Men With Pens

MAY 19, 2011

A friend of mine once told me, “If who we are today is who we will be tomorrow, then our lives are already wasted.&#. Every day, as writers and as people, we can choose to grow and evolve or we can choose to remain the same. And evolution goes both ways: it can improve you or it can drag you backwards. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, evolution is “the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.&# What does that mean?

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ProBlogger

MAY 31, 2011

“ Beyond writing good quality content, how can I format my posts so that they communicate more effectively?&#. I was asked the above question by a reader earlier today on Twitter and shot them back a series of DMs with the following suggestions that I thought might interest others (I’ve expanded them here). Image by Kailash Gyawali. Of course, as the question implies, the most powerful communication strategy for bloggers is quality of writing—but beyond that, here are a few things I&

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Men With Pens

MAY 12, 2011

I’m going to tell you how not to write like an idiot in pubic. If you read that first sentence twice, you’ve witnessed caught-with-your-pants down copyediting. Naturally, I meant public – but the absence of that all-important l probably had you second-guessing my ability to give you sage advice about copyediting. And that’s even before you start reading the full article.

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Men With Pens

MAY 31, 2011

Too often, we writers fob reviews off as easy content. After all, someone else has done the creative work – it’s simply our job to judge it. And being loud, opinionated writers, we’re quite fond of judging. But writing a good review – a review that engages interest and causes action – is more than just giving a product rating and pointing your readers to the Amazon link.

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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

MAY 18, 2011

This guest post is by Natalie Sisson of The Suitcase Entrepreneur. When you first start blogging it can be difficult to find your real voice. It can also be unnerving to put yourself out there and say what you really think. Like many blogger,s you probably try to be appropriate, politically correct, and inoffensive in your blog posts. Well, let me tell you that if you want to be just like everyone else, that’s a guaranteed approach to get you there.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2011

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.&# – Oscar Wilde. Is your blog the best in the world? Often when we want to blog, we can struggle with what we see in the blogging universe. These blogs are doing better than our blog. Why is that? This blog has more followers on Twitter, has better and longer comments, has more views, has more Likes… Just calm down.

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ProBlogger

MAY 2, 2011

This guest post is by Goddess Leonie of GoddessGuidebook.com. In blogging years, I’m approaching my mid-life. Instead of having a crisis though, there’s life (and new tricks) in this ole goddess dog yet! In the last three months I’ve increased my subscribers by a whopping 50%. All with three simple changes. Because simple is fun and good, and really, it’s the best way to do things.

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ProBlogger

MAY 3, 2011

If you’re reading this blog post anywhere other than ProBlogger.com, you’re reading an illegal rip of the original. Content scraping—by automated programs that pull entire posts from your blog for republishing elsewhere—and autoblogging—where sites regurgitate whole articles from your RSS feed on their pages—are the most common content ripping practices.

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ProBlogger

MAY 30, 2011

This is the story of a blogger. He started his blog, taught himself about copywriting, and figured out who the one person he was writing for really was. He worked his tail off creating content. But his blog was a ghost town. There were no visitors, no comments … nothing. In a mad rush to find traffic, he created a Twitter account and followed every blogger he could think of.

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ProBlogger

MAY 9, 2011

This guest post is by Jaime Tardy of EventualMillionaire.com. Within six months of starting my blog I was contacted by a reporter from CNN. Less than a month later I was on CNNMoney.com and did an interview on CNN Newsroom with Tony Harris. A week after that, my story (and face!) was on Yahoo’s Homepage. Since then I’ve been in Kiplingers Personal Finance Magazine , iTunes New and Noteworthy list, MSNMoney.com, Probloggers Top 40 to Watch List, and on Yahoo’s homepage again.

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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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ProBlogger

MAY 21, 2011

This guest post is by Jeff Goins of Goins, Writer. Your blog needs a voice. Like Pavarotti, it can resonate with power that is full of sophistication.?? Or, like Dave Grohl, it can scream and shout with disenfranchised angst.? It can even sing sweetly like your grandmother or quietly hum in the background like the Andy Griffith Show theme song. But make no mistake.

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ProBlogger

MAY 28, 2011

This guest post is by Bill Post of 123Print.com Business Card Design. In real estate, first impressions are everything. Even though the color of the front door would be easy and affordable to repaint, it’s one of the first things a potential buyer notices. If your door is red and the buyer doesn’t like it, most likely she isn’t going to bother looking at the interior.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2011

This post is by Mike Essex of Impact Media. Regardless of the niche a blog operates in, it is possible to convince brands to provide free products for you to review. If it’s a well known niche, such as trainers, then the brands will already have products available for review, as that’s the same way they gain exposure in the media, so the issue becomes more about standing out from the crowd.

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2011

Today I thought I’d share a behind-the-scenes photo of what’s going on at ProBlogger HQ—one that illustrates why I love blogging as an occupation. The picture was taken at my local cafe and in it you can see my pride and joy. No, not the Macbook Air—my eldest son, “X,&# who is home from kinder sick today. We spent the morning in our local cafe (where I normally work most mornings)—him coloring (he’s doing a whale in that picture) and me blogging.

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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

MAY 12, 2011

This guest post is by Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting. Not getting all the search traffic you would like to get to your blog? One way to improve your results is to tap into long tail search terms to use in your posts. This is not always that easy to do, so today I will explore some ideas of ways to tap into that data. One reason why this is such an attractive thing to do is that the long tail actually has more traffic in it than the major “head&# terms which are the first thing we all

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ProBlogger

MAY 22, 2011

This guest post is by Steff of steffmetal.com. Right now, your blog is still new and shiny and everything is awesome, but one day, you’ll be hit with an unsettling dread at the thought of writing another post; the sudden realization that you just don’t care about deleting all the spam comments; the sense that you have nothing left to say to the Internet.

