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Monday, 31 January 2011
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Sunday, 30 January 2011
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Saturday, 29 January 2011
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Thursday, 27 January 2011
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011
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Sunday, 23 January 2011
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Saturday, 22 January 2011
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
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This is a guest post by Vik Tantry. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
When you are watching your favorite TV show, do you look forward to the commercials? When you open up the morning paper, are you excited to read the ads? When you listen to the radio on your way to work, are you riveting by the sales announcements you hear? If you’re like the rest of us on this planet, the answer is NO.
No one wants to pay attention to commercials. No one volunteers to be preached at, tricked, or teased by ad campaigns. We all have better things to do. It follows, then, that no one wants to read copy.
That’s where you come in. You’ve got an incredible service/product/website that you want to share with the world. What do you do if the world doesn’t want to listen? Convince them you’re worth listening to. Your copy has to be irresistible. And not only do you need people to read your copy, but you need them to take action, too, by investing their time and/or money in your company. How do you fight for their attention and affection? Here are 10 tips that will give you the edge:
It’s statistically proven that for every 10 people that read a headline, only 2 read further. The odds of snagging a reader are already stacked against you, big time. The headline is like the gatekeeper to your copy. A weak headline is going to lock that gate forever. That’s why you need—absolutely need—a killer headline. A successful headline needs to be several things, as summarized by the American Writers & Artists’ “four Us”:
Useful: your headline must promise that your copy will be useful to the reader. A great headline offers something not only useful, but essential. It should make the reader think, “I’d be stupid not to read this!”Urgent: your potential customers are busy, busy, busy. You have one chance: if they don’t read your copy now—immediately—then they never will. You must recreate this sense of urgency for them.Unique: why should they read about what you have to offer when there are millions of others offering the same thing? Show them why you’re different. Tell them, in the headline, what no one else can tell them; offer what no one else can offer; ask what no one has asked before. You need to stand out from the crowd in order to be noticed.Ultra-specific: If you ask any famous, successful actor, they will tell you that the key to a fabulous performance is making specific choices. That’s how they convince an audience that their character is believable. As a copywriter, you must be as captivating and believable as Marlon Brando or Meryl Streep. Be specific in your tactics, your offer, and your message. Be specifically useful, unique, and urgent. Your audience will reward you for it.When a potential consumer reads your copy, they expect to get something in return. They’ve read your headline, and now they ask themselves:
“Will reading further make me smarter/happier/healthier/richer/better off?”
The answer must be yes, or else they will stop right there. That is why your headline offers a promise to make the reader smarter, healthier, richer, etc. Of course, then you must fulfill your promise. If you promise “top tens secrets to losing ten pounds,” you’d better deliver those ten secrets. Of course, they don’t have to be secrets, just information or advice that feels exclusive and will be useful to the reader; that’s what they really care about.
There are two major pitfalls here that you must avoid:
Making an outrageous claim: if your claim is too ridiculous or impossible, the reader will dismiss you as untrustworthy from the start. It’s better to balance shock value with reality.
Making the wrong promise: if your headline promises one thing, but your copy gets off-topic, you’ve let the reader down. They won’t trust you and they won’t help you. That’s why it’s wise to begin with a strong headline and, as you write, check that your content matches it.
Whether you’re writing a news article or a sales pitch, you need credible, citable proof that what you’re writing is accurate. Statistics, testimonials from users/customers, endorsements from certified experts, consumer reports, results of focus groups: these are all methods to prove you’re telling the truth. Sometimes proof is subjective, but it’s better than nothing.
Copywriting is competitive. You’re competing to beat out all other stimuli for a few precious moments in which your voice can be heard. That means presenting yourself/your company in the best possible light. Just as you would never degrade yourself in a job interview, you should *never* focus on the negative when discussing your product. In fact, be loud and proud about what you do best. Convince us that you’re amazing, and we just might believe it.
Lists are always a great solution. They are easy and quick to read, and a great way to summarize thoughts. They also engage users more easily than large blocks of text.
It’s important to deliver information in your copy, but it’s equally important how you deliver it. If your copy reads like a school lecture or an instruction manual, your readers will be gone faster than you can say “class dismissed.” Reading can feel like a chore, so you need to make it fun. A conversational tone, an understanding attitude, and a touch of humor will do the trick.
Standard advice, but it never gets old. Time is precious. The moment your reader feels their time is wasted, they move on. Avoid this by sharpening your copy to include only what is necessary to communicate a persuasive, precise message. Less is more.
