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The "lead" refers to the most important point of an article or a piece of marketing copy. In most cases, it's the main idea that leads off the article, so it's the first thing the user sees. "Burying the lead" means that articles or copy aren't presenting the lead front and center. It's something that many new journalists do with a news st
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Suppose everything you thought you knew about newsletters was DEAD WRONG?
Here are 7 proven tips to create a marketing customer newsletter that is a profit-producing, client-retention, referral generating tool that really works.
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We’re building communities and networks that have the experience and expertise we need. The key is to get our networks working with us. Here are 5 ways to do just that.
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These are not groundbreaking tips or anything, just 8 common sense tips for people who are not very familiar with how the Wordpress editor works. If you’re an experienced Wordpress user, you might as well skip this post.
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Here are the five solid, complete, and intuitive main ideas Kram and Higgins put forward and suggestions after each for building your own Personal Developmental Network.
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Credibility comes from the “context and content.” People meet us and try to place us among what they already know. They use their experience and our first impression — how we look, what we say, what we do — to recognize signs that might validate our consistency, integrity, competence, and trustworthiness.
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So why should anyone read yours? Getting noticed might seem impossible. But there are blogs that rise up out of that vast sea of sameness. Blogs started by people just like you. You don ’t necessarily need great writing talent, although it’s worth developing the talent you have.
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Every organization whether it be a Fortune 500 company, or a sole proprietor, should have a mission statement. A mission statement defines your reason for being in business. It should encompass your core business objectives, the values of your organization, and your purpose. Below are some tips and examples to help you write a winning mission stat
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One day several months ago, David Alston said to me at a conference something like this: “I just realized that there are two conferences going on here. One is in this room, and there are people with note pads writing feverishly and chatting with their neighbors. The other is out on the web, and we’re all Twittering the conversation out to others w
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In the years that I've been writing about sales and marketing, Brian Carroll has been one of the sources I trust the most, hands-down.
He understands both sides in a way that many self-styled gurus don't. He knows what does and doesn't work in real-world situations, and he offers practical advice, not fluff. Best of all, Brian isn't afraid to
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Here's a paradox of successful headlines: the less they sell, the more they can sell.
Our most recent web clinic looked at research and ideas that support a vital, yet often overlooked, principle: The objective of your headline is not to sell, but to connect with your reader.
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Face it. There are few things as intimidating as the blinding white of a blank page. It makes no ...
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Writing a great blog post is a lot of work. There’s the planning, the headline, the writing, the rewriting, the rewriting, the rewriting.
As the cliché goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. So why not let your images do some of that writing for you?
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More than half the battle of creating compelling content and copy is solid structure. Disorganized writing inhibits understanding, and without understanding, you’re not going to get a warm reception when you ask for action.
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Popularity of a website. Effective web content writing is not a collection of difficult words but an expression of organized information, expressed in a lucid way so that a casual reader can understand it easily manner. If your website contains insufficient content and is crowded with images, it will not be able to retain the attention of the visi
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