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- Arcade Fire, Video and HTML5
By Lyndsay KapurchAssistant Account Executive What happens when a band, a director and Google collaborate to create a modern music experience? Arcade Fire’s “The Wilderness Downtown,” a project...
- Non-Profits and Literacy AND Digital Marketing, Oh My!
By Nicole BurguessInteractive Account Manager Today is Youth Literacy Day -- a celebration of reading, writing, and self-expression, and of all the organizations, professionals, volunteers and teache...
- A Search Engine that Saves the Rain Forest
By Kai BlumDirector, Search Engine Optimization Is it possible for a new search engine to stand out against giant Google? Ecosia, founded a few months ago, is attempting just that by marketing itself...
- Not So Fast ...
Earlier this week, we discussed JetBlue's silence in the wake of the Steven Slater incident. Turns out maybe there was more of a social-media method behind the company's measured response. Charlie Kon...
- When a Social Media Leader Goes Silent
By Will StewartAccount Executive JetBlue Airlines has a reputation for customer service, transparency and a social media savvy. So when JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater made his dramatic exit...
- HTML5: "You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means."
By Dan NixonWeb Producer HTML5 is undoubtedly a hot topic in web development these days and, fueled by Steve Jobs' anti-Flash comments, the trend toward building "HTML5" sites and applications has ca...
- The Birth of the Fail Whale
By Lyndsay KapurchAssistant Account Executive Mashable recently published an interview with Yiying Lu, the graphic artist responsible for the image now known as Twitter’s infamous “Fail Whale.”...
- The Future of PR is Here
By Charlie KondekDirector, Social Media Relations Recently, I was involved in examining resumes and interviewing for two internship positions here at MSL Digital and I’m struck by how accomplished...
- Eight Lessons the Wu Tang Clan Can Teach Us About Social Media
By Charlie KondekDirector, New Media Relations I have a confession to make. I've been poking fun at the social media blogosphere for its numerous blog posts with this theme - X things Y can teach you...
- Amazee: A Winning Alternative to Ning for Cause-based Communities
By Stacy Lukasavitz Social Media Strategist In April 2010, custom social network service Ning decided that it is going to start charging and do away with its free service. Beginning August 20, Ning...
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- How NOT to Pitch Bloggers
By Bree Glenn Account Executive, Social Media Outreach As an active mommy-blogger, I get many pitches from PR reps, on a weekly basis. As a PR practitioner, with over eight years experience, now wo...
- Warning: Possible Career Damage Ahead
By Lyndsay KapurchAssistant Account Manager Checking Facebook at work is about to get a whole lot easier for users of Outlook, as Microsoft prepares to launch new social integration features of the e...
- Is There a Market for Your Book?
By Kai BlumDirector, Search Engine Optimization Are you thinking about writing a nonfiction book? Possibly about a niche subject that nobody has written about yet? Are you wondering if there's demand...
- Return of the Potluck!
Man, been a while since we've had a good poluck lunch here at MSL Digital. Bless you, Party Planning Committee, for bringing it back! This one's theme was Mexican food and as you can see there were ma...
- The Outside-of-the-Box-Websites
By Eden LittSocial Media Coordinator In July of 2008, Google announced on its blog that it had indexed more than 1 trillion (yes, that's 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs. Here we are two years later,...
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- How to Create Successful Product Websites that People Love
You just launched a new product. You want people to tell others in their social network. You want word of it to spread like a virus from person to person, eventually resulting in more buzz, attention...
- 11 Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take Action
Influence can be defined as the power exerted over the minds and behavior of others. A power that can affect, persuade and cause changes to someone or something. In order to influence people, you f...
- How to Achieve Your Goals by Changing the Way You Surf the Web
Everyone has their favorite way of using the internet. Many of us search to find what we want, click in to a specific website, read what’s available and click out. That’s not necessarily...
- An Essential Marketing Principle: Give Before You Try to Get
Experts have talked about this before. How many times have you read about the importance of ‘adding value’ for your audience? How many times have you read about ‘building trust&#...
- Twitter Marketing: Why You Don’t Need to Mass Follow Users
A few days ago Twitter announced on their status blog that all Twitter users are only allowed to follow a maximum of 1000 people a day. This rule was designed to cut down on ‘follow spam&#...
- Ad Swaps: A Smart and Easy Way to Get Free Traffic
After yesterday’s post on marketing without search engines, I decided to follow up with a strategy you can use to get quality free traffic. One of the easiest ways to get visitors to your web si...
- Marketing Your Website Without Search Engines
I’m not old enough to remember what the internet was like without search engines. Apparently, there were lists of web-servers: they were manually updated and publicized in news updates like thi...
- The Most Powerful Way to Presell Any Product or Service
Preselling is the art of conditioning potential customers and making them more likely to buy products/services. It is usually performed at your website before you send the visitor over to the vendor&#...
- The Unhealthy Obsession With DoFollow Blog Links
If you don’t know what ‘dofollow’ means, read this first before continuing. Many webmasters or bloggers are infatuated with dofollow blogs. Not everyone is obsessed with them, but th...
- 6 Fool-Proof Steps to Make More Money With Your Website
Every website has a bunch of web pages which get more search traffic than others. These pages are constantly visited daily by new visitors, people who have never seen the site in question before. I...
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- Join The Student Blogging Challenge Now – Starts Mid September!
It is now time to join in on the bi-annual student blogging challenge! This challenge is all about having fun, improving blogging and reflective writing skills, and building readership and connectio...
