Author: Nadya Khoja

Nadya is the chief growth officer at Venngage, and has been featured in Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, The Next Web, Forbes, Marketing Profs, Social Media Examiner, and more. She also has a web series called Drunk Entrepreneurs, where she interviews different entrepreneurs who are finding success. Follow her on Twitter @NadyaKhoja.

By nadya-khoja published February 7, 2022

Want a More Productive Content Team? Show (Don’t Tell) Your Strategy

Updated Feb. 7, 2022

Imagine you are in a meeting, furiously taking notes as the marketing manager speaks and shows a slide deck to review your brand’s content marketing strategy. Or you receive an email with bullet points touching on the strategy. Or perhaps your manager stops by your desk for a quick conversation and tells you about an element in the strategy.

In any of those scenarios, retention of what you’ve seen and heard is difficult.

To ensure that all involved understand your content marketing strategy, you need to document it in an easy-to-digest format. Text-dominated documents or presentations with a few reference images don’t work well. Create something that will remain in the minds of your team members and colleagues.Continue Reading

By nadya-khoja published May 6, 2021

7 Ways to Repurpose Content and Grow Your Customer Base

Are you reading this during a break from creating content? Wish you didn’t have so many pieces to write or edit? Challenged by having to develop original content for multiple channels?

No matter how large your team, repurposing can be the solution to lighten the content creation workload. It’s also a good way to get your content in front of more people in formats they might prefer better.Continue Reading

By nadya-khoja published May 19, 2020

7 Ideas to Spark Great Infographics

Editor’s note: As views of online visuals are on the rise, we updated this article on infographic creation and included new examples.

With people spending more time online, visual content marketing trends have been soaring – searches for infographics increased over 50% in March 2020 compared to March 2019.

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By nadya-khoja published May 16, 2018

Want More Productivity? Make Your Strategy Visual

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Editor’s note: We’ve updated this post with a new version.

Part of keeping people productive is ensuring that deadlines are set, but it’s not enough to simply state due dates. Employees need a constant and visual reminder of what needs to be accomplished and when it needs to be done.

You’ve probably heard it, but many studies prove visual cues can greatly increase the likelihood of information recall and comprehension of new subject matter.

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By nadya-khoja published May 7, 2017

7 Principles to Creating Great Infographics

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Sure, you can pretty much create an infographic for any blog post, but that doesn’t mean it will perform spectacularly. Creating a great infographic requires a great idea first and foremost.

In this guide, I break down the ideation process so that coming up with more memorable infographic ideas doesn’t have to be so hard. In fact, these principles are relevant not only to infographics but any content you create.Continue Reading

By nadya-khoja published February 1, 2017

4 Ways to Manage Negative Feedback in a Positive Way

manage-negative-feedback-positive-wayAs marketers we often face rejection and negativity. An idea is shot down. An angry reader rants in a comment. A prospect chooses a competitor’s product.

We can’t help but feel a bit of a sting when someone spits on our hard work. How do we stay strong and steadfast in our commitment to succeeding in our content marketing efforts? It’s not always easy.Continue Reading

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