August, 2016

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4 Ways to Integrate WordPress With Instagram (Tutorial)

ThemeIsle

WordPress is a robust platform – its vast array of plugins and themes enable users to build beautiful and functional websites. However, WordPress’ best feature is arguably its potential for integration with virtually any other online service available. To underscore this point, in this article we’ll teach you how to integrate WordPress with Instagram.

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PB139: Challenge: Create Content That Answers a FAQ

ProBlogger

Challenge: Create Content That Answers a FAQ. This is the 2nd Challenge of our 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. To recap – every day for the next week I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. My challenge is to create and publish that content – to join our ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook and to share your post and to check out the other posts others are submitting.

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There’s No Perfect Headline: Why We Need to Write Multiple Headlines for Every Article

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Most people don’t read content online. In fact, eight out of ten people will only read the headline. For content writers, that fact is alarming. But it also places extra importance on the headlines we choose for our content, as headlines have the power to influence readers even if they don’t read any more of the article. I don’t believe the perfect headline exists, though.

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How to Get 10x More Traffic Without Spending a Dime on Advertising

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from John Stevens of Hosting Facts. If you want tons of traffic, you better be ready to pay for it, right? Not true. Besides the obvious – share content on social media, connect with influencers, invest in SEO – there are dozens of clever hacks you can implement to get more traffic for free. In this post, I’m going to share 7 unusual tips you can use right away on your blog to get more traffic and shares, without spending a penny on advertising. 1.

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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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PB141: Challenge: Create a Story Post

ProBlogger

Challenge: Create a Story Post. This is 4th challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. To recap – every day for the next week I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. My challenge is to create and publish that challenge – to join our ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook and to share your post on this thread and to check out the other posts others are submitting.

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How to Find Blog Post Ideas That People Can’t Wait to Read

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By Jerry Low. When it comes to finding new blog post ideas, it is important to not only write but to write things that people actually want to read. If you are producing blog posts that don’t appeal to anyone, then you are really just wasting your time. There are some key strategies you can use to ensure your blog posts are timely and have the potential to go viral.

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How Working Fewer Hours Can Increase Your Productivity

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By ProBlogger Productivity Expert Nicole Avery. We live in a culture that assumes the more hours you work the more work you are doing. Stories are traded of working past midnight or working 10 hour days with no breaks with great pride and being sleep deprived due to work, is treated by many as a badge of honour. But is it productive? If you look at the statistics, it appears not: The above graph shows the productivity (GDP per hour worked) in relation to the number of hours worked in OECD countr

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PB144: Challenge: Create a Link Post

ProBlogger

Challenge: Create a Link Post. This is 7th and final challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off back in episode 137. You can listen to this podcast in the player above or here on iTunes (please take a moment to give us a rating and review if you could). If you’re new to the challenge – this week I’m nominating a different style of content for you to create each day over the week and the challenge is to create a post within 24 hours of

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How I Got a Book Deal Through My Travel Blog

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This is a guest contribution from Lauren Juliff. I was sitting on my bed in a mosquito-filled guesthouse in Belize when I received the email. It was from an editor at one of the biggest publishing companies in the world – she’d stumbled across my travel blog and noticed I was working on a book about my adventures; she wanted to know if I could send her a draft of what I’d written so far.

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Optimise Your Blog with Google Search Console: A Treasure Trove of Traffic

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger SEO Expert Jim Stewart of StewArt Media. Google Webmaster Tools had outgrown its moniker and become such an invaluable tool for more than just webmasters – SEO professionals, business owners, app developers, web marketers, for example – that Google thought it apt to rename it to suit a more diverse user base. Hence in 2015 it was renamed Google Search Console.

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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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4 Creative Ways to Build Buzz for Your Next Blog Post Before It Goes Live

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Bill Achola. I remember those days when I thought writing a blog post was enough. I would invest all my efforts on choosing the right topic , writing a quality blog post, making it smart, funny, and engaging, adding interesting pictures, carefully crafting an eye-catching format, and choosing the right time to post.

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Meeting Google’s Quality Guidelines: Will Google EAT Your Content?

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. What does the word “quality” mean to you? If you spend much time thinking about it, you’ll quickly realize that quality is a vague word with a subjective meaning. One person’s idea of quality can vary quite dramatically from another. Think about if from the perspective of two hypothetical individuals. One is a homeless person, while the other lives in a million-dollar mansion.

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Why Your Readers Want Homework (and How to Give it to Them)

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger Expert Ali Luke. Homework. Even if your school days are long behind you, that’s probably not one of your favourite words. (Unless you were even more of a geeky kid than me.). But blog readers want homework: actionable steps to put what they’ve learned into practice. And here’s why. Simply Reading About a Topic Doesn’t Usually Help.

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Why Snapchat Builds a Killer Loyal Audience

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By Colin Gray. I know – it’s just for kids, isn’t it? Or perhaps for adults, but in a rude way that’s definitely not suitable for work… That’s what I thought about Snapchat, so I didn’t give it a second thought. That is, until around 6 months ago, when I first found out about Stories. I mean the Snapchat kind, not just telling a tale.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

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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As a Blogger on The Global Internet, What Laws in the World Apply to You?

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger Law Expert Jeanette Jifkins. Imagine you are sitting in your home office working on your blog. Your domain name is hosted with GoDaddy in Delaware in the United States, your website content is hosted with a local provider. You’re using Mailchimp as a CRM which is based in Georgia in the United States. You have PayPal set up and your clients or customers are 50% your own country and 50% everywhere else.

