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Crosslinking Your Video with Your Website or Blog
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| In the "Description" box we will want to include a paragraph about your video that also includes a couple of your keyword phrases that you have selected for your campaign, and also include a link to your website, or blog. |
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Power of Visual Thinking in your Visual Workplace
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| I think Visual Thinking is a powerful tool. For evidence, look at the tools I surround myself with, Value Stream Mapping, The Lean Marketing House and Mindmaps. I believe it is the most effective way to learn. As David said in his last paragraph of the blog cited above: "We're not all visual thinkers (though we all have the potential). |
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Why Bigger Goals = Less Competition
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| SPRING 2005, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
I had to bribe them. What other choice did I have? |
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So You Think You’re Different?
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| Being different, or more accurately, having a point of differentiation that matters to a market, is one of the most critical marketing strategies for the small business. |
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Are You Waffling?
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| Politicians are often accused of waffling between stances on issues in an attempt to broaden or redirect their appeal.
Well, I’ve run across a small business or two plenty guilty of the same. |
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Riding the Blue Highways
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| A summary of a new Jeff Rubin of CIBC report on the excess capacity in the U.S. auto industry:
The U.S. is producing too many vehicles, according to a new report from CIBC World Markets, and sales already at a 34-year low will likely drop another 30 to 40 per cent and may never recover to previous levels. |
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False Dichotomy! (If Anything, Backwards!)
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| False Dichotomy!
(If Anything, Backwards!)
I was asked to contribute "a paragraph" to a writer who was doing a magazine article on "management" "versus" "leadership."
Herewith my contribution: |
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Mistakes and Weaknesses
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| First Paragraph Of Article“What mistakes have you made since 9/11?” the press asked the President of the US. “What is your greatest weakness?” the interviewer asked Amy on The Apprentice, a TV reality show. Both had difficulty answering. Frequently in an interview situation the interviewer asks some variation of these two questions. What would your answer be?
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Are You A Dinosaur
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| Do you really know your business? To know your business you must know all the operating metrics as well the core of your business model. Business is part art and part science. |
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When It Comes To Network Marketing; Who Do You Believe?
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| Knowing who to believe when it comes to building an Internet business could mean the difference in success and failure. The old methods of yesterday will not suffice in today's market. |
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Another 15 Press Release Writing Tips For More Publicity
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| Press release writing doesn't have to be difficult. Following these 15 press release writing tips should make it much easier for you. |
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Press Release Writing Tips For More Publicity
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| Writing an effective news release may seem difficult at first, but with some education and experience you will be able to write an excellent story. To start, just follow the tips shown here for writing and sending your news release. |
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How can you make your press release stand out?
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| Not all press releases are created equal. If you the media to take notice there are five key elements you've must have. |
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Could you website end up costing you money?
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| here is certainly money to be made on the internet and every business with a website hopes that their website will increase sales. However, the last thing anyone thinks is that their website could cost them money. It is easy to put a lot of time into web design and functionality, but sometimes the detail can get overlooked. Here is a checklist which you should consider before embarking upon a website build. |
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Video from Text and Pictures: a Short How-to Guide
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| It makes sense to convert articles to videos as well. However, some people simply do not like to appear on a video. Relax, there are alternatives. This article will show you how to convert still pictures (and text) to videos. |
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How To Start An Online Business Free
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| Here we will give you a scenario you can use that shows you how to start an online business and you don't need to spend one penny of your money to do it. |
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Why Won't My Site Show Up in Google?
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| We often get inquiries from prospective clients who would like us to build them a new website. They believe that their current website must be “bad” because it's not listed in the search engines. They're convinced that a new website will automatically ensure a top ten Google rank. |
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The Art of Overcoming Writer's Block (and other mental blocks)
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| What do I write? Where do I start? Grrrrr... that paragraph doesn't look right! I've been doing this HOW long? I only have one page finished? I'm never going to get this finished."
Does this mental chatter sound familiar to you? If you find yourself struggling with writer's block, this could be the answer for you.
