Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2025

Your writing sounds bland. You can’t publish it like this. Have weak phrases sneaked into your writing? And just like a chef grinds a little extra pepper, sprinkles a few coriander leaves, or drizzles extra lime juice, you need to balance the flavors of your writing, too. You knew it was good. What happened?

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

With each novel I’ve written, this has certainly been the case for me, but with my fourth manuscript, the sensation was slightly diminished because I knew by then what still lay ahead: writing the author’s note. Write in the first person. This is why I struggle with writing notes. Is it necessary to write an author’s note?

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ContentWriters

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Whether you need to write a marketing script for social media, commercials, or podcasts, a powerful script will help you stand out. Unlike traditional writing, marketing scripts must balance persuasive messaging with entertainment value while adhering to strict timing and format requirements. The good news?

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Our blog and writing process have seen many iterations throughout the years.     If you’re looking for simple guidance on writing your first blog post, scroll down to the penultimate header, ‘How to write a blog post in 6 steps,’ for a simple guide.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Industries and positions include writing assistant for a nonprofit leader, content writer for a nonprofit website, and article writer for estate planning attorneys. Are you ready to write a book about your professional experience? Review their websites, LinkedIn, and social media to understand who they are and how they write.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A simple ChatGPT prompt could look like this: Write a 100-word product description for [insert product details]. Depending on the tool you use, you may be able to enter freeform, text-based prompts. Suppose you want to generate a description for a new ecommerce item. Use a friendly, upbeat tone of voice. How does ChatGPT work?

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Backlinko

MARCH 3, 2025

This builds a sustainable pipeline of qualified leads that continues growing long after you publish the content. In this guide, you’ll learn all about organic traffic, including how to measure and increase it. Lets start with what organic traffic is and how it differs from other traffic sources. What Is Organic Traffic? The best part?

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

And I like that writing allows me to connect with that part of me. And I like that writing allows me to connect with that part of me. When I started writing seriously in my early 40s , I had a love-hate relationship with writing. I hated writing first drafts. I often wondered why writing seemed so hard.

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ContentWriters

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As a writer, learning how to write in active voice is the gold standard for most content. If you want to thrive as a content writer, there are a few active writing rules to follow. Active voice is the key to streamlining your writing, improving readability, and creating impactful content. What is Active Voice in Writing?

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Freelance Magic

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Imagine writing about something that bores the heck out of you for the rest of eternity To help you avoid the mistakes that freelance writers make early in their careers, I’ve put together a list of the most lucrative freelance writing niches. These are short pieces of content and publishers need lots of them on a regular basis.

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Write Freelance

JANUARY 21, 2023

Finding and enrolling in the best creative writing courses in India has been more difficult than I thought. At least it used to be, seven years ago when I had just dived into freelance writing. I wanted to hone my skills and practice fiction writing too, which is when I started looking for creative writing courses online.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Since 2010, Anne McAuley Lopez has been writing content for businesses and nonprofits in partnership with social media managers, nonprofit marketing professionals, and digital marketing agencies. The content author will (or should) ask these questions to understand the audience for the writing. Who is the target audience?

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Recommend” submissions are considered for circulation to lit agents and publishers. Question In the eighth decade of my life and after having three books traditionally published—a travel memoir 50 years ago and two novels more recently—I am pondering the wisdom of writing a very personal memoir. Want to be considered?

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Copywriters call it a 'hook,' and learning how to write social media hooks can be the difference between your followers scrolling past your post or stopping in their tracks to see what you have to say. Thankfully, you can write hooks that are both accurate and enticing without resorting to sensationalism. 

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Enchanting Marketing

JULY 30, 2024

Do you feel uncertain about your own writing? Most of us are unhappy about our writing. We despair at the gap between how we write and how we’d like to write. Mastering writing may feel like climbing a huge mountain You start your climb with a positive mind and full of energy. We procrastinate. What to do?

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Make a Living Writing

JANUARY 2, 2025

Wondering if there are online magazines that pay decent freelance writing rates in 2025? But businesses, magazines, and digital publications still have freelance writing jobs they need to fill. There are no published guidelines for pitching, but they’ve paid $0.27 You’re not the only one. USD a word in the past.

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Buffer

JULY 23, 2024

And then we attended a webinar where we learned about platforms that help businesses write and publish press releases that get picked up by major news outlets like The Associated Press.   I was blown away: Within a week of publishing this first press release, we saw our web traffic increase by 220 percent.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 17, 2024

AI-generated image using prompt “book publishing executives receiving lots of money from a technology company.” The following article condenses material that I’ve been writing about for the last 18 months in my paid newsletter, The Hot Sheet. ” Apart from their love of oversized cash, notice their whiteness.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

She is leading a cruise writing retreat September 310 from New York City to Southampton, England, on the Queen Mary 2. In the fall of 2022, I went on my first ever writing retreat, a week in Tuscany in company with ten other writers and two respected instructors. I had a list of things I wanted to work on during this time.

