Everybody Writes

Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
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ISBN-13:
9781119854166
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.10.2022
Seiten:
412
Autor:
Ann Handley
Gewicht:
776 g
Format:
231x156x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

ANN HANDLEY is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author focused on helping businesses worldwide escape marketing mediocrity to ignite tangible results. Her work has appeared in Entrepreneur, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Chicago Public Radio, and the Financial Times. IBM named her one of seven people shaping modern marketing. More than 50K people subscribe to her popular email newsletter.
 
She is the world's first Chief Content Officer, a principal at training and education company MarketingProfs, and a regular speaker at events globally.
 
Ann is also a mom, dog person, and writer. Her favorite food is kale salad. But don't hold that against her.
Acknowledgments xvii
 
Start Here 1
 
Part I Writing Rules: How to Write Better (and How to Hate Writing Less) 15
 
1 Everybody Writes 19
 
2 Writing Is a Habit, Not an Art 21
 
3 How to Keep a Daily Writing Ritual When You Aren't Feeling It 25
 
4 Shake Off School Rules 28
 
5 Publishing Is a Privilege 31
 
6 Why We Need a Writing Process 33
 
7 Introducing the Writing GPS Framework 35
 
8 Embrace the Ugly First Draft 44
 
9 Draft 2: Cross Out the Wrong Words 48
 
10 Draft 3: Swap Places with Your Reader 52
 
11 Draft 4: Humor Comes on the Rewrite 55
 
12 Develop Pathological Empathy 56
 
13 Think Before Ink 61
 
14 Fifteen Ways to Organize 65
 
15 Start with Dear Mom 68
 
16 If You Take a Running Start, Cover Your Tracks 70
 
17 Place the Most Important Words at the Beginning of Each Sentence 74
 
18 Notice Where Words Appear in Relation to Others Around Them 77
 
19 Leads and Kickers 79
 
20 Show, Don't Tell 85
 
21 How to Write Funny 92
 
22 Use Surprising Analogies, Meaty Metaphors 97
 
23 Add Another Sense 103
 
24 Add Obvious Structure to a List 105
 
25 Approach Writing Like Teaching 108
 
26 Keep It Simple-- But Not Simplistic 110
 
27 Find a Writing Partner 113
 
28 Avoid Hot Dog Writing 116
 
29 Hire a Human Editor 120
 
30 Set a Goal Based on Word Count (Not Time) 123
 
31 End on an I- Can't- Wait- to- Get- Back- to- It Note 125
 
32 Deadlines Are the WD- 40 of Writing 126
 
Part II Writing Rules: Grammar and Usage 129
 
33 Use Real Words 131
 
34 Avoid Frankenwords and Words Pretending to Be Something They're Not 133
 
35 Don't Use Weblish (Words You Wouldn't Whisper to Your Sweetheart in the Dark) 135
 
36 Default to the Present Tense 136
 
37 Choose Active Voice Over Passive Voice 139
 
38 Ditch Weakling Verbs 141
 
39 Adverbs Aren't Necessary (Usually) 143
 
40 Use Clichés Only Once in a Blue Moon 146
 
41 "Mistakes Were Made." Avoiding These Simple Mistakes Will Make You Look and Feel Smarter Instantly 149
 
42 Words We Always Get Wrong 154
 
43 Grammar Rules Made to Be Broken 164
 
44 Limit Moralizing 168
 
45 Eggcorns and Mondegreens 170
 
Part III Voice Rules 173
 
46 Sweat the Smallest Stuff 177
 
47 What's Brand Voice? 180
 
48 How to Develop Your Brand Voice 182
 
49 Four Powerful Places to Apply Brand Voice 190
 
50 Voice Doesn't Change, Tone Does 192
 
Part IV Story Rules 195
 
51 The Six Elements of a Marketing Story 197
 
52 Your Brand Story: Tell The Story Only You Can Tell 201
 
53 Product Story: Make Your Customer the Hero 206
 
54 The Rudolph Framework in Action 214
 
55 Hermit Crab Content 219
 
56 Innovation Is About Brains, Not Budget 221
 
Part V Publishing Rules 223
 
57 Share News That's Really News 227
 
58 Biased and Balanced 229
 
59 Brands as Media Companies 231
 
60 Should You Ungate Your Content? 235
 
61 Memes, Trends, Newsjacking 239
 
62 Better Interviews with These Nonobvious Tips 247
 
63 Check Your Facts 252
 
64 A Mind- Like- Water Mindset 254
 
65 Seek Out the Best Sources 256
 
66 Beware of Hidden Agendas 257
 
67 Credible Data 258
 
68 Cite as You Write 260
 
69 Curate Ethically 265
 
70 Seek Permission, Not Forgiveness 270
 
71 The Basics of C
A hands-on field guide to consistently creating page-turning content that your audience loves. (And that delivers real results.)
 
In the newly revised and updated edition of Everybody Writes, marketer and author Ann Handley improves on her Wall Street Journal bestselling book that's helped hundreds of thousands become better, more confident writers.
 
In this brand-new edition, she delivers all the practical, how-to advice and insight you need for the process and strategy of content creation, production, and publishing.
 
This new edition also includes:
* All-new examples, tools, resources
* Updated step-by-step writing framework
* Added and expanded chapters that reflect the evolution of content marketing (and evolution of Ann's thinking about what works today)
* The same witty and practical how-to approach
* How to attract and retain customers with stellar online communication
* How to choose your words well, sparingly, and with honest empathy for your customers
* Best practices and ideas for crafting credible, trustworthy content
* "Things Marketers Write": The fundamentals of 19 specific kinds of content that marketers like you write
* Inspiration. Confidence. Fun.
 
In this book, you'll discover:
 
Content marketing has evolved. Yet writing matters more than ever.
 
In this new edition of Everybody Writes, you'll find the strategies, techniques, tips, and tools you'll need to refine, upgrade, and (most of all) inspire your own best content marketing.

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