ProBlogger

DECEMBER 12, 2011

One of the main benefits of being a blogger has always been that you could work from anywhere in the world—whether you are surrounded by the hustle and bustle of New York City, or sitting in a quiet, secluded beach hut somewhere in Thailand. Jane has been blogging since January 2010 from her flagship travel blog RunawayJane.com.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

Ignorant of the purpose of your copy. In other words, even beautifully-crafted copy can go bad when you pay too much attention to how you say something and ignore the meaning of what you’re saying. However, they show what happens when you’re crafting copy for an audience about which you’re ignorant.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

She’s more like a Featured Blogger ’round here at the Pen Men Palace. There are copywriters, bloggers, academic writers (the vanilla of the writing world?), It’s no accident that several great bloggers also write fiction. Can we have disco music and flashing lights?) Now I’m offended. Now I’m offended.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 15, 2021

If you really want to be a full-time blogger, you need to escalate this.”. Today I’m living the dream of being a full-time blogger. Even in 2010 we had 80% of our readers subscribing by email and only 20% by the RSS feed. Within 24 hours we’d sold 1,100 copies and made $15,000. Identify who you want reading your blog.

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Backlinko

JANUARY 8, 2024

All you have to do is choose the program that aligns with your content style (think blogger vs social media content creator), read up on their brand guidelines, and start sharing your unique links. billion in 2010), which just goes to show that their sales keep growing – and they’ve got no intention of stopping!

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ProBlogger

MAY 20, 2011

I learned this while working as an electrician during the first six months of 2010. This post is a collection of those notes and reveals valuable lessons that bloggers can learn from construction workers to become better bloggers. To become a better blogger, take some time to become familiar with your tools. It’s true.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

He stays busy writing for his many clients and providing copywriting tips for smart copywriters at Pro Copy Tips. Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) April 25, 2010 at 12:14 pm I enjoy reading Dean’s blog. 5 Ways to Trim the Fat from Your Next Project Reply --Deb ( @__Deb ) April 25, 2010 at 12:43 pm Oh, this is just hilarious.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

But mostly he just writes stuff for clients and provides copywriting tips at Pro Copy Tips. Robert July 15, 2010 at 2:56 am Great blog post. You can’t just wait for people to come knocking at your door and you know what they say about opportunity … Reply Sally B ( @snappysentences ) July 15, 2010 at 5:24 am Nice post Dean.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Written by Taylor - 39 Comments This discussion we’ve been having about whether bloggers should get paid for their work is fascinating, and I think it’s pretty great that the whole MwP community here has been so level-headed and thoughtful about it. To hear them tell it, bloggers who don’t give it away have turned positively abusive.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

Keep a copy handy and let executors know how to access this information so they can post it if they need to. Leave a copy with your notary or lawyer to have him attach it to the will, or put it in a safety deposit box that’s been listed in your testament. So go ahead. Write something up, just in case. pamela´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

The Pros and Cons Written by Agent X - 30 Comments Here’s a great slam-dunk post for you from my respected friend and international copywriting authority, Dean Rieck of Direct Creative and Pro Copy Tips. I love this blog and now I love the guest bloggers too… Laya Bajpai´s last blog. Enjoy – it’s a good one!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

By offering guest post services to your clients, they’ll enjoy benefits such as: Their name on the lips of their competition Content that will be syndicated across MANY blogs More page views direct to their sales copy, higher conversions and targeted visitors There’s more you can offer your clients instead of blogging services.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

You could write new copy to draw readers in closer and get them hiring you more. Brett ( @brettpopoleo ) March 1, 2010 at 2:30 am Thanks for the insight. Popoleo’s Pointing Dog’s Reply Solomon March 1, 2010 at 7:33 am Thanks for the great post! Ulrich ( @maryeulrich ) March 1, 2010 at 7:58 am Another strong message.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

Just don’t lose site of the fact that you earn money as a freelancer and not as a blogger. Corbett Barr is an website traffic consultant, entrepreneur and blogger. Reply Solomon April 2, 2010 at 6:54 am It’s so timely article as I’m raw and new in a new city as we relocated recently. Lugh´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I wrote web copy and ebooks and taglines and fiction and all kinds of writerly stuff. Peter Shallard - The Shrink for Entrepreneurs ( @petershallard ) June 7, 2010 at 1:15 am I’m gonna step in here and make a comment about what I think happened. I couldn’t write. Well, that’s not entirely true. I could write.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

John writes the majority of the ad copy for Dragon Door, and he was talking to us – the new instructors, the front lines, the new faces of his marketing arm – about how to write so our audience would always understand us. &# And suddenly, I realized that I had to unlearn everything I knew about writing,&# John said.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Maquis June 28, 2010 at 1:16 am I’ll admit that I’ve definitely learned the hard way that sleep deprivation can be physically painful. Reply Þórey Ómars ( @thoreyo ) June 28, 2010 at 2:04 am Hi James. Ulrich ( @maryeulrich ) June 28, 2010 at 6:58 am I’m not a good sleeper. And I do exactly that!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

Professor Beej ( @professorbeej ) March 18, 2010 at 11:56 pm I would simply adore being able to pay for this kind of course. With summer break coming up and me not having to teach, I plan on spending a great deal of my time working on finding a way to make a living with my writing, fiction and copy. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

