Men With Pens
MARCH 20, 2011
“I change lives.”. During my recent trip to SXSW , I overheard these three words often. Someone would ask a person what they did for a living and more often than not, the person would brighten, smile and chirp up the answer. “I change lives!”. And I would think to myself, “Well, now. That’s kind of dumb.”. Sorry, but it is. You’re a human being. You change lives all the time, every day.
ProBlogger
MARCH 7, 2011
Today I thought I’d compile a definitive list of must follow rules for bloggers that all successful blogs follow: I was going to stop at ten, but 11 has a much nicer ring to it, don’t you think? Plus point number 11 brings them all together nicely. This post was inspired by a variety of comments, tweets, and blog posts of late that suggested I or other well-known blogging “experts&# teach “rules&# or “systems&# of blogging.
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Men With Pens
MARCH 6, 2011
Call me shallow, but I judge a book by its cover – and I judge who I buy from the same way. When I’m thinking of giving a business my money, I pay attention to first impressions. Do they have a nice website? Do they have a “real” business or operate out of their bedroom? What does their About page photo look like? Is their name well known? Do they have staff or is it a one-man show?
Men With Pens
MARCH 3, 2011
You don’t get to be on big-name sites like Men with Pens, Copyblogger, Problogger and Daily Writing Tips by fluffing deadlines like some flaky moonlighter. And Ali Luke (yes, she’s back!) knows that very well. Unfortunately, meeting deadlines is still a huge issue. Writers aren’t known for their planning and scheduling skills, after all – but nail deadlines, and you’ve turned yourself away from flaky and straight onto fantastically competent.
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.
ProBlogger
MARCH 5, 2011
This guest post is by Arsene Hodali of The Good Life? | dancePROOF. Why should you blog? I can’t tell you. I don’t like telling people what to do, or why they should do something. Instead, I want to show you a couple of things that, through my own experiences and research, I’ve deducted happen to the majority of people once they start to blog. 1.
ProBlogger
MARCH 21, 2011
“I don’t think I have what it takes to put myself ‘out there’ every day.&#. “Who would want to read what I have to say?&#. “Do you ever get used to the fact that strangers are reading what you write?&#. “I don’t think I have enough ego to do this!&#. These statements—and others like them—are pretty typical sentiments that I hear from many new bloggers whose main barrier to blogging comes down to self-doubt, shyness or … Blogger Fright.
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ProBlogger
MARCH 20, 2011
This guest post is by Ronique Gibson of Freshome. After one year, I have written 773 blog posts about one topic: your home. After 240 posts for Freshome , 430 posts for Stagetecture , and 103 posts for various ghost writing and personal blog clients, the numbers don’t seem real to me, but I feel I have at least 250,000 good posts still left in me! I am daily asked how I come up with new content and topics, and my response is always the same, “When you are passionate about a certain area of your
ProBlogger
MARCH 2, 2011
This guest post is by Ashley Ambirge of themiddlefingerproject.org. Blogging. Successful blogging. My own. Yours. If I could sum it up in three little words, they would be: Magazine. Advertising. Sales. Wait, what? Magazine advertising sales? Yes—magazine advertising sales. You see, (insert voice of the narrator from The Princess Bride ), once upon a time I sold advertising for a national print and online magazine, when the only writing I did involved contracts and thank-you letters.
ProBlogger
MARCH 24, 2011
This guest post is by Matt Robison of Propdrop Web Development and Marketing. In mid-April of 2010, I officially launched Pitbulls.org , a site for Pit Bull owners to connect with other owners and read accurate training and health information about their pets. At the same time it would help curb some of the myths out there about the breed, and promote rescue shelters in general.
ProBlogger
MARCH 27, 2011
Have you ever felt a personal connection with a blogger who you’ve never met and have no real reason to feel connection with? You read their blog day after day and in time come to feel like you know them—as if their blog posts are almost written as private messages to you? This has happened to me numerous times over the years. I almost end up feeling that the blogger is my friend, even though I’ve never actually had personal contact with them.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
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ProBlogger
MARCH 29, 2011
Last week I tweeted that I’d not checked my Google Reader account in a month. Well, it turns out that I’m not the only one. Within minutes, I started getting tweets back from others saying that they rarely check their RSS feeds any more. Instead, people were finding content from other sources including: Twitter. Facebook. Paper.li. email subscriptions. apps (some drew in RSS feeds, but others were recommendation engines).
ProBlogger
MARCH 22, 2011
This is a guest post by Tyler Tervooren of Advanced Riskology. Have you ever gotten an amazing idea for a blog post, spent hours putting it together, and then released your work of art to the world … only for it to fall flat on its face? No comments, no re-tweets, no interest whatsoever—just crickets chirping. *Chirp… chirp*. No worries if the answer is “yes.
ProBlogger
MARCH 18, 2011
This guest post is by Roman of how this website makes money. After more than two years of blogging, I’m happy to be still around. Most new bloggers do not survive longer then six months. Because of their lack of experience, new bloggers make assumptions about blogging that are completely wrong. They start blogging with these assumptions and are surprised six months later when their assumptions turn out to be incorrect.
ProBlogger
MARCH 4, 2011
This guest post is by Salman of CompuWorld. It was the second year of my graduation studies when my dad arranged for an always-on Internet connection at our place and I plunged into online chatting like never before. While I was busy living my fantasies online, my dad was busy scolding me for misusing my time. My frustration level grew exponentially as a result of my family’s reaction towards my style of socializing online.
Speaker: Michelle Garrett, PR Consultant, Author, Speaker
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ProBlogger
MARCH 14, 2011
This guest post is by Jennifer Fulwiler of ConversionDiary.com. When I announced to readers of my regular blog that I had accepted a paid blogging gig for a national newspaper, my email inbox was flooded with one question: “How do you do it?&# I have four children under the age of seven and am also working on a book, so, needless to say, before I accepted this new blogging position, I had to think carefully about how to write quality blog content with minimal effort.
