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Talk to your customers. Period.

October 2, 2021 No Comments derek
Content marketers must talk to their customers

I (and probably you) have read article after blog post after ebook after whitepaper after listicle about improving your B2B […]

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Content is a long game

June 3, 2021 No Comments derek
Content is the long game

I got a LinkedIn message from a complete stranger last month. It came from a manager at an unfamiliar logistics […]

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Questions for your year-end analytics review

January 12, 2021 No Comments derek
New Year's Eve

Did our three KPIs improve year-over-year? Measure lots of things, yes, but let’s focus on three or four actionable metrics […]

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Informing your editorial calendar with Moz data

March 1, 2020 No Comments derek
An editorial calendar

Previously we looked at an example of using Google Trends data to refine content topic choices. Google Trends is extra […]

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Everything’s a hypothesis

January 31, 2020 No Comments derek

We had a very successful social media strategy for my publication CSO. So I tried the same strategy for FierceMarkets’ […]

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How bad KPIs skew your content decisions

November 24, 2019 No Comments derek
Newsletter design shows how bad KPIs yield bad content decisions

“Begin with the end in mind.” That’s one of Stephen Covey’s 7 habits of highly successful content operations. Start with […]

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Using analytics data to make a hit B2B article — an example

October 26, 2019 No Comments derek

This previous post walked through a process for selecting article topics based, in part, on Google data. Here’s a little […]

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The number everyone reports that has no value whatsoever

June 9, 2019 No Comments derek
Outdated navigation tools

I am referring, of course, to “traffic change vs last month.” As in, “June traffic was up 6% compared to […]

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Turning analytics into action, part one

May 23, 2019 No Comments derek
Using Google Analytics to make editorial improvements

When I run a website, I’m in the analytics every single day. What am I going to do with the […]

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Who cares about domain authority?

April 7, 2019 No Comments derek
The race for domain authority

Domain authority (or DA) is a proxy measurement of how much authority your site has in Google’s eyes. Content operations […]

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About Me

Derek Slater

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Editorial Director, Content Strategist. Ex- Ready State digital marketing agency, CSOonline.com, CIO Magazine, others.

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