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Two weeks ago I had an incredibly productive week. I powered through everything on my To Do list. My main focus was on the marketing and publicity tasks I’d been wanting to try and a few money-making projects that I’d been putting off. I was a productivity powerhouse.
The next week I didn’t accomplish anything. Nothing. Nada. [Read more...]
The blog Copyblogger is as addictive as chocolate, and if their blog posts had calories, I’d go over my daily limit! If you haven’t taken the time to check out this blog bursting with useful and practical writing and SEO tips, drop everything and read one, two or as many blog posts as you can.
I try to read one post and then click off, but I can’t help clicking on the links to other posts. An hour later I have to stop reading and get back to work. A few of my favorite Copyblogger posts are:
The 8 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers. The first tip is to be prolific:“The more you write, the better your writing gets.” Another tip is to be concise. Short paragraphs, bulleted points and numbered lists keep your readers interested.
How to be Interesting. (I read this one twice, thank you!) It’s important to be wrong as well as right and to surprise people by doing the opposite of what you normally do. Also, make people laugh.
20 Warning Signs That Your Content Sucks. The truth hurts and Copyblogger isn’t afraid to be direct about your blogging skills. This list of 20 questions will make you take a close look at your blog to figure out what’s working and what’s not. This list is invaluable to anyone wanting to improve his or her blog.
A few years ago I signed up for Pilates classes to get in shape and to build my core. I finally quit when my flaky instructor showed up on the first day and then missed a few classes. She had a great core, but a bad planning system.
In a recent blog post, New Marketing Labs, LLC president Chris Brogan stresses the need to develop a strong core. In this case he’s referring to your database, your email marketing, and some kind of community of prospects. He describes his four core tools of marketing.
Database – Your client and prospect list, your database, is the base of everything. If you don’t know who your customers are, who your next customers will be, then that’s where you start. Brogan uses BatchBook by BatchBlue for his contact database. Constant Contact is another database manager to consider but a product endorsement by Brogan carries a lot of weight. [Read more...]
The folks at Copyblogger are no dummies. They know that if they fill their site with valuable advice about writing a blog and marketing online, their readers will want more. What kind of people are they?
Obviously they’re brilliant, generous and Internet savvy because they’re offering Internet Marketing for Smart People, a 20-part, free email course and continual newsletter. This course is down and dirty, quick and easy and best of all, packed with useful advice about Internet marketing.
Check the Internet and you’ll find hundreds of programs that promise to give you the “secrets” to Internet marketing. Sometimes you’ll see a photo of a guy on his yacht who wants to make it perfectly clear that he’s made a fortune from Internet marketing and you haven’t. My advice? Shop carefully and if you can get a high quality marketing course for free, grab it immediately.
After you’ve read through the free course, check out Copyblogger often. You won’t believe how much information is on their site. I never leave Copyblogger without learning at least one new thing. They know everything and I want to know it too (insert evil laugh).
Even a blog that makes sense may only make cents.
Write a blog, sign up for Google AdWords, sell a few banner ads and watch the money roll in, right? Wrong. Bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors to your site doesn’t mean that you’ll be depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars into your bank account. There’s more to it than great content.
In his post “Blog Money: The Income Outlook for 2009,” Brian Clark, Executive Editor of Copyblogger (a must-read blog), share ways to make your blog make more money. [Read more...]
I often compare writing a blog that no one reads to having a party no one comes to. Just as you can plan an awesome party with no guarantee anyone will show up, you can write what you think your readers want with no guarantee anyone will visit your site.
Today I ran across a blog named Copyblogger, the party planner of blogging. The site offer tips that will make your readers hunger for more. Some of the tastier nuggets of info were in their articles: “The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging,” “The #1 Conversation Killer in Your Copy” and “10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers.” Copyblogger is filled with useful blogging tips and great examples of what works and what doesn’t work in the blogosphere.
The site follows its own recommendation that if you offer valuable information, you’ll bring readers back. I’m coming back right after I plan my next party. I hope everyone shows up.
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