Many times the reason for a mental block is a mind with too much clutter and lack of consistent focus. We have so much going on these days, that when we have to sit down and force ourselves to write nothing comes out. We find our thoughts drifting. The following techniques are sure to snap your mind into focus and allow your creative writing juices to freely flow, and ultimately breaking you free from writers block! Woo Hoo! |
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Why use article marketing?
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| Why use article marketing in developing your online business? This is a very common question and a valid one at that. If you think about it, we understand why this question is regularly asked. |
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How To Get Ideas For Articles
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| Whether you are doing article marketing or not, being able to come up with many and varied ways of writing about your selected subject can prove invaluable. And it really isn't as difficult as it might first appear. |
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How To Make Money Fasts At Home! ~STEPS TO GUARANTEED WEALTH
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| How do I make money fast at home? This is the number one question for people who are ready to take control of their lives. Well there are some exact steps you must follow that can guarantee you do that and that is what I am going to share with you in this article. Enjoy this article by Omari Taylor and learn exactly how to make money fast at home. |
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Use a Benefit Funnel to Write Compelling Copy
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| If you've studied some of the big-name direct marketers, you may have heard of a "customer funnel" or "product funnel." That's *not* what this column is about, so don't skip it because you think you already know. (If you don't know, I explain in the last paragraph.) |
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Google Adsense and How It Works
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| Google Adsense is a unique program that can produce a lot of revenues over time if you are patient. Here is a discussion of Google Adsense and how it works. |
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MLM Scam Review Sites -- Just More Advertising ?
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| We have all seen the ads stating that they have the facts that show which companies are scams and which are not. When you read through the site, you will see many facts and "testimonials" giving details about how unfair the business treats people. There are typically two or three graphically detailed accounts of deception. After you read most of the way through the articles, you come to a point where the author states that he can save you a great deal of money and heartache. Then he lists several companies that he personally recommends, as the best place to invest your money. Seems very logical. Seems as though he is really looking out for your best interest. |
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MLM Pre-Launch -- Great Marketing or Just Another MLM Scam
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| If you have been around the MLM industry very long, you have seen all of the hype that is generated when a new "pre-launch" MLM opportunity is announced. The "pre-launch" announcement supposedly gives people the chance to get in to the new opportunity before everybody else.
The question is -- who IS everybody else?
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Guarantee Your Success In Network Marketing Jobs! ~PART 2
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| To guarantee your success in network marketing jobs isn't an easy task. It takes a certain type of person and certain step to do that. A group of elite millionaire online entrepreneurs shared the steps with me and now I'm going to share them with you. Enjoy part 2 of this powerful article by Omari Taylor and learn exactly how to guarantee your success in network marketing jobs or any online business. |
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Profitable Online business Ideas and the Recession; Increase Your Income
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| In these economic hard times everyone senses a high degree of fear and unrest. The typical reaction most people have is to “tighten your belt!” Many people will seek a part time job. Others will cling ever tighter to the job they have. Cutting corners and shaving the family budget is surely the norm. All of these things are a typical reaction. But is there another way? |
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Who Am I?
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| Want some help getting to know yourself better? Here's a little exercise that I've put together for you to help you to work through this transition. |
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Is Your Advertising Amoral?
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| You already know that a strong headline gets people to start reading your (advertising or marketing) copy. You also know that the purpose of every paragraph is to get people to continue to read the rest of the copy. But what happens when people get to the end of your copy? |
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Checklist to Capture Media Attention
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| Find out what's behind a well written media release and how it can affect your business. |
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3 Great ways to maximise the articles you buy from an Article Writing Service
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| Most people who subscribe to an Article Writing Service will use their articles on a blog. They cut and paste them into whichever blog they think the content might be useful for. There are so many more ways to make use of these articles and here are three good ones. |
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3 ways to maximise your keywords in articles you get from Article Writing Services
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| When getting your articles from an Article Writing Service such as provided by The Digital Archives use the following tips on how to make them uniquely yours with a few minutes just tweaking the content. |
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Profitable online Business Ideas; Success and Failure Part 3
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| Why do some fail and some succeed? I believe the core reason is: desire. When you have a burning desire to achieve your goals, you will almost always succeeed! |
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Writing a Compelling Executive Summary
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| Most guides to writing an executive summary miss the key point: The job of the executive summary is to sell, not to describe. Your goal is not to explain your business to the investor; your goal is to convey the essence of what makes your business exciting. If you accomplish that, the investor will not only want to find out more, he or she will want to help you be successful. |
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Business Writing Skills, Effective Communication Count On Process And Details
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| Writing skills and effective business communication are dependent on the writing process -- exploratory, draft, edit/revise and publish. At the heart of effective writing are two principles. They work in parallel, approaching the writing task from slightly different angles. One is "ideas and details" and the other is "show don't tell." So, to be successful any business writing training starts with a solid understanding of the business writing process and an eye for relevant details.