- A Glossary to DEMYSTIFY the jargon of the online world
Starting your journey into the online world can feel like a crazy place where the inhabitants speak a totally new language. So here’s a glossary of commonly used terms we’ve created to hel...
- What advice would you give for blogging with ESL/EFL students?
Can you help? I’ve been asked for advice for blogging with ESL/EFL students. I’m sure that ESL/EFL educators and their students will provide the best advice. So I’d love to hear yo...
- What you wanted to KNOW about blogging!
As promised here’s my follow up post on general blogging questions asked during Richard Byrne and my ISTE Unplugged blogging session and in comments on my What Do You Want to KNOW about Bloggin...
- To hashtag or not to hashtag?
Can you over use hashtags on twitter? Is obsessive hashtagging a problem? And what advice would you give in terms of appropriate use of hashtags? Why do I ask? Because Marian Schembari left the follo...
- What Do You Want to KNOW about Blogging?
Can you help? I’ve promised to follow up What You Wanted To KNOW About Student Blogging with a post that focuses on responses to more general blogging questions. The aim of the post will be to...
- A Twitteraholic’s Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter
Conferences can make you feel really overwhelmed and alone — especially at a conference like ISTE amongst 13,000 ed tech professionals participants who attend each year. But never for a twittere...
- What You Wanted To KNOW About Student Blogging
Richard Byrne and I co-hosted an ISTE Unplugged session on blogging at ISTE 2010 in Denver. Thanks to everyone who submitted their blogging questions and here’s my responses — for those wh...
- Talking Blogging Live Event!
Our Edublogger, Sue Waters, and Richard Byrne from FreeTech4Teachers.com will be co-hosting an ISTE Unplugged session on Wednesday June 30 from ISTE 2010 in Denver! Anyone can tune in and participate...
- The Edublogger’s USA Adventure… to ISTE and Beyond!
It’s that time of year again! And I’m off to attend ISTE 2010 conference and network with people: What does this mean? I would love to catch up with anyone. I’m always happy to cha...
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- Business Blogging for Realtors
With the decimated housing market fueling the Great Recession, savvy realtors have realized they needed to “up their game” with their online marketing in order to keep food on the table fo...
- Advertising and Search: the one-two punch
I received a great reminder recently while I was at AdTech in San Francisco. This guy was mobbed everywhere he went! Why? Because he is on TV! I was immediately reminded of the Seinfeld episode where...
- Content Curation in B2B Marketing
Many of the B2B companies that publish corporate blogs have long realized the value of publishing useful content in the form of white papers, case studies, webinars, newsletters and other types of edu...
- 12 Tips for Marketing New Blogs
Plenty of new B2C and B2B blogs are launched every day and the sheer volume of content makes standing out increasingly difficult. My personal experience as a B2B Marketing pro, is that blogs can be on...
- Where Did All the CEO Bloggers Go?
CEO blogs used to be all the rage within the business blogging community. Remember when we’d hear blog consultants gush about CEOs who dared to blog with transparency and authenticity. I rarely...
- New Survey: Are Blogs Still Important for SEO and Why?
A large number of companies are familiar with the process of starting a blog, but few have experienced the challenges of maintaining and growing a blog for more than a year. Understanding long term be...
- Take the Business Blogging and SEO Survey
Blogs serve many purposes for companies and individuals alike. As easy to use content management systems, blog software enables companies that are “content challenged” a mechanism to creat...
- Las Vegas is for Bloggers: Blog World Expo, Cirque du Soleil, America’s Got Talent
I had a great time last week at Blog World. The turnout was great, at several thousand attendees. The show was buzzing the whole time, even on Day 1 which is normally a light day in terms of attendanc...
- Anatomy of a Successful Blog Contest
Links are the foundation of Google’s ranking algorithm, and so, link building is a crucial part of SEO. To be really successful at link building you need creativity, because without a great buzz...
- Blogging Top Ranked Digital Marketing Tactic for 2009
Companies world-wide are cutting costs as well as looking for creative, high impact and accountable marketing. With concerns over the recession and its impact on marketing, I recently ran a poll of th...
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- Being Direct About Social Media Marketing
Compared to typical direct marketing efforts (snail mail, DRTV, email, etc) where an offer is created based on a company developing a product and packing it to meet a need or purpose, a social media m...
- Wiley Reaching Out to Bloggers by Mailing Books
Got a package from J Wiley, the publisher, last month. It contained a copy of Personal Finance for Dummies and a letter. Here’s what the letter said: Dear Stephan, It’s a new year, a start...
- How to Be Constructive in your Blog Commenting
Ever gotten an overly critical (perhaps vitriolic) comment, and decided to just delete it? I know I have. When I moderate comments, I don’t think of myself as a censor; I’m simply keeping...
- Why Blogger Is No Good For Business Blogging
I was recently running a workshop about Word of Mouse Marketing using social media from blogging to microblogging, podcasting to video casting and it was heartening to see that about 8 per cent of the...
- How Interactive is Your Blog? Measure It!
One of the coolest things about business blogging is the social interaction and community that is built when readers leave meaningful comments. Like a good story, a post elicits a response from the re...
- Learning From Business Blogging Mistakes
With as many right things you can do with a blog to make it successful, there are nearly as many things you can do wrong. Below are 3 common mistakes companies make with corporate blogs, why they make...
- How To Share Your Blog Content?
 Have you ever wondered how to make sure that you provide the opportunity for people to share the great articles on your blog to their social networking sites? You might recall I wrote about one t...
