3 Tools to Make Outsourcing Content Easier

You thought you were being a BOSS and hired help to outsource your content marketing… but it hasn’t gone exactly as you thought it would.

Suddenly you have a never-ending list of tasks — broken down into subtasks and more subtasks — to try to account for all the moving parts of your marketing plan, but it means you’re getting alerts 75 times a day…

Your team is always behind on producing content… because they’re waiting on you for something or pinging you for approvals every other minute…

And it feels like you’re …

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Why Hire a Fractional Marketing Team?

When you’re ready to get help with some or all of your between-launch, nurture content writing, you have lots of choices. Which one is right for you? Because I’m living and breathing this content world as the head of a fractional marketing team, I tend to know a lot about our competitors and contemporaries.  Here’s what I see most often:

Lists of Topics or Templates

These are those $37–$97 products you see often in your social media feed.  They usually start out by sympathizing that you don’t know what to write about, …

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What All Launch Models Have in Common

As a copywriter, I’m pretty familiar with most of the popular launch models out there.

Most start with a launch event — something splashy and flashy to draw new people in and energize the existing audience — then they have a pitch when the cart officially opens, and a series of emails to nurture, persuade, and remind people to make a decision before the deadline.

There are lots of popular formulas and blueprints for putting these pieces together in slightly different ways. Some use videos, some use live webinars, some use on-demand …

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3 Surprising Reasons Why Launches REALLY Fail

Launching is stressful — we all know that. And it’s stressful because we know that the launch might “fail”…

But why do launches fail?

When we look at the data, it’s easy to chalk it up to numbers problems.

I can look at the numbers a business went into a launch with and show them where their launch “failed.”

Maybe they didn’t have enough people in their audience.

Maybe they had a particular piece of content (like a landing page, sales page) that wasn’t convincing enough and therefore didn’t convert people well.

Maybe they didn’t have …

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