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Are Your Sales Reps Hard Closers or Hard Helpers?
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| Are your sales people learning the sales trade? Or are you letting them off the hook by learning the tricks of the trade? |
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7 Reasons Why For Learning SEO
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| Search engine optimization, SEO is the number one tool for all internet marketers all over the world and you need to learn SEO if you want to be indexed by the search engines. |
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10 fail-proof ways to convert Browsers to Readers
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| The title is important because it allows people to quickly decide whether they want to carry on or not. |
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What’s the Difference Between Writing Articles & Media Releases?
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| Writing an article to boost your business expertise differs from writing a media release for free publicity. Find out what those differences are and how they can affect your results. |
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Writing Tip: The harmful effects of Rambling Rose
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| Most people use what we can the Rambling Rose writing process. They type as they think through the content. When people do this, there are predictable outcomes for the writer, the draft and the reader. |
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Writing Tip: Five ways to make it easy for your readers
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| You are more productive when you prominently position your bottom line up front. This writing tip is easier said than done. Here are five things you can do to make your emails and other documents easy to read—and write! |
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Writing Tip: Put what you want to get done in paragraph one
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| To pique the interest of your readers, give them your "bottom line" up front. This writing tip is common sense, but not common practice. |
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Writing Tip: Use a forecasting subject line
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| When you want your emails to get things done, begin with a forecasting subject line. This simple step will turn your readers from passive to active. It often determines whether your email gets read or not. |
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NEWS RELEASE QUIZ
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| Today, thanks to the Internet, everything we’ve learned about writing press releases has changed. Here's a short quiz to see if you have changed with the times. |
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9 Things You Need To Start An Internet Home Business
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| Once you made the decision you want an internet business of your own there are few things you must have. Here are the most important ones |
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Is Your Elevator Pitch a Monologue or a Dialogue?
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| When most people think “elevator pitch”, they think of a paragraph that they can utter in about 15 seconds that tells people what they do. I’ve written previous articles on "how to craft a pitch" and "how to judge your pitch’s effectiveness". But what most people forget is the goal of the elevator pitch - to start a dialogue. |
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Career Search – Ask yourself ‘What Can I Offer?’
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| When seeking a change in career the most crucial question to ask yourself is, what do I have to offer a new employer? Consider your work history as a whole and identify the transferable skills you’ve learned in an effort to put yourself ahead of other potential jobseekers. |
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT STOPS YOUR RECIPIENTS FROM READING YOUR DIRECT OR ONLINE MATERIAL? HERE’S A HINT — IT COULD BE YOU.
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| Mistakes to avoid when writing direct mail or online material. |
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Does Your Business Have a Mission Statement?
