The Parenting Copywriter
Gabrielle, our own Chief Creative Officer (CCO), is The Parenting Copywriter. As Rystedt Creative’s CCO she leads our copywriting team but she still loves writing herself - especially on parenting. As her client base has grown she has focused increasingly on the parenting market. Countless businesses need to market to parents effectively. Target is focusing on millennial parents in much of their marketing, cloth diaper companies large and small market to new parents, curriculum publishers market to home-school parents, etc. Gabrielle is uniquely suited to help these companies market through her copywriting services. She herself is a parent of three children, a professional and established copywriter, and holds a degree in business. We at Rystedt Creative realized that we could market parenting copywriting services even better through a separate website dedicated to this niche. So we launched parentingcopywriter.com! parentingcopywriter.com is owned and operated by Rystedt Creative and leverages our existing copywriting team and experience. Within a week we were page one in searches for “parenting copywriter”. Today, we’re the first result in these searches. Gabrielle is indeed the Parenting Copywriter and we are excited for what’s ahead.
Reflections on our First Year in Business
What have you loved about your first year in business? Joshua A few weeks after quitting my full time office job to run Rystedt Creative I remarked to Gabrielle that this was the best decision of our marriage. Why? The time with my family means the world to me and I'm now pursuing one of my passions full time (my previous job didn't have a very positive or creative environment). I love that I can answer client questions any time they have them. I love the people I have worked with so far - especially Farm Market iD, Lady Environmental, and Holy Cross Lutheran Church. I love the combination of creativity and organization that running a business like this requires. Gabrielle I guess to answer this I need to back up a few months before we actually started Rystedt Creative. You could say it’s the “inception moment”, when Josh and I sat down to talk about our future and decided to actually do this crazy thing and start a business. I say crazy because, well, it was crazy. It still is. And I love that about this whole thing. We said “yes” to an off-the-wall idea (okay, not that off the wall – we’re both first born INTJs – there’s no true off-the-wall here) and went forth and did the dang thing. Together. I love that Rystedt Creative is truly a family business. Sometimes our three-year-old will want to “play client”, and we have to answer phone calls and talk about copywriting or blog posts. The whole thing is awesome to me. What have you not loved about your first year in business? Joshua Let's face it, running a new…
Welcome to Rystedt Creative Services
Increase Your Online Reach There are seemingly endless requirements for running a successful business or organization. Organization management, accounting, advertising, and customer relations alone can add up to an overwhelming tax on resources. Plus, you need to present a polished online image. Yet you still need to do what got you into your business to begin with! Since the Internet's initial public growth in the early 1990's businesses and nonprofits have been leveraging it to increasing success. Today it has become indispensable for running a successful organization. The Internet may be where your clients, customers, or donors first discover you, peruse your menu, order your products, chat with your representatives, or double check your hours of operation. Regardless, you need a strong online presence. So do the people who depend on and love what your organization does. Rystedt Creative exists to make this task easier. So you can spend more time doing what you love. Rystedt Creative offers three closely related services: 1) Copywriting Services Perhaps you have found that growing an organic online following takes a lot more time than you initially planned. From well-written long-form blog posts to witty and engaging social media content and SEO ready landing pages and product descriptions your clients want to hear from you - and often. Yet regularly updated online content can be a job in itself. That's where we can help. We write this content for you so you can use your time doing whatever got you into your niche in the first place. 2) WordPress Development Perhaps you are one of 50% of businesses who still do not have a dedicated website. Or you may have an aging site with…
Happy Holidays from Rystedt Creative: Kickstart Your Website in 2018 with These Resources
A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all our readers! Read on for resources to help you kickstart your website in 2018. We hope you have been enjoying some much needed time with your families this holiday season. Because without a break it becomes too easy to crash and burn (like my two-year-old daughter on Christmas Eve). A new year is nearly upon us and with a new year come new goals. I (Joshua) have set some new marketing goals for the firm in 2018 and my wife and our Chief Creative Office (Gabrielle) has some new writing goals to reach for. We're going to be helping more clients reach more customers with better content in the best year we've had yet! What are your organization's goals for 2018? (Let us know in the comments below!) We want to help you reach those goals - even if you're only ever a Rystedt Creative reader or subscriber. Have you taken advantage of our free initial consultation call or 15-20 page website evaluation yet? Just contact us and we will point your website in the right direction. Free tools to help you determine your 2018 website goals The Outstanding Website Quiz and Checklist There are currently over one billion websites online but few of them stand out from the crowd. Use our quiz and checklist to see if you stand out online. Website Self-Evaluation Questionnaire To complement our evaluations and consultations we have developed this website self-evaluation. So you don’t need to just take our word for it – evaluate your own website! Free articles to help you kickstart your website in 2018 The Mobile Trend Your website must be mobile…
Blessed All Hallows’ Eve from Rystedt Creative
A blessed All Hallows' Eve to all our readers! The close of October marks the close of our fourth month running this creative firm. We love the clients we have the pleasure of serving. Thank you for trusting us to help you improve your online presence. The Web can seem a bit mysterious (and even scary) for many of us. The Web has come a long way since "Web 1.0" in the 90s. Keeping up with search engine optimization, social networking, email campaigns, and content marketing are enough to keep one busy every day of the week. Thankfully, you don't need to perform an exorcism on your website. We know the appropriate rites to get your site acting the way it should. But don't take our word for it: Joshua at Rystedt Creative was beyond helpful when we ran into technical issues with our website. His extensive WordPress and Woocommerce knowledge helped to answer all of our web development questions. He was always available with a friendly demeanor and ready to talk us through our questions and what needed to be edited or changed on the website, and even showed us via screen-share the exact steps necessary. We greatly enjoyed working with Joshua and would recommend him to anyone! – Mallory Olson, Rocket Active Gear Here is some of the most hallowed content we've published in the last four months: Tools The Outstanding Website Quiz and Checklist There are currently over one billion websites online but few of them stand out from the crowd. Use our quiz and checklist to see if you stand out online. Website Self-Evaluation To complement our evaluations and consultations we have developed this website self-evaluation.…
Relaunching the Raising Rystedts Blog
In addition to creating modern and effective online content for our clients we have been busy refreshing our own online properties. The Raising Rystedts blog is a family blog published by our Chief Creative Officer (CCO), Gabrielle. It is also our oldest active online property... and it was in need of a refresh. The old site had expensive hosting, an inflexible content management system (CMS), poor search engine optimization (SEO) and limited extensibility due to the host's requirements. It was time to make a change. While launching the Rystedt Creative website and designing client projects we began work on re-designing Raising Rystedts. Like most organizations we wanted the least amount of downtime possible so we developed the new site locally while we left the old site online. We mimicked the original site's atmosphere while rethinking the user interface (UI). The old UI felt too constricted on PCs, the multiple blogs were not unified and the UI had no interactive feel. When designing the new website we resolved each of these issues in turn. We modified an existing design to feel more spacious on desktops and read more like a magazine, unified all the old blogs as one blog with multiple category pages and added image and link effects that breathed new life into a simple blog. The development of the site was accomplished using a customized WordPress powered install with our firm's preferences. We installed our preferred plugins and edited necessary PHP and CSS files. Finally we began copying content from the old site. In most website relaunches porting old content is one of the most time consuming aspects but it is worth the investment. If done right all of…