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Feb 22, 2022

CoSchedule started the Actionable Marketing Podcast (AMP) in 2015 and has recorded and published more than 300 episodes. CoSchedule has worked with some of the smartest minds out there that share their stories with you through this podcast. This season, CoSchedule brings back some of the best of the best evergreen content. 

Copywriting can happen anywhere - from blogs to cereal boxes. It includes the whole world of marketing words. Conversion copywriting helps businesses build their business. Conversion copywriting is about getting people to say “Yes” and generating more leads and buyers. It measures results to see if something converted or not.

Today, we’re talking to Joanna Wiebe, a conversion copywriter, creator of Copyhackers, and co-founder of Airstory. She is an absolute authority on copywriting and conversions.

 

Some of the highlights of the show include:

  • What makes people say, “Yes.” Whether it is clicking or trying something. There are different formulas you can use for this goal.
  • Ask customers, “What was going on in your life that brought you to…” Then, you can identify their motivation.
  • If you put a button on a Web page, people will click it because it is there. Lots of things will move people to click, but rarely lead to conversions.
  • Stages of Awareness: Unaware, Pain Aware, Solution Aware, Product Aware, and Most Aware.
  • Persuasion techniques are typically triggers used at the late stages in hope that you will make people buy.
  • “Don’t put pressure on poor, little button.” It’s going to get clicked, but don’t put too many fancy marketing tricks within it.
  • Where does it go? What will it say? Push the best people to the most highly optimized button.
  • There’s buttons for Calls to Value or Calls to Action. A Call to Action button is to tell the user exactly what you want them to do. For example, Download Ebook or Complete Purchase.
  • A Calls to Value button regards why a customer is performing an action and completes the phrase, “I want to…”
  • Change your button approach depending on the type of medium you are using. It depends on the context for an action or engagement.
  • Map out actions based on context and location - email, Website, blog, etc.
  • Map Calls to Action to move customers to the next stage of awareness.

 

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Quotes by Joanna Wiebe:

“It wasn’t the digital atmosphere we have today in marketing where everything, everything gets measured.”

“The real thing is we want to convert. We want more leads and we want more buyers. That’s what conversion copywriting is about.”

“We can’t do a lot of motivating with copy, but you can take someone’s motivation and turn it into something.”

“People want to click things. Mostly because they just want to move through life and get their problems solved.”

Feb 15, 2022

CoSchedule started the Actionable Marketing Podcast (AMP) in 2015 and has recorded and published more than 300 episodes. CoSchedule has worked with some of the smartest minds out there that share their stories with you through this podcast. This season, CoSchedule brings back some of the best of the best evergreen content. 

CoSchedule’s blog and content engine generate more than 1 million views and 20,000 leads every month. How do we do it? Listen and learn.

Today’s guest is Leah DeKrey, content marketing strategist and blog manager at CoSchedule. To know that a million people read the blog posts she writes every month is terrifying, thrilling, and core to CoSchedule’s growth.

 

Some of the highlights of the show include:

  • Reasons for Successful Blog:
    • Corporate and managerial buy-in
    • Standards of performance
  • Blog Posts: Be different than the rest, as the best
  • 4 Performance Pillars for Blog Posts:
    • Comprehensive; at least 3,000 words
    • Actionable
    • Relevant
    • Content upgrade/value-add included
  • Keyword Domination Strategy: Drive content by Googling around to search and seek high-volume, low-difficulty keywords
  • Measure Success of Content and Blog: Give it time because reaching the top doesn't happen overnight and takes patience
  • What you know now: College system is ripe for disruption, real world is where you learn 90% of what you do
  • Tools to Try: Ahrefs, Google Analytics, and KISSmetrics

 

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Quotes from Leah DeKrey:

“The number one thing that got us kicked off on the right foot was having that executive and managerial buy-in.”

“We aim to be the most in-depth blog posts that you can find on any topic on the Internet.”

“How much is too much? How much time is too much time? You're not alone in wondering those things.”

“Finding those sweet spots of keywords is really important for your content strategy. Otherwise, it's not going to be justified spending so much time.”

Feb 1, 2022
When it comes to content marketing, failing to plan is planning to fail. Why do some marketers struggle with content planning? It isn’t easy nor is it always properly valued. Sometimes, content planning gets overlooked.

Today’s guest is Vassilena Valchanova, a digital strategist, trainer, speaker, and blogger. She talks about why it is important to plan content consistently with a repeatable and effective framework by sharing her blueprint for content planning.

 

Some of the highlights of the show include:

  • Content Planning: Focus on the right things and follow a predefined structure
  • Pros: Goal is to promote products and give people helpful information
  • Cons: Without a clear process for planning content, promotional content fills gap
  • Out of Necessity: Why Vissilena created content marketing blueprint/framework
  • Purpose: Blueprint is a strategy document that helps with daily content planning
  • Process: How Vissilena’s content blueprint strategy works from start to finish
  • How to create your own content planning blueprint/framework for your company
  • Compare/Contrast: Plan different content pieces across different channels

 

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Quotes from  Vassilena Valchanova:

“We don't spend enough time properly planning out what messages we’ll be sharing, what different types of content we’ll be promoting, and how we engage our audience in different channels and in different formats.”

“We start creating content that pretty much feels and looks the same because we're trying to push something out quicker and will go for just an image with a standardized template design rather than focusing on really creating something unique at that point.”

“What the content blueprint does is allow you to document that strategy in an easy-to-use format. ”

“The four different segments will be the mission statement, setting up the goals, channel plan, and topic plans.”

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