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Hey Brands, Don’t Make 2005’s Mistake on Your Future Virtual Events

Content Marketing Institute

Continue reading → The post Hey Brands, Don’t Make 2005’s Mistake on Your Future Virtual Events appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. This year will permanently change the nature of many events. But be wary about going digital long term without a deliberate content strategy. CMI’s Robert Rose explains why.

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How to Get Back to Writing

Jane Friedman

When I finished my MFA in 2005, I didn’t write for a year. Had I known about that event in 2005, I would have crawled into bed and not come out until December 1st. Photo by Monstera. Today’s post is by author Matthew Duffus ( @DuffusMatthew ). Set a challenge. No, I don’t mean NaNoWriMo. Instead, I set a reading challenge.

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10 Alternative RSS Readers if You Still Miss Google Reader

Neil Patel

Google Trends data shows a massive dropoff since RSS hit its peak back around 2005. Google launched Google Reader in 2005 and quickly built up a loyal following because it was simple, efficient, and free. Then, in 2013, Google Reader was switched off, and their popularity has dwindled. Dwindled, but not vanished entirely.

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Are You Sure You Don’t Have an Author Platform?

Jane Friedman

Since 2005, whenever someone searched “Samantha Smith,” they’d come to my website or the YouTube channel. I was so preoccupied with the crusade of bringing this story its much overdue credit that I never paused to take an inventory of what that meant for my author platform.

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How Niche Communities Are Changing Online Conversations

Neil Patel

Since its creation in June 2005, it’s grown to over 100,000 threads called “subreddits.” What started as a conference in 2005 has turned into one of the largest online niche communities. Here are some of the best niche communities you can use to connect with your audience or people who share similar interests.

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How to Prod, Poke, and Fire Up Your Readers: 8 Science-Backed Tips for Impactful Writing

Enchanting Marketing

8 (2005), quoted in Writing for Impact , p. DeLong, Thomas P. Urbach, and Marta Kutas, “Probabilistic Word Pre-Activation During Language Comprehension Inferred from Electrical Brain Activity,” Nature Neuroscience 8, no.

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How I Think About Marketing

Neil Patel

It’s the same reason I got into blogging back in 2005 when others weren’t willing to. Even if it doesn’t produce an ROI directly, I believe it can help you become a leader within your industry. And if you can become a leader, eventually the numbers will work out, but of course it is a gamble.

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