- ECO-SAFE Business Blogging
Have you ever come across a business blog and have wanted to print out a blog post but find that there is no print icon on the blog page? I always think that we need to make it as easy as possible for...
- Plurk: Is This for Business?
With all the recent outages and downtime over at Twitter (no doubt stirred up because of my recent article on How to Use Twitter for Business), many people have been checking out Plurk, a similar but...
- Sun CEO on Communication through Blogging
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz gave a great keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo last month. He was interviewed by Tim O’Reilly. The 30 minute-plus interview covered a wide range of fas...
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- Friday Feature - Paul Shafer's Social Media Success Story
In this week's Friday Feature, Paul Shafer talks about how he uses hash tags to connect with potential clients... Paul T. Shafer, Achieving Optimal Wellness Website/Blog URL: www.optimalwell.com In a...
- The Thailand Golf Zone - A Four Year Blogging Success Story
In 2006 The Blog Squad worked with Mark Seigal to set up his blog The Thailand Golf Zone. After a few hours of training, Mark was off and running. What I appreciate about Mark is that just about every...
- 8 Tips for Driving Traffic to Your Blog (video)
When I'm at conferences and workshops I like to get quick tips from people I meet and know about how they're marketing online. At the recent Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshop (NAMS4), I asked...
- Friday Feature - Kaya Singer's Social Media Success Story
If it's Friday, it's must be time for Friday Feature and a new social media success story. This week...Kaya Singer, talking about her success with a site I hadn't heard of... Kaya Singer, Awakening Bu...
- 22 Social Media Marketing Superstars Reveal Their Secrets
How do you like that for a title? I am excited and proud to be among the 22 Social Media Marketing Superstars included in this brand new book. I'm in fabulous company. As you know, I talk a lot about...
- Friday Feature - Sonya McCllough's Social Media Success Story
This week, I'm pleased to feature Sonya McCllough's social media success story... Sonya McCllough, eastwind productions Website/Blog URL http://www.eastwindproductions.net In a nutshell, what success...
- POLL - Do You Use Your Blog to Promote Charitable Causes?
Social marketing and blogging have become heavy-weight tools for promoting charitable causes. And there have been huge successes and lots of money and awareness raised for great causes that may have g...
- How to Get Your Flip Video Embedded in a Blog Post (video)
If you're new to video, you may be wondering how you get the video you shot on your cool new Flip Video Camera onto your blog post. Online video is fast becoming a must-have element on your blog, webs...
- Friday Feature - Kathleen McDonough's Social Media Success Story
It's Friday! And that means it's time for my new Friday Feature Spotlight on a social media success story. This week, Kathleen McDonough shares her story. NOTE: When I put a call out for social media...
- How to Drive Quality Traffic to Your Blog - It's Back!
Just a heads-up to let you know that today, Thursday, August 12, is the last day you can get the re-released copy of "How to Drive Quality Traffic to Your Blog" for the deeply discounted price of $17.
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- Win a Free Pass to MN Blogger Conference
TopRank Online Marketing is proud to be a founding sponsor of the first Minnesota Blogger Conference. Tickets for this event “sold out” within a few hours and there are over 100 people on...
- Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned from Google
Aaron Goldman is an accomplished digital marketer that I know through MediaPost’s Search Insider Summit conference. He reached out to me while writing his new book, “Everything I Know Abou...
- The Real Cost of Buying Links for SEO: $4 Million
I was reading a copy of the Inc. 500 issue on my flight back from Dallas this weekend and came across an article about a seasonal online retailer that was “penalized” right before the Holi...
- Social Media SEO Success with Blogging
My presentation on how to leverage Social Media SEO to improve the reach and effectiveness of blog content for marketing at OpenCa.mp DFW this weekend ended up being a lot of information in a very sho...
- Brian Clark Interview: Copyblogger on Content Marketing with Blogs
OpenCamp’s Sunday schedule included presentations on blogging that included Chris Pirillo, Brian Clark and myself. I caught up with Brian before he gave his presentation to give us a little prev...
- Chris Pirillo on SEO & Social Media @ OpenCa.mp
At the OpenCa.mp conference in Dallas this weekend I was able to re-connect with Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome and the Gnomedex conference (We’ve interviewed each other in the past). We both jump...
- OpenCamp Blackhat SEO with Social Media
The first content session I’m attending at OpenCamp is by Gio, aka Giovanni Gallucci, a longtime search and social media marketer based in Dallas. The topic is “Blackhat SEO” and the...
- Army Golden Knights: Jumping in to Social Media
Army Strong Stories is a program to draw attention to the real life and experience of being in the Army through soldier stories communicated via media socially. Recently Greg Swan of the Minneapolis...
- Video Interview: Dave Roth of Yahoo
Dave Roth works as Director of Search Marketing at Yahoo. That means Dave is a Search Engine Marketer that works for a search engine. I’ve known Dave for several years and we finally decided to...
- SES San Francisco 2010 Wrap-Up
Last week the West Coast SES Conference and Expo moved from San Jose back to its roots in San Francisco. It was a well attended show (5,000+ in 2009 vs. 6,000 in 2010 registrations), despite the illu...
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- Solving Duplicate Content And Multiple Site Issues
More and more website owners are concerned that they might get penalized accidentally or overtly because of duplicate content. For example, if you run mirror sites, will search engines ban you? If y...
