Men With Pens
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
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Contented
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
At UXNZ, Lou Rosenfeld spoke about user testing his books. Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the UX New Zealand 2015 Conference in Wellington. It was great to be in a room of like-minded people, who place real customers at the centre of their thinking and approach to work. At the Conference, it was clear that UX professionals are disproportionately happy in their work.
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Josh Steimle. I’ve had the privilege of my writing being published on Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch, Time, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur, and several other publications, and if you aspire to see your writing in mainstream publications like these, perhaps there is something in my story that will help you get there.
Huffpost
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
“We have to make magazines compete for us.
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.
Buffer
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
The good news: your boss or client is totally on board with your running content marketing. (SCORE!) The challenge: she wants to see a content marketing plan. and you have NO IDEA what that’s supposed to look like. I’ve been there. It’s a tough situation, because you’ve been doing content marketing with your gut this whole time, and now you’re being asked to put all that into a document.
Men With Pens
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
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ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 15, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. Ask anyone on the web for advice on blogging, and you’ll undoubtedly get a response. Survey a hundred people—including readers, amateur writers, experienced professionals, and even industry influencers—and you’ll likely find dozens of common themes emerging between them. That’s because there are certain general “best practices” that everyone knows, or everyone’s heard, as they make their way into the blogging world.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 8, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Anil Agarwal. Building a blog that gets huge traffic isn’t necessarily hard, but converting that traffic into sales can be. Most people think they can make a living online by increasing their website traffic. In reality, though, it’s not about any old traffic- it has to be targeted. You have to bring laser-focused audience to your sites to grow your sales and overall monthly income.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Katie Moseman. In my first few months of writing my food blog , I ran across a lot of impassioned opinions about how publishing a sponsored post on your blog constituted “selling out.” I didn’t immediately agree with that idea, but I hadn’t ever written a sponsored post, so how would I know? A few months later, I had the chance to find out when I was tapped to write a sponsored post for a wine company.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 4, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Alex Ivanovs. Comments feed the writers soul with proof of work well done. It’s easy to think that not everyone likes comments, but the truth is that comments are what makes us believe in our content and its usefulness. The feeling you get from not receiving any comments on the content you write can be pretty devastating.
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
NOVEMBER 12, 2015
If you were listening to the episode 60 of the ProBlogger podcast , you would have heard me talking about why I think it’s so vital that bloggers create a culture of community on their blog to help deepen relationships with their readers and to drive engagement. I also promised a follow-up podcast on how to do just that! Today’s episode is part two of building a culture of community and I wanted to talk about the strategy of how to create an atmosphere of belonging, what you should a
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. People are always talking about how SEO affects the quantity and quality of traffic your blog receives, but you’ll rarely hear local SEO discussed in terms of blogging. Most people feel like local SEO is reserved for physical businesses, but your blog could also benefit from some strategic tweaks and adjustments.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
There are many times in the life of a blogger when you find yourself unsure of where to go or what to do next. That can be for so many reasons – when it comes to where you spend your time you’re overwhelmed with choice , you don’t know where to start, you want to do a little of everything and sort of all at once , you’re burned out with decision making, you’re not getting any traction, you’re afraid – basically, you’re a bit stuck and you don’
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Ryan Biddulph. 7 years ago I was a broke, depressed, recently-laid-off security guard. My life had no direction. I had no purpose. My self esteem was in the toilet. I was lost, swaying to and fro on a sea of circumstance. Today, I am a pro-blogging island-hopper. My wife Kelli and I blog from paradise. We’ve traveled the world for 51 months straight, living in places like Fiji, Bali, Thailand and Costa Rica.
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
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Think Reddit is a Productivity Killer? Here are 9 Subreddits That Will Help Your Career // Hootsuite. You don’t need to tell me twice Reddit is required reading! Bookmarked nearly all of these pages. How to Create a Fan Content Campaign in 7 Easy Steps // Social Media Examiner. Crowdsourced content can work really well – from fostering a sense of community to giving readers more ownership over the content of yours they’ve come to love.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Welcome to the weekend, Roundup-style! 50% of Content Gets 8 Shares or Less: Why Content Fails and How to Fix it // BuzzSumo. Ah, the dreaded talking to an empty room syndrome. It sucks when you write a great post and you hear crickets! BuzzSumo to the rescue – they analysed one million posts and found that content failed 50% of the time, and why.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
In today’s episode of the ProBlogger podcast I wanted to talk about the nitty gritty of defining what your blog is about. Not just to pigeonhole anybody, or to put any constraints on your creativity, but to help you hone in on what you want to provide and how you want to come across online. This is a question that’s particularly important to think on when you’re first starting out (although experimentation is also encouraged!