This seems obvious, but with the SEO crowd’s obsession over keywords, it’s worth noting. Yes, great copy must include the keywords associated with your topic. But be sensible about it. Readers aren’t dumb. They can smell keyword stuffing from a mile away, and it smells like weak writing, lazy marketing, and sketchy salesmen. No matter how many keywords you cram into your copy, it’s not worth a dime unless people read it. Quality writing trumps keyword hierarchy because it harnesses the strongest marketing tool in existence: word of mouth.
So you’ve captured that elusive 20% who saw your headline and they’ve read your copy. Now what? You want them to act on what they’ve read. It’s your job to make that next step as easy as possible. If the goal of your copy is to generate buzz, leave links to your facebook or twitter pages. If you want them to subscribe to your blog or site, make it as easy as a click of a button. Same goes for buying a good or service: buttons and links immediately following your copy make the next step obvious and effortless for your potential consumer.
Psychological studies show that your memory of an experience is heavily influenced by how it ends. If you’ve written an excellent article but then taper off, the reader is left unimpressed and probably a little confused. You need to wow them at the end; they’ve gotten that far! Prove to them it was worth reading. Summarize the greatest benefits you’ve given them and send them home happy.
Follow these 10 pointers, and your writing will shine. Quality writing shows you value the reader’s time and want to give them a pleasant experience. So pleasant, in fact, that they barely noticing they’re reading copy. And that is how you know you’ve done your job.
About the Author: Vik Tantry is an Internet entrepreneur who writes about money and personal development at There’s Money Everywhere.
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Sunday, 16 January 2011
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Ten questions will you better make
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A guest post from Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com.
There are ten questions that will always make you a better blogger—even if you can’t always answer them.
It’s the asking, the awareness, and the empowering context established through asking, that sets a higher bar for your writing, your business and your life.
That’s the first of the ten questions that can change your life.
At the heart of each of these questions is a specific understanding that lights them on fire within your life. It is the recognition that there is a difference between a mission and a goal.
Everybody wants to be happy. In some way, everybody wants to be rich and successful, though the definitions of the word “success” vary widely. We all want to be respected, liked, loved and appreciated, both for who we are and for what we’ve accomplished.
These are missions. They’re over-arching and more vague than goals.
This may sound like rhetoric—mission and goal are frequently, easily, and naively interchanged—but it’s no accident that the highly successful understand the difference. They know that the difference isn’t rhetorical, nor subtle.
Indeed, this understanding is the very thing that apprentices, rookies, dreamers, and anonymous wanderers seek to discover and then, when it’s right there in their faces, adopt as a way of being.
A mission is a destination. A goal is a milepost on the journey.
One without the other, however, can represent yet another definition of insanity. That situation will bring you face to face with a more infamous definition: expecting different results while doing the same old things, over and over.
Here are nine more facets of that understanding. Nine questions that, if you ask them of yourself, will always make you a better blogger.
What is your purpose? Your vision for your life? Your highest dream? Your hierarchy of dreams?
What is your work—indeed, your life—all about?
There’s nothing inherently wrong with living in the now, to seek comfort and pleasure and reward, to think no further than tomorrow. More people live this way than don’t.
It’s just that this approach won’t lead you anywhere. You’ll be treading water, or at least allowing it to carry you along, powerless against it, within its tides and currents.
You have no engine, no sail, no compass, and no distant shore. You aren’t swimming, you’re treading water. The water may be warm and comfortable, but over time, such water becomes stagnant.
Understand that the happiness this seems to deliver is something you choose. But there are other levels of happiness and satisfaction in life.
You need a mission to make those choices accessible. The “goal” of going on a nice vacation next year … is just that: a goal.
A mission is much more than that.
Getting rich is a mission, not a goal. Some get to skip the goal-setting by virtue of inheriting their wealth, but even lottery winners set a goal to buy a ticket on a given day. The result is a consequence of intention, rather than genes.
For the rest of us, the road to riches is riddled with mileposts, ruts, puddles, and forks. Each of them defines a strategic opportunity to move forward.
What do I mean by strategic? I mean that the choices we make when we encounter those mileposts—which, when put in our rear-view mirror become milestones—are made in the context of the bigger picture. In the context of the mission.
Getting a new job may feel like a mission, but it’s actually just a goal. An important one. But it’s not a mission until it defines who you are, and where you intend to end up, and delivers a strong motivation to get there.
