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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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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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