Content Marketing

What is Pricing Content?

Pricing content is – perhaps unsurprisingly – the content category that helps your prospect understand how much they need to spend in order to work with you. Ideally, pricing content covers more than just how much you charge. It should give transparent information about why you charge that, and...

What is Action Content?

Action content consists of articles that help your ideal client understand what they can expect when they work with you. It guides them through your processes and stops them from becoming confused about what’s required from them at any point. It gives them articles to refer back to, and...

What is Affinity Content?

Affinity content talks about who you are, your opinions, and your values. It’s your chance to share your story and the causes you support. We’ve all heard the phrase “know, like, and trust.” Affinity content gives your readers the chance to know you and the option to like you,...

What is Repelling Content?

Repelling content is content designed to keep unsuitable clients away. It lets prospects know when your service will not be the best choice for them, or your values don’t align, before they even put their toe over your virtual threshold. When done well, repelling content will stop these people...

What is Attraction Content?

Attraction content is the first of our six content categories, and it’s both the simplest to explain and the easiest to overuse. Attraction content is, as you would expect, content designed to attract your ideal customer to your website, and ultimately, your business. This can be achieved by talking...

6 Types of Content Your Business Needs

Ask any content marketer how many categories of content there are and you’ll be given a slightly different answer. Marcus Sheridan has his Big 5; Neil Patel says five, but categorises them completely differently. Buffer says four, while Martin and Lyndsay, authors of Content Fortress, say eight. The truth...

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7 Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog

When you’re just starting your new business there’s a lot to think about.  This, of course, is an understatement of a level similar to “putting a basking shark in a Nissan Micra is a wee bit tricksy.” Your head is full of thoughts around developing your product or service, working out...

5 Things I’ve Learned Writing for a Technical Distributor

Being a freelance writer can open up many new horizons, especially when you work for a company as diverse as WordHound. Did you know, for example, that dimmer switches were invented in 1959? I didn't. Easy access to material makes research today a simple matter, and means I can...

What Do You Think of AI Copywriters?

Will AI Take Over Copywriting? Robots are infiltrating practically every part of our lives. Anyone who’s played Horizon Zero Dawn will already know how this ends – a thousand years from now, we’ll be reduced to a medieval standard of living, except we’ll have to battle enormous DeathBots left over...

How Often Should I Be Publishing a Blog?

You should be publishing a blog seven times a day. That’s the absolute minimum. Ha! Not really. Well, you can if you want, and we’ll write them for you if you like. Anyway, we get asked this question a lot. And you’d think we’d have some hard, fact-based answers, given...

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Are You Getting Your Message Across?

Professional content writers have a lot on their plates, and it’s not just custard creams. They’ve got to find the right words and put them in the right order, they’ve got to follow the brief, they’ve got to do research, they’ve got to be original, they’ve got to have...

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Can You Supply Specialist/Niche/Technical Writers?

Can you find me a writer who specialises in producing white papers about the Welsh agricultural insurance market? Can you supply me with a writer who’s on the ball when it comes to cryptocurrency jargon? Can I have a technical writer with a background in tortoise massage? We get...