Enchanting Marketing

APRIL 9, 2024

When I’m writing and get in a flow: I stop doubting my work. I focus on doing my best work, improving a draft step by step. I’m patient, and I feel connected to myself, to you, to the world, to whatever idea I’m working on. It makes my work better, and writing becomes a joy. Just do the best work you can.

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Elna Cain

MARCH 27, 2024

It’s best to turn in your work early to avoid creating content bottlenecks for the client. I often feel content marketers are inundated with freelance writing pitches for jobs and can’t remember all of us. Maybe I’m worried I’ll never work unless I book SOMEthing. So, always exceed deadlines, I say.

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Nick Ursborne

MARCH 14, 2024

Elon Musk predicts AGI will be with us by 2025. This isn’t just about marketing, it applies to all knowledge work. But there’s no reason to think the same wouldn’t apply to all knowledge work, across multiple industries. The post What if Sam Altman is only half right about AI doing 95% of your work? We’re not there yet.

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Portfolios are up-to-date and show all your writing work. Remote position – even though it’s a freelance position, it’s also a remote position, meaning you work for the company instead of collaborate with the company as another business owner. Yes, they even lean on being fake freelance writing jobs.

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Buffer

APRIL 25, 2024

I’ve worked on direct mail strategies for several of my clients, and the results speak for themselves: These campaigns see an average of 10 to 50x ROAS (return on ad spend), and one that I worked on even saw a 107.9x   Direct mail works so well for a couple of reasons.

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Nick Ursborne

JANUARY 17, 2024

Whichever way you slice it, these numbers are really, really high… and put us on notice that we need to take action before it’s too late. If you leave all the work to AI, you fall into what I call “the sameness trap”. When too many writers are using the same AI tools, and the same “top 50” prompts, the output begins to feel the same.

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Nick Ursborne

OCTOBER 4, 2023

There are various ways to insert emotion and emotional intelligence into your work. And it separates us from anything written by AI. The domains of Emotional Intelligence give us a structure or template to work with. But perhaps the easiest way to communicate emotion is to write from a perspective of personal experience.

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Storytelling Copywriter Copywriting Writing 227

Elna Cain

APRIL 1, 2024

Instead of confidently telling the client you can do this work, let them know you haven’t done it but are willing to learn. using their CMS to format your articles and adding a meta description), don’t apply to those jobs OR state what you are familiar with and let them know you can learn what you don’t know.

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Freelance Writer Finance Copywriter 205

Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The key to keeping everything under control, with a positive vibe and forward momentum, is to apply a high level of emotional intelligence to your work as a moderator. Also, while I address much of this post to community managers and moderators, the same lessons apply to those of us who participate as members of online communities.

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Rachelle Gardner

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith shows us a way to reconstruct a faith centered on compassion, truth, and inclusion. With her trademark warmth, compassion, and gentle humor, Sarah Bessey is a shepherd for our curiosity, giving space for our questions and tools to help us find what we need.

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Freelance Union

APRIL 16, 2024

What is your work worth? In traditional wage-labor relationships (aka “normal jobs”), your work is worth whatever your boss says it is worth. If you’re hourly, you make more if you work slower. If you’re salaried, the more efficient you are, the more work is assigned.

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Grammarly

APRIL 17, 2024

Work smarter with Grammarly The AI writing partner for anyone with work to do Get Grammarly What does paraphrasing a paragraph entail? When you want to use another person’s ideas in your own work, you typically have two choices: direct quotes or paraphrasing.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 17, 2024

But I would argue that boundaries are equally important to consider as they relate to the relationship we have with ourselves (the relationship from which all others are based)—and also, how they relate to various other facets of our lives, like our work. We think most often about boundaries in the context of relationships with others.

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Kayleigh Moore

MARCH 5, 2024

Yes, he works in advertising, and it is *his job* to know how to tap into those human emotions, motivations, and aspirations. Brands and businesses are just conduits for us to connect as human beings. Stories that tap into emotion and make us feel something register much differently than a quick ad pitch. But few do it well.

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Nick Ursborne

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Using AI to write copy and content offers incredible productivity benefits. At every stage of using these AI writing tools, ask yourself how to make the copy more emotionally engaging. One of the easiest and most powerful ways to do this is to use stories. But… AI output can feel dry and generic. It packs no emotional punch.

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Elna Cain

APRIL 27, 2024

While I wont be sharing where to find work, this newsletter will share the case studies and challenges I will do throughout the year like pitching challenges, social media challenges and anything my subscribers want me to do. I plan to publish bi-monthly on Wednesday so come join us ! You’ll also get access to past issues too!

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Nick Ursborne

JULY 17, 2023

Some writers use AI just to help outline their work. Others use it to complete full drafts. This takes us beyond just the task of writing, and can help us learn more about the products and services we’re writing about. Working with an AI is like having a super-smart assistant working with you on every project.

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Freelance Copywriter Copywriting Social Media 130

Grammarly

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

At Grammarly, we believe great writing gets work done. In the US alone, we estimate that businesses lose over a trillion dollars every year due to poor communication like unclear emails, misunderstood messages, and confusing docs. Information overload slows us down, and we spend half our workweek writing and rewriting.

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Communication Brand Collaboration Creativity 109

Content Hacker

MARCH 6, 2024

But let’s cut through the Hollywood drama to see how AI really impacts us, from simplifying daily tasks to transforming industries. Want to build a real money-making blog, 10x faster with the use of AI? The truth about AI is far from what Hollywood has us believe. AI quietly works behind the scenes, making things easier for us.

