Arrant Pedantry

DECEMBER 27, 2023

I’m excited to announce that I have a new publication coming out next year. Last year I was invited to contribute a chapter on dictionaries and editors to The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary , and the book is (finally!) available for preorder. You can get 60 percent off for the next month or so with the code 101928. My chapter is titled “Dictionaries and Editors”, and, as you might guess, it focuses on the relationship between dictionaries and some of their most frequent u

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 27, 2023

You may understand what metaphors (and similes ) are, but what about extended metaphors? We hear and read them all the time, but could you identify one? Here, we dive into the meaning of extended metaphors, how they differ from regular metaphors, and examples of this figurative language in literature. Give your writing extra polish Grammarly helps you communicate confidently Write with Grammarly What is an extended metaphor?

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BKA Content

DECEMBER 27, 2023

What Is Compound SEO? It’s easy to recognize the importance of search engine optimization when 93% of all web traffic starts with an online search. However, keeping up with ever-changing methods can feel like climbing uphill. Compound SEO can help. What is compound SEO? It’s a long-term strategy that helps your site create a snowball effect in winning more and more rankings on the search engine results pages.

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Ben Settle

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Exactly 13 years ago in 2010 during the week between Christmas and New Years, I decided I’d had enough of client work. I was doing a lot of copywriting for others at the time. But I grew tired of it and wanted to be my own client. So I sat down during that week and hammered out a detailed business plan to build out a business selling info products and supplements to a male health-related niche.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The post Why Stories are an Effective Communication Tool for Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. As I write this it is the last Tuesday morning of the month and I’m sitting in a local coffee shop going through my ‘ end of the month routine ‘ It involves a large lattè (everything else hinges on this) and some delving into my blogs metrics to see how they’ve been performing.

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Ben Settle

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Recently, I was asked on this on Twitter: “Yo Ben random question, do you think it’s still feasible for someone to get into a crazy hot niche like email marketing / direct response services and actually go and ramp up to like $30k/m within a year if you’re completely new with no connections and experience ?” My response: 1. Email is very trendy – where it’s big and cool for a few years, then the next bright shiny object tool comes along and everyone grifts to that and says email is d

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