Ask anyone who has reached significant heights in their life, or have completed a mission. They’ll talk for days about the journey and the milestones that got them there.
Then again, finding such a person may be hard, because those individuals are never really done.
You may think that your mission is to become part of a specific crowd of achievers, to join a certain club or become known in an esteemed way.
Often you must work your way through a series of lower-level crowds, and advance through a series of minor leagues, to get there. And the only way to rise above the crowd—any crowd—is to differentiate yourself.
Back in school that happened when somebody acted out, punched someone, or got busted. They stood apart, then they went to the back of the line.
In life, in quest of a worthy mission, your USP needs to add and deliver positive value: to stand out with a better, bigger idea, more consistent performance and some indefinable, almost magical X-factor that makes you glow in the dark.
How are you being perceived?
Goals never exist in a vacuum. Nor does the effort we put into reaching our goals. Everything we do in life propels energy into the universe. Others see it, feel it, interpret it and respond to it.
You are in complete command of the energy you put forth. Use your head, work smart, get out of the way of your own backstory (which may be full of resentment, fear, and ignorance), and make sure the energy you are putting out there is proactively and extraordinarily positive in nature.
You have little to no control over the way you’re being perceived. You’re the raw material from which others form their perceptions.
You know all of those people who are running ads for free iPads, laptops, and mobile phones if you “opt-in” to only two of the long list of special offers they’re putting in front of you?
Guess what? They’re frauds. They contribute nothing. Their mission is unworthy and doomed.
What are you contributing? What are you, as a blogger, giving away? How are you impacting the thinking of others? What value are you providing, either for free or for a fair price?
Value is the great justifier of price. Always strive to over-deliver it.
Is it just about the money? Or at the end of day, even if you die poor, will you be able to look in the mirror and say, “At least I touched a few lives”?
This is your yardstick—your metric of ultimate success. All the money and friends and admirers you’ll make along the way … those are by-products. Those may be worthwhile goals, but they shouldn’t be the mission.
Your highest mission should be to make a difference. To contribute.
Despite this love-fest of new-agey, love-thyself wisdom, the fact remains that it’s a competitive world out there. And there are many potholes and roadblocks to negotiate.
Forward motion always requires the application of energy. In an airplane, when the engines die, the flight goes down, one way or the other. In a relationship, auto-pilot almost always results in a downward spiraling course.
In business, if you aren’t growing, you’re dying. Because all around you the world is changing. Better ideas, more capital, younger bucks … they’re everywhere.
Stay crisp and nimble. Focus on your mission and the goals that empower it. You are the CEO of your dream; don’t be afraid to fire under-performers and take risks on high-potential opportunities.
High achievers know no fear. Nor are they foolish in the face of risk. They weigh, they prepare, and then they choose. Once they’ve chosen, they allow nothing to stop them.
Here’s another little secret of the fabulously successful: they aren’t waiting to achieve their goal to acknowledge they’re having a good time. Almost always, at the end of the journey, they’ll tell you the best part was getting there.
It’s not just because of the money. More likely, it’s because of the sense of fulfillment and awareness the lives they’ve affected in a positive manner. Sure, there will have been dark moments, but business ins’t a zero-sum game. Just like life.
There will also be moments of pure elation. Just like life.
Getting the drift? Your mission is your life.
Pay attention to your misery and pain. Pay just as much attention to that occasional inner glow. Assign meaning, and have the courage and insight to allow that light to guide you.
Here’s that forward motion thing again. Competition is nipping at your heels. Age is unrelenting. What is past is prologue.
But prologue to what?
You get to answer this question. And when you do, you’ll find that the most exciting opportunities, the gut-check of stepping into your fear, always challenges you to be better.
If you can’t find that challenge, create one. Improvement and growth is often forced upon us, but just as often it’s self-chosen.
The road is strewn with the gravestones of the well-intentioned. Time and degree of difficulty thin the crowd along the way. Survival is complicated. Nothing worth achieving is ever easy.
By definition, there will be moments when you feel unable to go on, to overcome, or to choose what you know in your heart must be chosen.
A critical sub-set of this question contains two elements: persistence and discipline. Both are essential. Both will determine your outcome. And both are choices.
There’s a song by Martina McBride called “Do It Anyway.” You can listen to it here.
Does it describe you? This is one of the most important questions you will ever address in your life, because the answer will define your future.
