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How to Build a Marketing Fire

If you think of building a fire, what comes to mind? Likely, the first things you consider are the...

What photography can teach us in the digital age

To create something new requires making a series of decisions. When you’re creating, all you are doing is deciding what to leave in or leave out. And it takes discipline to leave the right stuff out. That’s why I love photography. There is no purer constraint than a photo frame. Recently I met someone on […]

3 Content Marketing Trends Shaping 2016

Marketing using “content”—be it blogs, storytelling, visuals, or audio—is quickly becoming an industry-wide trend: roughly 70% of marketers surveyed in 2015 by the Content Marketing Institute reported having produced more content last year than the year before. Nearly 90% of the marketers surveyed said they were doing some type of content marketing overall, the Institute […]

3 Ideas about the Future of Blogging

For decades, blogs were the Internet’s currency—if you had one, you could command an audience, if you didn’t, gathering a digital following was much harder. Bloggers like Andrew Sullivan, Seth Godin, and the personalities behind Boing Boing used their digital platforms to launch online empires that engaged millions. But with the growth of social media […]

Listen To: Mike Lichter on Writing for the Web

For this week’s podcast, I sat down with Matt Hansen to talk about my thoughts on writing for the web, expanding on my Q&A from last week. We chat about scanning versus reading on the web, how to structure information before it hits the Internet, and why old school writers still win when it comes […]

Q&A: Mike Lichter on Writing for the Web

As a creative director and copywriter, I frequently work on projects that incorporate a web-first component. Whether it’s writing copy on a website or restructuring important content online, I share some of my best practices with Matt Hansen in this conversation. Q: What are some fundamentals companies should keep in mind when writing websites? A: […]

Your Blog is (also) a Sales Tool

Blogging is usually very clearly a marketing function, many times expected to drive traffic through SEO and being shared on social media. This stereotype makes it easy for sales-driven organizations to opt out of blogging. “We don’t care about SEO.” “Social media doesn’t drive leads for our business.” and of course… “We don’t have time […]