ProBlogger
MARCH 28, 2011
This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. On March 8, 2011, Guy Kawasaki released Enchantment , his latest book. There was media attention befitting his star status. There were reviews on periodicals like Forbes , and major blogs like S tartup Nation and Brazen Careerist. Oh, and an exclusive interview on Firepole Marketing. What? You haven’t heard of Firepole Marketing?!
ProBlogger
MARCH 13, 2011
This guest post is by Tito Philips, Jnr. of MADphilips. Authority, in case you’ve forgotten, still rules! ProBlogger is still relevant because of its authoritative content. If you’ve ever read an article on ProBlogger about a concept that is not relatively new, there’s an unusual approach the writer adopts that makes you wonder if you’re just learning about that very concept for the first time.
ProBlogger
MARCH 11, 2011
This guest post is by M.Farouk Radwan of [link]. As of August 11 last year, I celebrated making my first million selling books and products online. I’m not saying that I’m an Internet guru, but I do believe that my experiences in making money online might help you get to your first million. 1. People are sick of marketers—especially online marketers.
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
MARCH 23, 2011
This guest post is by Goddess Leonie of GoddessGuidebook.com. Over the last three years, I’ve launched fifteen rounds of ecourses, four meditation kits, and two workbooks. It’s been a delicious combination of spectacular, exciting, and exhausting. The thing about my business is that I adore creating new products. I love love love helping people.
ProBlogger
MARCH 29, 2011
This guest post is by The Blog Tyrant. One of the hardest tasks a blogger can face is getting readers to stick around. In actual fact, its one of the most important things you’ll ever learn to do. Why? Because unless those visitors delve deeper into your site you are essentially wasting your time with all that amazing content, social media effort, and SEO work.
ProBlogger
MARCH 25, 2011
This guest post is by John Burnside of moneyin15minutes.co.uk. When people arrive at your blog, they’ve all come from somewhere on the World Wide Web. They could have found you on a search engine, they could have known about your site already, or they could have come from any one of a million other places. But all of these different types of visitors have a certain frame of mind when they visit your site.
ProBlogger
MARCH 15, 2011
Blogging ain’t easy. Just ask the hundreds of bloggers that quit within the first three months. You might have lurked around your favorite blogs and thought that you could do it too, so you started your blog. You’ve now you’ve hit a wall and want to quit. So what do you do? Reflect on why you started. Ask yourself, “why did I begin blogging&# ?
Speaker: Corey Daugherty, Head of Business Development at Flowcode & Georgette Malitsis, Senior Customer Success Manager, Enterprise at Flowcode
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ProBlogger
MARCH 26, 2011
This guest post is by R Kumar of dkspeaks.com. One of the major sources of traffic for any blog today is organic traffic. While SEO is one of the major factors influencing organic search engine results, there is another aspect to this whole story which is often ignored. All of the efforts go into building links, and in doing that, we ignore this critical aspect.
ProBlogger
MARCH 10, 2011
This guest post is by Jeremy Myers of www.tillhecomes.org/blog. Every blogger wants to be read. While some of the keys to attracting readers include writing valuable content, having error-free text, and using a clean blog layout, one of the most overlooked elements in getting people to read your blog is being a good blog reader. Here are five tips to make this happen. 1.
ProBlogger
MARCH 23, 2011
Earlier in the week I observed a conversation between two Internet marketing bloggers on Twitter which grabbed my attention. The topic of conversation? Monetizing blogs by selling advertising directly to advertisers. Their conclusion on the topic? It’s a dead and obsolete method of making money. It was a fascinating conversation to observe. They gave some solid-sounding reasons for their conclusions, including: There’s been a decrease in the budgets that companies are putting into ma
ProBlogger
MARCH 31, 2011
This guest post is by Jenny Dean of Business Blog Writers. If you run a business that sells a product or a service, you need a strong online presence. If you’re considering blogging, or if you are blogging and it’s not doing what you want it to do, then you might look into a different blogging platform to help you achieve your online goals— Compendium.
Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing
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ProBlogger
MARCH 10, 2011
Live-blogging—writing about an event as it happens rather than after the fact—can be a valuable resource for your readers, providing them with up-to-the-minute information about important events and making your blog the go-to destination for information on a developing story. It is also rife with perils: insufficient power supplies, spotty Internet connections, and errors made in haste, to name a few.
ProBlogger
MARCH 8, 2011
This guest post is by Jules Clancy of Stonesoup. Ever dreamed of tasting chocolate for a living? Image is author's own. Well I’ve been lucky enough to live that dream, and while is was hard to beat as far as jobs go, it doesn’t hold a patch on blogging for dollars. Last year, I quit my day job designing chocolate biscuit—cookies—for Australia’s most loved biscuit company because I knew it was holding me back from my dream of writing cookbooks and blogging professionally.
ProBlogger
MARCH 17, 2011
This guest post is by Josh Klein of Digital Strategy with Josh Klein. You had an idea for a blog. You developed a smart blog strategy. You wrote a compelling about me page. You learned how bloggers make money, and you even followed some examples of how Darren makes money with his blogs. Then you picked up a “how to&# guide, like the excellent free ebook from Michael Martine, “How to Start a Business Blog.&#.
ProBlogger
MARCH 12, 2011
This guest post is by Antriksh of Right Now In Tech. Reddit is a great way to drive traffic to your blog. It’s hard to classify Reddit as a type of site. It could be a social news site, or a social bookmarking site, but in fact it’s just a place where people can share interesting stuff from the Web. You can post links to blog posts, news articles, videos, photos—anything you like.
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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