…and that’s the point. It may seem that the journey is over and the mission’s accomplished once you wrap your head around these questions. But a funny thing will happen on the way to your dream. The mission will evolve. It will grow and embellish itself with your skills and earned wisdom. And new missions, new purposes and hopes, is what keeps you young and thriving.
Here’s another thing that highly successful folks get: they’re never done.
They want to slide in sideways on the day of their wake. They know that the saddest funeral of all is the one at which everyone in attendance (who is upright) realizes this: he wasn’t done. She had so much more to do.
Sad, but not tragic. Sad, but something to celebrate and admire. This is what you want. You want your friends and loved ones to celebrate your life and grieve that which was underway and left undone. This represents the evolution of the cliché, “he died doing what he loved.”
Because that person was fully alive, in movement, engaged, aware and continuing to grow and experience. And I promise you, whether they used these words or not, that person was asking themselves these ten questions until the day the music stopped.
Larry Brooks writes at Storyfix.com, where his new ebook, “Get Your Bad Self Published” is now available. His book on storytelling, “Story Engineering: Mastering the Six Core Competencies of Successful Writing,” comes out from Writers Digest Books in early 2011.
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Every blogger, responsible for a substantial audience, white, associated with the excitement, the extraction of new subscribers and exposure.
The process is promoting and humbling at the same time - people are actually read, what you have to say. You are not only read, but comment and come back every single time hit publish.Bookmarked your site and never fail, to tweet about it when you publish something new.
Everyone has their reasons for the production of content, but if we look around the Internet it is easy to see the reason why most of us blogging is section.this a basic need that everyone shares: Community.Letztlich it is your responsibility, manage and maintain relationships with content reader. Each piece of content that you write and present must be of outstanding quality - if it is not the case, click don't publish.
How can we ensure that everything we create real, rewarding and full of awesome?
By you accountable.
Without some form of accountability and honesty in your work, your blog probably never make it.Be other screech and can be up to many times slip in the cacophony of blogging Lärm.Ihre readers will learn and many of you leave.
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And then it hit me - square in the Kisser.
I received an email from a colleague, the I much respect for accumulated have.He questioned my motives for the development of the product and called me over to read it a few times and check again why I it was promoting.
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I took the link, check my affiliate account, could be processed if necessary to make a refund and called him one day. I made a decision later in the evening.
I took me out, I will seek a different opinion, before I publish something I never promoted have before on any website I own.
At night, I called a friend and a per accountability geschaffen.Er, is also a blogger in the same niche, and we take the article now once in a week to discuss our goals, we are working on - we critique even each other in writing prior to publication.
If we catch an affiliate product link, paragraph, or even a meager set that is inappropriate with our goals and ideal communicate we this to other sofort.Es is our goal to produce the best content interests in mind with our readers.
You are, after all, the only reason we write.
While most go it alone, it is fairly simple, let's want to slip up there and wieder.Niemand is perfect, and neither of us expected, 100% of the time to machen.Aber what is call the right judgment if, that time we up to screws, it costs us our entire audience? what is, if it can have some additional accountability by someone invite respect and who cares about you?
Would be destroyed if you did something accidentally, that your relationship with your audience ruiniert.Alle your hard work will be in vain, and restore your credibility seems almost impossible - and it could. it would be even more frustrating if your error avoided, can overall had a system of accountability you created to keep on your toes.
If your audience will hold means I call for you, to find one or two people who want you to the standards of life - someone who is not afraid that call a spade a spade, and who will you it directly, when you know you are headed for trouble.
What about you? how do yourself accountable and to ensure your work is always your best? let us know in the comments.
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
How to use inception marketing on my blog?
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Advertising
This guest post is by Tommy Walker, online marketing strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name.
Have you seen inception yet? For those who haven't, all you need to know is that it follows a team of thieves who access dreams in order to steal information for their clients.The term "inception" refers to the notion that information can be implanted in rather than taken from a person. An idea can be planted so that it feels organic to the dreamer, and when he or she wakes up, the person will take certain actions without questioning his own motives.
A similar concept can be used with the advertising that supports your blog. We're all familiar with the 10,000 hour rule, but if you had a way to skip over it, and use advertising in a way that let you wake up a week or two from now with more devoted readers than you have today, would you be willing to make the effort?
"An elegant solution for keeping track of reality." - Adriane
For a long time, the targeting process for advertisements was limited to basic parameters: age, gender, location, and context.Now we have social networks. What used to be the outer limits of a consumer profile now constitute the baseline of information most people consider "safe" to share online.
