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Build a Digital ‘Company Town’ and Start Selling to Its Residents

The quaint hamlet of Scotia, nestled among Northern California’s tall redwoods,

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Do you hoard books? Here’s the help you need!

I love buying books but I don't like reading. Am I a hoarder? I came across that

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How to Discover the Ideal Jobs To Launch a Strong Freelance Career

With your profile and portfolio in place and signed up with an online service, you’re

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Secrets to establishing your professional freelancer profile

When you create your account with one of the popular freelance websites, you’ll

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Adopt these mini-habits for success at life and career

While I don’t spend a lot of time browsing Quora, I do stop by about once a week.

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How to find the best service to start your freelance career

Once you have an online portfolio established, there are several places you can post

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It’s as Simple as ABR: Always Be Reading

I like to learn about the habits of very successful people and one habit they all

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Freelance Success: The First Step You Must Take

If you’re new to freelancing, the first thing you’ll notice is that clients

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Let it rain, reign, rein!

Don’t ewe, er, you love homonyms? I almost made a mistake with the word rein today.

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How to write poorly in under five minutes

I expect politicians to use a lot of words and not say anything. But when I read

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Tired of Getting Paid by Snail Mail? How I Learned There’s a Better Way

It might be time to bid adieu to paper checks and snail mail from your clients. When I started freelancing, I didn’t really care how clients paid me. Check, PayPal credit card – I was just happy to have clients who actually paid me. But as my business has grown

How to Create Great Gated Content From Existing Content

If your business is committed to content, you’re probably sitting on a pile of e-books, white papers, and maybe even videos. And chances are, you’re struggling to get people to download them. Often, their promotion makes you anxious. You write more blog posts and social content to promote the

6 Time-Saving Apps and Tools Marketers Obsess Over

Finding a great app or tool sometimes can feel like winning the lottery – maybe not the Mega Millions, but at least a $20 scratch-off ticket. Here are some winning picks from some of our favorite sources. MotoRead – when you can’t or don’t want to read with your eyes

How to Find a Writer Who Won’t Kill Your Content

Below the erupting volcano of content – billions of new articles every month – a secret army is hard at work. Wherever marketers create e-books, run webinars, promote blogs, and craft events, artisans are hammering, hacking, and whittling the words. These writers make content marketing run. Alas, much of what

Video Marketing Strategy: What Marketers Need to Know

Many marketing teams tremble when contemplating video production. They are intimidated by the medium and sometimes mistakenly think of it as a high-cost endeavor with low ROI. But video is a necessary component in most content marketing strategies. By 2021, 82% of consumer internet traffic will be video, according

Why Brands Need to Take the Plunge Into VR Today

In late 2016, pundits declared 2017 whould be the year virtual reality won mass adoption. And yet here we are, well into 2018, still waiting for it to fully materialize. Are we kind of, nearly, almost there? John Bucher, virtual reality producer and consultant, makes the case for trying

Is Your Blog a Golden Egg?

I opened a carton of eggs yesterday and one of them was gold. Solid gold. Crazy, right? Picture it. Eleven plain egg shells and one glorious dome of gold, glinting on my kitchen counter. I picked it up and, sure enough, it weighed a ton. I called the supermarket. Apparently,

The Secrets of High-Performing Online Content

Good content is one thing, but great online content is another. How do you define great content? Yes, it should be well-written, addictively readable, and hit home for its intended audience. But it should also convert like crazy. After all, that’s the point of content creation for us, the

How 3 Content Brands Tackle Their Toughest Internal Challenges

What keeps you up at night about your content marketing program? I’ll bet one of your top concerns is how to prove its value to the company. There’s also a good chance other stress-inducing concerns include your tech stack and/or your team. Well, guess what? Your peers – even

How 3 Content Brands Tackle Their Toughest Internal Challenges

What keeps you up at night about your content marketing program? I’ll bet one of your top concerns is how to prove its value to the company. There’s also a good chance other stress-inducing concerns include your tech stack and/or your team. Well, guess what? Your peers – even

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