Strategy Articles

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Strategy

The secret to intoxicating content: personas

Buyer personas are all the rage right now in marketing - they're essential for boosting your website's lead generation. Toby has covered...

Posted by Clare Dodd
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How to do marketing
Strategy

Content marketing ROI: how and (why) you should measure it

Back in 2012, Kapost published this free white paper about content marketing ROI and revealed that per dollar, content marketing produced ...

Posted by Grace O'Brien
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Miscellaneous
Communication

12 danger signs for client-agency business relationships

From experience, here are 12 danger signs for business relationships between agencies and their clients.

Posted by Matthew Stibbe
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How to do marketing
How to freelance

13 lessons in persuasion: conmen vs. marketing pros

Around 3.2 million people in the UK fall for mass marketed scams ever year – around one person in every fifteen. Swindles cost the public...

Posted by Matthew Stibbe
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How to write
Strategy

Why hide your prices? How to write about money on your website

Most of our clients are very reluctant to talk about the prices of their products and services. On the other hand, it’s something that...

Posted by Matthew Stibbe
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How to do marketing
How to write

How to budget for, plan and measure writing output

There's a great article in Slate today about the growing trend to measure journalists' productivity by the number of column inches they...

Posted by Matthew Stibbe
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How to freelance
Strategy

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

Marketing agency writers are not monkeys. If you were an experienced professional - say a lawyer or an accountant - and you received an...

Posted by Matthew Stibbe
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How to write
Writing

How to create better briefs for writers

I have said it before and I'll say it again: better briefs for writers make for better projects. You can't start a blog without a good...

Posted by Matthew Stibbe