About the Author: Mary is the owner and CEO of NerdyMind, a friendly Fort Collins-based technical agency that focuses on digital lead generation, strategic website redesigns, and custom app development. The B2B buying cycle can be long, especially for larger-ticket…
Tomorrow I’m sitting on a panel for an entrepreneurial journalism class at Colorado State University. I’m pretty stoked! Two groups of students tasked with creating a media platform for an underrepresented community will be presenting. I’ll hopefully be able to…
One of the cardinal rules of persuasion and storytelling is show, don't tell. Advertising tells; stories show. And that’s why they’re good for business. Do you remember the first Super Bowl you watched? I didn’t know what the Super Bowl…
Why is it that the answers to some of the most obvious questions people ask are the hardest to put to words? We like to think that most of our decisions are rational, but in fact most of our decisions…
When you do content marketing, whether publishing a blog or doing something more resource-intensive like a podcast or webinar series, you’re giving a lot away with no guarantee of a return. Yet businesses are recognizing how essential content marketing is…
People tend to underestimate one another’s bullshit detectors and overestimate their own. Some of the best evidence of this is how frequently we resort to the following phrases. Don’t use them unless you want to trigger people. 1. “No offense, but …”…
An earlier version of this article was originally published Aug 9, 2018 in NerdyMind.com. What is Content Marketing, And Does It Work? Content marketing, in many ways, flies in the face of conventional wisdom. You’re giving away intellectual capital free of…
The Economist warned last January that “In the future, ‘fake news’ put together with the aid of artificial intelligence will be so realistic that even the best-resourced and most professional news organization will be hard pressed to tell the difference…
Updated: Aug 21, 2019 It can be challenging to bring your work to life with words. If your work is technical in nature, or you provide an ancillary service that works behind the scenes to keep businesses running smoothly, this…
Imagine that you've been in a bad biking accident and have multiple fractures in your right leg. You’re at the early stages of recovery, full of pain, pins and plates. The orthopedist or sports medicine doc sits down with you and…
