Men With Pens
OCTOBER 7, 2012
Nobody is born great. We all start off as equals: tiny infants who can’t do much on their own. Forget about beautiful paintings, elegant singing and persuasive writing that sells itself; we can’t even smile yet! Later on in life, we often get frustrated with ourselves when we’re first trying to learn a new skill. We expect to be naturally good at it.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 2, 2012
This guest post is by James Dunworth of the Ashtray Blog. On the 28th August, shortly after getting our 14,000th follower on Facebook, we received one of those emails that makes your heart not just sink, but plunge through your stomach and crash onto the floor. Facebook had deleted our page from its network. In this post, I’ll provide some hard-won tips that’ll show you: how you can avoid losing your Facebook page. what to do if your page is deleted. why and how to diversify your traffic s
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Men With Pens
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Do you wish you had more time to write? That’s a question I get asked by writers most often – from beginners to old-hands. How do you find enough hours in a day? The key is building strong writing habits. Everyone can build these habits. Even if “write first book” has been on your New Years’ resolution list for the last ten years or you haven’t blogged in six months, you can become a much more productive writer starting now.
Men With Pens
OCTOBER 23, 2012
The unsung heroes of the writing world – first-time authors, business book authors, authors who’ve endured years of struggle, and comeback kids – are all resistant to the idea of giving their work away. After all, who buys the cow when the milk is free? Although it seems counter-intuitive, free books actually can boost long-term business potential. In today’s digital age, the best outlet is the eBook, which offers advantages other publishing opportunities can’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
OCTOBER 4, 2012
Epic. I can’t stand that word. More precisely, I can’t stand advice from gurus that says epic is what you should strive for. It’s all over: Write epic posts. Create epic content. Think of epic ideas. BE epic, for the love of Pete. Else clearly you’re a LOSER. Why should we strive for epic in the first place? Striving for “epic” leaves no room for improvement.
Men With Pens
OCTOBER 28, 2012
Get the wooden desks and dusty chalkboards out of your mind. This is the new age of teaching, and the opportunities to share your valuable knowledge, establish yourself as an expert, and extend your platform go far beyond traditional classrooms. Tons of professional writers offer consultations (in person, online, or by phone), e-courses, lectures, tutoring, coaching, conference presentations, and workshops in places as diverse as their own living rooms and large auditoriums.
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Men With Pens
OCTOBER 22, 2012
The rumors are true: Ebooks equal power. All the pros tell you this. They say that if you write a compelling ebook, you’ll juice up your sales. They say that if you write expert advice, you’ll instantly create credibility. They say that if you write an engaging ebook, you’ll bring in new customers. You’ll succeed. And that’s true. A single, well-written ebook can take your business to the next level, where you’ll enjoy new respect, more attention and fresh income – fast.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 23, 2012
This guest post is by Eugen Oprea of EugenOprea.com. Do you want to build a successful business online? I bet you do. Now that I have your attention, what is the first and most important step that will help you achieve that? It’s important to know your audience and to build an awesome website that is fast and secure. It’s also important to have a social media presence and to write engaging articles.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 30, 2012
Last week’s Blogging in Brief post looked at a really surprising business blog post. In fact, this was a post from a government body, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention—not the kind of place you might expect to have a raging sense of humor. Image courtesy stock.xchng user wagg66. Business blogging doesn’t have to be dull. Many business owners I speak to who aren’t bloggers scoff at the idea of having a blog.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 12, 2012
This guest post is by Karol K of YoungPrePro blog. The advice on how to be “the effective guy” is just so common online that it starts to get boring … You know, reading yet another article on how to be a great blogger and all… So why not take a different approach and consider the seven habits of highly in effective bloggers instead?
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 2, 2012
Are you looking for a little inspiration and guidance in your blogs development? The ProBlogger Training Event Virtual Ticket could be just what you need. Earlier in the year when I announced the ProBlogger Training Event—an event to help bloggers develop profitable blogs—in Melbourne I’ll admit that doing so made me feel very, very nervous. I’d just put a deposit down on a venue with a bigger capacity than we’d filled before, and while we’d sold out smaller venues previo
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 27, 2012
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. Where do you hope blogging will take you? I’m thrilled that blogging’s got me to where I am today—with a successful full-time business, a bunch of ebooks, a membership site, guest posts on major blogs, two speaker appearances at BlogWorld, and a published book Publishing E-Books For Dummies). To other bloggers, it might look like I’ve been successful.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 31, 2012
This guest post is by Tom of make-a-web-site.com. At the 2011 SMX Advanced event , Matt Cutts announced the Google initiative to support authorship markup, or more simply, to give you ownership of your content in the search results. Let’s start with a definition. Authorship , in this context, refers to Google’s parameters for making a verified connection between a person’s original web content and their Google Plus profile.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 25, 2012
This guest post is by Sophie Lizard of Beafreelanceblogger.com. I know your secret. You’re spending too much time on your blog, and it’s starting to feel like hard work. Not only that, but your blog still isn’t making quite as much money as you’d like. Believe me: I’ve been right there with you. Luckily, I got out. Now, I don’t waste time fiddling around with ad code and affiliate dashboards.