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
It has been a massive year here at ProBlogger HQ – behind the scenes we’ve been working hard on a number of new things including: Adding to our team – in addition to having Stacey Roberts come on as our editor almost two years ago I’ve more recently brought Laney and Grove Galligan into the team. Laney and Grove have both worked with ProBlogger in producing our Aussie event these last few years, but recently they’ve stepped up their involvement to oversee the whole
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
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Do you ever feel as a blogger like you’re talking to an empty room? I know I have definitely felt that way! Particularly when I first started Digital Photography School. But if you feel that way too, I want you to know: you’re not alone. When you write a blog post, you hope that your readers will interact, leave a comment, acknowledge that you’ve even written something, and today I’m going to talk about how to do just that – deepen that reader engagement, and some r
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
In today’s episode of the ProBlogger podcast , I want to tell you a little story. I want to tell you about one morning in 2004 when I realised my blog, which I’d recently established as my full time source of income, had hardly any traffic coming to it. I lost between 80 and 90% of my traffic literally overnight, and I couldn’t figure out why.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
Today I want to give you a writing challenge – one of many we’ve done during the life of this podcast. We’ve tackled list posts , link posts , opinion posts , calls to action , review posts , and “how I do it” posts, and now it’s time to crack open our vulnerabilities with posts about making mistakes. As usual, you are welcome to link up the post you’ve written at the show notes for this episode here.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
A reader asked me recently about using timestamps on blogs, as she’s redesigning hers and wondered if she should use them or not in her new design. It’s a question I get asked fairly often so I’ve dedicated today’s ProBlogger podcast to sharing with you the pros and cons of blog timestamps and whether I think they should be included or left off.
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
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Steve Ceaton. So recently Gary Illyes from Google announced that hopefully by the end of 2015, Penguin updates will be carried out in real-time. Waiting for the next Penguin update has been the bane of many a website owners’ life, and getting hit with a penalty can cost thousands in lost revenue. For those unaware, Google has two major algorithms that can penalize websites, and they’ve named them after two cute animals.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 30, 2015
Do you ever feel that all the work that you put into maintaining an interesting and useful social media stream is not getting the results it deserves? I do! I spend hours every week working on our social accounts. Finding great links to share, thinking about the wording of the updates, selecting or creating great images to go with them and then scheduling them.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 24, 2015
This is a guest contribution from Thei Zervaki. Each year, the International Food Blogger Conference brings together USA-based and foreign food bloggers under the same roof. During the three-day event, participants taste food, improve their food writing skills, and learn more about the latest trends in photography and technology. As a participant myself in this year’s conference held in Seattle, I share the highlights: FOOD –the center of all activities.
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 25, 2015
This is a guest contribution from James Tew. Many bloggers are now considering the use of video to increase their reach, inform their audience about an upcoming product launch, or just as a new way of leveraging one of the fastest growing mediums on the internet. In fact, according to reelseo.com, by 2019 80 per cent of the world’s internet traffic will be made up of video.
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
NOVEMBER 26, 2015
Do you ever feel like you don’t have enough time to fit everything in? Like there’s an opportunity staring you in the face to start something new but to take it on would mean everything else you’re already doing would suffer? You know the feeling – you’re. working away on your blog. creating content. updating your FB, Pinterest, Twitter accounts each day. responding to comments and emails. reading and commenting upon other blogs. creating the occasional eBook. updating your advertiser pag
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 27, 2015
Coming to you live from ProBlogger HQ, the interesting things we’ve found on the internet this week. May they help you blog better! Is Blogging Finally Dead? // Blog Tyrant. I know. We’ve even talked about it too. And Dooce said she was over it. And then Mia Freedman jumped in. But there is no denying the landscape is changing. Ramsay gives us some stats that might get you thinking… and possibly Tumblr-ing… Google Releases the Full Version of Their Search Quality Rating G
ProBlogger
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
I’m really excited about this episode of the ProBlogger Podcast , as today I am sharing my interview with Dan Norris : serial entrepreneur and founder of WP Curve (which gives bloggers access to WordPress developers for unlimited small jobs). Dan recently spoke at the Australian ProBlogger event as part of the Small Business Bootcamp, which we ran in partnership with Telstra Business , and his session was one of the highest-rated of the whole weekend.
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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