And, thanks to social networks, many more will share specific likes and capabilities likes, their employment history, educational background, and more. All of this can be pieced together into a audience profile that has real dimension to it.
"If we are gonna perform inception then we need imagination."-Eames
There's something special about Facebook ads. Before you jump ship or question whether Facebook is appropriate for your blog, consider this fact:
There are over 500 million people on Facebook.
The total of the populations of the United States, Australia, Canada and Russia combined is only slightly above that figure. How many readers would you need to consider your blog successful?I'm pretty sure you could find at least a few thousand people who are interested in what you have to say-provided you're willing to make the investment to locate them.
In order to use the Facebook ad platform to its full potential, you need to understand the differences between Facebook ads and search ads.
The most notable difference is the targeting techniques these ads use. The strength of Facebook's ad platform comes from its ability to target users via the "likes and interests" section of a user profile.Search ads are targeted to the information a user is actively searching for in a given moment.
So, for example, I see Facebook ads for the Golden girls box set because Facebook knows from my profile that I'm a fan of the Golden girls. (Just... don't tell anyone, ok?)Google or Bing will show me ads for the same thing-but only if I ask for them by performing a search on those terms.
The beauty of Facebook ads lies in the quality of the information you receive in the reporting data generated when someone clicks on your Facebook ad. Unlike a search ad's reporting data, Facebook's reports provide access to detailed demographic data plus a responder profile report, which details the nitty gritty of the common interests of the people clicking on your ad.
"Dreams feel real while we re in them." "It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange." - Cobb
Bloggers can create an inception-like effect using Facebook advertising. We can use the ad reporting data to create the illusion that our blog or our website is and always has been, beloved by its audience.
We start the process of inception by using the responder profiles. Typically similar to this ad but is will vary from ad to this profile:
The responder profile is your toolbox when it comes to learning how to approach your users.This data review, learn to love it and wringen the life out of it by incorporating it into all the techniques you use on your blog.
For example, let's imagine you have a blog about home improvement and hope to monetize it, but you need to build your readership.You have some basic audience demographic information to get you started and you decide to target to ad that includes keywords like "home improvement," "decorating", "construction" and "home repairs."
Your ads start running on Facebook, and two weeks later, your responder profile tells you that people who include those keywords in their profile, and clicked on your ad, so tend to share interests you never even thought of.Facebook's report lets you know that 60% of the people who like "construction" like "Uncle Fred's light beer."
Suddenly, Uncle Fred's light beer has some power to it perhaps you can use that as a targeting parameter: if Uncle Fred's is what connects A group to group B, then Group B may like your blog, too.You can study Uncle Fred's marketing techniques and apply them to your own campaigns.
Furthermore, you might decide that Uncle Fred's should probably be mentioned somewhere in your blog content-probably with the same level of humor, or using the same language, that your intended readership uses.
I used this technique recently on a page I what running for a client.After I saw my first responders profiles, I realized that my initial approach to the target audience what likely bordering on offensive: it was a little too young-sounding.I also noticed that many of our users shared the Bible as their favorite book, and had a penchant for the blue collar comedy series.
As I interacted with the community over the next few days, I took on a more at-home tone.and made sure that the content I provided had a sense of humor (sometimes at the expense of usefulness).Our interaction rates went through the roof.The more I knew about these users, the easier it what to approach them on their own wavelength.This, in turn, helped me learn even more about what we needed to be offering our customer base.
Ultimately, you can use Facebook's responder profiles to take on a virtual version of your own client's personalities.The effect is that your blog's visitors will feel at home communicating candidly with you following your work, and buying from you, without ever questioning why they feel so comfortable.
And when people like you that much, they become brands advocates.It only takes a few of them to spread the word about your site among the people they know and beyond.
"You hard don't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."-Eames
Tommy is an online marketing strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name.He is about to release hack the social network, the ultimate guide to Facebook Marketing, and is currently developing a "mind hacking" course.
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Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Form 5 techniques to your next post unforgettable
Write content
"'S Canobie corkscrew" of Flatluigi
This review is the contribution of bamboo forest, tick tock timer
Reading a blog post should be to sink like an ice cream in the middle of August, your teeth.
Or the moment just before you break 2,000 meters in a roller coaster.
"'S Canobie corkscrew" of FlatluigiLet's face it: blogs posts have always been and will always be a diversion of mundaneness of life.No matter what your blog topic.
