Content Strategy

Who is your audience? What kind of content do they want? How will you distribute it? How will you maintain it? These questions and more form the basis for a content strategy.

How Long Does It Take To Create New Content?

December 14, 2011
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The web is fast, right? We can create content and make changes quickly. Direct mail, advertising and events all take time to plan and execute, but putting up a new page can be done quickly. Right? Yes and no. While it’s often technically possible to create a new page quickly, some early planning will make your page much more useful. These are some of the steps I consider: Strategy: who is this content for, what does it need to communicate and what is our goal in creating it? This is always the first question because the answers drive many of the [...]

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From Internet Marketing to Internet Inspiring

November 27, 2011

This post is both personal and not. Thinking about “business” in the traditional sense never inspired me. That may sound odd considering that I went to business school, received my MBA and have spent my entire professional career in a corporate environment. But some businesses are actually not inspiring. A few are outright disheartening. People don’t want to be marketed to. People want to be inspired. They want to be moved. Who doesn’t love the feeling of being so excited about something that you just can’t wait to dig into it? My field (internet marketing) is particularly interesting. There are [...]

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Tell Your Story

November 15, 2011

There is so much information out there telling small businesses, organizations and even individuals how to use the internet to get their message out. Build a website! Use social media! Optimize your sites for search! Build an email list! Be ready for the future of mobile marketing! If internet marketing isn’t your business, all of that can be overwhelming. At the core of all those techniques, the single most important thing you can do is the thing you already know. Tell your story. The internet offers new ways to connect with people, but people don’t connect with tools. We connect [...]

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5 Things To Consider With Old Content

October 20, 2011

If you’ve used a search engine, you’ve probably noticed that old information comes up right along with newer information. I have searched for tips and tricks for getting things done in Thesis, the WordPress theme I use to manage my site. For one change I was making, I found coding instructions on someone’s blog and then later realized that an update to Thesis had built that change into the theme. The code wasn’t required but the page I was looking at had been written for an older version of Thesis. Are you doing this to your users? If you don’t [...]

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