January, 2014

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Want to Earn More Money for Your Writing? Give it Away!

Men With Pens

'Tired of making pennies a word - and losing jobs to other writers regardless of how little you charge? That means it''s time to change your marketing strategy, and I can''t think of a better time than the beginning of the New Year. If you want to make more this coming year - a lot more - start writing for free. Click here to read the full article → Another rocking post from Men With Pens!

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4 Key Areas to Focus Your Time Upon to Grow Profitable Blogs [And How Much of Your Time to Spend On Them]

ProBlogger

'A regular question I’m asked by bloggers at different stages of their blogging is how much time they should allocate to different aspects of blogging. Should you spend more time writing blog posts, promoting the posts, networking, responding to readers, working on social media etc? Answer this question is tricky as there are numerous factors to consider including the topic of your blog, the type of content you’re creating, the type of audience you’re wanting to attract, your o

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Win a Scholarship to the Best Writing Course for Business Owners

Men With Pens

'Each time I prepare for a new session of the Damn Fine Words writing course, I open up the DFW writing contest. Many people tell me they wish they could register for the course, because if they could just get in. they''d finally have the skills to write engaging website copy that pulls in much-needed clients.they could make more money, instead of guessing at what to write and struggling to get words out on the page.they could feel excited and happy about writing for their business for the first

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How I doubled my unique visitors in six months (and tripled them in a year)

ProBlogger

'This post is from ProBlogger Team member Stacey Roberts. Welcome to 2014, folks – a year we hope to bring you even more tips and advice to make your blog everything you want it to be! Let’s kick off with both feet in the direction of unique browsers, and how to get them to come to your website. Diversify – it’s the advice you hear in all sorts of blogging situations.

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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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5 Ways to Find Out What People Really Want From Your Blog

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Sabina Stoiciu, blogger, photographer and traveller. . While it can be quite redundant to pose this question, here it goes: Why blog? Let’s have a look at a few key stats that’ll convince you to set up a blog in the next two seconds, if you haven’t already got one: 77% of Internet users read blogs. nearly one quarter (23%) of the time spent on the Internet is directed towards blogs and social networks. small businesses that run blogs increase their leads number

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Not on Instagram? Your Blog Could be Missing Out

ProBlogger

'This post is from ProBlogger Team member Stacey Roberts. You could be forgiven for thinking Instagram is just for celebrity selfies and sharing pictures of what you ate for lunch. And while that’s exactly what Instagram is, it’s also so much more. For a start, it’s a network of totally engaged online creatures – exactly the kind of people who love to read blogs, and probably would love yours too, if you let them know you have one.

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2014 Reboot: Find Motivation and Inspiration to Blog Better This Year

ProBlogger

'We are mining ProBlogger content this week for super-useful information to kick-start your blogging year with gusto. Today we go all the way back to the early days of ProBlogger.net, where Darren encouraged us to put our best effort into our blogs, showing us how to find motivation and interest in the most inspiring of places. This post “Declaring War on Blogging Apathy” was part of a series that originally appeared in 2005.

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The Unexpected Way to Write Killer Content: Blog from Your Heart and Break All the Rules

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Tova Payne of TovaPayne.com. If you asked me two years ago about blogging, well let’s just say I must have been living in a cave, because I didn’t quite understand what blogging was all about or why people did it. I’ve loved writing my whole life, but never realized how blogging was associated with business, or getting your message out to the world.

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Building a Magnetic Blog: How to Keep Your Readers Coming Back for More

ProBlogger

'This post is from Nick Amann, the founder of SpecificFeeds. As bloggers, we tend to be a little obsessed with numbers – we check our stats compulsively to see how many more hits we got today than yesterday and freak out if we lose a couple of followers on Twitter or Facebook. However, most bloggers are focusing on the wrong numbers. Having a highly trafficked blog sounds great and it may well be, but what’s even more important that having lots of visitors to your site is ensuring that a

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Is your blog design ready for 2014? Four ways to tell

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Laura Windisch of 99Designs. It’s that time of year again. Time to take a good long look at your blog and reflect on what’s worked well, learn from what hasn’t, and set goals for what will. After you’ve had a chance to sort through the numbers —total visits, average length of stay and the like—give your eyes a minute to focus on what your design is doing to showcase your content.

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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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New Year, New Start – What Have We Done?

ProBlogger

'It’s January 31 – the end of the month where we make and break New Year’s resolutions and swear to do better next time. If you’re anything like me, you may have thought about what you want to do with your blog this year, and where you want to go. Maybe wrote down a couple of changes, or a few ideas to try. Unlike me, you’ve probably also made a start on a few of these, and started 2014 blogging with a bang.

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14 Ways To Earn $14 Blogging in 2014

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Greg Narayan of Dear Blogger. Reading back through an intelligent survey Darren issued recently, I noticed a tiny problem that maybe you’ve seen too: 63% of ProBlogger readers earn less that $100 per month from blogging. “What?” I thought. ProBlogger audience are some of the net’s most savvy entrepreneurs, businessmen/women and bloggers.

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The Power of Infographics on your blog

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Chelsea Varney, a Community manager at Brandwatch. Infographics are extremely useful for numerous reasons when it comes to content marketing and blogging. Although many writers may not have considered using an infographic for a blog post this can be an excellent way to present interesting information while linking to a topic that is of significance to yourself and your readers.

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