Heidi Cohen's Actionable Marketing Newsletter

Published: Mon, 03/16/15

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Dear ,

The past week has been chock full of fun dates that marketers and content creators can use as hooks for content.

Among the options were:
  • March 13 – The second Friday the 13th in a row! A few years ago, I wrote Blogging Tips To Avoid Triskaidekaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th).
  • March 14 – Pi Day (3.14). It’s not just content. MIT used the date to send out their acceptance notices and attracted a lot of fun press as a result.
  • March 15 – The Ides of March. Julius Caesar's assassination day celebrations anyone?
  • March 17 – St. Paddy’s Day when everyone is Irish and wears green. For inspiration, here are 17 Pieces of Blogging Blarney.

To add to our Actionable Marketing Guide Book Corner’s allure, this week, we’re giving away a free copy of Arnie Kuenn’s Content Marketing Works (Amazon link).  All you have to do is sign up on this entry form.

Please understand that while we appreciate that our readers are located around the world, we’re only able to send physical books to people with a US address. We encourage you to sign up to get related goodies even if you don’t have a US postal address.

The winner of an ebook version of Jeremy Miller’s Sticky Branding is: William Wagnon. Congratulations William!

We hope that you like the addition of the book section. Going forward there will be new interviews published every Saturday. If you’re an author or represent an author and would like to participate, please drop us a line.

We’d like your feedback on the section and the types of questions you’d like us to ask authors. 
  
​​​Happy marketing,
Heidi

P.S. It’s only another 2 weeks until Social Media Marketing World in San Diego. I hope that you’ll join me there. If you can’t afford it, I appreciate your budget challenges. In that case, you may want to take advantage of a virtual pass so that you can get all of the great content wherever you are.

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