Content marketing tools and training.
Raise your hand if your website is designed for little Martian men. Go ahead. Don’t be shy.
Anyone? Anyone? I didn’t think so.
Our sites are created for human interaction. And we human beings — for all our splendiferous variety — share some universal behaviors, no matter where we’re from.
As publishers to the open web, we ignore these behaviors at our peril. What are they?
I thought you’d never ask.
You’re trying hard not to show it,
But baby, baby I know it …
You’ve lost that loving feeling …
~The Righteous Brothers
Ever get to a point with your blog and your internet marketing strategy where you’re just … worn out?
The writing that used to thrill you now feels like a chore. Your readers are getting on your nerves. The tedious little tasks are getting to you.
You don’t want to quit … but you do want to get some of that old magic back, the way it was in the early days.
Once upon a time I was just another hard-working web writer trying to figure it all out.
Once upon a time I was frustrated by my corporate gig. Too chicken at that point to go out on my own, and too naive to package what I did know to be able to crush it in a corporate environment.
Once upon a time I was as dazed and confused as we all are when we start out. I had a lot of passion but I also had a bunch of gaps I needed to fill in.
And if I had to identify any turning point, when I was able to find a bit of an “Aha” moment and start to pull it all together, it just might be the first week of May, 2008.
Guest posting is a great strategy for building an audience — no doubt about it.
If you regularly write guest posts for legitimate blogs that feature quality content, your posts can be an amazing source of traffic and inbound links.
Guest blogging just works … when you do it right.
But finding quality guest posting opportunities can be a chore. Everyone who needs guest posting gigs is searching Google for terms like “guest posts.”
Today we make good on our promise to build photographers and developers a professional, mobile-responsive WordPress theme that takes the guesswork out of portfolio website design.
Unresponsive websites are murder for freelancers who rely on viewable images to highlight their talents and services.
If your work looks great on a desktop monitor, but is difficult to view on a mobile device, your clients and customers get frustrated and click away (especially if they’re using a Retina display iPad).
What’s one thing content marketers really want?
You want an audience that hangs on your every word.
Loyal fans are the foundation of your business, and they’re the best guarantee of your entrepreneurial success.
You can read a lot of powerful advice on how to build a powerful relationship with your audience. But some nuggets of marketing gold are found in unexpected places — like a live pop concert.
Are you one of them?
One of the thousands — maybe millions — of faceless web writers toiling away on content that immediately slips into obscurity?
Are you doing what you love for something you hate? Feeling used — even abused — because you are not getting credit for your work?
It’s like a page out of a science fiction novel where people aren’t known by a name, but merely a number.
We’re all about using headlines that work around here, and among the most important aspects of a great headline is that it always deliver on its promise.
So yes, free drinks …
For the third year in a row, Copyblogger Media is hosting one of the biggest parties at SXSW for all of our friends and fans who are able to make it — we call it An Indelicate Diversion.
Join us Saturday, March 9th at Buffalo Billiards in Austin for an evening of hilarity, nerdery, and revelry. Doors open at 8pm. From 9pm to 10pm, the drinks are on us.
Know. Like. Trust.
You know the formula by now. When you accomplish that holy trifecta, you’re well on your way to earning a paying customer. You might even win that customer’s loyalty.
But your readers have very sensitive slime radars.
You don’t even need to be a complete slimeball to discredit your character. Your readers’ trust issues may not trace back to the words you say or write — they could even be inflamed by the stuff you don’t say.
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Google+ isn’t only a social network. It’s the very backbone (and future) of Google itself.
As Brian Clark wrote yesterday, authorship and the possible effects on the Google algorithm have the potential to be extremely beneficial to savvy content creators.
If you’re a writer, this is either going to be very good for your career, or you’ll risk becoming relatively invisible online.
If you’d like to land solidly in the former camp of writers, the question becomes one of how to use Google+ to further your own goals.
