October, 2016

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3 Google AdSense Alternatives for WordPress Compared

ThemeIsle

Despite the rise of ad blockers, plenty of websites still rely on advertisements for a sizable portion of their incomes. While Google is still the big man on campus thanks to AdWords and AdSense, it’s always smart to explore your options. That’s why we’ve put together a roundup of our favorite Google AdSense alternatives for WordPress.

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How to Increase Site Speed and Improve Your SEO Ranking

ProBlogger

Contributed by ProBlogger SEO expert Jim Stewart of StewArt Media. Whether you’re a hobby blogger or have turned your blog into a business, your main goal is always going to be increasing the number of visitors you have to your site. The way most of your visitors will find your blog is by searching on Google and finding it high in the search rankings.

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33 Personal Blogs of Startup Marketers We Love

Buffer

I like to think that reading the blog of a marketer I admire is like having a coffee with them and getting a chance to learn all about their approach to marketing. ☕ Personally, I have benefited a lot from reading these blogs, especially blogs published by startup marketers. Here are a couple of reasons why I love them: When they write about their work, I get to learn about how they approach growth and marketing at their company and what tactics, techniques, and channels they use.

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5 Facebook Advertising Features You Probably Didn’t Know Existed

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger Expert Angela Ponsford. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware that Facebook ads are one of the best marketing tools available to bloggers and business owners. But whether you’re a complete newbie to Facebook ads or if you’ve been using them for a while, there’s probably still a heap of features that you didn’t even know existed.

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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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How to Leverage the 80/20 Rule for Blogging Success

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from ProBlogger expert Jerry Low. You may have heard of the 80/20 rule – it was recognized as a concept more than a century ago. In modern times, the rule has been used to achieve a broad range of objectives, from economics to business management to better relationships to weight loss. If you apply the principle to blogging, you could improve your efficiency and maximize your efforts.

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Which is the Best Permalink Structure For Your Blog?

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Richard Richsh. WordPress is the most preferred platform by many beginners and developers across the globe for its ease of use. More than 75% of the website’s today use WordPress, and there are many ways by which you can increase your WordPress website’s ranking using SEO – one of these ways is to pay attention to your permalinks.

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The 3 Key Steps to Create Your First Online Course

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger Expert Sam Nordberg. Creating an online course can be a great way to increase your income from your blog. Let’s face it, you spend a lot of time creating content anyway, putting it together in a course for your readers seems like a logical next step. Yet, the thought of putting together a full course can be overwhelming to say the least.

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New Challenges for Advertisers & Why Bloggers and Influencers Will Be Their New Best Friend

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger Advertising Expert Alita Harvey-Rodriguez of MilkIt Academy. It’s a tough world out there for bloggers. You all have incredible engaging content that your readers love, yet almost everyone expects something for free. You probably know that your content is more valuable than you’re paid or compensated for but justifying your media prices can often be a battle.

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Community Discussion: How Often Do You Post on Your Blog?

ProBlogger

Sometimes it can take years before we find a good rhythm to our blog’s posting schedule. Some blogs suit smaller, bite-sized pieces every day (or multiple times a day), and some blogs get by on posting once a month. Darren gets asked A LOT how often one should post, especially when just starting out with a blog. The answer, unfortunately, is not one-size-fits-all!

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

I don’t know about you but the fact we’re half way through October really freaks me out. I’m neck-deep in editorial schedules and I even wrote “2017” on a post the other day – where did this year go? As usual, the news that caught my eye this week is pretty diverse – small business blogging stuff, emojis, online courses, and case studies of folk who are doing it right online.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Community Discussion: How Much Video Do You Do?

ProBlogger

We are hearing it from all sides – video is the new black. It’s where most of your audience are spending their time, and it’s one of the most successful (if not currently the most successful) content online. Technology evangelist Brian Fanzo tells us that video is the future. If you’re not producing video on your blog and social channels, you are missing out.

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

Coming to you live from the city that spring forgot — it still feels like winter here in Melbourne but perhaps that means more time for working on our blogs and finding out what’s new in blogging and social media this week! As usual, it’s a diverse lot. 20 Unseen Instagram Tools to Grow Your Audience | Forbes. I haven’t used all of these, but no doubt they’re helpful.

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

I don’t know about you, but that was the fastest week of my life – I guess it has something to do with my kid going back to school, but honestly I blinked and all of a sudden here we are on Saturday again! I took mannnnnny notes this week, most of them about cool things to do in Instagram and on Facebook – gotta be ahead of the game!

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5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Starting a Podcast

ProBlogger

By Rachel Corbett of podschool.com.au. . Podcasting is a great way to get your message out into the world but it’s also hard work. For every show that’s listened to by millions of people, there are hundreds with an audience consisting of the host and his or her mum. So before you buy the latest gear, don the headphones, and start sprinting towards your dreams of podcasting glory, it’s important to ask yourself the following questions… Who am I doing this for?

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

So much to talk about this week. Twitter killing Vine! Facebook ruling the world! How to get people to care about your brand! F8 2016: It’s a Good Time to Be a Publisher on Facebook | Jon Loomer. Reassuring, isn’t it?! Facebook Launches Augmented Reality Selfie Masks for Live Video | TechCrunch. And its creep onto Snapchat continues! Have you tried it yet?

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PB156: Tips for Writing Great Blog Post Titles

ProBlogger

11 Techniques for Writing Great Blog Post Titles. Today, I’m going to talk about crafting the titles for your blog posts. This is such an important topic, and I can’t believe I haven’t done a podcast about it in the last 155 episodes. This is a topic I get asked about quite a bit. Get your title right and it will completely change the destiny of your blog post.

