Men With Pens
OCTOBER 7, 2010
Everyone thinks they can win at SEO, but some SEO hopefuls make some pretty amateur mistakes – ones that can even hurt your rankings. Nancy Strauss, today’s guest poster, thought it might be a good idea to remind you of 5 SEO mistakes that make you look like an amateur… and I agreed. Enjoy! I keep getting spam from “SEO companies&# who promise that they can improve my website rankings for Google.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 24, 2010
Last week at Blog World Expo, I had conversations with literally hundreds of bloggers about their blogging. It was interesting to see some of the themes that emerged as bloggers shared their challenges, problems and fears. One of the recurring conversations that I had revolved around bloggers’ fear of being seen as sell-outs by readers when they started to monetize their blogs.
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Men With Pens
OCTOBER 21, 2010
I believe in confidence. I like to be confident and my closest friends are strongly confident people. That’s why Steve Errey caught my eye a long time ago, and not just because his blog was fuchsia pink at the time. (It was a bold, confident color, but I like the current blue better.) Steve is a confident, insightful person who knows a hell of a lot about the subject – well, he would, considering he’s THE Confidence Guy.
Men With Pens
OCTOBER 14, 2010
I’ve had more than my fair share of ‘how to connect’ articles. Seriously. That said, connecting is crucial if you want your business to succeed – and the good news for YOU is that there are plenty of people out there who aren’t connecting at all. They think it’s strange because they don’t know you yet. Some are even scared to connect.
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
OCTOBER 17, 2010
Stories are powerful. Stories have the power to break hearts and break homes. They can start wars – or stop them. They can free prisoners or free nations. They turn water to wine and rags to riches. They’ve saved lives, spared hands and started revolutions. Oh, and stories can sell. With a single poignant story that breaks readers’ hearts, you can make thousands overnight.
Men With Pens
OCTOBER 31, 2010
I write long. It’s a bit of a fault of mine, actually. I feel that long posts are just … better, somehow. Fuller. Richer. More valuable. I feel that long posts give you all the goods, everything you need, all in one place. Long posts are hard work, though. Delivering that much value and information in a single post without losing a reader’s attention is tough.
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Men With Pens
OCTOBER 28, 2010
My friend Tim Brownson victoriously and proudly holds credit for being the first person ever to crack the James-gender code (and live to tell about it). Not a guess, not a hunch, not a niggling suspicion. A full-blown, firmly-declared, confident statement uttered with absolute certainty. Which is why I found the conversation he and Dick Carlson shared with me on Twitter funny as hell.
Men With Pens
OCTOBER 31, 2010
I write long. It’s a bit of a fault of mine, actually. I feel that long posts are just … better, somehow. Fuller. Richer. More valuable. I feel that long posts give you all the goods, everything you need, all in one place. Long posts are hard work, though. Delivering that much value and information in a single post without losing a reader’s attention is tough.
Men With Pens
OCTOBER 24, 2010
Selling writing is hard. It isn’t that there’s too much competition or the market is saturated or clients aren’t buying or that your skills suck. There isn’t, it isn’t, they are, and they might, but that’s beside the point. The point is that selling writing is hard because your clients don’t really want to buy words.
Men With Pens
OCTOBER 24, 2010
Selling writing is hard. It isn’t that there’s too much competition or the market is saturated or clients aren’t buying or that your skills suck. There isn’t, it isn’t, they are, and they might, but that’s beside the point. The point is that selling writing is hard because your clients don’t really want to buy words.
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
OCTOBER 27, 2010
This guest post is by Clare Lancaster, of WomenInBusiness.com.au. As I was sitting down to write my first social media column for ProBlogger I was thinking about the best place to start. Should I do a run through of the basics or jump right into reporting on my latest experiment? My sense of flow and logic won over and here we are at the beginning, a very good place to start.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 4, 2010
This guest post is by the Blog Tyrant. “Wow that’s an interesting looking title you’ve got there, I think I’ll check out that blog.&#. That’s what I think. But three seconds later I’m gone, never to return again. Despite racking your brains for amazing titles, composing literary marvels to dazzle your readers, and spending hours on your blog’s design, you still lost me.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 19, 2010
This guest post is by Bamboo Forest, of Tick Tock Timer. "Canobie's Corkscrew" by flatluigi. Reading a blog post should be like sinking your teeth into an ice cream cone in the middle of August. Or the moment just before you plummet 2,000 feet in a roller coaster. Let’s face it: blogs posts always have been, and always will be, a diversion from the mundaneness of life.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 10, 2010
This guest post is by Nathan Hangen of Build Your Digital Empire. I remember back to early 2008, when I’d just started blogging, that even though I had great ambitions, my knowledge, expertise, and confidence as a blogger was sorely lacking. I stumbled through my blogging career for over a year before I felt I had a really good grip on things, and even then, there were many things I struggled with.
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
OCTOBER 21, 2010
A guest post from Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com. There are ten questions that will always make you a better blogger—even if you can’t always answer them. It’s the asking, the awareness, and the empowering context established through asking, that sets a higher bar for your writing, your business and your life. 1. Are you willing to actually strive for that higher standard, or not?
