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5 Quick Tips to Improve Your Writing

5 Quick Tips to Improve Your Writing

  To achieve your content marketing goals, you must clearly communicate with your audience. By avoiding these grammar mistakes, you can ensure that your message is understood. Here’s our list of five errors to avoid:   Unclear Pronouns DON’T: Sally and Jenny work well together, but her promotion may complicate their relationship. DO: Sally and…

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How to Write a Headline: Starting Digital Content Right

How to Write a Headline: Starting Digital Content Right

We previously posted about how to optimize your webpages to engage with readers, and now we’ll take a deep dive into one key element, the headline, so you can start every post and page on the right note. It’s important to remember that headlines set the tone for all of your content. Headlines can be…

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7 Ways to Catch (and Hold) Readers’ Attention

7 Ways to Catch (and Hold) Readers’ Attention

Attention-span of a goldfish? Not if your audience is entertained. According to some scientists, human attention-spans are shrinking to that of a goldfish’s. Experts blame our digital world, creating a population of distracted, attention-deficit individuals who are conditioned by their smartphones to react when there are stimuli dancing across their screens. There are two popular…

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Beware of These 15 Common Grammar Mistakes

Beware of These 15 Common Grammar Mistakes

We’ve all been there, looking at an email or a blog to see one glaring error, whether it was a typo or elementary-level grammar mistake. While they’re honest, common mistakes, they’re still seen as unprofessional and can make the difference between a potential and a lost client. Here are 15 common errors to keep on…

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Making Time to Write

Making Time to Write

If you’re like most company bloggers, writing is not your only job. This means having to shuffle your schedule to open a document and begin. It is intimidating, no matter how long you’ve been doing it. And even after making the time to write, there are all sorts of mental blocks, such as coming up…

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The Video Effect: Leveraging Videos in Your Content

The Video Effect: Leveraging Videos in Your Content

  A great video can quickly go viral on social media; a poor one can lose an audience in seconds. Video adds a new dimension to your content, either by enhancing written content, or as a standalone with a written introduction and teaser. Here are nine ways to capture your watching audience. Grab their attention…

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Is Print Dead Or Has It Evolved?

Is Print Dead Or Has It Evolved?

  Years after being given the ‘eternal rest’ forecast, print is not only still around, it’s growing. So what’s really going on? The debate of print vs. digital has been going on for the last decade. Unfortunately, the debate has until now been largely one-sided. While nobody can deny the kind of disruption digital content…

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5 Elements of a Great Styleguide

5 Elements of a Great Styleguide

Managing a multi-author blog is difficult. A styleguide is a cheat-sheet for your entire company to follow with its communications. From spelling to punctuation to colors, a styleguide controls how a company will present itself on paper or screen, which ultimately sets the tone for its brand and its standards. So where to start? Adopt…

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