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Nine digital content skills that open up many job opportunities

Contented

Today when you write for work, you need to understand 'digital'. Digital technology is a game-changer for writers, copywriters, communicators and marketers. People who know how to write well for digital media — websites, intranets, social media, blogs, e-newsletters, search engines — have amazing career opportunities. Many jobs now demand digital content skills: corporate communications, technical communications, web writing, journalism, advertising, publishing, marketing, content marketing, pub

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How to Effectively Drive More Facebook Traffic to Your Blog

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. Facebook is an incredibly powerful tool for bloggers. However, if you were to poll 100 bloggers in different niches, you’d likely discover that well over half of them aren’t maximizing the potential of the world’s largest social networking site. Would you count yourself among this contingency? If so, it’s time that you reevaluate your situation and take a more aggressive approach.

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How a High School Student Wrote and Published a Book at Age 16

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PB120: Should You Start a Blog? 22 Questions to Ask To Identify if Blogging is a Good Fit for You

ProBlogger

Note: this episode can be listened to in the player above or on iTunes or Stitcher. 22 Indicators to Help Determine If You’re Suited for Starting a Blog. Today I want to talk about the characteristics and qualities of professional bloggers. Lately on ProBlogger we’ve noticed a bit of a surge of readers who are what I would call ‘PreBloggers’. People asking questions about how to start a blog and even wondering if they should.

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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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12 Bloggers to Follow on Snapchat Right Now

ProBlogger

You’ve heard it everywhere – Snapchat is making a comeback and if you’re not on it, you’re missing the boat. I’ve covered over the last few months in the Reading Roundups , and the vibe I’ve been getting is that it’s confusing, it’s for the younger set, it’s not worth it for traffic to the blog or building your brand, and you don’t know how to work it.

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PB119: How to Choose the Right WordPress Theme for Your Blog

ProBlogger

How to Decide on a WordPress Theme for Your Blog. Today I have a treat for you. Today we have a special guest, one of our new subject matter experts, Kelly Exeter from Swish Design. Kelly is one of those people who produces a heap of great content and also runs a business on the side. Kelly is one of the go to people in Australia when it comes to blog design.

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Top Tips for Creating Quality Evergreen Content

ProBlogger

This is a guest post from freelance writer Anna Johansson. If you’re like most bloggers, you publish a solid combination of evergreen and time-sensitive content. The time-sensitive aspect is simple enough as long as you stay abreast of industry news and updates. But what does it take to write really compelling evergreen blog content? While you can’t necessarily predict how your blog posts will be received, you can write with the following food for thought in mind.

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How to Build Trust With Your Subscribers Through Personalizing Your Emails

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Bill Acholla of Billacholla.com. Max E. Mailer is an email marketer. Every day, Mailer would send hundreds of emails to carefully cultivated leads. Every day, he’d be disappointed by the lack of response to those emails on which he worked so hard. What was the problem? Why wasn’t he managing to capture people’s attention ?

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

So much to discuss this week, but I’ve put Seth’s post first because I really think he’s hit the nail on the head: with promotion of our blogs getting harder to do on social media thanks to algorithms and whatnot, why not go to the source? Let’s read more blogs and engage with them, instead of mindlessly scrolling through whatever social network platform app you happen to have open.

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How to Network at Blog Events (Even if You’re Shy!)

ProBlogger

Time is hurtling towards this year’s ProBlogger Training Event at the RACV Royal Pines Resort on Australia’s Gold Coast, and I don’t know about you but here at ProBlogger HQ, we are getting EXCITED! (if you are yet to get a ticket, head here to grab one, you save $100 if you purchase before July 1, 2016!). Blogging can be such a solo sport, thousands of us tapping away at our laptops in our own homes across the world, talking to everyone online but rarely in person.

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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!