Sat.Dec 31, 2022 - Fri.Jan 06, 2023

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When a publisher might not do as good a job as a self-publishing author

The Idea Logical Company

We’ve previously explored what I called “the end of the trade publishing concept” , which stems from the now wide-open opportunity to publish available to anybody with a computer and something to deliver as a book. It feels like we may have reached a new benchmark: admittedly a very fuzzy one. But it looks like it has become very difficult, bordering on impossible, for a commercial entity to make money consistently publishing new titles.

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18 New Year’s Resolutions for Freelance Writers for 2023

Elna Cain

What a 2022 it has been for the world and for my business! Was it just as wild as mine? From being interviewed for a Business Insider article to sharing my thoughts in the Globe and Mail on hand pain, I am amazed by all the opportunities I’ve had lately. Another accomplishment I’ve had because of my writing is landing some high-paying and notable clients this year.

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Workload Planning for Freelance Writers

Kayleigh Moore

When I think back on 2022, one theme stands out for me: Burnout. I know I’m not alone in that. Talk of “quiet quitting” abounds, as does peoples’ general feelings of ennui toward work. My issue was over-booking. I spent the first half traveling for conferences and speaking gigs (sometimes with trips twice in the same month, yikes) and the rest of the time doing client work, focusing on growing Content Remix (our podcast repurposing service), and doing a bit of consulting work.

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19 Ways to Win, Attract, and Retain High-Paying Clients

Freelance Magic

How do some freelance writers demand $1/word while you’re stuck at $100/article (or less)? Maybe it’s their decades of experience. Or their poetry-dripping prose. Perhaps they just have a magic wand to make these high-paying clients appear out of thin air. It might be either of those things (magic wand being the most probable). But what’s more likely: those freelance writers have learned how to find, attract, and retain high-paying clients.

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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 Online Transcription Jobs in India (Work From Home)

Write Freelance

If you’re looking for a part-time or full-time job which only requires work from home, exploring transcription jobs is a great way to start. Transcription jobs are just like any other freelancing job and I actually find them quite similar to freelance writing. You get a high level of flexibility and choice of projects. It essentially includes listening to audio/video files and turning the speech into written text form.

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How to Balance Multiple Clients As a New Freelance Writer

Elna Cain

Let me guess: Every new freelance writer wants a legit writing job, right? If that’s you, don’t count your chickens before they hatch, because what if you land three clients? Or five clients? That would be THE DREAM, right? Or would it? Maybe it’s A NIGHTMARE! You finally have paid writing work, but now you have to balance multiple clients.

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Google’s New Experience Algorithm Update

Neil Patel

You’ve heard of Google E-A-T algorithm before…. If not, it just stands for expertise, authority, and trust. Which is part of their algorithm and you can optimize for it by following this. But Google decided to add an extra “E” to E-A-T. So now it’s E-E-A-T. So what’s this new “E” that Google added? It stands for experience. So what’s the difference?

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6 Ways AI Can Support Your Content Creation

Buffer

Have you ever tried a Google search that just wasn’t giving you the answers you were seeking? Have you ever wished Siri was just a little more powerful than a voice assistant you ask about the weather? Meet ChatGPT. Launched by OpenAI in November of 2022, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that you can ask pretty much anything.

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SEO for Digital Content Marketing: How To Optimize for Search in 2023

Content Marketing Institute

Expect SEO in 2023 to be more nuanced than ever. Creating helpful content remains the best SEO strategy. And paying extra attention to these eight areas will help your content remain (or become) a digital marketing powerhouse.

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Outsource Your Book to a Ghostwriter

Melanie Saxton

In my very last blog post in 2022, I’ll share many, many good reasons to outsource your book to a ghostwriter. Outsourcing saves time and energy and spares authors (especially first-time authors) from frustration. A trained, skilled, and highly experienced ghostwriter will manage your project, and conceptualize, develop, and oversee the details.

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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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How to Get Backlinks as a New Blogger

Blogging From Paradise

(Updated 1-4-2023) Can new bloggers get backlinks? Many pro bloggers claim getting links is impossible for beginner bloggers. I used to adhere […].

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How to Fit SEO Into Your Marketing Strategy

Ahrefs

In my case, this is SEO. Having worked with several businesses and top brands over the past few years, I’ve learned that some specialists and marketing generalists are: Cannibalizing efforts between channels. Undervaluing organic search as a channel.

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5 Ways To Be a Better Content Team Leader in 2023

Content Marketing Institute

Hard truth: Content marketing team members won’t stay in their roles forever. Great content team leaders nurture their employee’s professional development – even if that development prepares them to move on. Here’s why (and how) to start taking the long view.

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The Key Book Publishing Paths: 2023–2024

Publishing Trends

Jane Friedman , friend of Publishing Trends, regularly updates an invaluable resource about paths to publication. With her permission, we have reproduced the latest version below of her chart below. You can also view it on her site , along with its full accompanying text. Click the image above to view the full chart. The post The Key Book Publishing Paths: 2023–2024 appeared first on Publishing Trends.