Since that's true, let's give people what you want.
Here five techniques are your related a great experience make your readers not only dry information type, but a truly unforgettable post.
"When you try to write for all write for no one." ~ Brian Clark
It's okay, controversial to. Finally, if any, on the same things, it's boring.
While I do not recommend that you do not agree, just to get attention are obliged, time your interpretation of certain concepts from many other Blogger.Wenn this happens where differs not hesitate to share your thoughts.
If readers coming to your blog and read a different from the usual, it is refreshing.Can be to enjoy the experience, readers of the courage, controversial.
Here are two solid ways you can implement the unexpected in your blog.
Is the first time to post new topics, are a little off topic from your niche, but your readers will enjoy.
For example, if you write a blog on personal development, occasionally to topics can write that veer do such as tea or Krafttraining.Leo Babauta of Zen habits a little outside your niche, but still interesting for you, all the time, and his success speaks for itself.
The second way to the unexpected to create is included that the reader will never come something in your post sah.Kann it funny, shocking, senseless - everything you can imagine as long as it's something that your readers can not anticipate of course you have, tactful, how to use this technique, because ultimately it has to work.
In a post entitled 9 best mistakes of all time, my brother wrote two sets on the crocs shoe craze.Note how the second sentence is totally unexpected (this is why it is so much fun to read):
"Not that long ago in a Galaxy very, very tight plastic an international sensation was shoes with large holes.""Most definitely the Bush administration error."
A few other ways to implement the unexpected include:
Close your blog post with a set that came from the left field.Set anywhere support the impression a position, and then quickly move opposite position.Have a daemon to support interrupt of the middle of your post.(You weren't expecting me to you, that last bizarre example to give but it made more appealing, the reading isn't it?)
"Tell me the Moon seems;""show me the shimmer of light on broken glass."~ Anton Chekhov
When possible, regardless of your niche, give people something that you can see in their mind's eye.
For example I wrote a post about people not to take advantage of the opportunities in life and how, regardless of opportunities getting our way come, whether we you or do not use.
But I have this language verwenden.Die would have been good, lackluster.
Instead used the analogy of a surfer, sitting on its Board that had missed a few waves and then suddenly a new set of waves rolling his manner, in the Sun like high Hill laden with diamonds spots appear.
Always when can an analogy that draws an image into the minds of your readers - and also makes the concept, are clear communication - do it.
If you laugh, have a good Zeit.Wenn your blog post giggles from readers elicit can give you a pleasant all human Erfahrungen.Machen you your readers only occasionally laugh, and you have added a whole new dimension to your blog, your readers will enjoy.
Just a bunch of words into a party transforms your post from humor, where everyone cracking up and have a good old days.
I have quotes from blogs, books, and YouTube videos verwendet.Und in my blogging career every time, when I have improved my post.
For starters, by inserting a quote from someone else, are you as your own Haus.Das your blog post to another to enable voice gives writing variety.
Also, it gives you the way someone to share's - expertise on a subject expertise, you may have not.
In short, can your post to make interesting including quotes.
I use quotation marks on behalf of support it, but if you see a time where fit a quote with your post, give it a Go.Es like a little spice to a court, I like it a little something extra to geben.Und personally Curry.
Anyone can simple facts in their blog posts teilen.Aber the really talented bloggers who require attention, give your readers experience you come back to more by unforgettable blog posts to halten.Verwenden you these techniques? how else can we make our contributions unforgettable?
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Sunday, 9 January 2011
Keep your blog fresh [interview]
Various blog tips
Last week I took this short interview with Phil Dobbie from BNET. We covered a range of topics.including your blog keep fresh, stand in the crowd, maintaining your voice, maintenance of your blog in the long term by controversy and much more for a 13-minute interview, which we certainly are a lot of ground.
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The blog world paradox: a blog action day case study
General
"Watershow" Las Vegas by pgl 
Chuckb "Las Vegas"
Today, Darren and thousands of other bloggers are gathered in Las Vegas for blog world.It is appropriate, the blog action day should zusammenfallen.besonders of this blog action day, with the world's largest blogging Conference with water focus.
When we think about water issues, we need our eyes and spells to close the African desert or the Australian outback: just think, as far as the blog world, Las Vegas.
"Watershow" Las Vegas by pgl Las Vegas is a modern, developed city that integrated expect ist.Wie perhaps in a desert, is facing problems serious water. Like many communities around the world is experiencing currently a drought and Las Vegas is struggling to source water from elsewhere in the State to the needs of its growing permanent population and its booming tourism.
