Inbound Writer for WordPress Feedback

[RyanKent]

Does anyone have feedback regarding Inbound Writer? http://www.inboundwriter.com/wordpress

I normally do not use such tools but a new client is presently using the tool so I would like to hear from the community if they have any experiences to share.

Thanks!

[DanielFreedman]

No experience with this....so please consider this a gut instinct howl of passion from the depths of my soul:

NO! NO! NO!

A THOUSAND TIMES "NO!"

AND ONCE AGAIN: "NO!"

This seems to fall under the general heading of something I warn potential clients of in the first five minutes of an initial call:

Magic software.

It's the latter day equivalent of spinning straw into gold.

Writing is hard. Engaging with audiences is hard. I speak as a writer and former news executive.

The idea that a Wordpress plug in can make all this easy strikes me as....

(wait for it)....

...extremely unlikely.

If someone has experience with this tool an has had outstanding success, I'll eat my Elements of Style baked into humble pie.

But I don't think that's likely.

[InboundWriter]

Rest assured that there is no dark arts being practiced here. InboundWriter is simply a product designed to put key insights and well established best practices into the hands of writers and online marketers so they can be well informed during their content creation process. Our software does not modify content automatically or spin it in any way.

The first type of information we think is valuable is the results of our topic research engine (topic modelling) which looks at how other people are talking about your areas of interest and extracts keywords which may be helpful to create more engaging content. Secondly we try to keep you informed of what is being shared on social networks (Twitter at the moment) regarding your topics of interest. Lastly we have a pretty sophisticated strategy and coaching engine that lets you tell us what the goal for your content is so that InboundWriter can give you tips and advise on how to best meet your goals.

We believe that striking a balance between creativity and optimization is best done by people who create the content and having good technology and key information at the right time can make that happen.

As for whether humble pie should be served I invite you try it yourself (it's a freemium product after all)  or take a look at http://www.inboundwriter.com/impact at some of our results.

[RyanKent]

Daniel, I should have been more clear. I would not work with a client who produces automatically created content. The goal is to use the software to generate ideas related to the content and to learn about additional references and areas where the topics are being discussed.