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Last Day to Grab Our New Content Marketing Ebook Without Registration

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Heads up, today’s the last day to download our free 22-page content marketing ebook without registering first.

I wrote this piece to explain the integrated process of content + social + search as an introduction to an entire series of in-depth follow-up ebooks, seminars, and other educational resources.

There’s no charge … and no email address required until the end of the day. So go grab it, and if you like what you see, register for access to the entire ebook series that follows (link at the end of the book).

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Scribe 4.0: Way Beyond SEO

Scribe Content Marketing Software by Copyblogger Media

If you’ve read my new content marketing ebook that we released this week, you know we consider targeted search engine traffic the most valuable site visitors you can get when it comes to meeting business objectives.

Here’s the thing … those great search rankings are a beneficial outcome of an integrated content marketing process. One that involves audience-focused content, social media distribution, and on-page and site-wide optimization in a way that Google likes.

In other words, you win with content, you win with social, and you end up also winning with search.

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How to Sell Ebooks, Apps, and Other
Digital Goods Directly to Your Prospects

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The ebook and app economy is in full swing, with people like you and me able to create profitable digital businesses without the intermediaries in New York and California. Even better, the point-and-click technology now exists that empowers you to build the website elements to protect and deliver the products you create.

With that in mind we’ve created a free, three-part intensive course on how to profit from the sale of digital products. These three seminars alone — if acted on — can jump start your online business immediately.

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I Screwed Up This Content Marketing Webinar

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A couple of weeks ago, I did a webinar on content marketing strategy for the online marketing consulting firm, Vertical Measures.

It’s about not just creating content, but creating content that works as marketing. In other words, building an audience that builds your business.

It went pretty well from the feedback I got. So how did I screw it up?

Well, I was supposed to tell you about it before it happened, not after. That way, you could have attended live, participated, and asked questions.

Oops.

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10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer (Poster)

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Back in the sweltering summer of 2007, I got a bit crazy.

I wanted to get across to people that becoming a better writer is not something a “10 Step” article can teach you. Yes, reading helps writers immensely, but when it comes down to it, you become a better writer by writing.

Then, it occurred to me. Why not deliver that “10 Steps” post that everyone was hoping for as a way of hammering home the point?

With that, the original 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer was born. It was an instant hit, and remains one of the most popular posts on Copyblogger.

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Since When Are Blogs Not Social Media?

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I’ve noticed a weird trend lately.

For some reason, people seem to be equating social media with social networking.

At the same time, they seem to be treating blogs as something other than social media.

I find this very strange indeed.

For example, here the author proclaims that he’s quitting social media and gives his reasons why. But he goes on to state that he’ll continue to produce content on his own blog.

So what exactly is he quitting?

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