Category Archives: Promoting Your Ezine +/or Blog

Vote: What Makes You Read a Blog Post?

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What do you find is the most important thing about a blog post? What makes you read? Mark Schaefer over at {grow} blog asked this question and gives his opinion. Here are the choices: Online Surveys & Market Research   Take a few minutes to decide, then leave a comment about the top blogging elements…

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E-Newsletter Review: How’s Your Ezine?

Written by in Content Marketing, Executive Coach Ezine Article Topics, Getting Read, List Building Tips, Managing Your Ezine & Blog Tasks, On Writing Better, Promoting Your Ezine +/or Blog, Writing Better Ezines
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You may be doing all the right content marketing things (e-newsletter, blog, articles, etc.) and still not get good results (get found, get known, get clients!) If all you’re doing is publishing good information, without personality, without offers, what’s the point? I got an email from a client who lamented the poor results from her…

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Business Blogging: 4 Ways to Have Fun and Profits

Written by in Content Marketing, Pathway to Profits, Profit, Promoting Your Ezine +/or Blog
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(Vacation time, so here’s another guest post, this one by Susan Long,  freelance marketing consultant.) If you’re writing your blog for more than just fun, you’ve probably thought about how you can make some money from it. There’s plenty of ways you can make cash from your writing, and you might not have thought of…

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Video: How to Create Great Sales Pages in WP

Written by in Attracting Clients, Content Marketing, How to...Tips, Online Marketing, Pathway to Profits, Promoting Your Ezine +/or Blog
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Here’s a quick video I’m  using to promote Suzanne Bird-Harris’ fabulous WordPress Sales Page Template.I love the image of the “web designer thief” that sneaks across the screen about half way through… Take a look, and if you haven’t downloaded the free audio interview and transcript we did together, go to PatsiPicksWPSalesPage.com and do so…

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WordPress Beats Out Typepad 4 to 1 in Poll

Written by in About Blogs, Content Marketing, Managing Your Ezine & Blog Tasks, Online Marketing, Pathway to Profits, Promoting Your Ezine +/or Blog
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Two-thirds of readers of this blog use WordPress as a blogging platform,  according to results of the poll set up 6 days ago. If you haven’t voted yet, please do so here. Typepad users make up 14.5% of my blog readers, and the other platforms are in the single digits. Of WordPress users, 25.3% use…

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Myths & Realities of Blog Traffic: 7 Steps to Clarity

Written by in About Blogs, Attracting Clients, Content Marketing, Promoting Your Ezine +/or Blog
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It’s sad and disappointing. My friend and colleague Sam spent some big bucks on a fancy new website, that included an attractive design, a flash banner, nice pictures and ten pages of text… only no one was finding him. Hardly any traffic at all. He tried using his name on some of the search engines…

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How to Win a Blogging Award

Written by in About Blogs, Content Marketing, On Writing Better, Promoting Your Ezine +/or Blog
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Can you claim your blog to be award-winning? What kind of prize do you think you’d get if they put you on a best blog list? Most original? Best resource for time-saving tips? Most helpful, profound, smart? Funniest? The first time I got onto Joe Pulizzi’s Top42 Content Marketing Blogs, back in 2007, I was…

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10 Places to Publish Online Content

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How many different places online are you publishing content that markets for you and your business? Rapidly, as new software and user-friendly Web tools emerge, the Internet has been changing the way we communicate with words. Almost too rapidly, some would say. Here’s a partial list of where you could (and should) write and publish…

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My, my, my! MyAlltop Rocks, here’s why…

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 Guy Kawasaki has done it again. He's made it so easy to set up your own page on Alltop.com. Now, instead of poking around the Web, taking hours to get a general "feed feel," I can go see all my favorite blogs and get a quick read about what's buzzin'. What's a "feed feel?" It's…

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Top Blog Lists: Top42 Content Marketing & 9 Best Blogs for 2009

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Who are the top bloggers in your field? You need to know them and read them and leave comments. It's one of the top ways to drive traffic back to your own blog and get new readers. It's what The Blog Squad calls blog Outreach, part of the CODA blogging program which we teach in…

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