- The Detail Principle for Writing Good Blog Posts Lately I’ve been evaluating tons of freelance writers, reading more portfolio pieces than I can count, editing a bunch of client pieces, and helping multiple new writers understand how to write a good blog post. This means I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts in the past few months. First, I read candidates portfolio pieces. Then […]
- How Long Does It Take for Content Marketing to Work? A Case Study. In this case study, we show you real data from our client engagements and cover how long it takes to see results from content marketing.
- Positioning Case Study: How We Created a Premium Content Marketing Service Several months ago, we published an article titled “Positioning Is the Part of Product Market Fit You’re Likely Ignoring”. It was motivated by our feeling that our work was heavily dependent on clients getting their positioning right. We define positioning as the “market fit” part of “product-market fit”: If your positioning isn’t dialed in, it […]
- Why Your Content Needs “Originality Nuggets” to Be Effective We think marketers have become too focused on length being the key factor to “great content”, which has produced too many long posts that have nothing original to say. How many “epic” 3000+ word blog posts have you read that haven’t really taught you anything new? For me, too many. So, in our opinion, length […]
- How Nat Eliason Used Pain-Point SEO to Increase Sales 300% in 2 months A couple months ago, Benji and I were having a conversation about SEO, content marketing, and turning it into ecommerce sales. I’d expressed some frustration that the organic traffic to one of our blogs, Cup & Leaf, wasn’t converting as well as I’d like it to. We’d done a good job building up our traffic, […]
- Content Ideation: How to Identify Content Ideas That Convert The topic that you write about is more important than traffic or CTAs for conversions. Here's our strategy to come up with content ideas that convert.
- Content promotion for 2019: Our shift in strategy and the 3 tactics we’ll use Last month, I wrote a post called “Content promotion is changing. My thoughts on where we go from here.” In it, we shared months of traffic data from our clients that shows how content promotion is changing and outlined ideas of what we can test going forward. After the last month of testing and exploring […]
- Content promotion is changing. My thoughts on where we go from here Back in early 2016, we coined the term “community content promotion”. The linked article above shared how we grew our traffic from 0 – 32,977 users in 5 months with this promotion strategy. Here’s a very simplified version of the strategy outlined in the article: You learn about your customer. You figure out what communities your […]
- Pain Point SEO: How to Produce SEO Content That Drives Conversions The strategy we coined describing how to prioritize content ideas around high-intent keywords over high-volume keywords with the goal of driving conversions.
- Everything you need to know about hiring a content marketer Here’s why hiring a content marketer is so hard: For content marketing to be effective for a company, a content marketer needs to get a lot of things right. They need to be able to produce articles on topics that will attract your target customer, they need to be able to drive the right traffic to […]