- Enterprise Level SEO Is Not For The Weak
Thanks to Ray ‘Catfish’ Comstock for providing the title of this post with his opening remarks during the session. Joining Comstock on this panel, moderated by Seth Besmertnik, CEO, Cond...
- The Four Pillars of Building Instant Trust Online – Tim Ash Keynote
Websites and landing pages face very real trust issues – for consumers they can be a scary and uncertain place. Before people will take a desired action, their concerns and anxieties must be add...
- B2B Marketing Tips From SES SF
What’s the quickest way to catch a fish? Offer the right bait. What’s the quickest way to get a B2B marketer to an SES session? Title it ‘B2B Marketing Tips.’ What’s the...
- Real Time Storytelling – SES SF
For mainstream media to survive, if not thrive, it must integrate with the social web and create engagement surrounding content. For social media to remain relevant and compelling, it must work in t...
- Is It The SEO Metrics Or The Connections Between?
Ultimately, to measure Search Engine Optimization (SEO) success, you aren’t necessarily looking at individual metrics – you are looking for a connection between the metrics – and the...
- Website Analytics vs. The Myth of 100% Accuracy
Let’s get this out of the way. 100% accuracy does not exist in website analytics. Repeat. 100% accuracy does not exist in analytics. What does exist in analytics is data – lots of it &...
- Mobile SEO: It’s About The Value, Not The Viral
Take a deep breath if you feel one step behind in terms of mobile Search Engine Optimization (SEO). If the crowd size for the session Getting Mobilized! Mobile Marketing Strategies at SES San Franci...
- Blog Marketing & SEO: A Recipe For Success At SES SF
It’s been several years since I have seen TopRank CEO Lee Odden contribute to the panel ‘SEO Through Blogs & Feeds,’ so I was eager to sit in on this session to close out my fir...
- SES San Francisco Keynote: BJ Fogg On The Power to Change Behavior
BJ Fogg, Director, Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University gave the opening keynote on day 2 of Search Engine Strategies San Francisco. BJ is perhaps best known for promoting the concept of...
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- Flying United Airlines Business Class
Last Friday on my way to the Epic PlayBoy Mansion Party (post coming soon, pics already up here when I checked in at the Lincoln Airport I got upgraded to “Business Class”. I looked up f...
- This Week in the ShoeMoney Marketplace
New listings placed this week in the ShoeMoney Marketplace: PPC Expert Needed Spotify Webmasters blog owners- Make money Shoemoney Logo Special Faster Blogging Profits Get 1000 Visitors Every Month Wh...
- MMA Shorts – Free Shirt Friday
MMA Shorts is a site dedicated to selling shorts made specifically for MMA athletes. These shorts are made to not be pulled down, (always good in a fight) as well as being designed to prevent accident...
- If I could – starting over
Recently in the comments of another post someone challenged me by saying: I have answered this many times. I would LOVE to do this. It would be a hell of a lot easier then what I do now! What would...
- Crazy week
So far this this month I have added about 15,000 miles to my frequent flyer account. And this next weekend I am headed to L.A. for AzoogleAds/Epic Advertising’s annual playboy mansion event. Che...
- Humongo Nation-Free Shirt Friday
Humongo Nation is “A real one of a kind digital creative agency without the bureaucracy of the big guys but all of the talent in the universe. Living proof that small is the new big, and that Hu...
- Gymboree Gymbucks – Amazing Marketing Gimick
Yesterday I talked about reward programs in general. Today I want to break down what I think is one of the most ingenious reward programs I have ever seen. Gymboree Gymbucks. For those who don’t...
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- Does Working Online Isolate You from the World?
This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below. Cherran asks: As a person working online, after the initial revenue goals are achieved,...
- We Should Try To Learn More From Other People
Back when I was at the university (around 2002) I went to live in an apartment with three other students. I didn't know them prior to moving there, but quickly we became good friends. Then one day I w...
- How to Suck at Writing, and then Write for the Biggest Blogs in the World
Writing hasn’t always been a skill of mine. I rarely ever read when I was younger, and still had my father read me books for years after I had learned how to read for myself. So how did I go from a...
- 30 Tools to Help You Find Domain Names
As you probably know recently I launched a new website, which aims to be a complete resource for people who want to get started online and build their first websites. Traffic is picking up there, and...
- Time To Update The Retweet Button?
Twitter became one of the most popular platforms to share links online, and as a result most bloggers and website owners installed a retweet button on their sites. Original Post: Time To Update The R...
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- Breaking News: Google Borks the Earth
Want to explore the entire planet from your computer? Normally all anyone wanting to do so would have to do would be to trot on over to Google Earth, download and install their application, and off gl...
- I Finally Figured Out Who Jason Calacanis Reminds Me Of
In all of the discussions and posts about Jason Calacanis, whenever and wherever he replied to people calling him on his bullshit, it always had the same tired familiar ring to it. His statements have...
- zOMG! Jason Calacanis Lied Again?? Shocker!
Last Thursday, in response to Matt Cutts stating that he needed more than “arbitrary inurl searches” to sway him (which was in turn in response to a Hacker News submission about Mahalo and...
- Need Help Understanding The Latest Mahalo Spam?
On Tuesday of this week someone posted the following question to the Hacker News website: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this? The link in the story points to a search in Google,...
- Dear Matt Cutts, What’s Your Take On Addon Domains?
Today Matt Cutts answered a question from “Land Lubber”, Colorado. Land Lubber asks: What’s your take on “addon domains”? Does Google penalize someone for having one or m...
