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Check out these tips for making content creation faster, easier, and more effective.
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Do you want to be a more successful blogger?
Are you keeping up with the newest developments in blogging?
Whether you are new to blogging or you have been blogging for years, you will find insight in this article.
It covers 26 blogging essentials, in an A–Z tour of the blogosphere. Each one has a full explanation, along with a link to further reading in case you want to know more.
Note: For simplicity’s sake, I assume you’re using WordPress as your blogging platform. Many of these essentials, though, apply to other blogging platforms as well. Via Martin Gysler
Sensitive Evolution's comment,
January 7, 2013 2:55 PM
The technical side of blogging can be very demanding, so the plugins really help. In addition to great content and SEO, I think you need an outreach/networking program.
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The classic sales funnel has long been used to describe website development strategy.
However, the deployment of content marketing in a sales funnel with a campaign focus is a relatively new concept to many.
It’s not as simple as writing lots of blog posts every day and distributing them on social channels.
In fact, the goal of strategic content marketing should be to identify, qualify, segment, score and, ultimately, close leads in an accelerated and predictable fashion.
In order to strategically deploy content marketing it requires the right software, a defined sales funnel and a campaign structure.
Read more: http://bit.ly/MjFpfA Via Martin Gysler
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment,
April 29, 2013 7:27 PM
Segments are usually FINANCIAL measures such as VIPs or "multi-buyers". Segments is one way to quantify groups within your marketing. Personas are another. Personas identify archetypes and group characteristics (instead of financial segments). Personas help develop creative segments make sure you make money.
Ken Morrison's comment,
April 29, 2013 8:12 PM
Hi Marty. I temporarily forgot that our comments showed up on your wall as well. Yes, I was endorsing you to a business student because your posts can add fresh insight in many of her buisness courses. Thanks Marty for all of your great scoops and true curation.
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment,
April 29, 2013 8:13 PM
LOL, no worries Ken and next time I get to go hiking too :). Marty
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Need some inspiration? Here are 7 examples of how businesses are implementing innovative social media marketing practices with great results and pick up a few social media marketing tips.
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Congratulations, you’ve made it.
You know what they need, and you’ve invested the time and energy to create a product that will meet and exceed their expectations.
Now all that’s left for you to do is launch the product, and rake in the cash. I mean, at this point, what could go wrong?
Well, the truth is that a lot could go wrong.
Even with a great product and an engaged audience, success isn’t guaranteed. You still have to launch the thing properly.
Here’s how to do it…
Read more: http://bit.ly/GLVVGS Via Martin Gysler
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You're a blogger and you spends a lot of time to write your blog posts. Maybe you would like make some money so that you could continued your blog, if it's the case, this excellent article will give you interesting information about how you can do it. [note mg]
Like most bloggers, you probably want to make some money from your blog. Chances are good you’ve tried things like writing product reviews or putting banners or links to affiliate products into your sidebar.
In this post, I’ll show you how you can re-purpose three of the most successful blogging strategies to get more out of your affiliate promotions. As a nice extra, these tactics will also have a positive effect on your blog. But more importantly, you’ll learn how you can merge them into a combined and even more powerful strategy for your affiliate promotions.
Read more: http://bit.ly/wRpcaz Via Martin Gysler
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Here's how to embed Facebook posts in your website or blog to increase engagement, support your content and build your Facebook Page Likes.
Best Blog Scoops's curator insight,
September 24, 2013 6:25 AM
Check out how you embed Facebook posts in your blog posts!
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I started my blog using WordPress and I have found it a platform that makes it easy to own and publish your own content online.
It is the foundation to the success of this blog which currently receives over 300,000 hits per month.
If you’re looking for an easy way to create a web presence and start sharing your ideas online, the best way to do this is to create a blog. Millions of users around the world already express themselves and share their thoughts by means of their personal blogs.
The advantage of having your own WordPress blog that is self-hosted is that you own it.
It is good to have a Facebook “page” or a Tumblr blog but they are owned by someone else and you can have a web presence there but under their “Terms and Conditions” It is basically a rental.
Via Martin Gysler
sarspri's curator insight,
February 2, 2013 3:31 PM
Self-hosting a WordPress site is the next step, after folks feel they've outgrown the free wordpress.com sites. 
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
February 10, 2013 7:22 AM
Brilliant step-to-step simple summary. I'm thinking in starting a Wordpress Blog more easyly now. Thanks!!! 
dakinane's curator insight,
February 27, 2013 5:17 PM
Both org and .com variants of Wordpress are a delight to use, I have sued them for years, had to abandon my hosted Wordpress blog when I upgraded my website. I miss it.
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150 influential thought leaders are sharing professional insights on LinkedIn, including Barak Obama and Richard Branson . . .
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This piece and infographic is from Adam Vincenzini on his blog.
I selected this article because it's another way for you to find key influencers and these tools will help to narrow your search
Here are some highlights:
Instead of focusing on the subjectivity of this process (and how this insight is deployed) Here's how you can use a combination of free tools to narrow your search.
Where do online influencers operate?
Most popular are: blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Online communities, discussion boards
Assumptions:
**Influencers are active on Twitter **Influencers operate some for of blogging hub
Focus on the intelligence you can glean from Twitter initially then verify this initial sweep with blog (or relevant hub) data
The initial steps involve:
1. Search by keyword 2. Search by location
3 tools useful in the process: The first two you can also search by location:
**followerwonk.com - then run this through another influencer tool - tweetlevel to give it even more relevance (this isn't fool proof) **locafollow.com **twingulate.com
There are more suggestions in this piece having said that:
**No matter how hard we try, a 100% fool proof influence rating is near on impossible because influence is not a science, it can't be.
** this can help narrow things down, significantly
Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://tinyurl.com/7humubp] Via janlgordon, Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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Soon, you’ll be seeing an all-new version of Convince & Convert.
The design is based on the new Streamline child theme that is successfully being used by Danny Brown of Jugnoo – who has forgotten more about blog optimization than I’ll ever know.
The Case for Redesign
Even though WordPress (especially with Genesis) is exceptionally easy to work with compared to old skool Web design days, it’s still a major undertaking. Lots of blogs out there rarely if ever change their look and layout. Why bother?
Via Martin Gysler
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The advice from this post will give you some interesting insights to know how to write a compelling 'about me' page and bio for your website and online profiles. [mg]
Writing the perfect pitch and crafting a compelling bio is difficult. That’s why whole industries exist to enable us to tell our stories better. Copywriters, creative directors and brand strategists like me wouldn’t exist if it was easy to articulate the essence of what we do, and communicate how and why we do it.
There’s no way around it, you need to spend some serious time and energy on your about page, because it’s probably one of the most visited pages on your website.
Read more: http://thestoryoftelling.com/10-rules-for-writing-about-me-page/ Via Martin Gysler
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