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Celebrating 7 Years in Business, Our Story, & Announcement

June 19, 2024May 11, 2018 by Adam Oakley

This month marks the seventh year Express Writers has existed. Back in 2011, it was quite the humble beginning for us. I was doing 90% of the work, all the way from writing client blogs to emailing and cold calling to find my next prospect. In 2011, I quit nursing school to follow my dreams. Literally, one morning I woke up and asked myself, “what do I love doing?” I knew what the answer was, from the bottom of my heart. Writing. So, I took my passion online and started a freelance profile. Within three months I had more clients than I’d dreamed of, and I started a business. With nothing more than $75, Express Writers was born. Celebrating 7 Years in Business: The Express Writers’ Story 7 years later, we’re on our 14,185th project (that doesn’t even include 2,000+ of projects in the years prior to building our e-commerce content platform). If we’re averaging 10,000 words per projects (they vary from 500w – 50,000w per order), that’s over 70,850,000 words written! We’ve served over 5,000 clients, and our team is 75 people and growing. We grew 20% in internal support members (QAs and copywriters) to our team, just in the past two months. Today, we’re celebrating this major milestone of our 7th year in business. First, we have an awesome brand video to share with you. Bonus: we had a wonderful video producer help out with the production! If you’ve been a part of our journey thus far: reader, subscriber, client, podcast listener, team member… thank you. It’s 100% true: “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” (Michael Jordan) Plus, we’re announcing something super special. Content Shop Major Change Announcement: We’re Now Taking New Clients By Invitation Only At Express Writers, one of our highest priorities is focusing on quality, timeliness, and creativity when we serve our clients. We find that fewer clients mean that we can focus on greater results for each one of those clients. Many clients who have been with us for years now are increasing their order quantity, and we’re staying busier than ever because we’re focused more heavily on client support than simply sales. We greatly, greatly appreciate our clients’ loyalty. We want to continue in this direction: serving our loyal clients with our best. So, after much deliberation, we’ve decided to make this happen: We’re now taking new clients by invitation only. Here’s what that means for our Content Shop usability. If you don’t have an account, you will be able to view our services and pricing, but you won’t be able to buy unless you have an account. Guests without an account will see this: Clients with an account will see the checkout options on services inside our Content Shop: We’re taking new clients only after carefully reviewing their request to join our site as a client. Here’s our New Client Registration form: Our ideal clients are seasoned marketers, agencies, and business owners. If that’s you, we’ll review your account and if we are both a mutual fit, we’ll happily welcome you into our amazing repetoire of clientele. If you’re ready to work with a team of capable content experts, fill out our New Client registration form, and we’ll get back as soon as possible. We look forward to serving you!

What’s New at Express Writers: Our Paper Plane Logo Rebrand, Upcoming Books & More

June 19, 2024November 11, 2015 by Adam Oakley

At Express Writers, we absolutely love adapting and growing. What we don’t like to do is stay still. So, for the past few months, we’ve been working on a lot of things behind the scenes. Here’s a recap for you on just what we’ve been up to! I Fly Like Paper, Get High Like Planes Our calligraphy pen point has been our foundational visual logo for years now, and we were brainstorming together on how to take it to the next level, staring at different pen points and unique illustrative representations. I looked at my team member, COO Josh, and instantly had a thought: a paper plane shape. Then, we decided to take things up a notch and put the paper plane in motion – pointing directly to our name, flying, and “aloft.” We knew we loved it as soon as the idea came to mind. The final designed product was done by our own COO Josh McCoy. Our paper plane represents the modern standards we’re continually adapting to, and a standard of onwards/upwards that we have been upholding for four years now. Just to put into reality how and why we work hard to symbolize the onward and upward standard in the industry of content writing. We are continually honing our services, and working towards the best content agency on the planet. The paper plane fits our mission statement in a big way. Express Writers Announcement From Julia McCoy, CEO Posted to our @ExpWriters Instagram account, here’s an announcement about all these changes at Express Writers from Julia: What’s in the works at Express Writers! A personal message from our founder, Julia McCoy (@ceomommy1) #podcast #bookstagram #published #author #ceo #announcement #marketing #googlesearch #webtraffic #optimization #content #seo #seoproblems #success #entreprenuer #sales #copywriting #writing #contentmarketing #blogging #inboundmarketing #growthhacking #googlesearch #webtraffic #optimization #copywriting #writing #instalike #instagood #instavid A video posted by Express Writers (@expwriters) on Nov 9, 2015 at 6:09pm PST I’m working on: Books Besides our logo rebrand, which has officially launched as of today, I’ve been working on two books: a complete guide on how to be an online content writer & a beginner’s guide to blogging. Both will be out before Christmas, so stay tuned – look for an announcement from us with published Kindle book links. Podcast & Twitter Chat We’re launching: The Write Podcast #ContentWritingChat I’ve already created our first episodes and scheduled in some super cool guests. I can’t wait to share all my content marketing knowledge and that of my guests’ with you. Here’s to growing together in content marketing!