- Rackspace Hacked Clients, Check Your Databases: Wordpress “wp_optimize” Backdoor In wp_options Table
Just finished cleaning up a hacked client whose website is hosted on Rackspace Cloud hosting. It is the second one within the past few weeks, although the first one was actually hosting on Laughing Sq...
- Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then?
Earlier this week at SMX Advanced Seattle, during the You&A With Matt Cutts, the topic of the latest Google update, dubbed Mayday by webmaster last month, happened to come up. According to Ryan J...
- Wordpress Hacking, Matt Mullenweg, And Some Screwed Up Priorities
I clean Wordpress installations for people who have been hacked. I can help fix non-Wordpress sites as well, but since often times the way people find me is through the guide I wrote on how to fix Wor...
- My Mom Needed Me To Let The Plumber In While She Was At Work (True Story)
I work from my house and keep odd hours, so when a family member needs some sort of worker let into their house during the day I am often asked if I am available to do it. I don’t mind, we all l...
- GoDaddy’s Suggestion For The Cause Of Their Hacks And Their Community Blog – Can You Smell The Irony?
Yesterday I blogged about the hacking situation with GoDaddy hosting and a customer service call I had with them concerning some evidence I had found. While it is true that as this has progressed GoDa...
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- The 10 Essential Ingredients of Successful Sales Pages
When you see dozens of copywriting formulas promising “the perfect sales page,” how do you know which ones to trust? After all, each formula seems to have a successful direct sales superst...
- A Four-Step Guide to Generating Sales Leads from Your Blog
Dean: Did you know you can use your blog to make money offline? Blogger: Offline? What is this “offline” you speak of? Dean: It’s the opposite of “online.” Blogger: (confused silence) De...
- Is Your Headline Good or Bad? Give it the Breath Test
Bloggers have been asking the question “Do long or short headlines work better?” for a long time. But the answer to the riddle of how to create a headline that pulls in readers doesn’t necessari...
- The Three Key Elements of Irresistible Email Subject Lines
Email is back. Despite repeated proclamations of its extinction, rumors of the death of email marketing have been greatly exaggerated — especially since email and social media are a powerful com...
- How To Write Eye-Catching Headlines that Transform Browsers into Buyers
In order to stop readers in their tracks, capture their attention through every word of your copy, and persuade them to click that “Add to Cart” button without a second thought, you need t...
- How to NOT Get Paid to Write Online (And Make Money Doing It)
Fresh out of college, I landed a job writing one-page sell sheets for a marketing company for $50 each. On a rare excellent day, I might do as many as two of these. Soon after, I found a freelance gig...
- Social Media Marketing Insight from 21 Smart People (And Me, Too)
There’s a new book out called Success Secrets of the Social Media Marketing Superstars. Yes, that title sets off my hyperbole radar a bit too (not to mention my alliteration alert), but it’s a sol...
- Why Your Blog Doesn’t Make Money
Darren Rowse doesn’t make his money from Problogger. Brian Clark doesn’t make his money from Copyblogger. Chris Brogan doesn’t make his money from his blog, either. Neither does Sonia Simone. No...
- The Key to Innovative Business Ideas: Cross-Pollination
Gather round, everyone. It’s time to have “The Talk.” You know the one I mean. You’ve started asking lots of questions and I can tell you’re ready for it, so make yourselves comfortable and...
- Four Sales Page Elements That Get People To Buy Now
When your sales page isn’t converting the way you need it to, it doesn’t just hurt your bottom line – it can cripple your confidence as a writer and make you doubt your future as a m...
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- How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career
When someone I don’t know emails me out of the blue and hands me a guest post, I’m usually a little skeptical. (There’s truth in the experts’ advice of building relationships a...
- What To Do When Clients Haggle
“You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, Know when to walk away and know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table. There&...
- Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You?
I didn’t even know Jeremy’s name (let alone how to spell it, considering that the name usually ends in an “i” where I live.). But when I saw his biz name, it all clicked into p...
- Bloggers versus Copywriters: The Rhetoric Debate
A few days ago, Glenn Murray wrote a post for ProBlogger called Bloggers Versus Copywriters: 8 Reasons Why Bloggers Do It Better. Sly fox that he is, Glenn warned me the post was controversial, knowin...
- Is Your Freelancing Psychology Broken?
Many freelancers and solopreneurs think they’re totally motivated to build a rockstar business that wins them wealth, freedom and fame. It’s a lie. The truth is that most freelancers only...
- Sundays, Short Posts and Fresh Coats
Today’s post is going to be short and sweet. Short because I’m doing something I never, EVER do – I’m writing this post less than 12 hours before it goes live. That means it’...
- 10 Freelancer Mistakes that Damage Your Success
Today’s guest post comes to us from far, far away – at least, far away from where I live. This is one of the reasons I accepted Kwame’s post, by the way; he comes from Ghana. Isn’t...
- Why a Six-Figure Income Doesn’t Count
One of the influential mind-tricks commonly used on the internet to boost perception of success is to mention the ever-glorious phrase “six-figure business”. When you hear that, you probab...
- How I Got Published on Forbes.com – and How You Can Too
Seeing your name on top sites and in big publications is a pretty hot feeling. I know that feeling personally. And many freelance writers want to know how they can get their work right in the spotligh...
- How to Write Great Copy using Storytelling Techniques
Everyone loves a good story. Stories draw us into our imaginations and make us feel like we’re right there watching the tale unfold before our very eyes. A story can stir our feelings and make us cr...