Wanderlusting ( @Wanderlustingkh ) May 27, 2010 at 1:13 am Great post. Totally off-topic, but anyway, glad to have found your blog Reply Martin - TheUniversityBlog ( @universityboy ) May 27, 2010 at 3:27 am I love the fact that anyone with an Internet connection is on an even playing field. If you want to write, you can write.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

Matthew : Big Red Tomato Company ( @Bigredtomato ) May 12, 2010 at 3:33 am Well, that’s an awful lot of awesomeness to deliver in a few short months and weeks! Wednesday Wisdom Reply Farnoosh ( @prolificliving ) May 12, 2010 at 5:43 am I can’t wait to see some of the new changes, designs and resources. Life is good.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Frank ( @[link] ) February 22, 2010 at 4:27 am I think it’s really interesting to look back at copy that you have written. Reply Frank ( @[link] ) February 22, 2010 at 4:32 am Working on a website, I literally travel back in time and revisit places that I’ve visited and remember experiences that I’ve had.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 12, 2012

The goal of the book was to summarise much of the writing that Chris and I had been blogging on our blogs – to present bloggers, particularly those at the start of their journey, with a logically ordered guide to blogging for profit. In 2010 we released the 2nd edition. There was also an added chapter on social media.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

If you keep seeing clients come to your sales page and run off without buying, you probably want to take a class in writing killer sales copy that converts. Colleen ( @tixrus ) April 7, 2010 at 1:37 am As Tara said on True Blood, “school is for white people who want some one to read the books to them and tell em what it means.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The web copy itself is a bigger concern. Be more concise, have a more confident tone, and use excitement and urgency in your web copy so that it catches attention quickly and pulls visitors toward the inevitable step of contacting you. Thanks again, Scott Reply Autumn ( @Lianysa ) February 28, 2010 at 7:40 pm Wow u guys r so good!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

Bloggers, business owners, authorities and other providers are making absolute statements, as if their advice applies to everyone, everywhere – without verifying the truth. Michael Martine ( @remarkablogger ) January 11, 2010 at 1:34 am There’s another kind of “wrongness.&# But that’s not what’s happening.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 6, 2011

At the end of August 2010, my business partner and I made the decision to document the steps I had taken to turn a blog that was earning $20 per month in AdSense money into a $500-$5000-per-month blog (all from natural traffic). Our goal was to show other female bloggers that there was a way of earning income with a review blog.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 21, 2012

Recently, here on Problogger , I was discussing the topic of privacy breach notification and how it affects us as bloggers. The Wall Street Journal reports that in 2008 blogger Shellee Hale was sued for remarks she made in forums relating to a software company. This guest post is by Matt Setter of MaltBlue.com. How can it affect you?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

What better time to look at the horrors that plague bloggers? Save Yourself: As The Huffington Post found recently with “ The Funniest 2010 Internet Meme Hallowen Costumes ,” (a repost of a post by Nerve ), not even the largest blogs are immune to the occasional typo or grammatical error. The Horror: Typo terrors.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 25, 2018

Those who already have a blog; beginners to advanced bloggers; and groups. A lot of people came looking for the secrets of making money blogging at ProBlogger, but really, what I learned in the early days of ProBlogger was that, what seem to help bloggers the most was when I challenge them to take action rather than just to gain knowledge.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 17, 2011

As with the traditional Web, a large portion of mobile users stumble upon blogs via search ( Google reported mobile searches quadrupled in 2010, with one in seven searches coming from a mobile device), so don’t hesitate to include mobile-critical details such as phone numbers, addresses, websites and directions.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 28, 2011

Fast-forward to the end of 2010: I had co-founded Firepole Marketing, and I was in the middle of Jon’s latest training program, about guest blogging. 38 Critical Books Every Blogger Needs to Read was published on Copyblogger, and as of this writing, has accumulated 199 comments, 869 tweets, and 189 Facebook shares. And it worked!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 16, 2010

Write better copy for it. There, on the seat next to him, was a copy of The Tipping Point. Melinda | SuperWAHM ( @superwahm1 ) January 17, 2010 at 6:10 am Melani, I liked your site. Favourite Posts From 2009 Reply Kelly January 17, 2010 at 8:34 am James, Thanks for having me in. Draw attention to it. The Top 10.2

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Men With Pens

MAY 2, 2010

The ad copy on a box of CDs. Now imagine the web copy on your site. If you’re not telling your readers to go and look at that copy, it’s getting no more attention than the instructions on your toothpaste box. And that copy is a lot more important than the features on that box of CDs. Get your sales copy read.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Since 2010, Omidyar has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat. He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. 23 James Goodnight: Co-founder of SAS Institute is worth $8.8

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Men With Pens

MARCH 21, 2010

There’s a lot more to writing web copy than that – and you’ll learn it from cars. And that’s what your web copy needs to do for your client. Don’t neglect the basics of what goes under the hood of your web copy, of course. You’ll find those articles right here on Men with Pens, actually. It’s good advice.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 18, 2010

There’s a growing trend around longtime bloggers: newbie mistakes. There’s a growing trend around longtime bloggers: newbie mistakes. Producing Lackluster Content This is perhaps the most common problem among longtime bloggers. Newer bloggers saw this tool and decided to throw it in there. Afraid not. Reply Leslie A.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 30, 2021

One of the biggest challenges that bloggers and content marketers face is writing content that’s optimized for search engines, yet will also appeal to people. A copywriter is a skilled professional who writes copy for advertisements, promotions, and customer engagement. Don’t waste valuable SEO copy. A copywriter does.

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