Lantern

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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.

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How to Tell if You’re Writing Effective Blog Posts (And What Effective Really Means)

Why unique visitors is a vanity metric for your blog, and how effective blog posts are truly measured… Businesses who blog, unless they’re sponsored and ad-driven like magazine publishers, are worried way too much about visitors, and not enough about conversions. They typically think effective blog posts are the ones that get the most visitors. […]

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Social Media Flops: 6 Reasons Why Your Content Doesn’t Get Shared

Your social media flops for a lot of reasons, but it usually comes down to a lot more than your original content marketing effort. Let’s keep this short and simple: if your content isn’t getting shared, it doesn’t mean you’re publishing bad content. Although, it might. Social media flops much more often than it succeeds. Sometimes […]