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PB148: Juggling Family Life and Blogging? Here’s some Tips on Getting the Balance Right

ProBlogger

Finding a Balance Between Family Life and Blogging Life. Today, we are talking about family and blogging. One of the reasons I was attracted to blogging was because it seemed like something that would allow me to have some flexibility in my life and time for family. Today, I’m going to talk about how that turned out, and the struggle and tensions that can arise when blogging with family around.

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PB148: Family Life Blogging Life Balance – Tips on Getting it Right

ProBlogger

Finding a Balance Between Family Life and Blogging Life. Today, we are talking about family and blogging. One of the reasons I was attracted to blogging was because it seemed like something that would allow me to have some flexibility in my life and time for family. Today, I’m going to talk about how that turned out, and the struggle and tensions that can arise when blogging with family around.

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

What a week! There’s still Snapchat v Instagram chat, Facebook adblocking, a nipple on Reddit (that’s a long story) and non-disclosure among some online influencers – everyone had an opinion, it seems! Here’s How to Use Your Daily Habits for Writing Better Content in Less Time | Moz. I love this: we all want to write better content, in the shortest amount of time possible, and using what we already have/habits we already have/things we already do.

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

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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PB146: How to Write Effective Sales Copy

ProBlogger

How Being a Good Listener Can Help You Write Effective Sales Copy . Today, I want to talk about writing great sales copy. Whether that would be blog post, sales emails, creating a sales pages, or even selling on social media. A lot has been written about the topic particularly focusing upon techniques to use in headlines or titles, keywords, power words, and getting the call to action right.

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Attend the ProBlogger Training Event From the Comfort of Your Home with Our Virtual Ticket

ProBlogger

Today we’re launching Virtual Tickets for the ProBlogger Training Event 2016. In September this year we’ll hold our live event on the Gold Coast in Australia for the 7th time. We’re expecting hundreds of bloggers to fly in from around Australia and the world for two great days of training, some amazing networking opportunities, and to have a little fun.

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

The week the world got confused about Instagram Vs Snapchat stories, we figure out how to create great visual content, make our writing more real, and growth-hack our way to the top. Have a great weekend! How to Design an SEO Content Map | SEO AUV. For those of you who love keeping track on spreadsheets etc, this is great – it helps keep all your goals in one place, and gives you an idea of where you are and where you’re headed.

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PB148: Juggling Family Life and Blogging? Here’s some Tips on Getting the Balance Right

ProBlogger

Finding a Balance Between Family Life and Blogging Life. Today, we are talking about family and blogging. One of the reasons I was attracted to blogging was because it seemed like something that would allow me to have some flexibility in my life and time for family. Today, I’m going to talk about how that turned out, and the struggle and tensions that can arise when blogging with family around.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

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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PB146: How to Write Effective Sales Copy

ProBlogger

How Being a Good Listener Can Help You Write Effective Sales Copy . Today, I want to talk about writing great sales copy. Whether that would be blog post, sales emails, creating a sales pages, or even selling on social media. A lot has been written about the topic particularly focusing upon techniques to use in headlines or titles, keywords, power words, and getting the call to action right.

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PB147: Tips, Tools and Techniques for Managing Incoming Email

ProBlogger

Tips on How to Manage Incoming Email. Is email sucking away all of your time, and taking away from your blogging? Today’s topic comes from one of our readers. Phil says, “I’ve been blogging a couple of years now and in the last 6 months have seen quite a bit of growth in traffic to my blog. This is great but I’m noticing with it is coming a significant rise in the incoming emails I get.

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PB138: Challenge: Create a List Post

ProBlogger

Challenge: Create a List Post. This is part 1 of our 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off in the last episode of this podcast. To recap – Every day for the next week, I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. Create and publish the challenge post. Share your post on This Thread in our ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook , and check out other posts fellow challengers are submitting.

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PB137: Challenge – 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back

ProBlogger

Challenge: 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back. Have you lost your blogging groove? It’s easy to do – particularly in the middle of a year when so many other aspects of life compete for your attention and where motivation can sometimes go missing. If your blog is feeling a little stagnant – today is for you. In fact this whole week is for you because this episode starts a week long daily series that is all about getting back into the groove of creating great regular content f

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

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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PB149: Series of Blog Posts vs Long Blog Posts – Which is Better?

ProBlogger

The Pros and Cons of Long Posts. Today, we have a question from Emma Cameron. . “Hi Darren, I love your podcast! I found your 7 day intensive blogging series very helpful, and it led me to write a post I might never have gotten around to otherwise. In answering my most frequently asked question, which is ‘What is Art Therapy’? This has turned into an incredibly long post which covers things which are not easily found elsewhere online.

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Yoast: Your Complete WordPress SEO Toolkit

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger SEO Expert Jim Stewart of StewArt Media. Driving your WordPress website toward a higher Google ranking involves constant tweaking, which can mean hours of detailed work. Enter Yoast SEO: the one WordPress plugin that can optimise your entire site. This comprehensive tool is the most complete SEO plugin available for WordPress, with the ability to streamline your site to increase your click through rate and ranking.

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PB147: Tips, Tools and Techniques for Managing Incoming Email

ProBlogger

Tips on How to Manage Incoming Email. Is email sucking away all of your time, and taking away from your blogging? Today’s topic comes from one of our readers. Phil says, “I’ve been blogging a couple of years now and in the last 6 months have seen quite a bit of growth in traffic to my blog. This is great but I’m noticing with it is coming a significant rise in the incoming emails I get.

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PB140: Challenge: Create a Review Post

ProBlogger

Challenge: Create a Review Post. This is the 3rd challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. To recap – every day for the next week I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. My challenge is to create and publish that content – to join our ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook and to share your post and to check out the other posts others are submitting.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

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