Why is your blog not attracting the interest that you feel it should? Chances are that you’re making mistakes, and there are a lot huge ones that you can make, not even including bad grammar. Let’s start with the five biggest blogging mistakes you can make at the start of your articles, and then we’ll end ..
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I’m the editor in charge of guest posting for a site that gets quite a lot of traffic. Also, every week we select one guest post to feature in a newsletter that gets distributed to several thousand people. I respond to everyone who inquires and we publish a lot of the submissions. When I don’t ..
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Okay, so you’re a freelance writer (or designer, or coder, or whatever), and you do a lot of work for a lot of people who simply don’t have the skills you have. And you probably often think that if only you didn’t have to deal with clients, your job would be just about perfect. Here’s ..
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Did you catch all of the mistakes in the headline of this article? If you did, congratulations – you’re a grammar and spelling expert! If you didn’t get them, then you need to take a refresher course before you start writing for publication. See, here’s the thing – people say, “Oh, well, everyone makes mistakes…” but no, not ..
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It’s a common complaint: “I’ve been blogging forever, but no one is commenting.” So, what can you do to get more comments on your blog? Asking alone won’t get comments. The willingness to “speak up” requires a level of caring or level of emotional involvement that runs fairly deep. These eight strategies will help. Decide Who Represents ..
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Are you trying to make sales online? Are you wondering if you should go with the “hard sell” or the “soft sell?” You know the difference. Hard sell is “in your face, buy now.” Soft sell is “Let me understand your problem and see if what I sell solves it.” Often, a hard sell comes ..
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Before you ask, I really did mean “Nomad’s Land,” not “No Man’s Land,” although sometimes they might feel like the same thing. They both involve wandering off… in the case of Nomad’s land, though, it means essentially going where you want to go, and living…well, nomadically, while still being tied firmly to the digital world. ..
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You’ve heard how a camel is a horse designed by committee, right? Most sales pages are just as ugly…and generally for the same reason. “Let’s put a hump on it, and if one hump is good, two will be twice as good!” The truth of the matter is that a lot of people who have ..
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Tweens sitting in their middle school history class may prefer to while away the hours on social media, but for freelancers and entrepreneurs, the time drain can be overwhelming. Fortunately, there are a number of apps that can help you improve your social media productivity, freeing up time for other important tasks. HootSuite Confession: I’m ..
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Have you bought the weight loss supplement garcinia cambogia or any strings of “starry” LED lights on Amazon recently? I may have written those product descriptions. I’ve done a few Amazon product descriptions of these items over the last couple of years. When I took on the jobs I just focused on the format Amazon ..
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