Tue.Feb 13, 2024

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How to Take Your Readers on a Journey (& Tell the Truth): 3 Universal Writing Lessons

Enchanting Marketing

Let’s talk for a sec. Just you and me. What do you like to read? I devour a lot of fiction. And I know it’s frowned upon in some business quarters. And yes, I do understand. If you want to write better sales copy, then learn the principles of persuasion and study how the best copywriters write their copy. How does their copy engage? How does it take away your objections to buying?

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How To Remove Backlinks (And Clean up Your Link Profile)

Ahrefs

In this article, I’ll share how to remove backlinks and consider the different approaches for cleaning up your link profile—depending on your circumstances.

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‘Playing Around’ With Generative AI Won’t Lead To Innovation

Content Marketing Institute

Company leaders and some marketers think generative AI gives them miraculous new capabilities. They believe it requires a new strategy or a dedicated leader. And they would be wrong. Generative AI is an innovation, not an invention.

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Perplexity Shows the Future of AI-Powered Search

David Meerman Scott

For the past few weeks, I have been using Perplexity.ai as my default search engine. It’s a cool hybrid between a chatbot such as ChatGPT and a traditional blue link search engine like Google. The way Perplexity displays answers to natural language queries, showing a text answer together with links for more information, is the future of both chatbots and search.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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Why Long-Tail Keywords Will Dominate SEO Strategies in 2024

The Hoth

Which lemonade stand do you think will do more business: one isolated in a hot, suburban neighborhood – or one lined up among dozens of others on a beach filled with tourists? The isolated lemonade stand will obviously see more customers since it has virtually no competition. If you’re only targeting keywords with high search volume for your SEO strategy, your website is the equivalent of the second lemonade stand, the one overwhelmed by competitors.

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Writing Rules That Beg to Be Broken

Jane Friedman

Photo by Alice Dietrich on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted from Ten Easy Steps to Becoming a Writer by Randall Silvis. I despise rules. Always have. Rules are for accountants and architects, assembly line workers and neurosurgeons. In order to be successful in those professions, there are procedures that must always be followed, variations that must never be employed.

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21 Powerful Ways to Repurpose Your Blog Content in 2024

Bramework

When you think of all the ways to repurpose content and you come up short, it means you may need this article! Your blog post goes live, you share it to the world and wait for everyone to read it. Then what happens? Do you leave the post to sit in the queue and just keep sharing it? We are going to review the ways you can keep your blogs alive with 21 ways to repurpose content successfully.

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