SEO Content Readability: 5 Mistakes Your Plugin Won’t Detect

To marketer ears, “readability” inevitably conjures that familiar WordPress plugin: Yoast SEO. If you’ve never had the pleasure of using it, this is a Yoast feature that—with the help of a mysterious algorithm—calculates the reading “difficulty” of a piece of writing. It then makes recommendations like decreasing sentence length, using a more active voice, and breaking up large chunks of text with subheadings. It’s even audacious enough to put red or orange bullets next to…

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Influencer Marketing: Examples and Strategies for 2021

You’ve likely heard the term “influencer” thrown around a lot the last few years. It generates mental images of YouTube stars promoting energy drinks and Instagram stars raving about weight loss supplements. This is called influencer marketing, and it can be a very successful strategy if you execute your campaign correctly. Let’s find out if […] …

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The Implied Value Proposition: Three ways to transform your sales copy

In this Fast Class video, Flint McGlaughlin, CEO and Managing Director, MECLABS Institute teaches marketers how to write high-impact copy (MECLABS is the parent organization of MarketingExperiments). He uses an email headline experiment that resulted in a 104% increase in leads to illustrate the concepts. Related Resources The Marketer as Philosopher book – 40 Brief Reflections on the Power of Your Value Proposition The Data Pattern Analysis: 3 ways to turn info into insight Selling…

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5 Steps to Keep Your Facebook Ads Working in iOS 14

Back when we found out about iOS 14, there were a lot of question marks as to when it would be enforced, what it would mean for your Facebook campaigns, and how you could prepare. Now that iOS 14 is in full swing, many questions have been answered—but still more arise. Like how to run Facebook ads with the conversion objective in iOS 14 as successfully as you did before. And that’s what I aim to…

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