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IT Medical Creativity Agency 92

Grammarly

APRIL 25, 2024

Communication affects almost every aspect of our work and work lives. It’s how we move work forward, collaborate, achieve business goals, and maintain positive workplace relationships. Most of us agree anecdotally that effective workplace communication is better for business. Moreover, it impacts job performance.

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Communication Construction Collaboration Promotion 90

Freelance Union

APRIL 4, 2024

This practice, often sugar-coated as an opportunity for exposure or experience, undermines the value of a freelancer's work and expertise. This practice, often sugar-coated as an opportunity for exposure or experience, undermines the value of a freelancer's work and expertise. Unpaid work can lead to burnout.

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Freelance Portfolio Projects Education 76

Grammarly

APRIL 25, 2024

In fact, miscommunication in the workplace costs US businesses an estimated $1.2 Missed deadlines, lost opportunities, wasted time and money, employee and customer churn—these are just a few of the possible outcomes of poor business communication. While those outcomes may seem manageable, the costs of miscommunication can add up.

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Communication Collaboration Education Management 88

Buffer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This year Forekast , in partnership with Something Great Marketing , explored the events that shook social media to its core, captivated our feeds, and reminded us that you never know what trend is just around the corner. From groundbreaking technological advancements to glitzy entertainment releases, this year had it all. Movie generated $1.36

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Social Media Media Storytelling Entertainment 119

Backlinko

APRIL 17, 2024

As of 2023, there are more than 180k SEO service providers in the US itself. Guaranteed SEO Services Avoid working with SEO service providers that guarantee top rankings or a significant boost in organic search traffic in less than four months. With so many options to choose from, finding the best fit for your business can be daunting.

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Buffer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Over time, this practice changed as we leveled up as a team and became more focused on content goals and we moved away from working with guest authors because of the editing time it took. This means we receive many pitches we can’t publish, but it has helped us maintain the quality we strive for on the blog.

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Backlinko

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

AI Adoption AI adoption is surging globally, with enterprises and individuals increasingly using it. This section covers key stats on the widespread use of AI, especially generative AI, in businesses and the rapid growth of platforms like ChatGPT. Here’s a summary of what you’ll learn: 1. AI Market Size 2. AI Adoption 3.

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Content Creation Search Engine Optimization Communication Agency 84

Jane Friedman

JANUARY 18, 2024

” How might writers support our writing practice in a way that doesn’t leave us mentally burned out? Yet so often, it’s treated like a Puritan work ethic or a punishment: “You put your backside in that chair, young man, and don’t get up until you’ve written 10 pages.” Or you wake up at 2 a.m. BICHOK is essential to writing.

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Backlinko

MARCH 29, 2024

You use it on international or multilingual websites to signal to search engines—notably Google—the language or regional variation of your content. How Hreflang Works The hreflang attribute is added to a webpage’s link element (<link>) in the <head> section or HTTP header. Easier to update and maintain.

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IT Engineering Content Management System Management 89

Freelance Union

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As businesses of one, solopreneurs have the power to create work that is custom-tailored to their definition of freedom, the lives they want to live, and their specific talents. It is much easier to fit into a box that someone else has defined than to do the work of defining ourselves for ourselves.

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Finance Food Projects Marketing 99

The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In the intro, Findaway Terms of Service ; Why Kickstarter is the Most Creative Way to Launch Your Book [ Self-Publishing Advice ]; Sell direct resources ; Why writing books is a career like no other [ Roz Morris ]; You are not what you used to be [ Johnny B. How can we focus on the joy of the writing process itself, rather than the outcome?

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 23, 2024

Someone works at Mass General Hospital? Not only that, but she gave me more details to use. Still, it took a few years for us to patch up our friendship. Good and careful writing teaches us that writing about the stories of others is really about writing our own. If they live in a walk-up, make it an elevator building.

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Hospitality Writer Publisher Publishing 112

Make a Living Writing

MARCH 25, 2024

Two: Technical and Business Writing Memos, company-wide newsletters, the hand-dandy dusty employee handbook HR always refers to and that resume your former work-spouse keeps meaning to brush off—are just a few of the written tools that business savvy people need assistance writing. Three: Translating Are you fluent in a second language?

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Writer Freelance Copywriter Copywriting 81

Content Hacker

MARCH 3, 2024

In today’s digital age, the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) continue to astound us, particularly in content generation. Join us as we explore the reasons why relinquishing some control and allowing AI to work its magic might be the key to unlocking unparalleled creativity and efficiency in content generation.

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Agency Long Form Content Content Creation Digital Marketing 98

Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just enough to disqualify a single adult for Medicaid in most US states. I’ve worked from Starbucks in Hong Kong, the tallest building in Vietnam and my mother-in-law’s porch in Jamaica, and coughed up $17 for airline wifi to send back time-sensitive edits over the Atlantic Ocean from business class. You already know this.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

21, for the online class Find the Memoir Structure That Works for You. In the beginning, many of us are convinced our only job is to find the words that make those stories sparkle. But revision teaches us how malleable the truth is. If this work energizes you, consider writing a chunk of your book in this format.

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Storytelling Writer Projects Audience 91

Income Diary

MARCH 4, 2024

It is an approach that has consistently worked for us and it will for you. With content creation, writing a blog post and hoping for the best is not an option! Top quality content takes time, effort, energy, resources, and knowledge. Below is our blueprint for content creation at IncomeDiary.

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Content Creation Content Blog Post Writing 97

Jane Friedman

APRIL 20, 2023

Join us on Thursday, April 27, for the online class Finding & Working with Beta Readers. Because, for many of us, the beta reader process is the first time we must own the identity of: WRITER. Because, for many of us, the beta reader process is the first time we must own the identity of: WRITER. You can level up.

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