Use 10-Point Checklist to Make Your Message Clear

By: George Stenitzer, Founder and Chief Content Officer, Crystal Clear Communications

The better you know the people in your audience, the easier it is to write well for them. Literally speak your audience’s language. Make your message clear, concise, consistent, and compelling.  
#copywriting

The Best Way to Nurture Leads: Using Expert Content

By: Edward Pronley, Marketing Content Manager at Randall Reilly

You can strengthen your lead-nurturing efforts and improve your marketing and sales campaigns. But without effective lead nurturing strategies and tactics, like well-executed content marketing, the process can often feel difficult.
#leadgeneration

Web and Digital Marketing

Trends Every Digital Marketer Needs to Know

By: Lisa Chaikin, Vice President of Marketing, Awin

Successful brands big and small always have their finger on the pulse with important advertising and marketing trends. To help with getting it right, here are four digital marketing trends every brand should know.

Events Marketing

Leverage Exhibitors to Market Your Event: How to Help Them, Help You

By: Brett Glatfelter, Director of Exhibitor Engagement, Map Your Show

Exhibitors can be a powerful asset when it comes to marketing your event or trade show. By leveraging their content, you can reach a wider audience and create more awareness for your event.

9 Tips for Using Numbers More Effectively in Your Copy

By: Bob Bly, Freelance Copywriter

Bob Bly is a direct response copywriter recognized for writing copy that sets new sales records and improves marketing ROI. He has 4 decades of experience in direct response and business-to-business marketing and is the author of more than 100 books including The Copywriter’s Handbook.
#copywriting

Why You Need Brand and Messaging Architecture

By: Brian Creath, President, Cohesion

Before you can develop the best method of distributing a message, you have to have the right message. And before you can have the right message, you have to have the right messaging structure – a structure that leverages every possible efficiency and gives individual brand assets and the overall brand the best possible chance for success.
#brandbuilding

Marketing - General

Life on Both Sides of the Pond

By: Ellen Durchholz, Event Coordinator, Gardner Business Media Inc.

After graduating from college with no direction of where to go, an interview at a mysterious company unexpectedly became the launching point and home for Ellen’s career.

Content Marketing

15 Unconventional and Inspired Approaches to Marketing

By: Expert Panel, Forbes Communications Council

Members of the Expert Panel of the Forbes Communications Council share unconventional and inspired approaches to marketing.

Marketing - General

An American Manufacturing Story

By: Brent Donaldson, Editor-in-Chief, Modern Machine Shop; Contributing Editor, Additive Manufacturing, Gardner Business Media

For manufacturers that choose to move or keep production in the United States, what are the challenges and opportunities that motivate them? And how does it impact marketing?

Smart Steps to Start Building a Strong Brand

By: Elton Mayfield, President, ER Marketing

Elton Mayfield, President of ER Marketing, asks himself about how and why branding still matters today, particularly when he—and his team—have to spend time, attention and money to keep the ER Marketing brand crisp and on-target. Here are some insights from his new white paper.
#brandbuilding

Marketing - General

The Pursuit for Equilibrium

By: Fiona Lawler, Associate Editor, Additive Manufacturing, Gardner Business Media

Fiona Lawler, Associate Editor, Additive Manufacturing, Gardner Business Media, discuses the importance of implementing balance in all aspects of life in order to find new opportunities.

Content Marketing

SEO for Digital Content Marketing: How to Optimize for Search

By: Mike Murray, Founder, Online Marketing Coach

SEO success in 2023 will require you to stay on top of your performance metrics and make frequent adjustments. Whether Google targets a small segment of one industry or plays with SERPs like a puppeteer, you can take helpful steps for better results overall.