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 [...]
Say your sales reps have a booth at a conference they’ve never been to before. They prepare to spend plenty of time introducing people to your brand, explaining what your organization does, and discussing how your product or service helps people. But before they even get started, everyone says, “Oh, [...]
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 [...]
Instagram has quickly become one of the world’s largest social media platforms. With more than 1 billion users worldwide and more than 100 million in the US, it’s no wonder businesses are using Instagram to connect with their target audience. But just because everyone is on it doesn’t mean it’s [...]
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 [...]
When you acquire new leads, you can’t just start blasting them with hard sells. They signed up for a reason—and a sales pitch wasn’t it. There was a problem your lead magnet promised to help them solve or a goal you said you could help them reach. You need [...]
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 [...]