Men With Pens
JANUARY 8, 2012
A lot of people have been telling me they wished they could register for the Damn Fine Words writing course. They say that if they could just take this course…. They could finally start that online business, because they wouldn’t feel like they had to put off writing for their audience. They could improve their writing skills and get higher-paying clients, instead of the meagre income they’re slaving to earn right now.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 12, 2012
This guest post is by James Penn of AcceleratedNicheProfits.com. I’m sure you’ve had it drummed into you by now that an email list is vitally important to your blog and your business. Darren often discusses how vital it is to build your email list and he recently Tweeted this graphic to emphasize his point. He says: “If there is one visual I can give as a reason to start an email newsletter—it is this.”.
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Men With Pens
JANUARY 29, 2012
Years ago, I started this blog with a pretty big mission in mind: to help you succeed. I wanted to tell you things you didn’t know. I wanted to point you in better directions. I wanted to share lessons I’d learned the hard way so that you didn’t make the same mistakes. I wanted to give you shortcuts that helped you succeed faster, easier and with a lot less stress than I had to go through to get where I am today.
Men With Pens
JANUARY 18, 2012
Heard you need constant improvement to become a master? Heard you need those 10,000 hours of practice ? It’s hogwash. A goal of ‘constant improvement’ won’t lead to success. I learned this when I signed up for Damn Fine Words , James Chartrand’s writing course. Signing up excited me. I was excited because I was taking action towards my goal of ‘constant skill improvement’ so I could further build my business.
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
JANUARY 10, 2012
When I was growing up, it was a given that when you finished high school, you went to university. This was automatic. This was guaranteed. If you went to university, you’d be fine. If you didn’t, you’d be screwed. But most people I know with extraordinarily successful careers say a university education can be a waste of time. They’ve seen many, many students who attend university only to finish with degrees that are completely irrelevant to their future career.
Men With Pens
JANUARY 16, 2012
You’re invited to a very exclusive event. How to find the time to write. That’s one of the biggest complaints I hear from busy businesspeople, freelancers and entrepreneurs. (Even writers complain they can’t find the time to write!). There aren’t enough hours in a day. There’s so much going on. You’re barely keeping up.
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Men With Pens
JANUARY 3, 2012
You know that writing content – no, writing great content – is crucial to your business success (no matter what business you have). All the pros tell you to write – and write lots, too. Write compelling website copy to land clients and sales. Write informative articles that show your expertise. Write engaging blog posts that compel comments.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 24, 2012
This is a guest blog post by Michael White of Musings of a PR Student. Students should be worried about their job prospects. I am. Competition is rife and the top advertised jobs receive hundreds of applications. Our work experiences are not just being challenged by a surge of candidates, but our very degrees are being questioned. Surely only post-graduate degrees now hold credibility?
ProBlogger
JANUARY 3, 2012
This guest post is by Jeff Goins of Goins, Writer. Some bloggers don’t start a blog to make money. They start blogging, because they have a message that the world needs to hear. In other words: Some bloggers blog to get published. Recently, I signed a contract with a book publisher. I had always hoped to one day publish a book, but I never thought it would happen in a few months.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 16, 2012
This guest post is by Jaime Tardy of EventualMillionaire.com. I’ve interviewed over 50 business owners who have a million-dollar net worth or more. As a blogger and podcaster I am always so curious as to how they use social media in their businesses. If I were to generalize, most of the millionaires I interview use social media, or at least have someone in their company use it.
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
JANUARY 12, 2012
This guest post is by Dan Zarrella of danzarrella.com. In my research into sharing, I realized I needed to develop a framework that would serve as a model for the decision-making process that takes place before someone spreads an idea. This framework describes the three criteria that must be met before someone will spread an idea in any format: The person must be exposed to your content.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 23, 2012
This guest post is by Herman Dias of SEOsoeasy.com. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have heard about the Google Panda update and what it did to many low-quality websites last year. It was more like a Google sniper attack on all the spam and rubbish sites. Honestly, this does not seem to be the end of the Panda: there is more to come, and we need to watch out.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 13, 2012
This guest post is by Herman Diaz of Herman Dias likes writing about SEO So Easy. Would you let Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, YouTube and other sites control your online business? Or would you like to control it yourself? Would you want to be in a position to lose your online income suddenly because Google decides to drop your rankings, or because Facebook shuts down your fan page or YouTube shuts down your channel?
ProBlogger
JANUARY 7, 2012
This guest post is by Kelly Kingman of Kelly Kingman Media. Several years ago, I hired a personal trainer and we’d work out in the park near my apartment. One day she had me run the loop around the park and noticed that I had difficulty keeping a consistent pace, I would stop and start a lot. She suggested that I run slowly (which she claimed was smoother than jogging—running experts, feel free to debate).
