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25+ Allusion Examples from Literature, Poetry, Film, & Life

Smart Blogger

And whatever you’re alluding to within your story, article, screenplay, speech, or conversation, you want your audience to feel that spark of recognition. Melville’s original audience was likely familiar with the Pequot War of 1636-1637, which nearly drove this tribe to extinction. Let’s dive in and find out. What is Allusion?

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12 Most Insightful eCommerce Blogs To Follow for the New Year

ContentWriters

As blogging began to grow, WordPress came on the scene in 2003, and in 2004, Merriam-Webster named “blog” as the top word of the year, saying it was the most often looked-up word on its site during the previous twelve months. The ability to identify and join with a particular audience. billion pages per month.

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How to Create the Perfect Business Listing

Neil Patel

Let’s look at Google My Business first, since it will help you reach the widest audience. They also included a bit of promotional text to encourage the customer to sign up for a yearly package. Local business listings are a fairly simple and free way to get visibility and target the right audience for your business. Conclusion.

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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. We posed the stereotype-or-persona question to marketers and got their input on preferred ways to develop useful audience profiles. Are those stereotypes or personas? And millennials?

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

ContentWriters

In 1900, singer and actress Hilda Clark were featured in Coke’s ads (some of which were on tin trays – an early form of practical product promotion) as the 20th century began. Ironically, the movie ends with the newly promoted exec using one of the company’s airport vending machines to pass out Cokes to his family to celebrate.

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236: 5 Areas to Focus on to Grow Your Blogging Income

ProBlogger

Back in, I think it must have been 2004, I’ve been blogging for a couple of years by this point, and for the first year I didn’t even know you could make money from your blog. But as I think about the growth of my own blogging income back at that point, in 2004, but also eversince. She came to me asking, “How do I double my income?”

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

Content Marketing Institute

A company video says that Phrasee “understands the emotions, sentiments, and phrases that resonate with your audience. Acrolinx, which has been doing this kind of AI for enterprise companies since 2004, offers software that integrates into authoring tools and can assess content in multiple languages against organization-specific guidelines.

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