At AVC, we love National Grammar Day. We get excited about the chance to tell you why grammar still matters in the digital age. We take the opportunity to share our favorite grammar resources. We celebrate in true, word-nerd fashion. This year, we’re celebrating the big day by answering the grammar questions we get asked [...]
Case studies may not be the sexiest type of content around, but they are effective. Give this stat some thought: 73% of successful B2B content marketing teams produce case studies as compared with 61% of overall content teams, according to a report by the Content Marketing Institute. Case studies are effective because they do what [...]
You’re not working overtime to produce on-point creative just to win a trophy. Between sales numbers, marketing metrics, upticks in awareness and simply what the CEO thinks, there are plenty of ways to measure the effectiveness of your work. But recognition in the form of earning an industry award is a nice-to-have for a few [...]
As self-proclaimed content nerds, we love to see businesses publishing informative blog posts, educational ebooks and entertaining videos. So much so that we sometimes cheer. Goooooo, content! On the flip side, it’s tough to see content in the wild that misses the mark. That’s because we know how much time and effort (and budget) [...]
From the look of your inbox each morning, it would seem that just about anyone can write a marketing email. Writing an effective marketing email, however? That’s a different story. Email marketing is a specialty all its own that takes practice and skill to be able to do it well. The good news is [...]
Ever wonder what the biggest difference is between a highly effective content marketing team and a less-than-effective one? Is it budget? Caliber of staff? Support from the C-suite? Nope (although these things are important, too). It’s having a documented content plan. Two-thirds of the most successful marcom teams have written content plans as compared with [...]
A patient success story is kind of like a customer testimonial on prednisone. (Gosh, I love me a healthcare marketing joke!) Seriously though, customer success stories are effective because people connect with people. It’s not just someone in an ivory tower telling them about expensive, potentially life-altering services they have no personal experience with. (Little [...]
It’s been a few months since ChatGPT launched, and we’ve purposely stayed mum on the subject until we could assess the product and determine our stance as a team. Now we have one, and it’s this: AVC won’t be using ChatGPT for copywriting anytime soon (if ever). When the world first learned about ChatGPT [...]
A close cousin to the listicle, a charticle is exactly what it sounds like: an article presented in chart form. This type of content is ideal when presenting information that compares and contrasts or is repetitive. It’s super scannable, too, making it great for social media and inclusion in larger pieces, such as white papers [...]
Stop us if this sounds familiar: Your workdays are spent in meetings, strategizing, tracking things down and checking email — oh so much email! — leaving you little time to actually write the content you’ve planned. So you end up spending time at night or on the weekends writing, when you actually can devote time [...]
