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12 Most Insightful eCommerce Blogs To Follow for the New Year

ContentWriters

Most agree that Links.net, started by a student named Justin Hall in 1994 as a place for him to publish his own writing, was the first blog. It’s great for marketing basics, learning how to advertise, and handling customer service. Every time you publish a new blog post, you’re adding fresh content, which Google likes.

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Coke vs. Pepsi Ads: The Story Behind the Biggest Marketing Rivalry

ContentWriters

The company used this combination in all its advertising to boost its brand awareness and recognition. Enter the Advertising Jingle. However, Pepsi soon countered Coca-Cola’s successful ad campaigns of the 1930s and ’40s with the debut of the advertising jingle. But it was Coca-Cola creator Dr. Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank M.

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Are Personas Just a Nicer Word for Stereotypes?

Content Marketing Institute

presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. The experience was fascinating to me because, inherently, advertising is about stereotyping. Are those stereotypes or personas? The soccer mom designation, which came of age in the 1996 U.S.

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How to Make a Full-Time Income From Your Blog

ProBlogger

It took me two years of blogging to get to my income goal ($36,000 USD/year) where I could focus on blogging full time (in 2004). Direct advertising. You could also sell ads on your site to niche advertisers on a monthly basis. It will take a while to get to your goal, and there are no guarantees. Be specific. Sponsored posts.

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How Small Blogs Became 6-figure Income Generators (and How You Can Do the Same)

ProBlogger

In 2004, when he was only 19 years old, Pete Cashmore started blogging from his parents’ home in Aberdeen, Scotland. The ad factor: Once Pete managed to create a huge community of loyal readers, he went for the big profit makers: advertisements. Find self-serve ad platforms that cater to long-tail publishers’ needs.

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Scale Your B2B Content with Artificial Intelligence: Ideas and Tools Marketers Can Try

Content Marketing Institute

Production, the second category of the AI framework, relates to marketing activities like these: creating, curating, and optimizing content, including blog posts, emails, landing pages, videos, and advertisements. In this area, “we’re not that far along,” Paul says. Yet he touches on several production-related use cases, as described here.

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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

ProBlogger

April 2004: I was now earning $20 per day from my blogs, having put extra effort into them over the last few months, and at this rate I started to consider my blogs as a part-time job. June 2004: May and June continued to see the income grow and it passed $1000 in a month for the first time. .&#

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