I attended a Write by the Rails (WbtR) monthly meeting this past weekend. And as always, marketing reared its grimacing head during the discussion. We writers find ourselves consistently struggling to get the word out about our particular skills and products in between practicing our craft, and these meetings help us civilly release some pent…
Read MoreWhen you’re planning your editorial calendar, the first place you turn for ideas might not be your business plan … but maybe it should be! There’s a key statement in there that can provide tremendous direction for your blogs: the vision statement. Your vision statement is more than just your mission. Vision statements should be…
Read MoreAny amateur can tell that the world of marketing has changed over the years. But experts know the ins and outs of the changes and how to market on and offline. Lucky for you, we’re going to tell you how things have shifted and the dos and don’ts of each situation. The Marketing Winds of…
Read MoreIf you run in some of the same circles we do, you might have bumped into our team members without knowing it. It’s an occupational hazard – joining Facebook, LinkedIn and other groups that focus on blogging, social media, website content, writing, editing, marketing and business. We love to learn, and we love to pass…
Read MoreThere’s so much talk about search engine optimization these days and making blogs SEO friendly. Yet, after all your reading and research, are you still left with the feeling that you don’t REALLY know what Google wants? You’re not alone. The truth is, no one knows exactly what Google favors, but over time, we’ve gotten…
Read MoreThere’s this thing that sometimes happens when you’re developing a website. You’re laying out pages and picking plugins. You’re looking at widgets and forms. You might get so into it, you forget there’s something equally as important, something you probably don’t do often or very well. Content creation. Now content can mean a lot of…
Read MoreBlah, blah, blah. Blogs build credibility. We know, we know. We should be blogging. Stop trying to guilt us into it, will you? Okay, we admit it. Here at All Things Writing, we are big believers in blogging. And a lot of us are moms, so, well, maybe we DO have a little bit of…
Read MoreWe know it has happened to you. That website. What language is it written in, anyway? What do all those acronyms stand for? Forget this. Move on to the next site, one that’s understandable. As content developers, we find this problem a lot. And we’re asked to fix it. Business owners know there’s a problem,…
Read MoreIt’s pretty common knowledge. Mainstream news is written at a middle school reading level. And for those of us in the content development and website development industries, it’s also common knowledge that website content is meant to be written in easily digestible chunks. Plugins like Yoast not only assess SEO, they judge readability. Start writing…
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