What drives traffic to your blog? It’s a combination of several psychological elements, one of which is the eye-catching headline. You’ve seen this before. You already know you should be writing headlines which captures the attention of your audience, but which one’s should you use? How in the world does this even work anyway? I…
5 Insanely Successful Ways To Promote Your Blog
You blog. You hit “Publish”. After that you sit back and wait for the traffic to come to your blog. But isn’t there more you could do? Are you leaving something out? You’ve got some pretty good content, but perhaps there’s a step missing? Here’s some ways in which you can make sure your content…
The Attention Economy- Why Trigger Response is Vital Marketing
Have you ever had your child pull your nose in an attempt to get you to listen to them? That’s exactly what happened to me this weekend as I sat on the couch watching the Clemson Notre Dame football game. My attention was on one thing, but my three year old was wanting me to…
How To Keep Your Readers Emotionally Engaged To Your Content
I sat at my desk this morning and looked out the window. The deer were on the porch again. They love eating my wife’s flowers. Even though they have millions of other things to eat out in the woods by my house, they choose to come on MY porch and eat the tops off the…
Why It’s Ok To Write Content With An Accent
This reminds me of a bicycle I had as a kid. My first all-terrain vehicle was a one-wheel drive, and it could take you anywhere you had nerve and guts enough to peddle it. Most of the other kids around had decent, well-mannered bicycles of distinct makes and models. Mine was a balloon-tired monster born…
How To Survive Content Shock
Are you worried about the overload of content online? Do you, like many others, have a plan for creating more content to stay visible? Well, the answer may not be to create more content to compete with everyone else. I want to go over how you can survive content shock with your blog, and share…
My Marketing Favorites of 2014
This year I wanted to be able to share with you some of the marketing pro’s that I have been following throughout the year. These are from every spectrum of marketing that I follow and these are the top people and blogs that I have gleaned the most help from over the past year. Hope…
5 Ways To Induce A Content Coma
You’re getting very sleepy. Your eyes can barely stay attached to the screen. You’re wafting away into another thought. Is your content like this? Geez, I hope not. But I must say, some of the things I have written in the past have been real snore-worthy pieces. As a blogger you should always be on…
The 5 C’s of Content Writing
There has been an explosion. Content has erupted all around you, leaving your ears ringing and your hair blown back. That’s what it feels like anyway. There is so much content out there, that some people misunderstand what they need to do to create content that is compatible with the fallout of this era. So…
What You Can Learn From Songwriters in Your Content Writing
Tell me what it takes to let you go. Tell me how the pain’s supposed to go. And tell me how it is that you can sleep, in the night, without thinkin’ you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice Tell me what it takes to let you…