Just because you are a Marketing Team of One doesn't mean you have to go it alone. There are ways to get help even if you don't have the luxury of hiring a team.
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Whereby.com is an easy way to meet and collaborate over video with no app or software download required.
Breakout Sessions allows the host of the meeting to start a separate room where participants can be split into smaller groups.
Whereby doesn't use a static range of IP addresses, so they don't recommend using Whereby behind a proxy or VPN.
Create a Content Style Guide for anyone creating content for your marketing in order to keep writing consistent, on-brand, and high-quality.
What does your company do?
What product/service does your company provide?
Who are you creating content for?
Internally approved descriptions and copy blocks used consistently throughout content.
Who are you directly up against in the industry? What are the alternatives?
What makes you better than the competition? What are your biggest selling points?
What is your brand's personality? Friendly & familiar or professional & expert? Formal or informal? Simple or complex?
List of specific words/verbiage you prefer to use instead of the alternatives. Say this... Not this...
List of specific preferences such as:
What are common industry or company acronyms and what do they mean?
Attach different content examples that meet the style guide.
You're done!
A style guide is a living document and should be updated as new questions come up, or if there are edits that you are consistently making.
The Guinness Book of World Record for "Most Individual Contributions to an Animated Film" is 1,897 people who contributed to The Tate Movie Project in 2011. The movie "The Itch of the Golden Nit" (running time: 33 minutes) is an animated film made with drawings, sounds, and ideas of children between the ages of five and thirteen.
The IMDB summary of this movie sounds fascinating. "Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants, 11 year old Beanie must save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe."
As a Marketing Team on One, I often felt that I had to be the one to do everything. This is not necessarily the case, and over the years I have found ways to engage help.
I hope this issue gave you some tips and tools to find additional help for your own marketing projects.
If you want to collaborate or need specific help, please reach out. I am happy to talk.
See you next week. Happy Scrappy Marketing!
Michele Hsu