Men With Pens
JULY 14, 2011
It’s not a question anyone really wants to ask themselves – but it is the most necessary question in professional writing. And if the quality of writing around the web is any indication, it’s a question very few writers ask themselves. Most people starting out as professionals will receive the following advice: write. Just write. Keep writing. I know.
ProBlogger
JULY 29, 2011
This guest post was written by Stephen Guise of Deep Existence. A new blogger is born today! Aw, look at her beautiful blue Twitter and Facebook icon eyes and her cute little RSS nose. This baby blogger does not know the perils of comment moderation, stalkers, low traffic, and spam that await her. I wonder what type of blogger she’ll be. The blogosphere is populous and it keeps growing.
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Men With Pens
JULY 7, 2011
Marketing should be fun, engaging and exciting. If you think I’m nuts for suggesting such a thing, you’re probably doing it wrong. Let me tell you a little story about a friend I’ll call Tim. Tim was a software developer who enjoyed chatting with people, but hated selling his business. He didn’t want to be that cheesy guy who you avoided because all he did was try to sell you his services.
Men With Pens
JULY 21, 2011
“You’re nobody ‘til somebody loves you,” sings sexy crooner Michael Bublé. He ain’t wrong. You’re nobody in the blogosphere until you’ve been shown a little love by the influential sites that serious bloggers read, Tweet and flock to. You know the ones – they boast six-digit subscribers, have a cult following on Twitter, and bring celebrity and name recognition by association.
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.
Men With Pens
JULY 28, 2011
I’ve been called many things in my life. Patient is not one of them. So when I received strong interest for my fourth book from traditional publishers and was told they’d put it out in spring of 2012…. Well. Like I said, I’ve never been called patient. I decided to take control of my own destiny and circumvent traditional publishers – and I’m going to tell you exactly how I raised money, planned my coupe and sped up publication of my fourth book by one full year, so that you can do the sam
Men With Pens
JULY 25, 2011
These days, it’s cool to be a consultant. Everyone’s becoming one. Hey, it’s the easy path to fast cash, right? You write a sales page, you promote your new service, and you become an expert. Simple. And most likely, you rock. Your fans and friends tell you that all the time, so it must be true. And they’re great too, and you tell the world all the time about your fantastic consulting clients.
Content Pro Pulse brings together the best content for content professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ProBlogger
JULY 13, 2011
This guest post is by Abby Larson of Style Me Pretty: The Ultimate Wedding Blog. I write a wedding blog. Before you start running for the hills, now that you know I focus only on girly things, know that I also happen to have a smarty pants husband who is joining me here to spread some of his crazy blogging wisdom. I started Style Me Pretty about four years ago, after I sold a wedding invitation business that I developed.
ProBlogger
JULY 17, 2011
This guest post is by Aman Basanti of Ageofmarketing.com. Meet Ailsa Campbell. Ailsa is a great grandmother of an editor (pun intended): she’s been teaching English longer than many of us have been alive. Needless to say she knows a thing or two about writing well. Here are Ailsa’s top tips for becoming a better writer. 1. Get your homophones right. “Homophone&# sounds like an alien word, but you use homophones every day, and often incorrectly.
ProBlogger
JULY 2, 2011
This guest post is by Lori Meyer of listbuildingwithlori.com. I wanted to chat with you about passion and how it can make or break your online business. Most online entrepreneurs create squeeze pages and blogs that target desperate niches and people who are looking for answers to their problems. But how many of those entrepreneurs are truly passionate about what they’re doing?
ProBlogger
JULY 13, 2011
I was recently asked who my blogging competitors were. I struggled to find an answer to that—not because there’s nobody else blogging in my niches, and not because I’m not aware of other bloggers in my niches, but because I don’t really worry much about them. Image by ElMarto. There are three main reasons for that. My main “competitor&# is myself.
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!
ProBlogger
JULY 14, 2011
This guest post is by Russ Henneberry of Tiny Business, Mighty Profits. It’s every blogger’s dream: to take something you created and generate enough money to take care of your obligations. But time is running out. The time bomb is ticking. Generate sales, or die. With each second that ticks by, the pressure mounts. And it becomes tough to know where to spend your time as a blogger.
ProBlogger
JULY 1, 2011
Not a day goes by when we don’t see Twitter and Facebook as being talked about as essential social networks for bloggers to be investing time into – but over the last few months I’ve been investing a little extra time into another social network – one that I wonder if some have forgotten about a little – LinkedIn. I’ve long had a LinkedIn Account (I’d love to connect with you there) but I’ve not really known what to do with it for a long time ̵
ProBlogger
JULY 22, 2011
This guest post is by Ollin Morales of Courage 2 Create. Nearly a year and a half ago, I was a complete mess. I had lost my job in the recession, my then boyfriend broke up with me, I didn’t get into grad school, and I had to guide a loved one through her very serious depression. I had never been under so much pain, turmoil, and stress in all my life.
ProBlogger
JULY 19, 2011
This guest post is by Stepfanie Cuevas of The Lady Bloggers Society. I used to be a huge multi-tasker. I was always taught that you can juggle at least a dozen projects at once, and that it was an art form that you could boast to the rest of your blogging buddies. I spent nights writing blog posts, getting assignments turned in, tweeting, Facebooking, and replying to emails.
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.
ProBlogger
JULY 3, 2011
This guest post is by Ankesh Kothari of SuccessNexus.com. Psychologist Antonius Cillessen of the University of Connecticut wondered how kids became popular. So he started researching social behaviors and peer relations of early adolescent kids in American schools. And he found something very interesting. He found that every school had a bunch of very friendly kids who are socially accepted and liked by everyone.