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| A Mission Statement gives your business focus . . . unified direction . . . and defines your culture. It's also a key part of the branding process. |
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Getting Your Article Published
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| Here are tips and guidelines on getting your article published. |
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Hooking the Media
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| In person or in print, you only have ten seconds to create a great first impression. Learn how to hook the media for free publicity. |
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Business Blogging, The Lessons of 100+ Posts
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| I recently passed the 100 post mark on my blog.To say that I have learnt a lot in between would be an understatement. To say that I have lots more to learn, would require an even bigger understatement.It has been an enjoyable, frustrating and fascinating experience. I have gained readers; I have gained new customers and best of all I have gained many great new friends. |
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How To Write A Compelling Marketing Letter That Actually Gets Read. Part 2
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| This article focuses will show you how to make sure that your entire marketing letter gets read. Even by the most uninterested prospects. |
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How To Write A SEO Friendly Blog Post
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| Anyone can start a blog, it's free and easy, adding content to your blog is also easy, but do you make your blog posts SEO friendly? See how you can write a SEO friendly blog post too. |
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Internet Home Business Ideas - How to Do SEO for Free
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| There are SEO experts who will help you to get your internet home business website search engine friendly. These people specialize in search engine optimization and they make their living helping webmasters take advantage of the many benefits that come from search engine traffic. However, you do not have to pay for this if you follow a few basic things. |
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How to Write Job Advertisements That Attract Top Talent: Job Descriptions
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| If you want to write a job advertisement that attracts top talent, here is step-by-step system for how to do it. |
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How to explain what your business does
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| About 6 months after I started in business, I remember attending a sales course. I had one specific question and to my utter frustration, it wasn’t answered on this course. You see, I had been attending a lot of networking events and the favourite question there is “so, what do you do?” |
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Search Engine Optimization SEO Tip of the day: Using Styling Tags
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| Five tips for Best in Class SEO, incorporate Style tags, or H-tags, they are used for defining the typography of a website pages. |
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How to Create a Writing Portfolio Before You Have Writing Clients
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| If you're thinking about becoming an online freelance writer, you might be concerned that you don't have a writing portfolio to use as samples of your work. Even if you've never had a writing client before, you can quickly and easily set up a nice portfolio to show off your writing ability with the following steps. |
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10 Small Business Web Design Disasters to Avoid
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| Many web designers are talented, skilled and reasonably priced, but there are also some who don’t have their client's best interests in mind. How do you avoid falling into this trap? |
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How to Plan Your Next Writing Project
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| Like any endeavor in life or business, in writing, a good end result is often attributed to a good starting plan. Just to sit down and to start to write can be effective as a jumping off point to figure out what your ideas are. But once you’ve put your main ideas into words, take some time to plan how those ideas relate to your main point and how the relate to each other. This process will help to ensure the composition flows from one sentence, one paragraph, or one chapter to the next.
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Article Marketing Can Build Your List
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| Write great articles, post them on articles directories, and visitors will come to your website just to get more and to opt-in to you list. |
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Why We MUST Reinvent The Wheel
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| "Don't waste time reinventing the wheel!" How many times have we heard this from software vendors trying to convince us their product is exactly what we need? Of course the wheels on offer come in many different shapes and sizes and we'll be lucky to find one that fits properly and performs well in our business for the next 5, 10 or 20 years. Unfortunately in the real world every business is unique and ours is no exception. This means we really have no option but to "reinvent the wheel" if we are to make the most of what computer technology has to offer in the long term. |
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Article Marketing – Make It Easy On The Reader
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| Article writing is hard work, so you need to ensure that the reader actually gets to read your article. Why – because an easily read article gets spread around the internet like wild fire and is your perfect viral marketing process. |
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How to Write for the Web – A Step by Step Blueprint for Writing Killer Copy (Part 1/3)
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| Do you want to discover how to write web copy that makes your visitors reach out for their wallets and buy your products? These tips will teach you how to write for the web.
Use Short Sentences
Don’t try to use fancy words. Get right to the point and make it simple. If a sentence looks too long, it probably is. Most of the times, long sentences could easily be broken up in two, three, or even four short sentences. Mix sentence lengths to make the text easier to read. |
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Power Tips To Improve Your Article Marketing
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| Whilst the internet moves forward at a rapid pace, the power of article marketing remains constant. Here we discuss ways that you can improve your article writing so you can take advantage of this powerful internet marketing technique. |
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Know the Buyer's Food Chain
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| Knowing that you have, or will have, a winning product does not give you time to rest. You have to grease the skids by making your buyers aware that you have a product that solves an important problem that they have. Founded upon your in-depth understanding of your buyers, you need to structure the appropriate marketing campaigns that raise buyer awareness of the product's value and availability. This can be mind numbing work, but is very necessary in order to not have surprises that could stop your business later. Many hours spent on understanding the distribution channel can save you from a whole lot of costly mistakes later when you are trying to get the revenue for your hard work. |
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A Message from Your Empty Nest
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| An empty nest exposes the cracks and wrinkles in a relationship like nothing else. Midlife presents an opportunity to move your primary relationship into a whole new dimension. |
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Writing An Attention Getting Press Release
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| Whether you are writing it for yourself or for someone else, a press release is not written like an ordinary article. The format is different and the tone can't sound like a hyped up sales pitch. It should read more like a news item. Since you are likely to submit it to a press release web site, you want to be sure it meets their guidelines. |
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Six Tips for Getting More Media Attention with Your Press Releases
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| A press release is a great method for informing the public about your business, whether you are just opening, expanding, or have other important news. An effective press release will catch the attention of readers and spread the word about your business. As with any other type of business writing, there are certain things you should do and certain things you should avoid when writing your press release to make the best impression and effectively convey your message.
