Ryan Law
Recent articles
Strategy
No, You Shouldn’t Always Focus on the Bottom of the Funnel
I’m a big believer that the difference between “writing” and “content marketing” is revenue. Content marketing is writing that serves a business objective. It exists to make sales easier.But that...
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6 min read
11/30/20
Data
4 Realistic Traffic Goals for Small(ish) Blogs
Big, established blogs have multiple years of performance data. Smaller, newer blogs do not. It can feel like you’re operating in a vacuum. It’s hard to come up with reasonable answers to questions...
Ryan Law
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7 min read
11/09/20
Strategy
Write for the Lurkers
The 1% rule is the idea that only 1% of participants in an online community actively contribute content, while 99% quietly consume. The 1% create every new Reddit post, Twitter comment, and...
Ryan Law
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5 min read
10/27/20
Strategy
How to Fast-Track ROI From Your First Blog Post
It’s a misconception that content marketing takes three months, or six months, or even a year to be valuable. Content marketing can — and should — have a positive impact on your company from day...
Ryan Law
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6 min read
10/05/20
Writing
Why Readers Can Smell Fakes a Mile Away
We’ve all been on the receiving end of advice that we didn’t follow. Sometimes advice is obviously bad, and we disregard it because it’s wrong, or misguided, or overly simplistic. But other times,...
Ryan Law
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7 min read
09/22/20
Strategy
The Second Mover Advantage in Content Marketing
Look for the North Star on a cloudless night and you’ll see a picture of the universe from 323 years ago. From that picture, we can learn little about the North Star as it looks today. We can see...
Ryan Law
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8 min read
09/16/20
Podcasts
Hyper-Competitive Content Marketing With Buffer’s Ash...
Ash Read, Editorial Director at Buffer, talks through: how to compete in an industry saturated by content marketing; finding your unique differentiator; the power of brand and vision in content;...
AI, Twitter Marketing & The Creator Economy with Blake...
Blake Emal, Chief Marketing Officer at Copy.ai, explains how AI can help small content teams, how to get great at Twitter marketing, and why Copy.ai encourages its team to embrace side projects.
Product-Led Content & Thinking Like a Strategist with...
Dr. Fio Dossetto, editor-in-chief of contentfolks and former Senior Editor at Hotjar, talks through “product-led” content, writing search content without becoming a copycat, and levelling-up your...