
The HeyCreator Show
The HeyCreator Show is for building your creator business.
Each week, host Matt Ragland various guests talk through all stages of the creator journey, intentionally designing each conversation to meet you where you’re at along the way. We’re sharing lessons from over a decade of helping digital creators launch and scale courses, communities, and coaching services — along with building newsletters, YouTube channels, and podcasts to millions of subscribers and downloads for our clients.
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Latest episodes

Sep 26, 2016 • 23min
7 Powerful Content Strategies Borrowed from Advertising Masters
The Copyblogger blog was founded on a simple but powerful idea — that our content (blogs, podcasts, video) can be strengthened by adapting techniques from the world of direct response copywriting. Today, Sonia drills into some specific techniques and approaches that we can profitably swipe from our direct response brothers and sisters. In this 24-minute... Listen to episode

Sep 15, 2016 • 23min
How to Handle Demographic and Psychographic Segmentation (without Looking Like an Idiot)
A common newbie marketing mistake is trying to talk to everyone. There are all kinds of buzzwords around speaking to a specific audience — segmentation, demographics, psychographics, generational marketing. Today Sonia talks about a few pitfalls and best practices. Last week the New York Times ran a funny little piece about the Baby Boomers being... Listen to episode

Sep 8, 2016 • 22min
Ethics, Professionalism, and Good Manners for Content Marketers
There’s a lot of great content out there … and then there’s the topic of today’s podcast. Sonia looks at the good, the bad, and the ugly. There are two kinds of people. Some folks do the right thing for its own sake, and some because the other option has negative consequences. This one’s for... Listen to episode

Sep 1, 2016 • 27min
3 Questions that Can Haunt Creative Professionals
Sonia’s back on the podcast this week with suggestions on how to address three challenges that pop up often in our communities. When we’re talking with creative professionals, and content marketers in particular, we’ve noticed certain challenges that come up again and again. In this 22-minute episode, Sonia Simone is back on Copyblogger FM to... Listen to episode

Aug 25, 2016 • 15min
How to Give and Get Exceptional Testimonials, Part Two
Did you realize that making it a habit to give testimonials regularly can pay off in some powerful ways? Giving a testimonial is a service to others, but it serves you, too. In the previous episode, Pamela Wilson shared the six “magical” questions you can ask to get convincing testimonials. She concludes the testimonials series... Listen to episode

Aug 18, 2016 • 17min
How to Give and Get Exceptional Testimonials, Part One
In an age where we’re faced with too many choices, testimonials help us trust enough to make a decision to buy. Are you using this powerful tool in your business? Testimonials work because you’re not tooting your own horn — others are doing it for you. In this episode, Pamela Wilson sits in for Sonia... Listen to episode

Aug 11, 2016 • 32min
Are You Leaving Money on the Table with Weak Headlines?
Your headline is the epic gateway to your content. Are you doing everything you can to pull your readers across the threshold? Tune in to hear from two Copyblogger heavy hitters (and serious headline nerds) Pamela Wilson, Executive Vice President of Educational Content, and Stefanie Flaxman, Editor-in-Chief. They bring along a satchel full of... Listen to episode

Aug 4, 2016 • 31min
Content Marketing for Nonprofits
Are the rules of content marketing different for nonprofits? We talk with Help One Now founder Chris Marlow to find out. Content marketing has exploded in traditional for-profit companies, but nonprofits have different needs and agendas. In this 29-minute episode, Chris Marlow and I talk about: The #1 mistake most nonprofits make with their content... Listen to episode

Jul 28, 2016 • 19min
The One-Two Punch that Creates the Most Successful Copywriters
In the copywriting world, some of us are poets and some of us are killers. The really great ones are a blend of both. William Maynard once said, Most good copywriters fall into two categories. Poets. And killers. Poets see an ad as an end, killers as a means to an end. And advertising legend... Listen to episode

Jul 21, 2016 • 24min
Pokémon Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Whether you love it or hate it — Pokémon Go is the biggest global hit in a long time. Is it worthwhile to try and find a Poké-marketing angle? We’ve been waiting for a truly mainstream augmented reality app to come along — and has it ever. Within a week of launch, Pokémon Go had... Listen to episode