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PB161: 3 Things Most Bloggers Don’t Pay Enough Attention To

ProBlogger

Three Things That Could Be Limiting the Potential of Your Blog. In today’s lesson, I will highlight 3 things that I see a lot of bloggers ignoring – or not paying enough attention to – that could be limiting the potential of their blog. It can be difficult to know where to turn your attention to when it comes to blogging. While we do each need to work out our own priorities with our blogging, these are 3 things I think most bloggers wanting to build traffic and income should focus th

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PB163: 3 Productivity Tips to Help You Build Healthy Habits

ProBlogger

3 Tips to Help You Increase Your Productivity. In today’s lesson, I want to chat about how to be more productive in your blogging (and life) through building good habits and systems into what you do. It’s so easy as an online entrepreneur to slip into bad habits when it comes to using our time or to lead a life where we spend our time frantically moving from one urgent thing to another without really putting much thought into what we need to get done.

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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The Quickest Way to Build Trust Online

ProBlogger

This is a guest post by Lisa Corduff. Lisa spoke at ProBlogger Event this year and we were so impressed with the results she achieved with video we’re supporting her Keeping Video Real Course as an affiliate partner. Us bloggers, we know what it’s like. We can spend hours writing. Hours editing. We can hit PUBLISH and feel like the whole world will explode with excitement or emotion over the information we have shared.

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Applying the Pareto Principle to Increase Your Productivity

ProBlogger

From ProBlogger expert Nicole Avery of Planning With Kids. The 80/20 principle, or the Pareto principle, is widely known and accepted in business. The principle asserts that a minority of causes or effort lead to a majority of the results, In business it can be easily seen in many areas: 80% of a company’s profits come from 20% of its customers. 80% of a company’s sales come from 20% of its products. 80% of customer complaints come from 20% of customers.

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PB158: Feeling Stuck? Here’s How to Get Moving Again

ProBlogger

Feeling Stuck? How to Regain Momentum. Are you feeling stuck with some area of your blogging or business life? If so, today’s episode is for you because I’m going to talk about getting unstuck and building momentum. What we are going to talk about today applies to many areas of life, but we are going to focus particularly on blogging and business. I am going to share with you a simple tip to help you get unstuck.

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The Why, How and When of Using Quotations on Your Blog

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger Expert Ali Luke of Aliventures. Do you ever use quotations on your blog – words from other bloggers, writers, or experts in your industry? Many bloggers rarely or never do … and they’re missing a huge opportunity. If you’ve never even thought about using quotes, or if you’re worried about getting it wrong, this post is for you. Before we dig in too far, though, let’s take a look at four key reasons why quotes are so useful.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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PB164: 3 MORE Tips Productivity Tips to Help You Build Healthy Habits

ProBlogger

3 MORE Tips to Help You Increase Your Productivity. In today’s episode, I want to continue on from the previous episode and share 3 more thoughts on how to become more productive and build healthy habits around your blogging and in your life. While normally our episodes are designed as stand alone episodes this one really does build upon the last one, so I would encourage you to listen to that one first if you haven’t done so, yet.

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PB162: How Lisa Took Action and Built a Six Figure Business

ProBlogger

How Lisa Corduff Took Action and Built a Six Figure Business. In today’s episode, we hear from Lisa Corduff from lisacorduff.com in an interview that Karly Nimmo from Radcasters recorded at the ProBlogger event a few weeks ago. Lisa spoke at the event in one of our most highly rated sessions titled ‘Anyone Can Create an Online Product’. It was a session that resonated with a lot of attendees.

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PB157: Perfection is a Fairytale – An Interview with Brian Fanzo

ProBlogger

An Interview with Brian Fanzo – Perfection is a Fairytale. Today, I have a great conversation to play for you. It’s a conversation that we recorded at the ProBlogger Event with our opening keynote speaker, Brian Fanzo from iSocialFanz. Brian is someone that I’ve admired for the last couple of years. I happened to stumble upon Brian on Periscope, where he was discussing using live video and high level methods of using newer social platforms.

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PB159: Link Building Tip – How to Generate Hundreds of Links for Your Blog in 5 Minutes a Day

ProBlogger

Link Building Tip – Generate Hundreds of Links for Your Blog in 5 Minutes a Day. In today’s lesson, you are going to learn a simple technique that has generated 100 new links for my blogs in the last month. This technique is fairly simple, and it only takes me about 5 to 10 minutes to do it. Yet, this technique is quite powerful. Incoming links to your blog are important because they drive traffic to your site from other parts of the web, and they also help you to rank higher in search eng

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Getting Creative with Content: A #Bufferchat Recap

Buffer

There’s so much content in the social media space, so how we can get more creative with the content we share? That was the topic of this week’s #bufferchat and, boy, did our community come through with awesome ideas for content creation! We discussed ways to make social media posts more interactive, how we can think outside the box with visual content , how to repurpose content on different social platforms, and much more.

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How to monetise your influence type: Platform-Specific Superstar

ProBlogger

When we think of influencers, we generally think of people with huge followings on their blog or social media platforms. There is more to influence than just audience numbers though, which is good news for the majority of us! Different influence types means there are different ways to monetise your influence as well. In this series we’ll take a look at which monetisation strategies better suit your influence type.

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7 Sanity Saving Tips for Launching Your Online Course

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from ProBlogger Expert Ellen Jackson of Potential Psychology. If you are going through hell, keep going – Winston Churchill. In December last year I hit publish and launched my first online course. I’d love to tell you that I sat and watched the dollar metre click over as funds swelled my Paypal account but this is not a rags to riches tale.

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PB160: Challenge: How to Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog

ProBlogger

Challenge: Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog. In today’s episode, I’m issuing you with a challenge to create a piece of content that centers around your opinion on a topic relevant to your audience. Adding your opinion to your content is such an important way to make your blog more useful to your audience, and it also makes it stand out from the crowd.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha