Has your inbox started blowing up yet with emails from your favorite charities asking for your financial support? Between this week’s Giving Tuesday, next week’s Colorado Gives Day and year-end appeal campaigns, ’tis the season for Colorado’s nearly 20,000 registered nonprofit organizations to ask for your financial support.
We all get the emails, and they look something like this:
My name is Vicky, and I wanted to know if you would be interested in reaching key decision-makers across Information Technology and other industry verticals. We provide opt-in business emails with contact’s full name, company name, job title, phone and fax number, mailing address, SIC codes, industry description, employee size and revenue etc.
Would you like to hear a joke? OK, well, I can’t remember how it starts, but the punchline is “he eats chutes and leaves.”
In today’s online world, blogging has taken on increased importance as everyone from Fortune 500 companies to small-town mom-and-pop shops seek to expand their digital reach and ultimately improve their bottom line. After initially serving as an online venue for folks to share their feelings, thoughts and opinions to their followers, blogging has grown immensely…
As a business owner, especially one looking to expand your brand, it can be exciting to receive messages that “you’ve been shortlisted for an article of top companies” or that “you’ve been chosen to be featured in an article.” As a PR executive, I receive emails like this for my clients on a daily basis.…
In the constantly changing media marketplace we’re currently faced with, the resources, tools, techniques and platforms that are effective today may not be able to drive the results you’re looking for tomorrow. Consequently, marketers and others in the marketing industry are forced to evolve their tactics or risk being left behind as content consumption patterns develop and social media platforms shift…
In part one of this blog series, I talked a little bit about what copywriting is, why it is important and offered up a few tips on how to attract readers with the captivating content you’re crafting. This post — part two — not only offers fantastic copy — see what I did there? It also provides valuable and relevant content, including additional tips on how to draft irresistible copy that engages viewers and compels them to take action…
Words. Some people are good with them while others, well, aren’t. We know this. Obviously, there are a number of pieces that compose the public relations and marketing puzzle, yet one vital element is often overlooked — the copywriting. But what exactly is copywriting? Copywriting involves crafting the written words…
*This the the first post of a three-part series on video content for social media. This article covers the “Why;” the second article will discuss shooting, editing and optimization; the third post will focus more in-depth on how to promote video content through social media.
With 2016 well under way, I think it’s time to address the possibilities that the new year will bring to the ever-evolving social media industry. While we all know that social media platforms will continue to update and innovate, it’s important to understand why those shifts are happening and what marketers can anticipate from such…