Looking beyond social media in today’s digital marketing world
- Posted in Content Marketing Tips
- Last Updated on May 01, 2015
E-books offer a unique option for businesses In today’s world, your customers see more marketing than ever before. Social media has caused customers’ expectations to evolve―rather than passively receiving marketing messages, consumers value interaction and information provided pre-sale and with no obligation. Social media is the obvious method of delivery, but what if you’re looking […]
What the new Facebook Page design has in store for your business
- Posted in News + Tips
- Last Updated on May 04, 2015
What the new Facebook Page design has in store for your business Facebook is at it again—changing things up on the layout of the Pages businesses use to communicate news and connect with customers. This change will roll out on your business page in the next few weeks if you don’t convert it manually before. […]
Career educators from Iowa capture the state’s lost high schools
- Posted in Book Releases & Events
- Last Updated on June 18, 2018
In a pursuit designed to rekindle memories of Iowa’s great rural schools, Barb and Dave Else drove throughout Iowa to photograph more than 230 abandoned or repurposed high school buildings. Their resulting book, For All the Small Schools: A Photographic Pursuit of Iowa’s Forgotten Schools, was called by Senator Chuck Grassley “a labor of love […]
Write Place chooses 2014 Book Contest winner
- Posted in Book Contest
- Last Updated on May 04, 2015
The Write Place has chosen the winner of its 2014 Book Contest: Clyde Witt of Sagamore Hills, Ohio. Witt’s Lost in the Tallgrass is a coming-of-age historical novel, set in Kansas in the early 1900s, which follows fourteen-year-old Russell Starke as he pursues his dream of becoming a cowboy. However, Rusty’s perception of cowboy life […]
Effective advertisers do their homework
- Posted in Content Marketing Tips
- Last Updated on May 04, 2015
Do your potential customers know what you are trying to say in your advertising? Simply put, you want consumers to pick you over your competitor. Your advertising should be very clear about why you are the business of choice. You want to inspire potential customers to take action, visit your place of business, and make a […]
Simple tips to improve newsletter design
- Posted in Graphic Design Tips
- Last Updated on May 04, 2015
The end of the year is a great time to consider your newsletter—whether electronic or print—and see what can be done to improve it. Take a good look at your newsletter. Try to ignore the content for a moment and focus simply on the look—does it appear visually interesting, professionally designed, and uncluttered? Practice the […]
Oskaloosa author’s poetry collection comes from the heart
- Posted in Book Releases & Events
- Last Updated on June 18, 2018
In her latest book, Oskaloosa, Iowa, resident Jean Saxton channels her decades of reflection on life, nature, art and more into expressive poetry. Three Deep Breaths is her second book published with the Write Place and is available at area shops, Painted Daisies in Oskaloosa and Beacon Antiques in Beacon. Jean Saxton has always loved […]
Keep your website healthy with organic web content
- Posted in News + Tips
- Last Updated on May 04, 2015
You need to keep your content organic—and we don’t mean the food in your fridge. Organic content is preferred by search engines using organic search rankings.Decoded, an “organic search” is simply a search that ranks results based on content and keyword relevancy, not by the highest bidder. Google is an example of a search engine […]
Memoir confronts multiple sclerosis boldly and directly
- Posted in Book Releases & Events
- Last Updated on June 18, 2018
Mindfully Unraveling: Body Awareness as I Slip Away testifies to author Rhonda Patzia’s efforts at body awareness. The book explores Patzia’s kinship with women as she reconnects with her vocation as a photographer after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Published by the Write Place in Pella, Iowa, this memoir is a collection of journal […]
Send your book on a worldwide adventure
- Posted in Book Publishing Tips & News
- Last Updated on May 16, 2017
Have you ever dreamed about someone as far away as Australia or Brazil reading your book? It’s not as crazy as it sounds—with the Write Place’s new global distribution, this could be a reality. Though Write Place e-books have always been available to a global audience, now readers in the UK, Australia, Germany, Brazil, and […]