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How To Create Website Content That Opens Wallets

We often obsess over fonts, photography, forms, and SEO and forget the most important function of a website… Your website exists to move someone from awareness to purchase. This is true for billion-dollar brands, freelancers, SaaS websites, eCommerce websites, home builder websites, CPG websites, nonprofit websites, and almost every other website on the planet. The …

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Branding vs Marketing: The Role Of Each In Growing Your Business

You came here to learn the difference between branding and marketing. I won’t dance around the subject. Let’s use sports to make the explanation easy. Marketing gets you to buy a ticket to your first game with a clever, “First 5 beers free” promotion. Ok, it’s probably a first beer free, but I’m allowed to …

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Inbound Marketing 101: Attract Motivated Buyers

I stumbled across the book Inbound Marketing from Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan of Hubspot back in the summer of 2010. It changed the way I think about marketing and paved the way for creating my own demand generation framework.  Inbound marketing is now the driving force in my career. I use it to shape …

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20 Tattoo-Worthy Company Taglines

Last year I finally got the tattoo I had been waiting for. Three years of screenshotting photos had come to a head and it was time to hand over my digital folder to someone who could handle the beast I had created inside my phone. But I couldn’t just trust anyone with this responsibility. After …

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Demand Generation: The Best Way To Grow Any Business

Let’s start with what demand generation is not—it’s not growth hacks or shortcuts. Real demand generation takes a coordinated effort across your organization. When properly planned and executed, it’ll pave the way for market domination. Now let’s look at a proper definition before we dig into how you can use the four pillars of demand …

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The 12 Best Email Newsletters To Feed Your Inbox

I was never a big email newsletter type of person. I don’t like checking my email, and to be frank, it gives me anxiety just watching the notifications add up. Most of the time I resort to hitting “select all” and marking them as read, just to alleviate my OCD itch. I lived by this …

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You’re Wasting Your Time On Content Marketing Without This 1 Thing

A successful content marketing strategy starts with defining who you want to reach, what you’ll provide these people, and how they’ll benefit from consuming your content. Sounds easy enough, but it’s deceivingly difficult to set a subject and stick to it every week. That’s where this new thing called a content manifesto comes into play. …

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Email marketing best practices for a wildly successful email newsletter.

I know, that’s an odd proclamation to say that I love email, but stick with me for a minute. When I’m sending my weekly email newsletter, I’m not worried about keywords, SEO, word count, curation, or algorithms. It’s all about following the below email marketing best practices and providing value in however many words that …

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