MarketMuse How To: Measuring Information Density

You’ve created a piece of content and want to gauge its information density? Here’s one way to do this in MarketMuse: Take the word count of your piece of content. Take MarketMuse’s Content Score. Relate the two together. If you find that content ranking in the top 20 spots in Google has 1500 words on ...

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Quick & Free Way to Remove Background From Photos: Pixlr

Pixlr is a free online image editor (works in your browser) that’s pretty fast and powerful. If you got Adobe Photoshop, you obviously don’t need this, but if you’re a marketer who just every once in a while needs to do some common image edits, Pixlr is a great tool. I particularly use Pixlr’s free ...

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Super-early quick user testing tools

If you quickly gather some user feedback there’s two solutions right now that I go to by default: Wynter Pick criteria that defines the audience you want to get feedback from. Set up a test in a couple of minutes. Get results within 12-48 hours. Great for testing messaging, evaluating A/B testing alternatives, cold email ...

Trying Copy.AI in August 2021

I’ve tried copy.ai around February of this year, and I really wasn’t impressed with it. However, there’s been a steady stream of positive buzz around it, including people in the content and marketing space that I trust and respect, so I figured I’d give it another try. Signed up for a trial account, and they ...

How to prepare for the AI-content world

AI tools are definitely moving aggressively into the content world, and there’s no doubt that soon, AI-generated content will saturate the web. Right now the quality of that content is… well, nothing to worry about. But this will change as the technology improves. Ryan Law from Animalz shared an insightful article: His take: For many ...

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Master new marketing skills the Lex Fridman way

Lex Fridman shared an interesting framework for learning and mastering a new skill: Year 1: Spend 2 hours a day doing this. Every day. This builds the foundation Year 2-5: Spend 1 hour per day to build the expertise. From year 5 onwards: Spend a few minutes ever day, but make that a hard lower ...