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- 5 Quick-Start Tips to Help Improve Your Writing
A guest post by Oleg Mokhov of Soundtrackster Feel like you’re stuck with the current level of your writing ability? Struggling to get better, or maybe you don’t even know how to go about...
- What Batman Can Teach You About Proofreading
A guest post by Stefanie Flaxman of Revision Fairy Everyone wants to be Batman. He’s cool and edgy, but has benevolent intentions—and the man gets results. Luckily for you, it’s easy to adopt Ba...
- Why You Should Shoot Adverbs on Sight
By Mary Jaksch Yes, I’m declaring open season on adverbs. What is an adverb exactly? Erm… it’s the word I just used: exactly. So I’ll cull it and write instead ‘What is an adverb?’ An adve...
- How To Have Zen In Your Pen Again And Again
A guest post by John Sherry of Real Simple People We all want the write stuff. The ability to craft wonderful words that inspire, motivate and delight. Words that simply flow freely and naturally fro...
- How to Crush It As a Writer: The ‘Weird’ Trick
By Mary Jaksch Ok, folks – we’re back to writing school. An important piece of advice that many writing tutors give is to ’show not tell’. But how exactly do you do that? What...
- 50 Ways to Woo the Web World
A guest post by Courtney Carver of be more with less. When it comes to writing for the web, you are only as good as your last word. First impressions are made on the www much faster than the 30 second...
- Why You Should Write to the Edges of Your Niche
A guest post by Srinivas Rao of The Skool of Life If you are a new blogger, one of the most common pieces of advice you’ll get about how to increase you traffic is “find top blogs in your niche an...
- What Are YOU Writing?
By Mary Jaksch What are you working on right now? A blog post? A novel? Your best article ever? A poem? A film script? An Ebook? Maybe you’ve just finished something you’re really proud o...
- How to Win Friends and Influence Readers
A guest post by Katie Tallo of Momentum Gathering. The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. ~ Dale Carnegie Every blogger searches for that royal road. W...
- Shortcuts to Fame: 5 Tips for Writers
By Mary Jaksch of Goodlife ZEN Do you dream of being discovered? Imagine if someone spotted your novel, dragged you into the limelight – and publishers came crawling. Or what if your blog post w...
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- Recording is Available for Six-Figure Freelancing: Techniques to Help You Get There with Kelly James-Enger!
Kelly’s James-Enger’s teleclass this week on Six-Figure Freelancing was a huge success. We had 40 writers on the line and Kelly managed to pack a TON of information into one hour. I learne...
- Do You Freelance on the Side?
I had a mentoring client ask me how people who work full time make freelancing work, and I promised I would pose her question on the blog. Last year I did a survey of our readers, and many of you say...
- From FOBs to Features
I hear it a lot from writers: They’ve finally broken into the national magazines, but no matter what they pitch, the editors ask them to write it up in 250 words — or less. These writers a...
- Jump-Start Your Freelance Career This Fall
The 10% discount off my phone mentoring sessions has expired, but nine new clients signed on during the discount period and so far they’re raving about my service! Here’s what one of them...
- Simplifying My Career — And My Life
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called The Dark Side of Diversifying, about how over-diversifying your career can make you feel scattered and at loose ends. As I mentioned, I work on a TON of pro...
- Query That Rocked for Better Health & Living Magazine
Here’s a query that landed an assignment with Better Health & Living Magazine (which is sadly now defunct). Notice how I included research and quotes, but gave only quick explanations of ea...
- What Should I Put on My Website if I Have No Clips?
I offer to answer freelance writers’ burning questions on the blog. (By the way, if you have a question you’d like me to answer, you can send it to lindaformichelli@gmail.com.) Have a lot...
- You Ask, We Answer: How Do I Find News Before It’s News?
I offer to answer freelance writers’ burning questions on the blog. (By the way, if you have a question you’d like me to answer, you can send it to lindaformichelli@gmail.com.) Have a lot...
- The Dark Side of Diversifying
Last month, Jennifer Lawler wrote an excellent general copywriting copywriting and editing for universities adoption profile/”dear birthmom” letter writing (I’m starting up the websi...
- Check Out My Post on FreelanceSwitch!
I have a guest post on the FreelanceSwitch blog today: When NOT to Invest in Your Freelance Career. Please read and leave comments…I hope you enjoy the post! [lf]...
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- Time, Chance and Freelance Writing
“I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time a...
- Freelance Writing the Michelangelo Way
OK, I’ve got three quick housekeeping issues today. If you’re not interested, skip down to the header below and get right to the good stuff! First, get on over to my post at Freelance Wri...
- Egg Timers Aren’t Just for Fiction Writers
If you’ve spent any amount of time online looking for writing tips, you’ve probably come across the essay 13 Writing Tips by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club (and several other nove...
- 50 Tips to Improve Your Writing
Today’s post is a guest post from David Gurevich. David contacted me with this post idea a while back. I think it’s a good addition to my 178 Ways to Improve Your Internet Writing post. En...
- Business Tips for Writers
I’m happy to announce that today is my debut post over at Freelance Writing Job’s Business Tips for Writers. In recent months, FWJ has expanded from a single blog into a thriving blog netw...
- Writing Around the Web – September 05, 2009
I haven’t done a links post in quite a while, so I thought I’d give you a little glimpse at where I’m spending my quality time online these days. I think you’ll enjoy each of t...
- Are You Prepared for Success?