ProBlogger
JULY 18, 2011
This guest post is by Jenny Dean of Business Blog Writers. You might have seen the ProBlogger post by Tommy Walker that talked about using photos to your advantage on Facebook. This post will add to some of Tommy’s ideas. I have two websites, Floppycats.com and Antioxidant-fruits.com , and corresponding Facebook fan pages where I like to set up albums for the product reviews that I do on those sites.
ProBlogger
JULY 4, 2011
This guest post is by Shaun Connell of Live Gold Prices. People like things to be predictable. Formulas—or patterned systems—are all around us. Many popular action movies have the same basic plot, every criminal trial is supposed to be run with the same basic principles, the planets follow the same basic paths, and billions of dollars are spent every day in stocks, futures, and currency trades using complex formulas.
ProBlogger
JULY 6, 2011
This guest post is by Hasan of MarketingTheInternet. YouTube , the second largest search engine right after Google, in 2010 broke the record of uploading more than 24 hours of video per minute! YouTube has also shattered the millstone of over 700 billion video views. YouTube is an excellent platform for bloggers to build a brand, connect, and provide value to millions of people at once.
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.
ProBlogger
JULY 19, 2011
Today I’m excited to give ProBlogger readers advance notice of a special training day in Melbourne for Bloggers – the 2nd ever ProBlogger Training day. I’ll share the details below ( you can express your interest in attending or sponsoring below too ) but first let me fill you in on the back story: In July 2010 and very much on the spur of the moment I came up with the hair brained idea to run a small conference in Melbourne.
ProBlogger
JULY 20, 2011
This guest post is by Ivan Walsh. How long does it take to set up a profitable online business? One thing I learned since starting my first site in 1997 is that the more preparation you do, the more likely you are to succeed. Something that made a big impression on me when I first starting reading ProBlogger was the. six-month challenge Darren’s wife gave him.
ProBlogger
JULY 28, 2011
This guest post is by Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting. Welcome to an increasingly social landscape on the Web. Social media started this shift from information to conversation, and now with the search engines increasingly using social signals to determine what to show searchers it’s a trend that, as a publisher, you have to get on top of to write and promote great content.
ProBlogger
JULY 26, 2011
This guest post is by David Hartstein of JG Visual. I’m sure you’ve heard well-reasoned, logical arguments for why you should be commenting on blogs: “You can be a part of the conversation happening out there.”. “You can build your own authority.”. “You can drive traffic to your blog.”. But, while there may be a burned, unpopped kernel of truth in these statements, none of them take into account the many reasons you should never comment on a blog.
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.
ProBlogger
JULY 21, 2011
This is a guest post by Jim Nelson of Tripawds.com. Talk about a niche market! When I first started blogging about my three legged dog Jerry back in 2006, never in my wildest dreams did I think helping those facing amputation for their dogs would be my full time job five years later. But then again, I never expected the little website I created to keep friends and family informed about Jerry’s progress to become the largest online community for canine amputees and their people either.
ProBlogger
JULY 3, 2011
This guest post is by Chris Kahler of bloggeritus.com. It doesn’t take a genius to stroll around cyberspace and quickly find that the World Wide Web is littered with junk. There is a lot of “stuff” out there, most of which isn’t very good. On the flip side, though, there are still many amazing gems hidden beneath the rubble. The magical ingredient that marks the divide is creativity.
ProBlogger
JULY 24, 2011
This guest post is by k out Brandon Yanofsk of B-List Marketing. If you’ve ever asked another blogger, “When’s the right time to start selling on my blog?”, you’ll know you never get a solid answer. Some say as soon as you get one person visiting your blog. Some say never to start selling until you’ve got at least 100 subscribers. And some say selling before you have 10,000 people on your email list is premature.
ProBlogger
JULY 5, 2011
This guest post is by Moon Hussain of Experiments In Passive Income. This post comes from the bottom of my heart. After coming in like a cowgirl blogging newbie and failing with making money online with my blog, I have figured out what lead to my blog bringing in $0.00 most months. To think I came into the blogging world with a typical “make money online&# blog and with the mindset that I’d blow everyone away with loads of affiliate income rolling in was foolish.
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.
ProBlogger
JULY 20, 2011
This guest post is by Dan Kaufman of Mediasurvival. Most bloggers don’t promote themselves to the mass media … and I can understand why. It’s daunting to put yourself out there by pitching to professionals who work in a cutthroat industry where they receive—and reject—pitches on a daily basis. And yet, having been a newspaper and magazine editor and journalist for over 17 years (and a proud blogger for three years), I know that it’s still worth trying.
ProBlogger
JULY 12, 2011
This guest post was written by Neil Matthews of WPDude. Have you noticed a decrease in the number of blog comments you get and an increase in Facebook likes and Twitter tweets about your posts? Are you worried that you are loosing social proof about the validity of your posts to the social media conversation, rather than as direct comment on your site?
ProBlogger
JULY 31, 2011
This guest post is by by Kevin Cullis of MacStartup.com. “If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” —Benjamin Franklin. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; sell him fishing supplies and a fishing guide and you’ve got a business. Most of us start a blog with not much thought other than just to begin writing.
ProBlogger
JULY 7, 2011
At a recent conference, I presented on the topic of making money from blogging. At the end of the session, I hung around to chat with attendees, and ended up talking with about 30 people in what turned out to be an informal Q&A time. The group was largely new to blogging and as they asked questions, I realized that there are a lot of misconceptions about blogging and (particularly about making money in this space).
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
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