How to Create World-Class Content by
Never “Writing” Again

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Sitting at your desk, “grinding it out” is so last century.

Thing is, that didn’t work real well last century either.

Writing content that grips, moves, and sells is not about pulling inspiration out of the sky. You don’t need to sweat blood in order to come up with great stuff.

If you want to be the next Dostoevsky, that’s a different game.

If you want to write content that brings people to you and your business, relax.

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What Has Your WordPress Theme Done for You Lately?

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Sure, it used to take you to dinner and laugh at your jokes. But let’s face it … the magic is gone between you and your tired old WordPress theme.

Never fear. We’ve got a magical new rendezvous in the works.

(38 of them, in fact).

If you’ve not yet heard about what’s going on over at Copyblogger Media’s StudioPress division, we’ve built a world-class theme framework for WordPress and have currently delivered (with more on the way) 38 child themes to easily skin your site.

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How to Dominate Your Industry like Drudge

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On any given day, The Drudge Report drives more traffic to major news sites than Facebook or Twitter.

Think about that for a minute.

One man with a 14-year-old, one-page, static html website sends more traffic to the CNN, Yahoo, New York Times, LA Times, FOX News and USA Today websites than the nearly one billion users of Facebook and Twitter combined.

In driving traffic to those sites, Drudge is second only to Google. The journalistic world has accordingly beaten a path to Matt Drudge’s door, all seeking just one link from the Master.

How does he do it?

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The Writer’s Declaration of Independence

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, but not all can write.

The course of recent technological events has made the separation of those who can write from their contracts, exploitations, and fears — which keep them from independence and prosperity — complete.

We have been endowed with absolute possibility, and the tools to pursue it.

If any individual or organization becomes an enemy of this possibility, we can … leave.

We will lay a foundation of study, research, and practice, so that nothing can lock our destiny away from us.

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Summertime and the Living’s Easy …

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Okay, not easy.

Maybe just a little easi-er.

In honor of this flitting Summer season, we’re going to lighten the editorial calendar here on Copyblogger for a couple months and head back behind the curtain to work on some cool stuff we’re dreaming up for you all.

We’ll be filing three great articles a week — every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday — and then heading back to the rooftop pool for drinks Copyblogger Labs for the rest of the week.

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Two Stunning New WordPress Themes

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I gotta say, if Clark would let me, I’d write up one of these theme updates for you every week.

Our StudioPress team has so much cool stuff going on building premium WordPress themes. I can barely keep up with all the ways they’re making WordPress websites better, and your life online a piece of cake.

So, let me try in this quick post.

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