Men With Pens
APRIL 21, 2011
Everyone measures success differently. Some people measure it by their net worth, others define themselves by their job title and career, and still others gauge it by their possessions, such as their house, cars, and jewelry. While these may be outward signs of success that you can point to and show people, they may not be satisfying your deepest desires.
ProBlogger
APRIL 21, 2011
This guest post is by Marcie Hill of The Write Design Company. Facebook has taken the Web by storm in a very short period. In addition to being the highest ranking social networking site, it is the second most visited site in the world according to Alexa, the popular blog measuring tool. Facebookâs popularity is so great that it unseated Google as the king of the Web one day in 2010.
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Men With Pens
APRIL 28, 2011
I had a crush on the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Looking back, the obsession may be attributed to attending Blue Angels air shows as a child. Or, perhaps a more practical reason was the cause – the jet looked really, really fast. And like any obsessed seven-year-old boy, F-16 posters hung above my bed and Iâd mastered the sound of the afterburner at full blast.
Men With Pens
APRIL 14, 2011
I got my first rejection letter as a freelance writer when I was 19 years old. I remember tearing open the letter from Random House expecting a contract of some kind and instead staring at a scrap of paper addresses to ‘Dear Author’ The publisher didn’t even want to spend money on a full sheet of paper on me. I was crushed and determined that if the largest publication in the stratosphere didn’t want me, then I was worthless.
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 â and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.
ProBlogger
APRIL 22, 2011
This guest post is by Leanne of IronicMom.com. Although Shakespeare wouldnât have known words like Twitter, social media, and blogging, he no doubt wouldâve embraced these new terms. After all, he coined an estimated 1700 words and had a lot of fun playing with language. But what do you get when you take Shakespeareâs words out of context and apply them to blogging?
ProBlogger
APRIL 1, 2011
This guest post is by Chris The Traffic Blogger. We always hear stories about the people who eventually succeeded as bloggers … but what about the ones who didn’t? What of those millions of people who heard that you could make money online, tried it, and eventually gave up? Why aren’t those stories shared and, more importantly, why don’t we discuss the reasons these people failed?
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ProBlogger
APRIL 21, 2011
Few things will replace SEO, providing great content, posting frequently, or building relationships with your readers and with other leaders in your niche as ways to help bring visitors to your blog. However, I’d like to introduce you to another way you can find targeted followers who are interested in the content, products, and services you create: Twitter contests.
ProBlogger
APRIL 29, 2011
This guest post was written by Stephen Guise of Deep Existence. Admit it. You think I’m crazy for dogging the two most commonly cited blogger goalsâtraffic and great content. Allow me to explain before you throw your mouse at the screen, please. Busting the myths. Blog traffic is very important. With no traffic, how will anyone see your masterpiece on writing blindfolded for enhanced focus?
ProBlogger
APRIL 14, 2011
This guest post is by Tom Meitner of The Practical Nerd. ?The other night, I found out author/marketer Chris Brogan was in town. I am a big fan of his and his book Trust Agents , so I wanted to go meet him. Iâm not going to go through all of the details of the tweet exchangeâyou can read about how I wound up not meeting him after all on my blog. Photo by Aidan Jones, licensed under Creative Commons.
ProBlogger
APRIL 5, 2011
Earlier in the year I surveyed a small segment of ProBlogger readers on their blogging experiences as a way of keeping in touch with the needs of readers. I asked a variety of questions, but the answers to one particular question stood out to me like a sore thumb, because I saw the same themes emerging again and again. The question asked bloggers to think about the unrealistic expectations that they had when they started blogging.
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
APRIL 10, 2011
This guest post is by Leigh Stevens of whereapy. If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. âEpictetus. Image is author's own. “Are you stupid? You sure look stupid. Everyone else in this room handles this level of work. If you canât do simple conjugations you shouldnât be in my classroom.&#.
ProBlogger
APRIL 19, 2011
Today I asked my followers on Twitter what their biggest challenge as a blogger was. There were hundreds of responses but the word that stood out to me time and time again was “time.&#. Finding time to blog is something most of us struggle with at one point or another, if not every day. So today I thought I’d share a strategy that I used this week to keep me on track (one that actually worked!).
ProBlogger
APRIL 28, 2011
This is a guest post by Shaun at Ultimate Mailing List. As I’m sure many of you know, building a mailing list can greatly benefit your business. Bloggers harp on all the time about how much money you can make if you have enough subscribers, and how great it can be in terms of social proof. While this is true, what’s often left out is what you should do once you have your mailing list up and running.
ProBlogger
APRIL 25, 2011
This guest post is by Matthew Kepnes of Nomadic Mattâs Travel Site. Your blog sucks. You just donât know it yet. On the other hand, my blog is great because my blog really sucks, and I know it. I know that my blog needs work, and Iâm always working to improve it. I wish I had the fan base that Chris Guillebeau from the Art of Non-Conformity has. I wish I could âfigure outâ social media better.
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
APRIL 8, 2011
This guest post is by Martyn Chamberlin of Two Hour Blogger. It was getting late. The sick old man sighed and set down his brush. Learning back deeply in his chair, he gazed at his painting. No matter how hard he worked, he couldn’t seem to finish it. It was only a medium sized workâ30 by 21 inches. And yet, the canvas seemed like a monolith of impossibility, stretching towards to the unforeseeable future… Maybe he should just abandon it, like he had dozens of other works.
ProBlogger
APRIL 24, 2011
This guest post is by Jeff Domansky of The PR Coach. Your blog is a very important part of your personal image or company brand. While youâve invested time in its development, have you ever thought about how you could use your blog to manage a crisis? A blog offers several advantages compared to news releases, websites, or other social media channels.