Do you know what you would do if your freelance writing business tanked tomorrow? Chances are you’ve thought about it. Every small business owner, somewhere in the back of their mind, has a Plan...
- How to Become a Successful Copywriter
It takes work to become a successful copywriter. You’ve got to put in plenty of time and hard work to not only become good at it, but to get more clients and grow your business. There are three...
- What is Your Internet Writing Specialty?
You might not realize it, but Internet writing is a lot like earning a PhD in History. Now, I know that grad school isn’t the first thing you think about when you think about Internet writing, b...
- Lessons from my Writer Coaching Clients
As I’ve taken on writing coaching clients these past few months, it’s been really interesting to talk with aspiring writers, and watch as they try to wrap their heads around the business o...
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- Don’t Blog If You Suck At Writing: How Copyblogger Got It Wrong
Today’s post was inspired by a piece from Jonathan Morrow, associate editor at Copyblogger. The piece, entitled how 2 blog if u suk at writin, is a motivational, feel-good article aimed at blogg...
- The Number One Rule of Blogging
When I started The Writing Journey just over a year ago, this blog was something of an experiment. I’d run several blogs before, with relatively little success in terms of garnering subscribers.
- Learn to Be an Unlimited Freelancer
As many of you know, I’m a big fan of the folks over at Men with Pens. One third of that dynamic trio,James Chartrand, is one of the hottest name in the freelance writing business right now. He&...
- Onward and Upward in 2009
Happy new year to my freelance writing friends, old and new. I trust the holidays have found you well, and wish you success in 2009. I have to say, I’m excited about what the new year is going t...
- When the Writer Trumps the Salesperson
There’s money in SEO writing. If you can do it right, you can make a killing. Understanding the inner workings of search engines, knowing the right keywords to pick and being able to insert them...
- Freelance Writing and the Danger of Isolation
In this age of instant connectivity and social media, there really isn’t a good reason for freelance writers or other web workers to become isolated. Truly. Still, it happens. You can become so...
- Writing Your Way Out Of A Recession
I don’t know about you, but I’m about done with all of this talk about a “faltering economy,” “economic downturn,” and, worst of all, “recession.” My st...
- Effective Client Communication
Something has occurred to me recently that has really changed my perspective on communicating with my freelance writing clients. Before I tell you what it is, though, Let me start off by telling you a...
- How to Start your Freelance Writing Business: The Last Word
I’ve been struggling a bit with how to end this series. You see, it isn’t that I don’t have any more writing advice; I’ve got plenty of ways to help you supercharge your writin...
- How to Start Your Freelance Writing Business: The Costs
For a couple of weeks now, the discussion has been going back and forth between Men with Pens and Freelance Parent about the costs of starting up a freelance writing business. One side argues that you...
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- Director Tapped For 'The Orphanage' Remake
Screen Rant It’s being reported that a director has been found for New Line’s English-language remake of The Orphanage, in the form of Larry Fessenden. Guillermo del Toro (who produced...
- Too Old to Have a Baby?
Burning The Scale Advances in science have made it much easier to get pregnant now in your 50s, and in some cases, 60s. The case of Maria del Carmen Bousada of Spain, who had twin boys at age 66...
- myFICO 25% Off Coupon
My Money Blog Here’s a newly released coupon for 25% off real FICO scores at myFico.com. Use the promotional code FICOHELP25 to get 25% off, the best discount currently available: You ente...
- Oldest Living Man in Montana
A Dozen Steps Walter Breuning is being touted as the new “oldest living man” at age 112. He lives in a nursing home in Montana and says he’s grateful for his good health. The p...
- 'Banned' Sprite ad unleashes a load of buzz
Adfreak It’s a fact of the advertising industry that roughly 99% of those “banned†ads you see on the Web were never banned at all — or even intended to be aired. It seem...
- Healthy Eating Tip: Add Tofu to Your Salad
FitSugar Salads are one of my favorite meals because they're low in calories, full of vitamins, nutrients, and fiber, and they taste so fresh. Veggies aren't terribly high in protein thoug...
- Auditor wants more TARP information
BloggingStocks The U.S. Treasury is receiving a bit of pressure from the internal watchdog that is overseeing the U.S. government's financial bailout. The special inspector, General Neil Barof...
- Facebook Slowly Taking Over the World, Now at 250 Million Users
PR 2.0 Mark Zuckerberg proudly announced on the Facebook blog this week that the popular social network continues its global dominance jumping from 200 million to 250 million users. To commemorate...
- Obama is Going to Take the Lead on Health Care Reform. Finally
AMERICAblog Two articles on the front page of today's Washington Post highlight the increasing focus on Obama and health care reform. First, the Washington Post-ABC News poll:Since April, approval...
- Madonna Visits Victims of Deadly Stage Accident
The Huffington Post Madonna has visited some of the eight workers who were injured in an accident in which two more were killed while assembling a music stage for the singer in the French port of...
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- The App Market Will Be As Big As The Internet In 2020
Silicon Alley Insider Experts discussed the economics and future of the apps market at VentureBeat's MobileBeat conference in San Francisco last week, the BBC reports. Their big prediction:...
- Sun Protection: Do You Know How Much You're Getting?
Ageless Beauty We’ve all heard the advice about applying sunscreen, right? Apply sunscreen:...
- David Beckham Should Go Home, Leave America Alone
Fan House So now the tension has turned vicious, leaving David Beckham as a hunted pariah by American soccer fans who feel used and abused by his whims. They did much m...
