5 Reasons Hobbies Make Good Content Marketing Niches

Writers often forget about their hobbies and interests when brainstorming niches and marketing ideas. However, I have found pastimes are a create source of niches. During my workshop on finding your niches at Content Connections, several of the writers were struggling to find a niche that they felt excited about and could see the possibilities until…

Read More

7 Things I Learned from Content Connections 2014 in Chicago

I boarded my plane home to North Carolina this week with my notepad and head full of new ideas for my business after attending the ASJA Client Connections Conference in Chicago. I am exhausted, energized and already counting the days till the ASJA annual conference Connect for Success in New York City from April 30…

Read More

What I Learned about Content Marketing on My Summer Vacation

I’m back! I took the summer off from blogging to focus on my family and my own business. But now I am back to posting regularly about content marketing. I always hated those essays that we had to write in the fall about what we did over our summer vacation, but I’m going to bring…

Read More

5 Steps to Increase Your Income By Reducing Revision Requests

Earlier this week, I wrote about why I think that the endless revision cycle is a fish tale that keeps journalists away from content marketing. However, it does happen. Each time I have finished a project that had multiple revision cycles, I realized that in most cases that there were steps I could have taken…

Read More

The Myth of Endless Revisions: A Content Marketing Writing Fish Tale

One of the most common reasons I hear about why a writer doesn’t want to go into content marketing is that they don’t want to always endure an endless revision process with multiple stakeholders. At first I bought into the myth of this never-ending revision cycle and assumed that I had just gotten lucky. But…

Read More