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
JANUARY 19, 2012
This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. Have you been able to make money from social media? Has your effort and time on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and your own blog paid off? If you’re like most bloggers, you probably realize it’s not so easy. However, no matter how difficult it seems, it’s not impossible. Just like Darren Rowse of Problogger, there are people and companies out there who are turning a profit with social media.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 31, 2012
This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. If you want to create blog posts, white papers, and even ebooks that clearly communicate your idea and compel your readers to do whatever you ask, you need to use this little formula. It deals with the four different learning abilities people have, but it’s also based in a rock-solid copywriting technique I’ll tell you about in a minute.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 11, 2012
This guest post is by Dominick DalSanto of Baghouse. Imagine you are called into your boss’s office and presented with the following assignment: head a new marketing initiative for your entire company. You are to do so using a medium and associated technologies that you have absolutely no experience with, and the plan you are going to follow is one that a great many other companies have tried/are trying to do, only to see failure.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 18, 2012
Our kitchen table is in a perpetual state of creativity. . Marker pens, sketch books, glue sticks, and paint sets are make their permanent home there because my five-year-old son (X) is a self-declared Artist. While there are some challenges with living with an Artist… (last night I almost broke my ankle tripping on a glue stick) there are a lot of good things about it too.
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
JANUARY 9, 2012
This guest post is by John Smith of WeightLossTriumph. If you visit your favorite blogging tips and marketing tips blog today, you will come across a lot of tips, ranging from tips on writing well to tips on building an audience. The reality is that a lot of new blogs spring up every day, and the majority of these blogs are bound to fail right from the beginning.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 8, 2012
This guest post is by Marya Zainab of Writing Happiness. Are you a blogger? Are you also a Mum with school age kids? Or a stay-at-home Dad? If you’re like me, you might find it really difficult to manage your time—and your life—to get some writing done. You are talented, you are persistent. If only you could be really productive, so you can get some work done.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 5, 2012
Recently on Twitter I was asked by a follower how to overcome an extreme case of writer’s block. My answer was: “Think about a problem you had three years ago and write a post that solves that problem.” Image copyright JRB - Fotolia.com. The reason I find this technique helpful is: It identifies a real need that someone will have—if you have had the problem others will have it too.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 7, 2012
This guest post was written by Joe Bunting of The Write Practice. So you started blogging to make some money. Adsense, advertising, and affiliate sales looked like a pretty good way to make a living. You thought you could make money while you slept at night. Sounded good at the time, right? But where’s the money? You set up your Adsense account but you’ve only got pennies trickling in.
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
JANUARY 19, 2012
If you’re an AdSense publisher you’re probably used to the AdSense stats shuffle. You know it – constant logging into your AdSense reports to check how earnings are going. Today AdSense released a little toolbar for Chrome users that makes checking your latest figures a breeze. Install it and with a click you get a snapshot view of your latest stats including todays figures, yesterdays, this month, last month, some channel data and lifetime revenue.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 17, 2012
This guest post was written by Joe Bunting of The Write Practice. I came across this interesting quote from psychologist Alexander Lowen: “To experience joy, one must be free of anxieties about letting go and expressing feeling. Or to put it differently, one has to be carefree and innocent as a child.”—Alexander Lowen. Image copyright stock.xchng user bluegum I would like to experience more joy.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 15, 2012
I’ve been thinking a lot about my linking strategy lately. Trying to get incoming backlinks, making sure I have good inner links… But one area that I think is too often overlooked is outbound links. Hello, it’s called the “web” Image copyright stock.xchng user lusi When HTML was initially designed (and yes, I’m old enough to remember those days), the resulting conglomeration of pages was called the World Wide Web.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 16, 2012
This guest post is by Dr. Mani of Internet infopreneur. My blogging has evolved. Since 2003, when I first started blogging, the style and nature of my writing has changed to match trends, experience, and personal growth. One thing however has remained constant. I write for my audience—and about things that matter to them. Or at least, I try to. And, from what I’ve seen shared by many successful bloggers, that’s one of the keys to enjoying rich rewards from blogging.
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
JANUARY 30, 2012
Feeling frustrated today about a lack of ideas to write about on your blog? If so, you’re not alone. Here’s another technique that I use to overcome it. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post here on ProBlogger that gave a tip for fighting blogger’s block. It asked you to identify a problem that you had three years ago and to write a post that solved that problem for your readers.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 22, 2012
This guest post is by John Davenport of Phogropathy.com. It’s been said countless times in the blogging world that in order to be successful we need a plan. But how do we create this plan in a way that will help us reach our goals? Do we scratch it onto a piece of loose paper? Do we grab a crayon and write it on a napkin? Do we create a text doc on a PC and save it in some folder filled with hundreds files?
ProBlogger
JANUARY 19, 2012
This guest post is by Paula Pant of Afford-Anything and Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Have you noticed how so many blogs are just … terrible? There’s no polite way to say it. The writing is garbage, the design inelegant, the content inane. A bird pecking at a worm-scented keyboard could craft more interesting thoughts. We always thought the people responsible for these blogs are idiots.
ProBlogger
JANUARY 25, 2012
This guest post is by Jo Gifford of Cherry Sorbet Creative. Keeping fresh and creative is key to keeping on top of the game when writing different blogs across various sectors, and for various clients. Working with efficient workflows, time management and organization all help to keep that valuable information harnessed to be used when you need it, but how about making sure you can produce great content on time and on demand?
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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