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How to Develop Your Book’s Structure
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| A man came to me last week because he needed help writing his book. He told me that he’s had this project on his to-do list for years, but he just couldn’t seem to get started. He’s literally been staring at the task—start writing my book—almost every day, and when he came to me, he still hadn’t done it. |
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How to Design a Search Engine Friendly Website
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| Many web site designers don't design their sites for the search engines. This is a huge mistake because they miss out on attracting lots of free traffic. The reason is most website designers are just that – designers. Search Engine Optimization is a completely separate discipline. Your beautifully designed web site may have cost you thousands of dollars but it still needs to attract visitors to be profitable. This article contains 12 highly effective strategies for designing a search engine friendly web site. |
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Writing Tips: Variety, White Space, Pacing, Conflict and PONR
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| Learn about five structural devices used in writing--variety, white space, pacing, conflict and point of no return. Using these elements will make your work easier to read and more exciting. |
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The Four Firsts and Chapter Hooks in Mystery Writing
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| In fiction, suspense and foreshadowing create mood, tension and the desire for a reader to read more. You can do this, by using the Four Firsts rule and by using chapter hooks. If you don't know what these are, then read this article. |
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5 Step Check List for the Best Affiliate Marketers
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| If you are not already earning thousands of dollars monthly, get SBI!. You will become more than a high-earning affiliate. You will build a genuine, thriving online business with MULTIPLE strong streams of income. |
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How to Get Paid to Work at Home Typing Online?
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| If you have good typing skills and are interested in working at home, then you might want to look into a work at home typing online job. There are a range of companies on the internet which will employ you to do various typing duties for them. However, before you drop everything and dive straight in, there are a few things you need to consider: |
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Tips To Write An Effective Press Release
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| After creating website, webmasters next step is to make it in approach of people as many as possible using different methods to attract people but the important thing is how to attract people at the same time to let them know and convince to try your services or products. In this case publishing a press release is really a good idea because press release is the most effective way to be in news and to attract a lot of people at the same time. |
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Reach Your Reader: How to Make Your Letters a Success
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| Letters—and even e-mails—are person-to-person communications; they are usually written by one person and read by one person. They have the power to win you’re your reader like no other marketing material can. However, there is no such thing as a routine letter. As soon as you start to regard external correspondence as just a task that needs to get done, your letters may lose their personal touch and competitive edge. |
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Ebooks are wild animals that need to be tamed
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| Ebook composition requires a professional obedience trainer... someone who knows how to get the words to stand up and beg to be read, and fed into the brain. Clarity, simplicity and laser-targeted focus are basic to the success of an ebook. In this article, I will demonstrate how to transform a complex piece of writing to one that will serve as the introduction to an ebook.
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The Avoidable Bane of Incompetency
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| "A surprisingly large number of people claim to have worked for a manager who was clearly incompetent. Some people even believe, that in certain sectors, the incompetent outnumber the competent. This book looks at when, why and how managers become incompetent and what to do about it. It does so with both science and humour by reviewing what we know about competences, about personality theory and about various salient psychiatric disorders." |
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How do you Innovate Yourself?
