Amanda MacArthur: Co-Founder + Content Director of Lantern

About Amanda MacArthur

Amanda is Co-Founder and Content Director at Lantern. She guides our team of writers, designers, and social media copywriters to create compelling content every week for our clients.

Before Lantern, Amanda ran the research arm of a consultancy for magazine publishers where she taught blogging and social media workshops to editors at Harvard, F + W, Time Inc. Condé Nast, Dwell Media and Bonnier.

Now she uses her industry experience to turn brands into publishers who are generating a significant amount of their revenue through organic search traffic to their blog.

She also loves dogs, is the author of a best-selling cookbook, geocaching, road trips, rock mining and exploring new wine trails.

July 2, 2020 By Amanda MacArthur

How to Write a First Paragraph That Sucks in Readers

20+ writers talk about how to write a first paragraph that captures the attention of everyone who reads it I’m sweating right now, because if you stop reading in the next few sentences, it’s completely my fault. This first paragraph is the dealmaker or the dealbreaker. If I blow it, you’ll never scroll down to […]

June 16, 2020 By Amanda MacArthur

How to Sell Any Product With One Blog Post

Do you know how to sell any product, just through good content and a call to action? Folks don’t take blogs seriously – they think blogs are for stay-at-home-moms and amateur cooks with good cameras. And those are certainly the folks winning at Pinterest. Heck, my amateur cooking blog gets 50K unique visitors per month […]

June 4, 2020 By Amanda MacArthur

The CEO’s Guide to Corporate Blogging Best Practices

Corporate blogging best practices for CEOs who are sick of throwing money at the wall Magazine editors hate me. To be more specific, online magazine editors. At least they do when they first meet me, because our first meeting typically involves me breaking the news that they’re now marketers. And if they’re not up for the task of […]

May 9, 2020 By Amanda MacArthur

You Won’t Believe Why Upworthy Headlines Don’t Work for B2B Blogs

This headline archetype has been used since the printing press began printing, however, sites like UpWorthy have brought it back into vogue (and out of vogue), and other sites have jumped on the bandwagon. Now they’re being called UpWorthy headlines.

April 22, 2020 By Amanda MacArthur

Twitter Fun With Local Writers

This month, we had a bunch of wonderful people interview for new jobs at BuzzFarmers. Most recently, I asked our top candidates to submit three writing samples (paid, thankyouverymuch), one of which focusing on Twitter. As you might know, I run the Twitter.About.com site, and thought this would be a good chance to test their […]