Like many content creators today, I’ve faced the same problems that plague any industry that’s surging in demand. Losing sleep on projects, taking on too many clients, burning out, you know the drill. There’s a price for success in the content creation industry if you’re doing it all on your own. My name is Vanessa Lau and I’ve spent the past four years learning, tweaking, and refining the perfect system of how you can deliver exceptional thought leadership content sustainability and consistently. This is what I call the content machine.

Content Machine outlines a strategy for using content marketing to build a 7-figure business with zero advertising. Whether you are a blogger, content marketer, entrepreneur or marketing manager, Content Machine will help you see the return you deserve from your content marketing efforts.

Your new product is ready to launch and you’re itching to tell potential customers all about it. But how do you make your message stand out above all the noise and marketing clutter? Take the guesswork out of content management with this hands-on guide. You’ll learn how to produce and manage powerful content pieces that speak directly to customers and compel them to respond. Author Laura Busche walks you through content strategies and tactics drawn from business, design, and psychology insights. Packed with examples and exercises, this book teaches you how to tell your story with engaging copy, potent images, and striking design—all carefully orchestrated through well-oiled production management. Solopreneurs, startups, marketing managers, and execs will learn 10 Essential Steps to Content Success, with deep dives into: Content strategy: understand your audience, choose and prioritize channels, and find your brand’s core themes, voice, and tone Content creation: craft an engaging experience with content formats and copywriting formulas and templates Content management: organize, delegate, and supervise tasks; optimize the content production process to reuse successful patterns

Are you looking to generate more leads online? Do you want to rank higher at the search engines, engage your audience on social media, and get them to take action at your website? Sometimes getting to the first page on Google or building an audience on Facebook seems incredibly difficult, frustrating, or even impossible. In The Lead Machine, author, digital agency owner, and entrepreneur Rich Brooks breaks down digital marketing into its BARE Essentials: Build, Attract, Retain, and Evaluate. He shows you a step-by-step approach to how you can master SEO, social media, email, and content marketing. How you can improve your website to convert more visitors into customers. How you can stay in touch with prospects even after they've left your site. And how to make sense of your website traffic reports and other analytics so you can continually grow your business.Regardless of your business or industry, the BARE Essentials framework will help you generate more quality leads online, leading to more sales and more business.

Learn the skills necessary to design, build, and deploy applications powered by machine learning (ML). Through the course of this hands-on book, you’ll build an example ML-driven application from initial idea to deployed product. Data scientists, software engineers, and product managers—including experienced practitioners and novices alike—will learn the tools, best practices, and challenges involved in building a real-world ML application step by step. Author Emmanuel Ameisen, an experienced data scientist who led an AI education program, demonstrates practical ML concepts using code snippets, illustrations, screenshots, and interviews with industry leaders. Part I teaches you how to plan an ML application and measure success. Part II explains how to build a working ML model. Part III demonstrates ways to improve the model until it fulfills your original vision. Part IV covers deployment and monitoring strategies. This book will help you: Define your product goal and set up a machine learning problem Build your first end-to-end pipeline quickly and acquire an initial dataset Train and evaluate your ML models and address performance bottlenecks Deploy and monitor your models in a production environment

This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishing houses to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. Tracing the history of publishing from the press works of fifteenth-century Germany to twenty-first-century Silicon Valley, via Venice, Beijing, Paris and London, and fusing media theory and business experience, ‘The Content Machine’ offers a new understanding of content, publishing and technology, and defiantly answers those who contend that publishing has no future in a digital age.

Ditch traditional corporate branding to create a powerful, recognizable brand Brand Against the Machine offers proven and actionable steps for companies and entrepreneurs to increase their brand visibility and credibility, and to create an indispensable brand that consumers can relate to, thus becoming life-long customers. Discover the aspirational currency that makes your brand one that people want to be or want to be friends with. Learn how to be real with your audience and make strategic associations to establish credibility. Brand Against the Machine will help you stand out, get noticed, and be remembered. Brand Against the Machine is the blueprint for how to market your brand to attract better clients and stand out from the clutter that is traditional corporate branding and marketing. Instant Positioning Method: How to instantly stand out from the crowd and position yourself as a resource, not just another service provider The 20/60/20 Rule: Why it's important to take a stand and why it's okay to have haters—because it creates a stronger bond with those who love you Ditch your traditional corporate branding and marketing, and exchange it for something memorable. Your customers will thank you for it.