Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

I fail at a lot of things, and I’m not ashamed to say that I fail spectacularly. As a fiction writer, I have a whole folder of novel starts that got trashed because of procrastination. As a blogger, I was crazy enough to pitch to ProBlogger (and yes, fail) when my own analytics were damn flat. And as a career hopeful, I was uncommon enough to choose writing as a profession, despite my mom and dad being CPAs.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

This guest post is by Tony Hastings of The Top 10 Blog. Whether you are blogging for profit, publicity, or pleasure, the basic building blocks of success are the same. Success can be defined as, “accomplishing an aim or purpose or having achieved popularity, profit, or distinction.” ( Google Dictionary ). Here are ten essential words you should consider constantly as a blogger, as they reflect the values you need in order to succeed. 1.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Choosing just two Damn Fine Words writing contest winners out of many talented, deserving people is one of the most difficult choices I make every year. I read every entry. I think about what every person expresses in their words. I put myself in their shoes and imagine myself in their situation. I cheer for some, smile at others and applaud each person for their effort.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Writing content is crucial to today’s online world. You know this, because all the pros tell you to write compelling website copy to increase your client base and sales. They tell you to write engaging blog posts that generate comments and build credibility. They tell you to write ebooks and newsletters and sales pages and articles and all sorts of content that brings you new customers.

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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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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

This guest post is by Kimberly Nilson of writemyessay4me.com. Many of us have faced the problem of dealing with plagiarised content, either while reviewing guest articles by low-quality bloggers, or inadvertently using common phrases in our own writing. Even the most skilled blogger cannot possibly be familiar with all the pages of content which are already online in a specific niche.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Just starting a blog? Longing to revive an old, forgotten blog? Or just feeling guilty because you’ve let your blog languish without a post for a little too long? Image courtesy stock.xchng user tikideputy If your blog’s fallen behind your ideal post frequency, you’re in luck. Today, I’m going to give you a six-step plan for kickstarting stalled blog content.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

This guest post is by Shahzad Saeed of TechAndProject.com. Recently Google announced on its official blog that it will start penalizing sites that are accused of copyright infringement. The announcement may reduce the content theft around the web, since now it is clear that if a site continuously violates copyright laws, it will lose search rankings and possibly even be removed from Google’s index.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This is a guest post by Robert from The College Investor. If you’ve been blogging for any period of time, you’ve inevitably had your content stolen. In fact, you’ve probably already taken steps to protect your content from being copied. And you’re also probably familiar with how to go about filing a DMCA takedown request. However, I’m here to tell you to wait on doing that, and follow these two steps first!

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This guest post is by the Blog Tyrant. If you take your blogging seriously you’ll know that you have to wear a lot of different hats. We are content marketers, SEO students, social media savants, and sometimes web designers. But what a lot of bloggers seem to forget is that our blog hosting setup is an extremely crucial piece in the puzzle. Yet it often gets overlooked because it is scary, boring or just too darn hard.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked if I wanted to set up and manage the Pinterest account for Digital Photography School. Within a week, we had launched, and Darren explained his take on the process in this case study. So far, the account has nearly 5000 followers. We have been getting a lot of great feedback and have noticed a lot of people signing up just to follow us.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

What was your most popular post this week? I asked this question on Twitter on Thursday, and got some interesting responses. The people who tweeted back blog in a range of markets—from personal blogs and finance blogs, to fashion blogs and craft blogs. And their readers are have differing needs. Put yourself in the picture Among the posts were how-tos, reviews, personal stories, opinion—all kinds of approaches.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

This guest post is by Ricky of www.wickedleo.com. With an active Facebook page , three corporate blogs , a couple of Twitter accounts, a YouTube channel , a Flickr profile and more, Kodak seems to be smiling pretty much all over the social media arena. And no, it’s not just for the sake of social media presence alone. Kodak is, literally and figuratively, swimming and sailing in social media space—replying swiftly to users’ tweets, creating polls, seeking suggestions, organizing contests, uploa

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

This guest post is by Ben Ellis of www.b3n3llis.com. A lot of “app talk” in the world of writing revolves around the main applications used to compose your piece of writing, such as Scrivener , iA Writer , and my weapon of choice, MOApps’ Write , plus a whole load of others too. I use a few additional apps to help me research and record things when I’m out and my notebook or laptop are at home.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com. What’s the one similarity between these blogging tasks? approving comments on your blog. proofreading posts. writing and preparing your post to be published (finding images, SEO, setting tags and categories, and so on). keeping yourself up to date with social media. writing guest posts. recording a video and uploading it to YouTube.

