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Can You Be Nice AND Sell the Sh*t Out of Your Stuff?

Aggressive-blonde-business-woman-2 A smart biz mentor once told me that success is in the 1% nuances. He said the difference between someone selling and making money online and someone doing all the work and NOT making money is in the details, those little tweaks to your email and web copy content marketing.

If you're like me, you don't want to come across like an internet marketing sleeze-bag and hype yourself up so bad you're embarrassed to read your own stuff. Especially if you're selling your own writing or services. There's something funny about selling yourself.

I just had a sale on my article and e-newsletters subscriptions and boy, did it start out slow. Happily, it ended with a bang of new orders. So I had a chance to analyze my own marketing efforts. Here's what I found.

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Marketing for Nice People Makes You Laugh Out Loud…

Devil_angel I'm taking a course called Marketing for Nice People with two of my favorite peeps on the Web, Sonia Simone and Naomi Dunford. These two have teamed up to deliver some really important lessons on content marketing for your business. They take a devil/angel approach, and you can guess which one wears the horns…

Click here to view more details about Marketing for Nice People…

If you're familiar with Naomi Dunford's blog, Ittybiz, you know she's got one of the most famous potty-mouths around, but she's also got a heart of gold, writing smarts, and is one keen biz whiz. She knows how to make money online, and knows how to teach you to do the same.

Sonia is the gifted writer/marketer behind the blog Remarkable Communications. She's such a talented writer that Brian Clark snapped her up as one of his permanent guest writers on Copyblogger.

If you want to know more about these two, I suggest you read this brilliant interview, Content Marketing Gets Real. Then go sign up for Marketing for Nice People, it's a gas (as we used to say)…Click here to view more details

Here's a sample lesson from something called 101 Tweaks to Fix Your Marketing and Your Business:

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5 Expert Tips on How Small Businesses
Should “DO” Content Marketing

My One Best Tip for How B2B Marketers
Should “Do” Content Marketing

Notebook-with-pencil Don’t you love it when you get asked for “your one tip?” Actually, I do love it, even though it’s always hard to figure out what just “one tip” would be. It kinda helps me sort out all the stuff that goes through my mind and find bare essentials.

(This question reminds me of the game where you ask someone what three books they’d want with them on a desert island… how can you decide on only three?)

Anyway, Ambal Balakrishnan of ClickDocuments asked me this question and I thought I’d share my answers with you:

1. What is your one tip on how B2B marketers should do content marketing?

I hear so much being blogged and tweeted about “Content Marketing” these days, it’s like the Buzz-du-Jour. I’m sure it means different things to different people, depending on the size of your company and the type of products or services you’re trying to market.

Forget “how to do content marketing.” Just remember one key thing: be real. That means that you have to talk to readers and customers like real human beings do.

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Top 20 Things You Should Know About SEO Copywriting

Heather-lloyd-martin-200x180 According to SEO expert Heather Lloyd-Martin, here are the top 20 things you need to learn about small business SEO copywriting. (And if you're not sure what SEO copywriting is, then you really need to learn this and sign up for Heather's online course!

   1. How to give your customers the exact information they need, exactly when they need it!
   2. How the search engines work (and what it means to you)
   3. Tried and true marketing “power words” that get results
   4. Powerful low-budget small business keyphrase research strategies
   5. How you can make more money during seasonal sales

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Content Marketing Contest Winners:
Targeting Boomer Women

HerMentorCenter-banner Congratulations to Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D. and Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D. of HerMentorCenter and NourishingRelationships blog: this pair of dynamic professionals won the drawing for a free Content Marketing Review for May.

If you signed up and didn't win, don't worry, you still can win in the next  drawing. If you haven't signed up yet, be sure to get on the list: click here to enter the contest.

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Small Business SEO Copywriting Training
with Heather Lloyd-Martin

HeatherLloydMartin-online_training_promo For a long time, I've advocated organic search techniques, i.e., write for readers, focus on your expertise and the problems you solve, and let the search engines do their job correctly.

Not any longer. Although I still don't believe that you should write content for search engine spiders or robots, I do believe that Search Engine Optimization techniques have greatly improved and blended with copywriting for spectacular results.

Bottom line: if you write your own copy, if you are chief content marketing strategist for your business, then you need to learn the basics of search engine copywriting.

 Here's a way to learn from one of the best experts on the web:


Small Business SEO Copywriting Training by Heather Lloyd-Martin –
This is a great way to learn what all those techie people know about how to get really good search results for your business. It's not that hard to learn how to do this yourself. Trust me.

Related post: Keywords: 3 Steps to Knowing What, Which, & Why

Extreme Popularity: Chris Brogan Interview
with David Meerman Scott

Chris Brogan, uber blogger and Tweeter (can't call him a Twit!), reveals his secrets to being one of the most popular guys on the web: (via WebInkNow, David's blog post, Chris Brogan: popular with jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, and teachers too

This doesn't surprise me. Being helpful is one of the smartest marketing tools around, and it's free. Whoops, that doesn't sound right to tell you that you should be helpful because it will bring you business. You should be helpful anyway, period.

Chris spells out exactly how he does this on the Web. For example, he says that there is a big difference between saying this:

"I just figured out how to…"

and this:

"Here's how you can …"

Words make a big difference. How can I help you write better?

Here's how else you can learn about gaining popularity: Subscribe to both ChrisBrogan.com and WebInkNow by David Meerman Scott.

Best Darn Content Marketing Tool on the Planet:
7 Steps to Sustainable Blog Success

Blogger-with-community You may have heard me say this before…As The Blog Squad, I’ll come right out and tell you that blogs are the best darn content marketing tool on the planet!

But maybe you don’t see it that way. You may have a blog and find it a pain to keep up. Maybe you tried blogging for a while, but you didn’t see big benefits for your business.

I hear these complaints from people all the time…

“Help! Patsi, I’ll confess, I’m a reluctant blogger. I’ve been writing on my blog for the last couple of months. But I’m only getting a few visitors a week and no comments. I haven’t sold any products and no new clients have come to me from the blog. It’s getting harder to write on it, since no one seems to read it and I’m not seeing any results."

And quite frankly, after all the effort, what’s the big deal? If it’s not bringing in clients, sales and money, why waste time posting on a blog?

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Brain-Based Content Marketing: Write with Respect

Brawn-and-brain As a former psychologist with a passion for how our minds and brains work, I'm writing this series of blog posts about how neuroscience contributes to content marketing.

When you write to readers on the web, you have an opportunity to connect and engage with people  globally. What an opportunity, and what a daunting challenge.

What can we learn about the human brain that makes it easier for us to write good content that works?

So far, I've stressed how important it is to compel people to read your stuff, including:

  • Brain Based Blogging: Lessons from Neuroscience for Content Marketing
  • Compelling Content: What Are Readers' Hot Buttons?
  • Business Blogs Deliver Content Marketing: 4 Keys to Great Results
  • How to Turn Your Blog into a Content Marketing Ferrari

The lessons so far are that you must:

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