- Angela's Ashes Author Frank McCourt Dies
Gabby Babble Frank McCourt, who is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir Angela Ashes, has passed away at the age of 78. It’s being reported the author’s death was caused...
- Ellen Sterling: The Audience Around You
The Huffington Post When you see as many shows as I do as a reviewer, you naturally become aware of all sorts of facets of shows that others may not. This particular facet goes back to my high sch...
- Tour de France Spectator Hit, Killed By Motorcycle
Sports by Brooks Admittedly, we’ve never followed professional cycling all that closely; sure, our interest has been occasionally piqued by Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France dominance...
- Trouble Making Girl Friends?
Marriage Actually I have definitely met a lot of girls who say “I don’t have a lot of girl friends” or ”for some reason girls don’t like me.” I am very u...
- Michael Markarian: Obstructionist Lawmakers Harm Animals and the Economy
The Huffington Post The U.S. House of Representatives this morning passed H.R. 1018, the Restore Our American Mustangs Act, by a vote of 239-185. This legislation championed by House Natural Resou...
- Larry Summers Is Half-Serious, *At Least*, About "Google Index" Theory
Wonkette So it seems like less people are performing Google searches with the term “economic depression.” Or maybe it’s the same amount of people, but they’re searching les...
- Turn Your Garage Door Into a Giant Rotisserie
Serious Eats Style-your-garage.com sells something I never thought anyone would want: trompe-l'Å“il garage door covers. Like a giant rotisserie! Or a wine cellar! Or this not very sanitary...
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- Bill Maher Chose Right
One of the reasons I look forward to Fridays in general is that they herald the upcoming weekend, and also because Bill Maher is on HBO at 10 PM. I recorded his last show and finally got time to sit d...
- Frustration Friday: Vent And Be Free!
Everyday stresses can build up and hang around in the back of our minds so that even when we have free time to relax and unwind, we find ourselves stressed out about all the little things that are bug...
- Existential Nonsense
What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? What is the answer to life, the universe, everything? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? Quite probably you have. Whether you were ha...
- Dropping In On A Killer Surf Art Blog
For some unexplainable reason, surfing keeps finding its way into my life lately. I dreamt of surfing the other night. The following day, I sat down on the couch after straightening up our kitchen and...
- The Blogpaper, Moving Blogs Into Print
Karl Jo Seilern and Anton Waldburg, managing partners of theblogpaper.co.uk, seem to be swimming against the currents in the ever turbulent waters that are the publishing industry. While most print pu...
- Who’s Watching Your Back? How to Find Members For Your Support Network
Going it alone really doesn't work for most of us. We need help and encouragement from others. We need someone to let us know when we've strayed over the edge. Feedback from trusted advisers and estab...
- Would You Jump Onto A Moving Planet?
I have a theory about how we ended up here on Mother-Ship Earth. After all, isn’t almost everything about our precarious futures just a tad too ominous, seemingly set into a pattern of continuous lu...
- He’s Steve Fantastic!
Who is SteveFantastic? Why he is the most fantastic new addition to the BlogCatalog family. He is so damn fantastic that I hear this song every time I see him… He’s just freaking fantasti...
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s View Of Blog World Is All Wrong
Yesterday, I read a post on freelancewritinggigs.com titled Google CEO Eric Schmidt not on board with bloggers. A major theme of the post was that while “writers” are respected “blog...
- A BFBC2 Moment
I go with Recon. M-95, extra ammo, binoculars, and that cool revolver I unlocked yesterday. Let’s do this. I drop down through the air, my parachute billowing and slowing my descent. I loo...
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Last night, when I should have been asleep, I was up reading some random blog posts and checking out my friends posts on Facebook and friedeggs.com. During my late night browsing session, I came acr...
- Underdog Becomes New Champion Frankie Edgar Wins at UFC 112
We have a new Lightweight Champion! Frankie Edgar defeated BJ Penn with a unanimous decision victory over the former 155lb Champion. What? Unanimous decision? Hearing the scorecards after the fight,...
- Adopting From Abroad
In the United States when a child is born with a disability and is not wanted by their own parents, the child is sent to a foster home where the family is given training on how to care for the child.
- Reflections On The End Times
As I sit here in a comfy chair at Starbucks, typing away on my laptop, I think it odd that my thoughts drift to visions of destruction and desolation. Odd because my imaginings entail the loss of pr...
- If you’re not growing, guess what? You’re dying.
To me, “business is life and life is business.” Business has become the primary vehicle for my growth and contribution. It’s the vehicle that has taught me more about human psyc...
- The End Of The World According To Movies
Today, in continuation of my impromptu celebration of the end of all things, I want to discuss the many different images of the end portrayed in movies. So many times over the years a new movie is r...
- Proper Facebook Etiquette
Facebook now has been estimated as having upwards of 400 million users. There are so many people on Facebook literally every person I know is on Facebook including my 50 year old mother (albeit agai...
- UFC 112 Invincible – Top Dogs vs Underdogs
This event takes place in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This is the first event that will take place out in the open. Will sandstorms or stifling heat interfere with the fighter's cardio or focus? At first, I th...
- A Semen Education
Semen is a subject that everyone can relate to or at some point has thought about it. This post is all about semen and the source is a wonderful website called onlineschools.org. Perhaps an alt...
- Top 10 Things You Would Need To Survive The Post Apocalypse
All these thoughts about a Zombie Apocalypse have got me thinking. Of course, the fact that the mini-series The Stand was on the other day might also have something to do with it. Plus I watched a...
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