Resources to optimize your content and messaging
Anytime you interact with your audience, they have an emotional response—to your behavior, your message, your brand, or the issue you’ve brought to their attention. They may experience delight, disgust, surprise, desire, disappointment, joy, or other emotions that shape how they respond to your content and what they associate with [...]
For years, bloggers were told that the key to a successful blog was a steady stream of content. So people created detailed content calendars and hopped on the content marketing treadmill. Many organizations are still on that treadmill, scrambling to crank out anywhere from one to several blog posts every [...]
Test. Measure. Change. For digital marketers, that’s an endless cycle. We create variations of every ad, email, headline, and landing page, measure how our audience interacts with them, and then choose the versions that deliver the best results. But a single A/B test isn’t enough to create trends or make [...]
Every brand has a story. It’s the reason you exist. It’s what you do. It’s the problem you help your customers solve and the aspirations you empower them to fulfill. Maybe you inspire people to have a positive impact on their community. Or you equip pastors to lead their congregations. [...]
While most other forms of advertising disrupt a consumer’s reading or viewing experience in some way (like a forced a commercial break or a popup ad), native ads are designed to imitate the natural ways people expect to find content. Native ads blend in with the sites, apps, and platforms [...]
The average goldfish has a nine-second attention span. The average Internet user has an eight-second attention span. That’s what your marketing is up against every time someone hits your landing page or opens your email. Your readers are literally less attentive than a goldfish. That’s not a criticism of how [...]
As strange as it may sound, expertise can get in the way of your marketing. When you know a lot about a topic, it can be hard to talk to someone who knows nothing about it. Where do you even begin? How much do you have to explain? The challenge [...]
Digital advertising is highly scalable. If you want more leads, you just increase your spend to get more impressions, clicks, or conversions, or target another audience. But most brands don’t have an infinitely scalable budget. And a lot of organizations struggle to turn their leads into customers. That’s where content [...]
On Facebook, 99 percent of people scroll past your ad without clicking. More than 90 percent of all content (blog posts, videos, webpages, etc.) gets no traffic from Google. And the average email has an open rate of 21 percent. In other words, the vast majority of marketing gets ignored [...]
Why do people sign up for your email lists? Before you ever start writing a lead nurture campaign, you need to answer to this question. Relevancy is one of the most important factors to consider when emailing your list. You need to consider why your subscribers signed up, and what [...]