Men With Pens
DECEMBER 9, 2010
I like to think about conventions and challenge them. I ask questions like, “But what if…?&# or say things like, “Yes, but just imagine…&# That natural curiosity has gotten me far in life. Then I get guest posts like these. I sat there for a long time after I read this post, thinking Tim Brownson had completely lost his skates to think I’d accept it.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 5, 2010
This guest post is by HubSpot’s social media scientist, Dan Zarrella. Of all the data analysis that I’ve done, day-of-week and time-of-day data has been consistently the most popular. So in preparation for my upcoming webinar, titled Science of Blogging, I decided to combine all of my existing data on timing with my new research into one master post on the subject.
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Men With Pens
DECEMBER 16, 2010
Sometimes you meet surprising people online. They’re the ones you never expected to like but end up liking anyways, just because they’re quirky or funny or nice to you. So when Martin Stellar sent me a post that tells you the secret of getting big names to like you and how to get people paying attention to you, I had to share it. Enjoy. James Chartrand has a crush on me.
Men With Pens
DECEMBER 2, 2010
How many people make excuses that they can’t write? No time, no motivation, writer’s block… all the excuses in the world are out there. But let’s be honest: if anyone has an excuse not to write, it has to be Farnoosh. She could have ‘woe is me&# d and said it was too hard to learn or that improving was difficult. She didn’t.
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.
Men With Pens
DECEMBER 5, 2010
I hated philosophy class in university. Absolutely couldn’t stand it. I read the textbooks and documents several times, listened to the audio files over and over again and wrote papers that should have pinned down the right answer perfectly. And each time the grades for my papers came back, my face fell. They always hovered somewhere between 60 and 70%.
Men With Pens
DECEMBER 13, 2010
There are days when you don’t have a post ready. When you suddenly realize that you’ve blown your own regular posting schedule and that no new post is going to go live. Your stomach clenches. You panic momentarily. You kick yourself. No post. How could you have forgotten? What will you do?! Oh god. That’s what happened to me this morning around 9am.
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ProBlogger
DECEMBER 10, 2010
Stanford obsesses about how to get passionate people’s blogs noticed and promoted at Pushing Social. Great posts often get ignored. It shouldn’t happen. Literary masterpieces should be revered but that just isn’t the case in the blogosphere. On a blog, a post has a few seconds to capture and pull in a reader. The writer needs to state their idea and immediately begin to persuade, entertain, and motivate.
Men With Pens
DECEMBER 1, 2010
I’m going to do something I very rarely do: I’m going to tell you about an opportunity for you to get ahead. You have to understand this is risky for me. Some people are going to be upset. Some will unsubscribe from this blog. Some won’t read. Some will snort in disgust. I feel sorry for them. Because their scepticism will to hold them back for life.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 8, 2010
Last week we talked about what type of social media account you should set up. Regardless of which you choose, you’ll want to start building an audience straight away. Remember, the value in social media is the depth of the personal connections you make, not the number of people who you’re connected to. You don’t want to get followers quickly—you want to build an audience.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 12, 2010
This guest post is by Tommy Walker, Online Marketing Strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? This old cliché has become especially true in blogging. It’s statistically proven that by inserting compelling photographs into your blog posts, you’re able to better retain your reader’s attention. So what if photos are also exactly what you need to stand out on the world’s most popular social network?
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 22, 2010
2010 will be remembered as the year that social media made a big splash in the lives of business owners. If you’re someone who runs an online business, you’ll have realized that social media has joined the ranks of SEO as a must-do activity (and, for some, has started to rival the number of traffic referrals sent, too). While many people made mistakes as they tried to cash in on the next phase of the Internet, it was those who embraced the social element of social media who forged alliances, and
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 20, 2010
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. Does great writing matter in blogging? It’s a debate that isn’t over—yet. But it’s one where more and more blogging experts are emphasizing that your writing does matter, and that readers are drawn in by a strong, engaging voice. Great writing will: encourage people to share your content. persuade readers to subscribe for more of the same. get a powerful response—like comments or sales. make you look like a big player in the blogos
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 6, 2010
This guest post is by Katie Tallo of Momentum Gathering. I’ve developed a tweet. It’s involuntary and annoying. My vision’s distorted. All I’m seeing are the letters S, E and O. Worse, I think I’m losing my mind because I don’t know who some of my friends are—at all—no idea who they are. I play with my widget all day. I’m obsessively turning my plug-ins off and on, off and on.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 11, 2010
This guest post is by Frank Strong of PRWeb. Writing good content for a blog is only half of the equation: promoting your blog to drive traffic is the other half. Previously we offered five reasons to promote your blog with press releases as part of an overall content marketing strategy. This post provides a few tips on how to write a press release for maximum media exposure. 1.
Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker
Yes - press releases are still relevant in the world of public relations! 🎯 Ever wondered how to write a compelling press release, or what are current best practices for pitching your news to earn media coverage? In this exclusive webinar with Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, we’ll cover tips and advice to help you get the most out of each piece of news you pitch!
