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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?
This Entrepreneur’s Secrets to Being Productive From Anywhere in the World | Inc Not only do we want to make the best use of our time, but some of us also want to do that from wherever we happen to be. It’s a bigger job than we probably think (I’m ...more
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Seven Steps to Combat Blog Content Thieves
It can happen to the best of us, usually a surprise, and often undetected – people online publishing your blog content like it was their own. It’s an incredibly disappointing and frustrating experience – one that listener Grant has recently discovered. He asks: “I just discovered another blog is republishing ...more
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How to Create a Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan for Your WordPress Blog
This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. Have you ever lost something important? Maybe your computer froze just before you hit “save” on a document, or maybe a sudden accidental coffee spill fried your hard drive. Whatever the problem may be, without a backup of information contained on a ...more
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5 Reasons Why Your Digital Marketing Sucks
This is a guest contribution from Andy Nathan. I’m sure you want me to rag on you and tell you exactly what you did wrong, right? After all, you just spent your day working yourself to the bone to get ahead. Who wants someone to spit in their face and ...more
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How to Use Affiliate Programs to Boost Your Income Stream
Affiliate marketing can often go two ways – it can crawl along earning you a frustrating few cents here and there, or it can be a healthy part of your overall earnings (just look at Pat Flynn!) when done right. If you are not familiar with the concept you can learn ...more
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How to Use Your Inner Contrarian to Generate Endless Content Ideas
This is a guest contribution from Matt Clough. Whether your blog falls within a niche with apparently endless opportunities or a dreaded “boring” one, the one thing that all bloggers (and writers in general) come up against at some point or another is writer’s block. You might have covered every conceivable ...more
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Welcome to the Newly Redesigned ProBlogger Blog
Welcome to the newly redesigned ProBlogger! If you’re a regular reader of ProBlogger the changes to the site will be pretty obvious, but I wanted to take a few moments to describe some of what’s changed, the story behind the changes, and reveal a little of our next steps (there’s ...more
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Better Copywriting in Four Minutes For Better Sales
If you’ve got four minutes to spare today, I can help you nail your sales copy. I recently heard Ed Dale of The Challenge and MagCast speak at a conference on the topic, and I took pages and pages of notes – copywriting, marketing, and sales are the biggest things I’ve ...more
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