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 17, 2010
This guest post is by Clare Lancaster, of WomenInBusiness.com.au. Over the last 18 months I’ve built two profitable businesses with the help of social media. One business was a sure thing; the other was a side project. My side project was a blog: womeninbusiness.com.au. All of the important numbers (subscribers, page views and profits) are growing monthly and I’ve never paid a cent to promote it.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 18, 2010
This guest post is by Tsh Oxenreider of Simple Mom. I’ve watched in wonder how my blog has grown since it launched in early 2008. It started as a hobby blog, and has since morphed into an income-generating network of five sites, complete with a loyal community of readers, four other editors, and a family of more than 20 contributors. I got a book deal about two years into my blog’s inception, and it’ll be on bookshelves worldwide in just a few weeks.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 12, 2010
This guest post is by Jiyan Wei, director of product management for PRWeb. Creating content on a blog is just one aspect of being a productive blogger—you’ve written the content, but now what? How are you going to promote your blog or specific posts within it? Companies, businesses, and individual blog owners try out many tactics, but few consider using a press release as a promotional tactic for their blog.
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
OCTOBER 6, 2010
A guest post by Nathalie Lussier, who blogs as The Raw Foods Witch. Is your blog getting the attention you know it deserves? Maybe you haven’t started your blog yet because you can’t settle on the right name or theme. Perhaps you’re thinking of starting a second blog, but want to “do it right&# this time… Whichever camp you’re in, you need to consider five basic factors in naming a new blog or business.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 7, 2010
This guest post is by Sarah Von from Yes and Yes. If you’ve just started a blog you are, no doubt, using your best Google-fu to hunt down every last post giving advice to novice bloggers. There’s heaps of great information out there, but it can get a bit overwhelming for the true beginner. Tweeting and SEO and HTML, oh my! Never fear. Many of the skills that make you an awesome friend/partner/human being will also make you a great blogger!
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 5, 2010
A Guest Post by Amy Parmenter from The ParmFarm.com. Have you ever wondered how Darren and other A-list bloggers generate so much fabulous content? It just seems to come pouring out: day after day, month after month, year after year, there is a constant flow of information and inspiration. Meanwhile, your well is quickly running dry. As a journalist, I, too, am called upon to generate new stories day after day.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 8, 2010
This is a guest post by Joshua Noerr of JoshuaNoerr.com. Since I was very young, I was told, and shown, the importance of giving back and doing things for other people. I’ve always felt that the highest measure of a person’s character is the degree of service they are willing to provide for others. In fact, your service to others will be the cornerstone of your legacy long after you are gone.
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
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Lately I’ve been chatting to a number of bloggers whose blogs have dropped off the radar. I’d been disappointed (as a reader) that they’d stopped blogging and I’d secretly been thinking of it as a “failure&# of sorts. But I was reminded by those bloggers that in many ways that they’d actually succeeded with their blogs and that stopping blogging was a sign of that success.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 21, 2010
I know what you’re thinking: a content schedule? How hard can it be? Get a calendar, drop a blog post onto each day, and you’re done. Right? Well, sort of. That approach might be fine in the early days of a blog, when you feel the need to cover every topic in your niche, and you want to write about everything. But that kind of scattergun approach can be less than appropriate.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 22, 2010
While he was at Blog World, Darren met with Abbey Prince Johnson from WebProNews. In this interview, Darren explores what he believes are the three critical steps to blogging success. You’ve got a blog, but where do you go from there…? More WebProNews Videos. Post from: ProBlogger Blog Tips. Share This. Tags: Miscellaneous Blog Tips.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 11, 2010
This guest post is by Johnny B. Truant, of JohnnyBTruant.com. When I was in high school, I witnessed the most impressive sales job I have ever seen. One afternoon, the entire student body was called to the auditorium for an assembly. Nobody knew what the assembly was about. We were just told to attend. The presenters were two guys, dressed casually.
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
OCTOBER 11, 2010
Since April this year I’ve been putting together income reports for my own business to try to give readers a sense of how bloggers can earn income from a variety of sources. It’s been a couple of months since I gave an update, so today I’m going to cover both August and September. Below you’ll see two pie charts with the two months’ splits.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 14, 2010
This guest post is by David Risley of DavidRisley.com. If you could hand-pick your ideal blog reader, who would they be? What are they like? What do they look like? Have you ever even thought about it? See, all too often, a blogger sets up a blog and just starts posting with their fingers crossed, hoping somebody will come by. In those days, you don’t really think too much about the people you attract.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 31, 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! One of the most common questions I get asked is how much I’d charge for a given product. I guess the reason I’m asked this so much is it’s one of the hardest questions to answer, but the importance of price should never be underestimated.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 1, 2010
This guest posts is by Yael Grauer of [link]. One sure sign that your blog is getting more successful arises when you find yourself barraged with email from readers. The down-side to this attention is that it can take a very long time to answer individual requests for help. Bogged down in too much email? Here are some suggestions for helping you find your way to a clear inbox sooner rather than later. 1.
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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