Plugin: Styling Content

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What Does Persuasive Writing Mean Anyway?

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It's an important key to monetizing your content...being persuasive. If you can't convince anyone of anything, you simply aren't going to sell anything. Nor will your readers sign up for your newsletter or come back to read more later. For some, persuasive writing techqniues come easier than to others. You can learn about copywriting (we cover this in lesson 4 and 5 in our free course at Contentrix), but you have to learn how persuasiveness works without sounding like a used car salesman or just a plain old bully. It takes practice, but your practice is much better if you are conscious of what you are trying to accomplish. I read an interesting article on FastCompany called Leading Through the Power of Persuasion and even though the article was geared toward "real-life" leadership, the Read more...

19 Reasons to Stop Messing Around
and Start Getting Serious about Email

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If you didn’t know it already, I love email as a marketing medium.

Plenty of evidence of this can be found in our email marketing category and I’m always encouraging our students to build their lists!

Still, I realize that many have turned to the new social age of marketing and other traditional business are still paying for ineffective and difficult to measure advertising.

But I’d like to show you something that brings the absolute best of both worlds. If you need a few reasons to get serious about email, I’ll give you a few… Read more…

Adding and Removing Limited Time Offers from Your Blog

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Content publishers are busy. Many of us publish a lot of content, manage our email lists, social media and a whole long list of things. And in all that stuff we do, we want to make sure that the content we have out there is the best possible and offers current information. That means, if you're like me, you may have hesitated putting anything that was time-sensitive into your blog posts. Because really, who wants to update their calendar for every little update and then have to run around fixing blog posts? But when you think about it, it's silly if we aren't willing to do that. After all, if there is a special offer to give your customers, you're doing a disservice by not telling them about it. But add to that, if you avoid Read more...

Get Ready for 2013: Free Blogging Calendar

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Many of our subscribers probably already know that my friend, Lynette Chandler, releases a yearly Blogging Calendar with tons of ideas to keep you blogging all year.

Well, it’s that time again and the 2013 calendar has just been released. This year marks the 5th year for the calendar that has been downloaded 22,000 times over the years.

If you’re looking for a way to get your blogging organized and have plenty of ideas on what to blog about, go grab it here.

The calendar includes… Read more…