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ProBlogger

MAY 23, 2011

This guest post is by Gail Brenner, Ph.D. of A Flourishing Life. It started innocently enough. Heartfelt comments, sharing a personal story, and a genuine interest in the topics I write about. But as the postings got longer, rambling, more personal, and more frequent—up to four a day in addition to emails—something had to give. I was dealing with a commenter gone rogue.

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ProBlogger

MAY 25, 2011

Warren Wooden is the owner and CEO of PLR Internet Marketing. When I think of the amount of time that I’ve invested into my blog and its resources I’m absolutely staggered by the thought of losing any part of it. So I’ve taken certain steps to protect myself, as well as my blog. Everyone’s blog is at a different level, but regardless of which one you look at, we all have one thing in common: we’ve poured our hearts and souls into them.

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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

MAY 11, 2011

This guest post is by Erika Gimbel of Fimepointwriter. If you’re an ace at writing blog copy, you can write an excellent press release. Both have many of the same elements: strong headlines, top-down format (most important stuff up front), etc. You already know that press releases are a powerful way to promote your blog , and they’re an effective way to get your message out without duplicating content.

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ProBlogger

MAY 29, 2011

This guest post is by Henri Junttila of WakeUpCloud.com. Creating your own products can take you from earning a few dollars a month to a few thousand. It can be scary, but as you learn to take action, and learn from the feedback you receive, you get better and better. There are many mistakes I see beginning product creators make. The good news is that these mistakes are very easy to avoid if you keep them in mind.

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ProBlogger

MAY 18, 2011

This guest post is by Chris Kahler of BloggerITUS.com. Unless you believe in your abilities to have prophetic visions, you likely can’t predict the future. As a blogger (or hopeful blogger), you need to realize that attempting to see what your future business has in store is a waste of time and effort. Rather than trying to predict the future of your business, you should be pacing the future of your business.

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ProBlogger

MAY 5, 2011

This guest post is by Michele C. Hollow of Pet News and Views. Journalists and bloggers are doing double duty these days. With massive layoffs and fewer staff, many are publishing press releases word-for-word. It’s been nicknamed churnalism. It’s when we get a little sloppy and use press releases as our own words. As a freelance journalist and blogger who covers pets and wildlife, I get the same press releases as other pet and wildlife bloggers.

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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

MAY 20, 2011

This guest post is by Joseph Wesley of Blog Tweaks. Did you know there are similarities between blogging and construction work? It’s true. I learned this while working as an electrician during the first six months of 2010. You may be wondering how a marketing grad from UT Austin ended up doing electrical work, but that story is too long to tell here.

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ProBlogger

MAY 15, 2011

This gust post is by Sarah Baron of of Anonymous8. Boundaries in blogging are more important than you can imagine, because they set the tone for your blogs and for your relationships on and off line. I never considered the concept of setting personal boundaries on a blog until a guest-blogger asked if he should publish a particular article on my site.

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ProBlogger

MAY 30, 2011

This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. Maybe you’ve written guest posts, but they’ve been turned down. Maybe you don’t feel brave enough to target a big blog, because you’re afraid of rejection. You might see names popping up around the blogosphere with guest posts everywhere : I remember Glen Allsopp doing this a year or two back. And you might feel a little bit envious.

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ProBlogger

MAY 16, 2011

There’s one common thing about the four blogs that I run today—I started them all for myself. ProBlogger Blog Tips : When I started ProBlogger I was experimenting with the medium of blogging to make a living. I was already doing it to some extent, but I’d been looking for a blog on how to do it better and couldn’t find it. So I started it myself with the goal of improving my blogging and connecting with others who were blogging for an income.

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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

MAY 31, 2011

This guest post is by Stephen Guise of Deep Existence. Forming an emotional attachment to any component of your website is dangerous and unwise. Did you know that the smallest changes can have a massive impact on your results? Human psychology is very sensitive to minute details—this means that your visitors are picky! If you don’t believe small details can make a difference, you probably haven’t heard about split testing.

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ProBlogger

MAY 23, 2011

It’s been a little over a week since we launched ProBlogger’s Guide to Your First Week of Blogging and its been fantastic to see so many positive reactions from readers come in. Even in the last day I’ve had two emails from readers: one from a new blogger who has worked through it to launch their 1st blog. another from a blogger who has taken the 7 day challenge on relaunching their older blog that had grown stagnant. others still tell me that they’re using the eBook to l

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ProBlogger

MAY 26, 2011

If you’ve been blogging for a while now but feel ‘stuck’ – there’s a group of bloggers about to take the ‘ 31 Days to Build a Better Blog ‘ challenge that you really should consider joining. The Group is SITSGirls – a blogging community with over 8000 women bloggers – and for the 2nd time they’re running #31DBBB.

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ProBlogger

MAY 26, 2011

It’s been six months since I launched my latest blog— FeelGooder —and today it’s entering a new phase, so I thought it might be time for a bit of an update. You might remember back in November we launched FeelGooder and I outlined some of the backstory here on ProBlogger. The blog was a slightly new approach to me for a number of reasons—partly because of the wide niche (it covers everything from health, to relationships, to finance, to social good), but also because I decided to lau

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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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