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Whether you’re a one-person shop at a kitchen table, or the next Rupert Murdoch (or both), you need to start thinking like a media business.

Say you want to run an online magazine. Or maybe you’re a personal publisher executing on myriad ideas that need more options than a simple blog post can provide.

You’re covering multiple topics, in multiple formats.

You’ve got video, you’ve got text, you’ve got photos … You’ve got the idea.

How do you organize and layout all that content in a meaningful and attractive way for your readers?

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Why Every Smart Small Business is in the Media Business

Change … and it’s not the kind rattling around in your pocket.

We’re talking about the kind of change that keeps you up at night. The kind that makes you wonder why, for all your marketing efforts, not enough folks are finding and doing business with you.

What can you, the small business owner, do about it?

For starters, start thinking like a media company, because that’s the first step to reaping the huge rewards that come from content marketing. And it can work for any small business.

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What’s Your Excuse for Not Achieving
Your Goals?

What's Your Excuse? | copyblogger.com

ex•cuse
n. ik-skyoos
An explanation offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or for release from an obligation, promise, etc.

I don’t have enough money.

It’s too hard to find an audience.

I don’t have enough time.

I don’t have the talent.

I started blogging too late.

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The 2011 Internet Marketing Predictions Show

According to this awesome Roland Emmerich documentary I just watched, the world is going to end on December 21, 2012. If John Cusack participates in a Mayan end of days depiction, you know it’s the real deal. Just like Say Anything.

We here at Copyblogger are keeping our heads together in the face of this news and will continue doing our level best to help you accomplish your business goals before the floods arrive and Los Angeles turns into a molten field of flaming limousines.

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The Enemy Waging War Against Your Ideas

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Creative new ideas always have formidable enemies.

Book burning, for example, is a primitive and terrible art. It’s been going on since before Gutenberg set that first type into his revolutionary machine.

In Ray Bradbury’s incomparable Fahrenheit 451, we see a cautionary tale of censorship, power unchecked, and the capricious human heart. He imagined a horrific world where the great works of literature, theology, and philosophy had all but disappeared thanks to books being banned and burned en masse.

Outside of that totalitarian scenario, having obvious enemies can often work out well for ideas.

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Your Staggeringly Unfair Marketing Advantage

You’ve probably had fantasies of winning an MMA world championship wherein the title match is between you and a skinny seven-year-old.

Maybe you dream of writing a Booker Prize winning novel – with Sir Salman Rushdie working as your confidential ghost writer.

Or perhaps you’re determined to become the next President of the United States, thoroughly enjoying the fact that your last name happens to be Kennedy-Reagan.

If done well, a relevant Content Marketing strategy can create these kinds of conditions for your business. Conditions in which you possess a staggeringly unfair advantage over your competitors.

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