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Discover Nomad’s Land: How to Become a Digital Nomad

Before you ask, I really did mean “Nomad’s Land,” not “No Man’s Land,”

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Have you found the formula for your best call to action?

You’ve heard how a camel is a horse designed by committee, right? Most sales

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Boost Your Social Media Productivity With Awesome Apps

Tweens sitting in their middle school history class may prefer to while away

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Selling on Amazon? Dominate Your Category With This Trick

Have you bought the weight loss supplement garcinia cambogia or any strings of “starry”

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3 Email List Growth Hacks You Can Do Now!

We’ve all seen the articles where the author claims to have grown an email list

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Evernote Tip: Don’t Miss a Step – How to Use Audio Notes

I'm kicking off a new series of short video tips on using Evernote with a quick "how

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This Idiot’s Guide to Clickbait

Not long ago I installed the Downworthy plugin in my browser. It “translates”

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Headaches eliminated, productivity increased: New Router, Modem, ISP

Because I’m a freelancer, I’m pretty obsessed with personal productivity.

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Two Things You Must Sell Before You Can Ever Sell Your Product

If you’ve been around sales and marketing for more than half a day, you know that

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Are You Making These Fatal Flaws On Your Mobile Site?

UPDATE: Just after I posted this, Google announced that mobile searches have

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5 Research-Based Actions to Improve Your Content Marketing

Editor’s note: Because understanding what your fellow marketers are doing and what’s happening in successful content marketing programs is critical to success, Lisa Murton Beets has updated her 2017 article. A little over halfway through 2018, you may be looking for insights on how to maximize your content marketing efforts. Or,

Your Must-Have Checklist for Successful Blog Promotion (Infographic)

Editor’s note: Given ongoing demand for better content promotion, the author updated his earlier posts on blog promotion with this fresh checklist. Unfortunately, while you might like to click “publish” on a blog post and wipe your hands clean, savvy marketers recognize that the work is only beginning. Without an

How Content Can Ring Up a Better Retail Experience

If you want to significantly disrupt consumer shopping patterns, it doesn’t hurt to invent a sales holiday. That’s just one of the many retail marketing takeaways to learn from the success of one of retail’s most powerful forces of nature: Amazon. The so-called “everything store” launched its members-only one-day

A Freelancer’s Handy Guide to Quarterly Taxes

Did you remember to pay your quarterly taxes? Tax time isn’t only in April… For freelancers, tax time can be hectic. You’ve got to gather all of your documents and prepare your return (or work with a professional who will prepare it for you). Sometimes, you even have to write

5 Sources to Inspire Unlimited Content Ideas

It was probably 4 in the morning, following a wake-up call from our infant son, when the thought occurred to me: The 10-year anniversary of the start of the Great Recession loomed. As many creatives can commiserate, sometimes content ideas strike at inconvenient and unexpected times. This light bulb

Collbox Guest Post: Fight Your Fear of the Collections Process

Over the years, I’ve known a lot of freelancers and business owners, small to large, who didn’t get their invoices paid on time. Too often, an invoice due in 30 days would go delinquent to 45, 60 and even 90 days. The issue wasn’t the quality of the work performed

LinkedIn for Content Marketing: What You Need to Know

If you are a LinkedIn member – and there are more than 500 million – you can be a content marketer on the platform. About two years ago, LinkedIn opened its publishing platform to all members, allowing them to publish blogs directly and promote their content throughout the LinkedIn network

How to Turn Your Content From Lousy to Memorable

My professor told me I would never have a career in writing. He had just read a story I wrote about my worst vacation, a trip to Disneyland that my brother won in a sweepstakes. It had the potential of a mediocre story. It held the promise of slight entertainment.

6 Great Email Lessons From the GDPR Deluge of 2018

A few weeks ago, your inbox was probably stuffed with GDPR emails. Mine was. These emails, prompted by the European data protection and privacy law that took effect May 25, asked us to confirm our interest in continuing to receive email from the sender. Many asked us to review and

6 Ways to Use Reviews in Your Content and Pitfalls to Avoid

Want a shortcut to creating content that will convert, resonate with your customers, and save you time? Enter third-party review websites. For content marketers, reviews are like an unending recipe book. They are your golden ticket to efficient content that converts. (A 2017 study by the Spiegel Research Center reports that displaying

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