8 Free Tools to Boost Your Blog
While the old adage, “You get what you pay for,” usually rings true, sometimes what you can get for free is pretty good. Luckily, many people sympathize with bloggers who…
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11 Irresistible Elements of a Killer Squeeze Page
You’re wasting your time. If all you care about is driving traffic to your website, you’ve got it wrong. It’s all pointless if you’re not growing an email list. Because…
Why Blog? The Benefits of Blogging for Business and Marketing
I had a co-worker email me the other day asking for a blog post about the benefits of business blogging. "It's for a friend," she said. Sure it was. I…
3-Step Action Plan With Worksheets for 2 Months of Blog Posts
The series approach to blogging, as I described in How to Turn 1 Idea Into 2 Months of Content Marketing (and More),offers an easy approach to help you plan, create,…
Your Blog Posts Are Boring: 9 Tips for Making Your Writing More Interesting
If you’re a boring writer, you’ve got a tough road ahead. I hate to break it to you, but in today’s content-saturated world, people don’t have time to spend on…
If Blogging Were a Sport, Here are Three Things I Learned While Playing the Game
This is a guest post from Laura Forde from Life of the Differently Abled. When I think of blogging, I think of a sports stadium with a game being played…
5 Things Every Business Blog Post Needs
Do you have a business blog? If not, you’re missing out on an affordable, effective means of inbound marketing. Just check out these stats: HubSpot found that companies that blog…
9 Essential Content Marketing Apps That Will Grow Your Blog Traffic
If you want to grow your blog traffic, you have to fully embrace content marketing. You can achieve tremendous success in your business if you leverage the tools, applications, and software…
8 Insider Secrets To Growth Hacking Your Blog
Growth hacking. It is a term that is often discussed for online startups. The phrase was first coined in 2010 by Sean Ellis who was the first marketer at Dropbox,…
17 of the Best Examples of Beautiful Blog Design
Bloggers are now the third most trustworthy source of information, following only friends and family, according to a U.K. survey. That's right: Bloggers are trusted more than celebrities, journalists, brands,…
How to Calculate Your Company’s Investment in Blogging
Just how valuable is your blog in the array of marketing efforts you're investing money in? It's likely you're measuring ROI for other efforts, such as PPC ads, but figuring…
Avoid The Grammar police! 10 Silly Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid
Are you making grammar mistakes in your social media updates and blog posts? Are you constantly being hounded by the Grammar Police? Like most small businesses you probably don’t have…