Content Keen

Unique Content Styles To Learn From

Jared Carrizales — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:00:12 +0000

Every content creator is different, no doubt about it. This means we can’t all write Steinbeck-worthy copy that blows everyone off their feet. Fortunately, us mere mortals that actually have to practice to get better at our writing, have some great content styles from around the web that we can draw inspiration from. Comedic While [...]

Getting Content Budget and Buy In

Jared Carrizales — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:30:39 +0000

Getting Content Budget and Buy In

Getting buy in for content creation and content marketing is a huge hurdle when dealing with your boss or your clients. It doesn’t matter how good your plan is, when you say anything resembling “successful content marketing requires a significant time investment”, they’re likely to stop on a dime and ask a ton of questions. [...]

5 Content Blogs That I Subscribe To, And So Should You

Jared Carrizales — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:00:58 +0000

5 Content Blogs That I Subscribe To, And So Should You

Believe it or not, there’s not an excess of blogs out there that are specifically about content. Even on the marketing side of things, finding high quality content blogs aren’t that plentiful. It’s for this reason that I wanted to write this post and let the fellow “content addicts” out there get a taste of [...]

7 Steps To Creating Newsletter Content That Your Readers Will Love

Jared Carrizales — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:30:16 +0000

7 Steps To Creating Newsletter Content That Your Readers Will Love

The content in a newsletter isn’t exactly the same as what you would put in a regular blog post. There are different factors like setting, technology limitations, and headline importance, among other unique audience variables that are important to remember. Respect Your Subscribers Time It may sound silly, but not respecting your subscribers time is [...]

Pet Love + Adorable Photo + Facebook = New Pet Cat

Jared Carrizales — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:40:20 +0000

Pet Love + Adorable Photo + Facebook = New Pet Cat

What do you get when you combine the love of pets, a great photo, and the power of social media? A new pet and 2 happy kids. When Boston area dad, Dan Urbano told his kids that they could get a new pet cat if they got 1,000 likes on Facebook, he never thought that they [...]

Quick Content Curation In 60 Seconds Or Less

Jared Carrizales — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:30:53 +0000

Quick Content Curation In 60 Seconds Or Less

Being able to curate content with ease and speed is a skill. It’s not really enough to be organized, you have to know your subject matter inside and out so that you know which content is worth keeping almost immediately. I’m afraid I can’t help you on the organized part, but below are some great [...]

What Traits Make Up A Great Content Developer?

Jared Carrizales — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:00:46 +0000

What Traits Make Up A Great Content Developer?

As content marketing becomes more and more popular, it will, like anything else become segmented and split into different roles. To have great content to market successfully, a content marketing plan must involve someone dedicated to creating that high quality content. Cue content developer. Writing Skills So you’re a grammar master, whoop-de-do. The best content developers [...]

Interview With Sloan Coleman

Jared Carrizales — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:00:12 +0000

Interview With Sloan Coleman

Over the last few years I’ve had the opportunity to work with many different kinds of people in many different industries. From freelance consultants to entire agencies, and programmers to writers, it’s always an adventure. But no matter how many people I work with, the best ones all have one thing in common-they always have [...]

4 Questions To Ask When Creating Visual Content

Jared Carrizales — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:00:47 +0000

4 Questions To Ask When Creating Visual Content

Ahh visual content. It’s all the rage today. Creating eye-pleasing visuals seem to be the key (nowadays anyway) to making the number of social shares and inbound links go through the roof. Unfortunately, not all of us can be like graphic designers and create beautiful images for each and every piece of content that we [...]

31 Ways To Brainstorm Content Ideas

Jared Carrizales — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:00:52 +0000

31 Ways To Brainstorm Content Ideas

Brainstorming fresh content ideas can be a tall order, especially if your content schedule relies on frequent content. Sometimes this may tempt you to deliver sub-par content just to meet a deadline. Or, in other cases you may simply be out of ideas and need a new method to jump start your brain. In either case, you always want [...]