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I've been using #quickbooks for self-employed for a long time. I let it track expenses, send invoices, alert me at tax time, watch my mileage and more. Explore it. Quickbooks affiliate link: https://t.co/9jB2fBjwKy

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What Should I #Blog About? How to Qualify Your Unique Blog Idea, by @hobolaptop https://t.co/mtdSlUqKM7 #blogging #freelance #digitalnomad #solopreneur

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The latest Freelance Writing and Editing! https://t.co/kdFcFHmp2B Thanks to @TechCompanyNews @AndaCoWork @TRCWriter #freelance #digitalnomad

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SMEs Applaud Social Media Creatives Training as the Best Social & Brand Marketing Traini... https://t.co/FmoTQV0ijH

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Eight Epic Failures That Came Before These #Entrepreneurs' #Success, by @theoracles https://t.co/dUc9Jbkh3d #entrepreneurship #solopreneur

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Are You Measuring Right in Your Content Marketing?

Marketers are awash in data. But ask marketers if they’re measuring the right things and most answers are closer to “damned if I know” than “you betcha.” So, what can be done when big data gets the better of you? In May I judged a category in the 2018

15 Search Intent Tips, Examples, and Resources for SEO Keywords

If you want to leverage search intent with SEO keywords on Google and other search engines, it’s best to balance the methods with the false hopes. In a moment, I’ll dive into the big intent types like transactional, informational, and navigational. Mostly, I want to share a perspective to help

100+ Tools Content Marketers Really Love

Want to be a better content marketer? Don’t overlook the importance of technology. Need convincing? Consider this: CMI’s 2019 B2B research found that 67% of the most successful content marketers rated their organization’s content tech proficiency as expert or advanced. Only 5% of the least successful content marketers rate their

How to Get Ranked and Read With the Topic Cluster Content Model

Do you struggle to create engaging content that lands you in the top spots of Google? There is a way to solve that problem, and create content that Google loves, while building a library of content that’s super useful to your target audience. That way? The topic clusters model.

Roundup: How I Deal With the Dreaded Scope Creep

Scope creep: If you don’t nip it in the bud, it can get out of hand very quickly, robbing you of valuable hours you could be billing elsewhere. It’s often a freelancer’s first valuable lesson in business. You agree to a flat-rate project for a client and complete the work… [Read More]

How to Make an Amplification Strategy With Shares AND Backlinks

Editor’s note: You may have missed the original article by Steve Rayson when it was published last year. Given the topic’s relevancy today, Susan Moeller has updated it. Competition for audience attention is fierce. Successful content marketing depends on creating and amplifying exceptional content. WordPress users create an average

Are You Still Content Marketing Like It’s 2018?

With 2019 coming in hot, don’t find yourself out of the loop using techniques that will hurt your marketing efforts, or worse, cause a mass extinction of ROI. Things are changing fast and it can be hard to differentiate while maintaining a sense of trust with your audience. First,

Book Club: Gigonomics by FreshBooks Customer, Julian Haber

Montreal-based photographer and writer, Julian Haber, packs 15 years of freelance knowledge into one, amazing read in Gigonomics. Shortly after completing his MBA, Julian realized that the corporate cubical world might not be for him. Luckily he had both a passion and talent for photography. With hard work, dedication and

How to Make Your Content Powerful in Eyes of Searchers (and Google)

The value of building SEO content is second to none. However, I’m not merely talking about properly optimized content that has the right meta information, links, keywords, and technical SEO. Instead, I’m talking about honing powerful content that speaks to readers irresistibly. It’s optimized, sure, but it’s also constructed to

A Primer to Boost Your Content’s Readability

Our content was too academic and didn’t resonate with our audience. When we focused on making it more readable for our audience, business grew. What about you? Is your brand deliberately centered on readability? At its purest, readability is about keeping things simple. It’s about explaining things in as straightforward

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2 hacks to breakthrough a pesky pay wall

Don’t you hate it when you click to read an article and find that except for the first few lines it’s hidden behind a pay wall? I’ve recently stumbled on two ways to (sometimes) dig my way under the pay wall. I was trying to read an article on the Adweek website the other day ..
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The best service for finding email addresses

In a recent post I let you in on my “secret” content marketing strategy of using curated content to drive traffic to a website. However, this strategy will fail completely if you can’t efficiently contact the authors of the articles you’re recommending in your curated content piece. After a lot of experience, my team relies heavily ..
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