Got content? 5 tips for great newsletter content

Newsletter creation can be remarkably challenging for even the most prolific writer. After all, your newsletter has some lofty goals: get through spam filters, attract readers’ eyes, get opened, get read, get click-thrus, convert to a lead, and if all the stars align – result in a sale. Phew! Coming up with good content is [...]

Persuasive Picks for week of 10/15/12

The key to being a good consultant of any kind is to ask the right questions, writes Michael Teitelbaum in a recent post at Marketing Trenches, and provides a list of 5 Questions Marketers Need to Ask Prospective Clients to get to the heart of a prospect’s challenges and aspirations – via MarketingProfs. Visual networks [...]

Persuasive Picks for the week of 04/11/11

PR Is Not A White Hat SEO TechniqueThis post from Nichola Stott on SearchEngineWatch expands on the dangers of using press releases as an SEO strategy that could ultimately “backfire and possibly damage your clients’ reputation.“ 5 Top Marketing Blogs by EntrepreneursI’m always on the look-out for new blogs to add to my newsreader, and [...]

Persuasive Picks for the week of 02/14/11

Choosing the best social media buttons for your siteHelp keep your website from reaching “button overload” with this post from Memeburn.com‘s Alistair Fairweather. He provides helpful tips on how to select the proper sharing buttons for your site, where they should be place and how to implement them. How the Auto Industry Is Embracing Social [...]

To Double Space or Not to Double Space?

Lately there have been a lot of writers up in arms over nothing. No really – an article by Slate’s Farhad Manjoo over the overuse of the double space after the period has sparked a heated debate between the “One Space” and “Two Space” camps. In “Space Invaders: Why you should never, ever use two [...]