ProBlogger
APRIL 6, 2011
This guest post was written by Mark Pollard of MarkPollard.net. Letâs face it, how you make money from blogging is in serious flux right now. The thing is, flux brings opportunity. If youâre thinking differently enough to everybody else, chances are you can stand out. Thatâs what this article is about. How to get you standing out in front of brands and agencies, and find new ways to make money from your blogging pedigree along the way.
ProBlogger
APRIL 28, 2011
It has been around 2 years since 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook launched and in that time thousands of bloggers have taken the challenge to improve their blogs over a month. Since launching the eBook the price has always been $19.95 USD but on 10th May on the continued feedback of those who’ve take the challenge I’ll be raising the price to $29.99 to be inline with the other ProBlogger eBook – the Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers.
Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital
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ProBlogger
APRIL 12, 2011
This guest post is by Jane Sheeba of Find All Answers. Launching a new blog today is not the same as it was a few years back. Things were a lot easier and diluted in the past decade, but now, the competition is dense, given that thousands of blogs are launched every day. Every niche has become competitive, forcing bloggers to try to rank highly for less-competitive keywords.
ProBlogger
APRIL 17, 2011
This guest post is by Darya Pino, Ph.D of Summer Tomato. Three months ago I started charging $10 to consider guest blog post submissions, and it changed my life. Not only did it clear out many of the most annoying emails in my inbox, it elevated the quality of posts I receive and reduced the time I spend editing them to levels I would never have dreamed possible.
ProBlogger
APRIL 11, 2011
Here’s a little exercise that I do periodically to help me keep my blog on track. It’s based upon a typical life coaching-type exercise where you’re asked to visualize your own funeral and write your own eulogyâto think about what you want to be known for after you’re gone. But in this exercise we’re going to do it with your blog.
ProBlogger
APRIL 20, 2011
This guest post is by Brian Milne, a longtime sports blogger and founder of the BallHyped Sports Blogging Community. Weâve all been there. Youâve been blogging for months, even years, and your blog is going nowhere fast. Traffic is stagnant. Your subscriber count has dropped off. AdSense is paying just that: cents per day. So whatâs a blogger to do when they hit âthe wall?
Speaker: Tim Buteyn
Let's set the scene: youâve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect thereâs something going on that training canât 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
APRIL 23, 2011
This guest post is by Chris, The TrafficBlogger. Depending on your situation as a blogger, hope could be your ticket to success, or cause you to quit blogging within the month. Dictionary definition-wise, hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had, or that events will turn out for the best. Think about how this could be a great or terrible thing for you as a blogger.
ProBlogger
APRIL 7, 2011
This guest post is by Kevin Sanders, of strongandfit.net. Things were going well over at my fitness blog. I was not an A-lister, but traffic was steadily increasing. I was starting to get ranked for several lower competition keywords. Organic traffic was improving. Then suddenly my search engine traffic dropped dramatically. I was apparently one of the casualties of Googleâs so-called Panda update.
ProBlogger
APRIL 13, 2011
This guest post was written by Neil Matthews of WPDude. Are you protecting one of the most valuable assets of your blogâyour email list? The majority of us rigorously backup the content of our blog, but do we give the same thought to our email lists? Why back up your email list? “The money is in the list.&# is a mantra we often hear in Internet marketing circles, and we hear it so often because it is so true.
ProBlogger
APRIL 5, 2011
This guest post is by Matthew Kepnes of Nomadic Mattâs Travel Site. Someone once told me that the only way to make money with a blog is to sell massive amounts of text links. âThereâs no other way,â he said, and he was resolute in his opinion. I couldnât change his mind, so I just listened and nodded my head. I didnât bother to argue, even though I knew he was wrong.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
Weâve all been there. Youâve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. Youâre determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this âboringâ content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, âBoring in means boring out.
ProBlogger
APRIL 27, 2011
This guest post is by Dan Sheehan of DSConstructiontahoe.com. I’m one of those types who believe when something’s working fine, it’s a good time to mess with it. After all, isnât that how progression and innovation happen? My construction business had been slow so I decided to build my own website during some down-time. I learned a lot about WordPress and SEO through my toying, tweaking, and dismantling of this website, and I think my tips might help newbies and seasoned WordPr
Men With Pens
APRIL 7, 2011
I met Lisa when she hired me for a business consultation about her new copywriting venture. She had a picture of bright red, luscious cherries on her site… and I couldnât resist liking her from day one. So when she sent me this guest post that outlines some of her learning curve lessons as a new freelancer, I was thrilled â here was someone whoâd gone from zero to being a confident writer who could stand up for herself, and for her business.
ProBlogger
APRIL 11, 2011
This guest post is by Adam Best of FanSided. I spent the previous decade figuring out how to âmake itâ online as a writer. Led Zeppelinâs âTen Years Goneâ comes to mind. Eventually, with the help of my brother, I made a bit of a splash on a Kansas City Chiefs blog called Arrowhead Addict. That effort went so well we decided to make a business out of sports blogging and started the FanSided Network.
ProBlogger
APRIL 18, 2011
This guest post is by Ray Maker of DCRainmaker.com. Product review posts are in many ways the core of what blogging is aboutâthe ability for all of us regular folks to express an opinion about a product, be it good or bad. Every day, tens of thousands of product reviews are written on blogs across the world, and often, on just one product alone, hundreds of new opinion/review posts are written each week.
Speaker: Chester Santos â 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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