If you’ve been writing content for a significant amount of time, you know that consistently identifying high value topics can get very difficult. In fact, once you’ve built up a decently sized content catalog it may feel like you’ve already covered all the ground possible. Combine that with Read more

As an entrepreneur, you often send out emails to influential members of your industry. Maybe with the intention of getting a backlink from their blog, or maybe collaborating with them for marketing purposes. In an ideal scenario, you hear back from them, work together on something, and there’s a Read more

Gone are the days where you could just find semi-relevant people, ask them to promote you, and call it a day. Need proof? Look no further than the experiment Josh Hardwick posted at the ahrefs blog. He used the traditional spray and pray approach to ask people to tweet his content, and ended up with Read more

During our webinar on outreach personalization with Ross Hudgens, Founder and CEO of Siege Media, we covered a lot of best practices and received a ton of great questions. Here's our summary of the key takeaways from the webinar, and a link to the recording, complete with outreach template examples and Read more

Most people know that guest blogging is a great way to get exposure to your content and grow your audience. Leo Widrich used guest posting to attract an audience for Buffer and grow his company into a multi-million dollar business. However, if you’ve used guest posting as a strategy to build your Read more

Although it was declared dead a few years back in a controversial blog post written by Matt Cutts, now former head of the web spam team at Google, guest blogging is very much alive in 2016 and onward. Yes, guest blogging has been misused to manipulate one's ranking through SEO, which is why Google has Read more

Influencer marketing isn’t a new concept: it’s a known, timeless marketing force of nature. But digital ecosystems can sometimes make processes feel overcomplicated. Should you tweet or email influencers when you write about them? How aggressive should you be when asking someone to share a blog post Read more

Help a Reporter Out: From a writer’s perspective, it’s the best of times and the worst of times for the exact same reason—you meet tons of people. Personally speaking, I’ve met some amazing entrepreneurs, business leaders, PR professionals, and other contacts through the platform. At the Read more

Yesterday, I came across Gideon Lichfield’s post Dear PR person who just sent me a robo-pitch. The senior editor at Quartz gets bombarded with pitches so frequently that he set up a series of email filters automatically deleting the worst offenders. Lichfield realizes he might miss the occasional Read more

Today, it's not enough for a brand to simply have a social network strategy. To be competitive, they have to use the platform in new and innovative ways. But they also need to remain focused on retaining followers. For brands, retention is especially crucial because followers are often direct consumers. Read more