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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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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 29, 2012

This guest post is by Dan Norris of Web Control Room. Guest posting is up near the top of every list of ways to grow your blog. The problem is, if you don’t do it correctly, you are more or less wasting your time. I’ve been writing guest posts for a long time as a way to build interest in my blogs. But until recently I’d never really looked specifically at the results.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

This guest post is by Clay Morgan of ClayWrites.com. Are you unintentionally killing your blog? When I started my first blog in early 2009, I knew absolutely nothing. I just thought a website might give me a place to write some stuff. And my complete lack of planning and strategy showed. So a few months ago, I killed my old blog and started over. It was a conscious decision and a good one at that.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This guest post is by Brian Lund of bclund. Writing a niche blog is all the rage these days, but they require a different type of content than is typical of a “mass audience” blog. And that content can be hard to come up with. However, there is a simple, though not necessarily obvious trick you can use to help produce consistent, quality, personal content that people really want to read, and which will eventually garner your blog a much larger audience.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

This guest post is by Stanley Lee. We all know the benefits of networking are obvious, so why are we neglecting it? Are you scared about meeting new people in your industry? Do you spend a fortune to attend conferences and trade shows? Or do you waste a lot of time with travel and setting up your computer to work properly? If you’re sick of making compromises, read on.

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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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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

This guest post is by Syed Balkhi of WPBeginner. Running a multi-author blog can become a hassle, especially if you do not have a dedicated content manager for your site.Having run several multi-author blogs myself, I understand the issues you face and decisions you have to make. If you’re running a multi-author blog, you may have asked yourself questions like, should I give the writer access to my WordPress dashboard?

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

On the weekend we looked at a little exercise for kickstarting stalled content on your blog. This approach can be useful for reviving a long-neglected blog or just for reinvigorating your blogging when you’re struggling to keep up a regular posting routine. For all the advice you can read online about blogging productivity, the one thing no one else can do for you is actually sit down and write content (unless you hire someone to do just that—which is an option for some, but not one weR

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This guest post is by Jenny Dean of Floppycats. One of the joys of the Internet is the opportunity to become friends with a complete stranger on the other side of the world. Michael Strange and I had two things in common when we first met: we both owned Ragdoll cats , and we both had YouTube channels. After an exchange of comments on each other’s videos, I discovered Michael knew a lot more than I did about being found on YouTube and being paid for being found.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

This guest post is by Bea Kylene Jumarang of Writing Off the Rails. You tell yourself you need to exercise, but you don’t do it. You tell yourself you need to write, but then you go on Twitter. Or, my favorite situation, you tell yourself you need to save more, and then you blow out your cash on that shiny new bag. It’s a vicious little cycle, and you know you need to end it, but you don’t.

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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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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

This guest post is by Amanda DiSilvestro of Highervisibility. When you’re a blogger, you want to gain as much visibility and authority as you can, and featuring your content on more established websites is one way to make this happen. Guest posting is becoming more popular, and it works well for all parties involved: the editor gets a great piece of content and someone new promoting the site, and the writer gets to put his/her content in front of a well-established audience and reaps many SEO be

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

This guest post is by Rebecca Cooper of simpleasthatblog.com. It’s hard for me to believe that just three short months ago I was in sunny Queensland enjoying the sites and attractions across the world from my homeland of Canada. Being chosen as one of the ten bloggers to go on this once in a lifetime trip was exciting to say the least! I was thrilled for the adventure and equally as thrilled to learn what I could about blogging while there.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

This guest post is by the Web Marketing Ninja. In my work, I get to speak with a lot of people who’ve done really well from the web. Some have done seven- and eight-digits “well,” others who have more modest, but still impressive, five- and six-digit success stories. And one of the common challenges I encounter with the five- and six-digit bloggers is that they really struggle to take that next step.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

It’s Monday—the start of a new week on your blog—and I wonder what challenges you’re facing. Image courtesy stock.xchng user Jan Willem Geertsma If you’ve neglected your RSS or social media feeds over the weekend, you’ll likely find plenty of good advice there—advice that you feel you really should try out if you want your blog to be its best.

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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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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This guest post is by Rich Gorman of Reputationchanger.com. In this day and age, there’s really nobody who is exempt from the supreme importance of online reputation. Business owners need a sterling online reputation to ensure that they keep attracting new clients. Job seekers need a good reputation to put their best face forward, in the likely event that a potential employer checks them out on Google.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

This guest post is by Brandon Turner of RealEstateInYourTwenties.com. Last night I made $9. I know that isn’t a lot of money. I know I’m not taking that dream vacation to Italy or buying that new MacBook Air I lust after. So why mention it? Because I made $9 last night. While sleeping. While completely unconscious. I woke up and discovered that I was $9 richer than when I went to bed.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Over the last week, we’ve been kickstarting stalled blog content. We’ve worked through the process of planning , writing and editing a post , and I hope that by now some of you might have published that post. At this point, I hope you’re thinking that kickstarting the content on your neglected or burdensome blog hasn’t been such a challenge after all.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This guest post is by Nina Gorbunova of TeamLab. I first faced the problem of document immobility a couple of years ago, when I was far away from my PC. I lost my flash stick and realized that I didn’t have my documents stored anywhere in the cloud. That’s what we call epic fail. Of course, “it’s not the end of the world,” you may say. But being a freelancer, sooner or later you realize the importance of round-the-clock access to your files.

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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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