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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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How to Get Discovered as a Writer

CopyBlogger

If you want to get discovered as a writer, there’s an elephant in the room we have to first address. Continue Reading. The post How to Get Discovered as a Writer appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Last Chance! 80% Off Plus Free $297 Training!

AWAI

If you want to be a writer in 2023, then give yourself the blueprints, the know-how, the support, the motivation, the excitement… And get yourself in the Barefoot Writer Club at the BEST price we’ll ever offer.

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5 Strategic Frameworks To Take the Guesswork Out of Content Planning

Content Marketing Institute

Update your strategic approach with these five frameworks to better align your content experience with the way buying decisions are really made today.

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The Author-Creator Marketing Playbook

Jane Friedman

Photo by Tim Samuel on Pexels. Today’s post is excerpted from the forthcoming book Creator Economy for Authors by Michael Evans ( @mevansinked ) co-founder of Ream. During my first full year of publishing, I made almost $200. I had three books in my catalogue and dabbled in Amazon Ads. In 2019, I made $412 publishing three more books. In 2020, I had my breakout year, generating $7,500 in revenue for my business.

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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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Play to Your Strengths and Supercharge Your Business

CopyBlogger

It’s often much easier to focus on what’s not working, rather than play to your strengths. Have you ever stayed. Continue Reading. The post Play to Your Strengths and Supercharge Your Business appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Living the Writer's Life: Katie Sanders

AWAI

Katie Sanders has five young children under the age of 12, but that hasn’t stopped her from pursuing a successful writer’s life focused on helping nonprofits. Her writing desk is often the kitchen counter (while she’s cooking dinner for her family), and she thinks up ideas for projects while running around after her two toddlers. Katie’s writer’s life may look different from others, but she is determined to make things work for herself and for her family.

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What’s Your Word for 2023? [Rose-Colored Glasses]

Content Marketing Institute

Robert Rose shares a story his grandfather told him every time he was frustrated at work. It will inspire you to find your word for 2023.

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Grammarly’s SEO Strategy: 11 Interesting Insights

Ahrefs

If Grammarly bought this same traffic via Google Ads, it would cost an estimated $5.1M per month. In this post, I’ll share 11 takeaways from my deep dive into the company’s SEO strategy. Grammarly gets an estimated 7.

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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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Appeal to Ignorance Fallacy: Definition and Examples

Grammarly

The foundation of any logical argument is at least one credible, logical source to support it. You use a logical fallacy when you support your claim with an illogical source. There are a lot of logical fallacies out there, all of which fail to support their arguers’ claims. However, while many rely on inadequate or irrelevant reasons to support their claims, one of them relies on the lack of any evidence that disproves the claim.

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How Candice Increased Her Writing Output 5X with Bramework

Bramework

Today I have a special treat for you! We had an opportunity to chat with Candice Zakariya to discuss how Bramework has helped her increase the number of weekly written blog posts by five times! You’ll learn why she was looking for an AI Writing Assistant, what challenges she was facing with her freelance writing career, her Bramework review, and the results she got from using the blogging tool.

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12 Most Insightful eCommerce Blogs To Follow for the New Year

ContentWriters

Whether you are new to eCommerce, an old hand, or someone who services and supports eCommerce enterprises, there is always something new to learn. Keeping up with the latest trends and evolving technologies in managing inventory, sourcing, marketing, and customer service are just a few of the topics where continuing professional development from eCommerce blogs can mean the difference between failure and success.

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4 Best Freelance Writing Sites (2023)

Make a Living Writing

Outside of direct pitching and networking, most freelance work comes through writing job sites. While there are so many out there, this article will be a summary of the best freelance writing sites so you don’t waste your time. While there are a lot more than will be mentioned in the article, just know these are four of the best to start with if you’re looking to become a freelance writer.

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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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A Helpful Guide to Writing Endnotes

Grammarly

Endnotes are small notations at the end of a chapter, academic paper, article, or book that provide additional information or cite the source of a passage from a text. An endnote is typically marked by a superscript number ( 1 ) that corresponds to the matching endnote in the “Notes” section or page at the end of a piece of writing. . However, endnotes do more than just cite sources.

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Enterprise SEO Strategy: Ultimate Guide

Neil Patel

In a rapidly growing and increasingly competitive digital landscape, it’s more important than ever for large businesses to have a comprehensive and effective enterprise SEO strategy. However, no two businesses are the same; what works for one company won’t always work for another. Therefore, you must tailor your enterprise SEO solutions to your organization’s specific business goals and challenges.

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Breaking News on Payment Platform Tax Reporting: The IRS Delays $600 Reporting Threshold for 1099-Ks

Freelance Union

The IRS has just announced a delay in the income reporting thresholds for third-party settlement organizations (TPSOs) such as PayPal, Venmo, and CashApp. This is a key change which may impact your 2022 freelance tax filing. Until now, the IRS was set to start scrutinizing business-related transactions and the income derived from them on third-party payment platforms more closely in the 2022 tax year with a much lower reporting threshold of just $600 and a requirement that these companies report

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International Bestsellers, December 2022

Publishing Trends

Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Ireland and Romania. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the original.

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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