There's no doubt about it. Computing ROI for a content marketing program is tricky. There are measurements and metrics to gauge audience consumption, but expressing the impact of those actions in dollars is practically impossible. 

This episode is in our new format. It's a lot longer than 90 seconds but I've taken the time to point out ways that content marketing affects your business and how you might go about assessing the value of those effects for yourself.

Email is one of the most cost-effective methods for marketing a business. For those with small budgets, email is the only viable direct channel between the company and their prospective customers. In this podcast we'll talk about how to grow your email list organically. The lead magnet strategy has been around forever, but it still works. Even small companies can use the ideas in this episode to start growing their email lists with lead magnets.

You don't have to be an English expert to write effective business communications, but don't let lazy speaking habits make an unfavorable impression on your audience. Grammar-checking software will help clean up those passages that seem OK in casual conversation but irritate readers or listeners.

This lesson describes two recent real-life examples where content marketing produced results for our clients - in entirely different ways.

This six-minute podcast is about how to use a frequently unexploited resource you've already got to stay top of mind with your customers and prospects - with very little investment. We did it with almost no money and so can you!

Sorry to break this to you, but there's probably a good portion of your email list that has lost interest. Neglecting to look at metrics and weed out the disengaged might make you feel good about the size of the list, but there are some long-term negative effects to consider.

We rarely think about pruning the list, but it's pretty important. Continually sending to people who don't open your emails damages your reputation as a sender and is just asking for spam complaints.

Random publishing is not the

It doesn’t have to

Once a prospect buys,

Purchase – the bottom of the sales funnel. This is when buyers are almost

This lesson includes some suggested content you can use in the purchase stage of the buying process.