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| This article applies the process and concept of innovation to our own selves and personal development. |
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Seven Secrets of Writing That Sells
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| Even in today’s tech-savvy world information is spread through the written word. Customers have to know what your product, service or idea can do for them—or they won’t buy. So whether you’re writing brochures, Web text or anything in between, you need clear, concise, benefits-oriented copy that really sells.
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Don't settle, find a job you love!
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| Are you happy where you are career wise? Do you genuinely enjoy the work you do? Many people express their unhappiness at their current job, but very little spend the time researching why. Do you enjoy what you do but maybe not the environment or people you surround yourself by? Or, do you wake up day in and out dreading the day and work ahead? Once you determine the source of your unhappiness you can create a plan to move forward. |
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Good Design Practices
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| Use CSS to style your page content because they save a lot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go. |
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Make It Easy To Buy From Your Site
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| Convincing your prospects to purchase from you is a hard job, but have you ever thought that you're making the process twice as difficult for both parties if your prospects are convinced but don't know how to buy from you? |
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Rule 11 Use a Drop Letter
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| This is Rule #11 in a series of articles on "21 ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising Without Spending an Extra Cent," by Brad Sugars. |
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Rule 10 Indent Paragraphs
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| This is Rule #10 in a series of articles on "21 ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising Without Spending an Extra Cent," by Brad Sugars. |
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Rule 8 Boost Response by Changing the Type
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| This is Rule #8 in a series of articles titled, "21 Ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising Without Spending an Extra Cent," by Brad Sugars. Learn how you can boost the response to your advertising by changing the typeface of your ad copy. |
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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines
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| What makes for a good headline? Anything that will make them read on. You only have about seven or eight words to work with, so it can take some time to come up with the right one. |
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What’s in it for me? How to keep people reading your business letters and e-mail, reports and proposals
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| Most people write about themselves and the features they have to offer. Savvy business writers know they need to write to the reader and share benefits and results. Along the way, all their terrific features will come out--but in a way their readers can relate to. |
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Rule #12: Repeat Your Story in the Coupon or the Closing
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| This is Rule #12 in a series of articles on "21 ways to Increase the Power and Profit of Your Advertising Without Spending an Extra Cent," by Brad Sugars. |
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Just the Facts Ma’am, Just the Facts
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| There was the classic TV Show and more recently the movie, “Dragnet”. The main character, Sergeant Joe Friday, was known for the quotation, “Just the facts ma’am, just the facts.” He would let a witness to a crime tell their story with all their emotion and commentary on what they believed happened. After a few minutes of listening to this extraneous information, Joe would interject his most famous line of dialogue, “Just the facts ma’am, just the facts.” As with Sergeant Friday, journalists are most interested in the facts you present in your press release. |
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Top 8 Tips To Ensure Your Site Is Accessible
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| It's been widely reported that some website owners are facing the threat of legal action because they do not offer a website that is easily accessible for disabled people. But, even ignoring the legal threat, it is good business practice to ensure that your pages are accessible for anybody that wishes to view them. |
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Which is the Most Important Component?
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| When I’m talking about the Dynamic Components of Personal Power I’m sometimes asked which component is the most important. It would be easy to say all of them. If pressed, I’d say DISCIPLINE… |
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The PR Headline Game
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| When it comes to your press release a strong, effective headline is the name of the game.
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SEO Success - Keyword Placement
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| Not only are keywords important but where they appear makes a difference to the weight that given to those keywords in relation to the rest of the content. Keywords that appear too late in the website or without any emphasis will not get your website favorable positioning on search engine results pages. |
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Search Engine Marketing - How To Find Targeted Keywords That Will Dramatically Increase Your Traffic
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| Targeted keywords are those words which will connect to your website through organic searches. These words are usually discovered with specific Internet tools such as overture (inventory.overture.com), where you can identify keywords that are related to your business. For example, if you sell laptops - 'laptop' keyword would be expensive and unaffordable for a small business. However, you could use ‘lightweight laptop', 'large screen laptop', and 'custom laptop' from the overture keywords tool. |
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A FiveStep Plan to Overcome Procrastination
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| Dear Jane,
Why can't I ever finish anything? Why do I procrastinate so much?