Express Writers Re-Launches June 2015: Our Membership Program, New Products, and Quality Updates

June 19, 2024June 13, 2015 by Adam Oakley

This June, our little ol’ team at Express Writers is becoming bigger and better than ever before. We’ve spent some serious time and resources (might add, blood and sweat to that) to update our major content products and launch some brand new things. One thing you can say about us—we are not your typical content writers. We’re a firm that’s dynamic, ever updating, and developing new things internally that are ahead of the curve. Our staff is passionate and involved, and we all love what we do! Ready to hear about all our new changes? Express Writers Re-Launch This June: What Are Our Major Changes & Updates? For about three months now, our CTO Josh McCoy has led his team of developers in creating an ultra-custom Membership system that will be accessible to our ongoing clients. As our CEO, I’ve sat down and recreated our major Content Strategy training and written tests for all our Strategists, as well as wrote and launched content standard quality tests for every single one of our writers and editors. Our team is better than ever before, and we’re staffing more people almost every week to keep up with our growth. 1. Membership Platform The long-awaited Membership platform and program is finally here! Custom designed on a platform built from scratch by our development team, the Membership system replicates our Content Shop with an online ordering platform only accessible to clients who deposit and spend a minimum of $1,000 a month. When the deposit is placed, it activates the platform and clients will be able to see and order with their ongoing membership rates on every product. Besides the discounted rate access, membership clients will have easier input forms that allow them to simply upload monthly project specs: and we’ll also dedicate a project Editor to each membership client account that comes in with a style guide. Membership Benefits: Membership platform, allowing clients to access and order all the discounted products. Dedicated Staff Editors, exclusive to Membership accounts only: we train one of our staff Editors on your style guide and requirements for long-term, specific editorial attention. This is an optional add-on, starting at $85 for 20 pages. No contracts, ever. Just deposit and spend $1,000 per month. Consistently lower rates on all our products – up to 20% off! Learn more and sign up here. 2. Content Quality Standards Update We’ve completed training and testing our entire staff of writers and editors on the proper use of high quality citations, checked with the MozBar, in all our blog content. We’ve also updated our content formatting rules to include high quality headlines and sub-headers that will better attract and engage readers. These fundamental quality updates will ensure your blog content meets and exceeds Google’s content standards. See our Content Shop Blog Prices. 3. Content Blogging Plans Update We’ve done a thorough audit of how our blog plans work, and found that a word span within 1,500 words works best for the average blog. (Longer words are always favorable for Google rankings, as long as it’s quality: we recommend buying or creating single blogs over 2,000 words a few times a month for posting on your blog.) We’ve also created an additional plan for more versatility. All blogs will include high quality citations and text formatting. Lastly, we’ve introduced add-ons for blogging that include the revamped Content Planning service (a full monthly Editorial Calendar and more); as well as optional premium designed images that we can create for every blog. View our Blog Packages in the Content Shop. 4. Content Planning Replaces Content Curation Formerly called Content Curation, our Content Planning is an entirely re-vamped product in our Content Strategy lineup, available as an add-on for all of our blog plans, single website pages content planning (research and title creation), and fundamentals package for clients with new websites or blogs. Our revamped product, Content Planning, adds a new section to the Editorial Calendar we deliver monthly, as well as overview reports, called BuzzSumo Analysis. In this analysis we conduct research on your industry influencers and what is currently trending on the web (the people who are succeeding at content in your niche) and using BuzzSumo, we’ll look at what content they are writing, how many shares it gets on what platform, and prepare a topic analysis report. Finally, our Content Strategists will identify any competitor and influencers shortcomings and notate how you can do it better with a few top suggestions and takeaways. Tools we used: BuzzSumo, SEMRush, WordTracker, Hubspot/Portent title helpers, Quora, human eye of our Content Strategist. Content Planning Offerings (view the Content Planning product in our Content Shop) Content Planning Package: This is where you’ll experience the most out of our content planning products. Our ongoing Content Planning packages are for those who have our blogging plans and are looking for total content planning, organization, and creation. We’ll analyze what content is currently trending in your niche using BuzzSumo, research keywords and topics, and create an Editorial Calendar mapped out for best monthly content. Clients also get to talk to their Content Strategist in a 30-minute monthly strategizing meeting. Content Planning Fundamentals: This is a packaged plan for those who do not have an existing content plan, blog, or web content going: or are looking to re-vamp their current content. Our Content Strategists will deliver a Content Planning Overview excel report with page or blog suggestions, full keyword analysis report, and a BuzzSumo Content Analysis. Clients can (optionally) meet with their Content Strategist for a 30-minute discussion. Content Planning For Websites: Perfect for the new (or revamping) website owner who doesn’t know what pages to plan for and add to their website. We’ll conduct keyword research, deliver a BuzzSumo Content Analysis, and create an overview report that suggests categories and specific pages to add for successful web content. Clients can (optionally) hold a 30-minute meeting with their Content Strategist to share input. 5. Social Media Improvements We’re now creating custom, branded & designed images with Canva, using our stock image subscription … Read more