again.
Before we list the newsletter ideas, however, there’s one important thing to keep in mind: You need to think like an editor.