Category: For Marketers

As a child, storytelling time was always one of my favorite parts of the school day.  Stories allowed you to travel to a place that can be new and exciting. As we become adults, this concept does not change. As marketing and communications experts, we need to learn to tap into that excitement when promoting […]

It is the season of the listicle. A few weeks from now, half of all infosec blogs are going to feature an article called something like “10 of the Biggest Hacks and Mistakes in Information Security for 2018.” (The other half are going to have a blog called “Top 10 Information Security Predictions for 2019.”) […]

If your goal is to secure high rankings on search engine result pages (SERPs), then you need to create content. And a lot of it! When we say you need a lot of content, that’s exactly what we mean. According to Infographic World, a company that excels in infographic marketing, certain 2017 studies revealed publishing […]

Hi there. My name is Michael Brown, I’m the CEO of nDash, and I may or may not have actually written this post myself. It may have been ghostwritten by someone else. Every CEO wants needs to be seen as a thought leader in their respective field, and publishing content is the best way to […]

The fastest way for a speaker to lose my attention is to compare people to goldfish. But what does that have to do with written content? At my first marketing conference, I heard four different speakers reference the same stat—that humans had an average attention span of just 8 seconds. A full second slower than […]

The cost of content creation is not something to take lightly, as it can easily derail even the most sophisticated and well-planned content marketing strategy. Pay too much for freelance work, and you’ll be unable to achieve what you’ve set out to accomplish. Pay too little, and you’ll have a hard time keeping freelance writers engaged. Unfortunately, […]

“I want 10,000 tough guys, and I want 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher! And here’s how I want them arranged: tough, soft, tough, tough, soft, tough, soft, soft, tough, tough, soft, soft, tough, soft.” – Russ Cargill, The Simpsons Movie  When it comes to building your content community, it’s easy […]

Word of mouth has always been the holy grail of marketing. And in the digital world, word of mouth often takes the form of user-generated content. When customers are creating this type of content—sharing posts on social media, leaving product reviews, and making videos about your products and services—your brand message starts to spread online. […]

When thinking about content communities, their history of best practices is often repeatable. Here are three main takeaways from this post: #1. Our category of content community — like all examples of brand category creation — isn’t really new at all. It’s just been given a modern twist. #2. The concept of content communities actually […]

What a month it’s been! A few weeks back (at HubSpot’s INBOUND conference), we announced the launch of nDash for Internal Teams, which opened up our platform to brands that manage most of their content internally. Today we’re excited to make yet another HubSpot-related announcement: nDash is now an official HubSpot Connect partner. You can […]