A tourism industry supports a large part of the thousands of conferences which every year takes place in the city.Including the blog world.
Of course, we need a place to hold conferences and Vegas is built for such events.But it is paradoxical that, while I'm blogging about water problems for blog action day, thousands of bloggers on a dangerous dry city water supply in the name of blogging be stressed.
Us remember it - whether we enjoy blog world in Vegas or remotely are you following - that we all have some responsibility for the availability of water and quality, and we the responsibility accept müssen.Dies are global problems.You are restricted by national borders, coasts, professions or socioeconomic boundaries.
The impact of water conservation efforts are also global.What you can do get water and preserve water quality, far a difference on your own backyard.What you can do, is to raise a valuable auswirken.Unter the developed nations, it is a surprising ignorance of water-related issues.
Chuckb "Las Vegas"When I started researching this post, my search for Vegas, turned Nevada + water more results for rough water consumers as water parks, water gardens and water features as authorities or articles on water issues Wasser.Nichts in this first page of results suggests, there were no problems with water in Las Vegas - the Gegenteil.Ohne information on the realities of water issues have communities struggling to identify the problem, let alone measures on it.
It is not only Vegas: there is water scarcity and quality problems in your city, your State and your Land.vielleicht is the day, think about what you can do today to these questions in your own way handeln.Als blogger in a rural area that has experienced only a debilitating, decade-long drought, I'm curious: what water issues are you and your local communities currently faced?
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Thursday, 6 January 2011
Simple content, the planning for bloggers
Write content
I know what you think: a content schedule? How hard can it be?Get a calendar, delete a blog post every day and are fertig.Recht?
Well, sort of.This approach could be good in the early days of a blog if you write the need on any topic in your niche to cover, about want to but that such scattergun could less than suitable write his kann.Reflexartige approach on your site to receive content, but it is not necessarily meet the long-term strategies set for your blog.
If you have a fully reflective approach to content, run the risk of publishing filler rather that killer.
I have to admit that my approach content planning is anything but high-tech, but I thought, I would explain it here, that, specifically in how we plan the content for ProBlogger.I'd love to hear how you plan maybe together we can content - come with a ultimate content scheduling Approach…
Darren has a pretty clear strategy for the directions in which he would like to take the content here at ProBlogger and he listed a number of issues he more detail wants for me. You may have seen you listed in our guest post guidelines - are things like SEO blog design, WordPress tips, and so on.
Once you down have, where you try to get it is not a bad idea, create some categories of information that you can use to define the pieces of content that you publish have a solid post categorization system werde.Wenn on your blog, you would be best, this content directions map your existing information architecture.
So, for example Darren will contain WordPress tips in our content but the categories we have set up content for the blog currently contain any WordPress.We have two options. If the content direction is not a major one, we could decide WordPress content on the basis of the result of every bit to kategorisieren.Eine tip that explains, would apply a new theme to your blog as you see for example, in the existing blog design category.When WordPress is a great content direction, we must belong the IA to a WordPress tips category may update.
I seem to always wind up my create schedule forms in a spreadsheet.Here is the small template that I created:
As you can see, it's pretty simple: dates, days, rooms for post title.Quite simply, or? in fact, there are two aspects of that template reflect values of our content strategy.
First, I included two rows for each week: I'm going to plan Darren's posts in the top row and guest posts on the bottom row.Darren's voice is of course to pursue his posts on the site so I separately wollte.Auf this way I can tell at a glance if we not enough Darren in a week.
Secondly, I have the various post topics we 2 identified color-coded., as you at the bottom left can see in step.Each time I enter a post in the schedule, color-code I es.Wieder, this allows to see me when we too much from a focus on a particular topic in a single week.
It is the moment we all have been waiting for: scheduling Inhalt.Hier is what my content schedule looks like after I have deleted all content has been entered in WordPress.
Compare that with the WordPress edit screen below, and I think will vote, the colour-coded table it much easier to get a quick overview of where things are, and what types of content we need to source or decreasing in the coming days and weeks.
With my schedule in place, it is simply a matter of adding post title (which I identical with the post title which entered in WordPress), and make comments about you – as the Don don't MOVE note on the post published Wednesday 13.
I created the schedule as a Google doc so Darren cannot see it and add or at the beginning of each new week I delete move content as erforderlich.Klicken to save last week from the schedule, but you want to record content on a second spreadsheet so that you follow the evolution of your content direction in time can.