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 23, 2012
This guest post is by The Blogger. Okay, I know you’ve read posts about SEO, PageRank, and other things we bloggers should all know about. This stuff is helpful, but it has come to overshadow some of blogging’s golden rules, like that original content is king. I doubt this fantastic blogger ever focused on “Search Engine Optimization,” yet her fan page is bigger than yours or mine will ever be.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 11, 2012
This guest post is by Matt Beswick. For anyone involved in SEO, staying on top of the game is a difficult task thanks to the unpredictable nature of the business. As a blogger, however, it’s almost impossible—all you want to be doing is writing great content and generating traffic, right? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, things change in the blink of an eye, so keeping tabs on the latest SEO witchcraft inevitably demands a lot of research off the clock.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 9, 2012
This guest post is by Hugh Grigg of East Asia Student. Guest blogger Michael White has already written an excellent article on student blogging , looking at the career benefits of blogging for students. He’s covered that area better than I could have (I’m still at university), but here I want to look at the fantastic potential of blogging right from the start of your course, and how it can help you with your studies. 1.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 22, 2012
This guest post is by Srinivas Rao of BlogcastFM. Self-publishing is a hot trend. People’s eyes are lit up by the possibility of actually making money from their content. But there’s more to it than throwing together a PDF, uploading it to Amazon, and waiting for a check to arrive in the mail. The most successful self published authors treat their books as if they’re working with a publisher.
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 28, 2012
We get a lot of requests for co-promotions here at ProBlogger, and at Digital Photography School as well. No matter what niche you’re in, if your blog has a reasonably engaged audience, you’re probably the target for others who want to promote their new products. On the flip side, you may well target other bloggers when you want to promote your own blog products.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 25, 2012
This guest post is by Eric Binnion of Art of Blog. You can’t deny the power of social media. But, if you’re anything like me, then you also realize that effectively running social media accounts can take up tons of your time. That is, if you let it. I’d like to show you my streamlined, two-step process of curating great content, posting throughout the day, and keeping in touch with the different accounts I manage.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 16, 2012
This guest post is by John Doherty of Distilled NYC. Are you a blogger, either part-time or full-time, who is seeking to launch a product? Or, are you a business owner who is looking to launch either a startup or a new product line? If so, this post is for you. We all dream of going viral with a product launch, but what if you can get the promise of a new product to spread across the internet so that you can gather the people who might be interested in your product when it actually does launch?
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 20, 2012
This guest post is by Jack Samuelson. Blogging is no joke. There are millions of blogs, probably hundreds of millions of bloggers, and billions of articles online. Still, that does not mean everybody can blog effectively and run their own blog with success. So what about all those unsuccessful bloggers? Is the lack of popularity their own fault? Check out this short manual and find it out for yourself….
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 29, 2012
This guest post is by Sarah L. Webb of S. L. Writes. Maybe you consider yourself a serious writer who doesn’t have time for the details of how to boost SEO. Why should you bother with that when you’ve launched a blog to help people and make the world a better place? Every post you write is packed with valuable information and compelling content. For you, that’s most important, and it should be.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 31, 2012
This guest post is by Stephen Guise of Deep Existence. I’m working on a secret project, and it requires that I read studies. The information from the studies is absolutely fascinating, but they are run through a science machine that sucks the fun and life out of them. The verbose verbiage and dry delivery are brutal on the eyes. Fiction: people enjoy academic studies for the writing style.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 29, 2012
This guest post is by Ayelet Weisz of All Colores. As Matt Setter recently pointed out here on ProBlogger , pretty much anyone can set up a blog these days without worrying about technical mumbo-jumbo. Yet as I learned when I transferred my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org , sometimes the technical mambo-jumbo will haunt you regardless, and your choices will be to learn its language, to pay highly for others to handle it, or to give up.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 18, 2012
Last month I had the privilege of attending one of the biggest events in Australia—the AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final. For those of you outside Australia, it’s kind of like the Superbowl of Aussie football (without all the cool ads and wardrobe malfunctions…). Anyway, I was a guest (with my wife “V”) at the event of Virgin Australia and it was quite the experience.
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 17, 2012
This guest post is by Bill Zipp of Billzipponbusiness.com. You’re so excited! The blog you’ve been writing faithfully, the list you’ve been building consistently, the newsletter you’ve been sending out weekly just paid off. You got a call from a reader who’s asked about the Holy Grail of blogging success: consulting. When you actually talk with this person, you get even more excited.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 15, 2012
This guest post is by Patricia Rodriguez of Adsgadget. From its early beginnings in 1993 to its inevitable rise in the last few years, blogging has become part of our daily lives. Almost everyone has a favorite blog, a blog that they read first thing in the morning while taking the coffee, or a blog they wonder off to after reading the front page of the New York Times.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 3, 2012
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Writers’ Huddle. Is your writing holding you back? If new visitors never stick around, if you rarely get retweets, or if there’s tumbleweed blowing through your comments section, this might not be because you’re getting anything wrong in terms of promotion. There’s a chance that your writing isn’t quite up to the high standard required for blogging success.
ProBlogger
OCTOBER 24, 2012
This week, I’m kicking off a new, regular feature here on ProBlogger, called Blogging in Brief. The idea each time is to highlight a few cool, interesting, creative ideas that professional bloggers are implementing as potential inspiration for you. ProBlogger’s based upon a philosophy of sharing stories and learning from each other, so every couple of weeks, I’ll take a look at some of the trends, ideas, and innovative new techniques various successful bloggers are using, and w
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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