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Kayleigh Moore

MARCH 9, 2023

Laura is currently a member of the English faculty at Spoon River College where she teaches creative writing, composition, and literature courses. She has had work published in Soft Skull's Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and Ninth Letter, among others, and currently has work in Alluvian.

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Nick Ursborne

APRIL 21, 2023

This time I asked GPT-4 to write me a 40-page Kindle book I could publish on Amazon. Homework #5 is to write a blog post on this exact topic. So I asked GPT-4 to write me an introduction. The book was published on Sunday evening. The post I wrote and published a Kindle book in one weekend, with GPT-4.

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Backlinko

JULY 10, 2024

For example, Scribe, a documentation tool, has created multiple articles and pages about writing and building SOPs. Search engines have difficulty determining the most relevant and authoritative page for the target keyword. Ultimately, all of these pages can get stuck in lower positions in search results. The result?

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 5, 2024

What Is Local Search Marketing? Local search marketing is the process of optimizing a local business online presence. It uses paid and unpaid tactics, like search advertising and local SEO, to help the business appear more prominently in local searches. Like salons, restaurants, and coffee shops. Why Is Local Search Marketing Important?

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Make a Living Writing

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Did you know you can earn money by finding greeting card writing jobs? Our guide below covers everything you need to know about freelance greeting card writing jobs, including how much you can make, which companies are looking for writers, how to land the gigs, and more. How much do greeting card writing jobs pay?

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Typically, both site owners will agree to link to one another, with the goal of improving each others authority and SEO. The idea is that these backlinks will help the sites rank higher in Google. Its like swapping favors: you link to me and Ill link to you. But there are different types of reciprocal links. Are Reciprocal Links Good or Bad for SEO?

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Write Freelance

JUNE 13, 2023

There was a time when all writers needed was a pen and paper to write their thoughts. But in the modern day, content writers who write for digital media need an arsenal of tools under their wing. After all, being a freelance content writer isn’t just about writing sentences that seem interesting to read.

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Express Writers

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The posts have similar writing styles and imagery. When you go grocery shopping, you select specific brands and items because you know what they taste like or how they pair with your meals. You would be very disappointed if one day you bought your favorite nacho cheese dip and it tasted much spicier than usual. Consistency is key to loyalty.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 11, 2025

So I rushed to fill it, focusing all my energy on getting the book to market quickly, publishing myself. Once it was published, I started the hard work I had deferred: sharing the ideas, blogging, speaking, defending the framework, and learning from others. The gap in the market looked glaringly obvious to me. Its only natural.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 27, 2025

Most people who want to write a book are so caught up in the challenge of writing that they dont spend much time thinking about the many things they will likely have to spend money on as they move from idea to published book to promotions. I decided to write this article to help authors avoid this all-too-common scenario.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I have no idea where my book is published.” These are just a few of the comments I’ve heard from authors sharing their experiences with the hybrid publishing companies they’ve chosen to work with. So if you’re an author starting out on your publishing journey, it’s important to know what to look out for. Photo by C.

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Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Back in 1995 I published my first website. While these tools can do many things now, including coding and design, their first use case was writing. That makes total sense, because these are essentially writing machines. You write a prompt, and the AI comes back with written text. Same with AI-generated writing.

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Backlinko

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

million blog posts get published. But when you write an article, you’re looking to accomplish more than just catching attention. In this blog, we’ll show you exactly how to write an article that does just that—in seven steps. You might find yourself asking, “What should I write about?” Every day, over 7.5

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Make a Living Writing

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Long ago, I came up with a list of ways working freelancers can grow their writing income. If you’ve been wondering how to make money writing—serious money, that is—this list is for you. How to make money writing Aren’t you sick of the negativity out there in the freelance writing community? I know I am.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 28, 2024

Over the last several years, I’ve spent oodles of time submitting short stories, essays, poetry, and novels to literary magazines, contests, and publishers. We’re talking scores of hours devoted to searching, formatting, and submitting my stuff directly to the publishing gods (I’m excluding agents). Well, it’s simple, really.

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Make a Living Writing

MARCH 28, 2025

Are you looking for blog writing jobs? If those are the types of writing jobs you’ve been chasing, it’s time to get some new clients. And you won’t find any blog writing jobs there. But there are blog writing jobs that pay. Both of these types of blog writing jobs are money for the serious freelancer.

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I’ve thought a lot about writing this year. And about the value of writing. Writing has felt as an act of defiance. And, sometime in June, my inner critic tried to tell me writing was a waste of my energy. Quit writing! Because writing makes me feel alive, and it allows me to be my best self.

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Nick Ursborne

MAY 27, 2024

AI can help you come up with new ideas for content, suggest headlines, and even write a finished draft for you. After all, you’re perfectly capable of writing on your own. I know… it’s tempting to use AI as an Easy Button when it comes to writing. But writing is something you already do well. And yes, it’s a lot easier.

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