How-to guides, worksheets, and strategies and tactics to help you map out your marketing. Plus the odd philosophical musing on the digital world.

Small Business Trends has just published my article on matching your website development planning to you marketing needs and talk about how content marketing and other marketing goals should drive the size of your site, what features it includes, and waht tools are best suited to building it. I take a fresh look at the…MORE >

Well, chemistry and physics … Most examples of “The periodic table of …” infographic meme are a little bit silly and somewhat informative. Chris Lake’s The Periodic Table of Content Marketing is plenty silly, but it’s more than somewhat informative. Major props for leading off with content strategy, though I’d certainly argue in favor of…MORE >

My monthly piece for Biznology has been posted. Content Marketing Personalization: Know Your Audience is a continuing on my previous piece about establishing a more personal voice in the content you publish. (People talking to people …) The key concept is taken from an idea we first heard from friend and colleague Scott Hornstein: The…MORE >

Now that January is behind us – and we’ve all broken our resolutions – let’s focus on some new changes for our business and our marketing. Here are some tips for making your content marketing better in 2015. Before you get all twisted up in knots just thinking about starting over with your content marketing, realize…MORE >

One of the questions we hear most frequently from clients is, “What kind of content should I create?” Here are a few of the ideas we’ve shared with our clients in the past few months. Answer Questions Forget the FAQ. Think through the questions you hear most frequently from your clients. Create a blog post,…MORE >

My latest article for Biznology is live on that site and worth a read if you’re wondering how you might help your content connect more consistently with your target audience. One of the keys is presenting your content with a friendly, personal voice. Even if you’re in a B2B business, people relate to people, not…MORE >

This past weekend, my family and I took a sort of stay-cation in New York City. (“Sort of” because while we don’t live in the city any more, we’re there often enough that it’s not really a vacation spot.) Still, we stayed in a hotel and did some touristy things – the Museum of the…MORE >