Most of us think we are simply lazy when we procrastinate. But the truth is that the cause of most procrastination isn’t laziness; it’s fear. We may be afraid that the task at hand is overwhelming or we may be afraid of failing at it. These are the two biggest fears that tend to keep us in approach/avoidance mode.
Here are five key ways to get past your resistance and get “it” done, whatever the “it” is: |
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Stop Working & Start Thinking
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| “Work harder” – “Work more hours” – “Put your nose to the grindstone” – “You have to pay your dues” – “Climb the ladder of success.” Do all of these sayings sound familiar? These common phrases often espouse ideas that become anchored as limiting beliefs in your brain. Here’s the shocking news; these phrases often put into motion a cycle of struggle and failure. These common teachings may have kept you from having the kind success you desire. The missing ingredient is not your work, it’s your thoughts.
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How to Find Free Content for your Web Site
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| Did you know that there is a way you can get hundreds of pages worth of high quality, fresh content every day without paying a cent? There is. It's called article syndication. |
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Mistakes and Weaknesses
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| First Paragraph Of Article“What mistakes have you made since 9/11?” the press asked the President of the US. “What is your greatest weakness?” the interviewer asked Amy on The Apprentice, a TV reality show. Both had difficulty answering. Frequently in an interview situation the interviewer asks some variation of these two questions. What would your answer be?
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Is Your Elevator Pitch a Monologue or a Dialogue?
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| When most people think “elevator pitch”, they think of a paragraph that they can utter in about 15 seconds that tells people what they do. I’ve written previous articles on "how to craft a pitch" and "how to judge your pitch’s effectiveness". But what most people forget is the goal of the elevator pitch - to start a dialogue. |
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Effective Business Communication Counts On Lean Writing Skills
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| In a business communication world saturated with near-instantaneous electronic messages, I start with the premise that the people you're writing for are too busy to absorb massive clots of verbiage. I'm talking about numbers of words as well as the length of the words themselves. Any thesaurus can give you a multisyllabic replacement for a lean word that hits the spot. Likewise, any bureaucrat or consultant can pile jargon-choked paragraph on top of ponderous paragraph. But to what end?
In a way that might not have occurred to you, effective written communication is really about tone. The best advice I ever got about business writing skills can be summed up this way: "Be yourself, warm and personal. You're writing to real people, not an organization." Another take: "Write as if you're conversing with an intelligent friend."
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Is Your Advertising Amoral?
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| You already know that a strong headline gets people to start reading your (advertising or marketing) copy. You also know that the purpose of every paragraph is to get people to continue to read the rest of the copy. But what happens when people get to the end of your copy? |
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Use a Benefit Funnel to Write Compelling Copy
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| If you've studied some of the big-name direct marketers, you may have heard of a "customer funnel" or "product funnel." That's *not* what this column is about, so don't skip it because you think you already know. (If you don't know, I explain in the last paragraph.) |
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Power of Visual Thinking in your Visual Workplace
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| I think Visual Thinking is a powerful tool. For evidence, look at the tools I surround myself with, Value Stream Mapping, The Lean Marketing House and Mindmaps. I believe it is the most effective way to learn. As David said in his last paragraph of the blog cited above: "We're not all visual thinkers (though we all have the potential). |
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False Dichotomy! (If Anything, Backwards!)
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| False Dichotomy!
(If Anything, Backwards!)
I was asked to contribute "a paragraph" to a writer who was doing a magazine article on "management" "versus" "leadership."
Herewith my contribution: |
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Crosslinking Your Video with Your Website or Blog
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| In the "Description" box we will want to include a paragraph about your video that also includes a couple of your keyword phrases that you have selected for your campaign, and also include a link to your website, or blog. |
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What is Anchor Text and Why Should I Use It?
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| When you are reading something online and you see that a phrase within a sentence or paragraph is a live link, the link text is what is called "anchor text." This is because it acts as an anchor to the link. |
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The Search for Perfection - How it Can Ruin Your Sales Efforts
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| Sometimes perfection is good but sometimes there is a strange dark side. First the good and then, in the fifth paragraph, I'll share the frightening dark side with you. |
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