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 19, 2010
This post was written by the Web Marketing Ninja — a professional online marketer for a major web brand, who’s sharing his tips undercover here at ProBlogger. Curious? So are we! As online marketers, we often devote a large amount of time to finding ways to attract eyeballs to our online assets. We put such effort into simply get the readers there that we allow the rest to take care of itself.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 27, 2010
“Darren, do you have any tips for creating more content for my blog? I have grown my blog to become reasonably successful but as it grows find myself with more and more requests and questions from readers that take me away from writing content. What should I do?&# —William. Hi William and thanks for the question. I do have one tip that comes to mind that I hope you find useful.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 25, 2010
This post is by Michelle of Wicked Whimsy. One of the most common pieces of advice given to aspiring writers and, by extension, bloggers is to write every day. The idea of a daily writing practice is thrown around as though it’s a cure-all for any malady. Don’t get me wrong, I try to write every day, but the advice as it’s given is missing an important component.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 1, 2010
This post is by Clare Lancaster, of WomenInBusiness.com.au. One of the first decisions you’ll need to make when you start using social media and participating in social networking is to choose your username. It might seem like a simple question, but the username you decide on will be closely linked to your branding, how people perceive you, and your brand’s future worth.
Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners
This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 16, 2010
This guest post is by Julien Smith of inoveryourhead.net. Are you repeating the same things every other blogger is saying? Are your valuable visitors turning away as soon as they see what you have to offer? Is your blog great, or is it boring? How would you know? Very few blogs turn you away with their design. You may have a custom theme or you may have something you just plopped on there for free.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 2, 2010
WordPress makes it super-easy to publish your own content, and even easier to import and display content from other great sites around the Web. Just as other people are displaying and reading your feed in their apps and devices, you can use external RSS feeds to supplement and strengthen your site’s primary content. Whether you’re displaying feeds from similar sites or aggregating news from around the world, importing feeds means taking advantage of the best that the Web has to offer
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 29, 2010
This guest post is by Brandon Connell of BrandonConnell.com. Throughout my blogging career, I’ve worked hard on my writing style. I’ve improved over time, and I’m at a point now where I believe I have perfected my ability to write link bait articles. A link bait article is an article that makes many readers want to reference it within their articles, or link to it as a general resource.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 7, 2010
Image by Anna Gay. Earlier in the week I wrote an email to ProBlogger PLUS subscribers that talked about deepening reader engagement by aiming at the hearts of your readers. In it, I shared an example from FeelGooder of a personal story post that I wrote that got a great reaction from readers. As I wrote that email it struck me that my example post was only one example of a type of post that engaged the emotions of readers.
Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode
Let's explore the transformative power of QR codes in bridging offline and online marketing worlds. 📲 This new webinar featuring Corey Daugherty and Georgette Malitsis of Flowcode will dive into how innovative QR technology not only enhances traditional marketing strategies, but also drives meaningful customer engagement and analytics. Register today to gain practical knowledge on using QR codes to increase conversion rates, optimize customer journeys, and ultimately unlock a new realm o
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 17, 2010
The notions of pillar and evergreen content aren’t exactly news to bloggers—we know that’s where we have some of our best shots of nurturing rapport and loyalty, and building repeat readership. It follows, then, that we should hone our pillar-content-writing skills. Today I wanted to look at a key type of pillar content: tutorials. Many blogs post tutorial content in some form or other, even if it’s not labeled as such.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 4, 2010
Putting aside grammar, spell-checking, and similar post QA techniques, editors commonly rely on a suite of tactics to help boost the communications value of content. They’re easy to apply, and don’t take a whole lot of expertise or time. Perhaps you can (or do?) use them to hone your posts. Moving the key point to the opening. My dictionary.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 31, 2010
If you’re looking to take your blogging up a notch in 2011 with some great training then you’ll want to check out Blogging Success Summit 2011. This is a completely online/virtual event and it is currently 50% off (a limited time early bird rate). It includes teaching from 23 successful bloggers including: Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 3, 2010
This guest post is by Ben Harack of the Vision of Earth project. Regarding readers as fish, and bloggers as fisherman, might seem strange. Bear with me as I show you part of why I like the idea of blogging as being similar to fishing. Those of you who are familiar with fishing know that getting the fish to bite the lure is only the first step of the process.
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.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 13, 2010
This guest post is by Andrew Knibbe of Flippa. When most of us think of blogging, we think about starting from the ground up. Having researched a niche, we search for a good domain, choose a blogging platform, apply a template, and prepare our first post… But there are other options for the beginning blogger. One of the least talked about, and most often overlooked, is to buy an existing blog.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 21, 2010
Many bloggers develop products as a way to monetize their blogging, but one problem that more bloggers are running into is that they become very dependent upon product launches. A product launch can bring a lot of profitability to your blog, but what happens when things die down after that launch? For many bloggers, the income dries up after a launch, so they’re forced to start thinking about the next one.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 24, 2010
Thanks to everyone for a wonderful year in 2010. Wishing you peace and happiness in this holiday season and looking forward to connecting with you in the new year! Post from: ProBlogger Blog Tips. Christmas Greetings.
ProBlogger
DECEMBER 9, 2010
This guest post is by Brandon Connell of brandonconnell.com. When I first started a blog that I took seriously, it was to promote an ebook that I had published on Amazon’s Digital Text platform. Initially, I wanted the blog to be my “author’s headquarters,&# but soon after, I realized what I really wanted to do with my blog. It was far from my initial goal, and I wish I’d made the right decision from the beginning, rather than reversing course.
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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