I have a second table to this file, where I keep track all content procurement efforts can. If you actively, couldn't content source a second table your own write plan - again, color-coded could with posts this spreadsheet to ensure your content strategy are aligned.
This very basic content plan approach works for mich.Wie manage planning content on your blog?
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How to use inception marketing on my blog?
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Advertising
This guest post is by Tommy Walker, online marketing strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name.
Have you seen inception yet? For those who haven't, all you need to know is that it follows a team of thieves who access dreams in order to steal information for their clients.The term "inception" refers to the notion that information can be implanted in rather than taken from a person. An idea can be planted so that it feels organic to the dreamer, and when he or she wakes up, the person will take certain actions without questioning his own motives.
A similar concept can be used with the advertising that supports your blog. We're all familiar with the 10,000 hour rule, but if you had a way to skip over it, and use advertising in a way that let you wake up a week or two from now with more devoted readers than you have today, would you be willing to make the effort?
"An elegant solution for keeping track of reality." - Adriane
For a long time, the targeting process for advertisements was limited to basic parameters: age, gender, location, and context.Now we have social networks. What used to be the outer limits of a consumer profile now constitute the baseline of information most people consider "safe" to share online.
And, thanks to social networks, many more will share specific likes and capabilities likes, their employment history, educational background, and more. All of this can be pieced together into a audience profile that has real dimension to it.
"If we are gonna perform inception then we need imagination."-Eames
There's something special about Facebook ads. Before you jump ship or question whether Facebook is appropriate for your blog, consider this fact:
There are over 500 million people on Facebook.
The total of the populations of the United States, Australia, Canada and Russia combined is only slightly above that figure. How many readers would you need to consider your blog successful?I'm pretty sure you could find at least a few thousand people who are interested in what you have to say-provided you're willing to make the investment to locate them.
In order to use the Facebook ad platform to its full potential, you need to understand the differences between Facebook ads and search ads.
The most notable difference is the targeting techniques these ads use. The strength of Facebook's ad platform comes from its ability to target users via the "likes and interests" section of a user profile.Search ads are targeted to the information a user is actively searching for in a given moment.
So, for example, I see Facebook ads for the Golden girls box set because Facebook knows from my profile that I'm a fan of the Golden girls. (Just... don't tell anyone, ok?)Google or Bing will show me ads for the same thing-but only if I ask for them by performing a search on those terms.
The beauty of Facebook ads lies in the quality of the information you receive in the reporting data generated when someone clicks on your Facebook ad. Unlike a search ad's reporting data, Facebook's reports provide access to detailed demographic data plus a responder profile report, which details the nitty gritty of the common interests of the people clicking on your ad.
"Dreams feel real while we re in them." "It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange." - Cobb
Bloggers can create an inception-like effect using Facebook advertising. We can use the ad reporting data to create the illusion that our blog or our website is and always has been, beloved by its audience.
We start the process of inception by using the responder profiles. Typically similar to this ad but is will vary from ad to this profile:
The responder profile is your toolbox when it comes to learning how to approach your users.This data review, learn to love it and wringen the life out of it by incorporating it into all the techniques you use on your blog.
For example, let's imagine you have a blog about home improvement and hope to monetize it, but you need to build your readership.You have some basic audience demographic information to get you started and you decide to target to ad that includes keywords like "home improvement," "decorating", "construction" and "home repairs."
Your ads start running on Facebook, and two weeks later, your responder profile tells you that people who include those keywords in their profile, and clicked on your ad, so tend to share interests you never even thought of.Facebook's report lets you know that 60% of the people who like "construction" like "Uncle Fred's light beer."
Suddenly, Uncle Fred's light beer has some power to it perhaps you can use that as a targeting parameter: if Uncle Fred's is what connects A group to group B, then Group B may like your blog, too.You can study Uncle Fred's marketing techniques and apply them to your own campaigns.
Furthermore, you might decide that Uncle Fred's should probably be mentioned somewhere in your blog content-probably with the same level of humor, or using the same language, that your intended readership uses.
I used this technique recently on a page I what running for a client.After I saw my first responders profiles, I realized that my initial approach to the target audience what likely bordering on offensive: it was a little too young-sounding.I also noticed that many of our users shared the Bible as their favorite book, and had a penchant for the blue collar comedy series.
As I interacted with the community over the next few days, I took on a more at-home tone.and made sure that the content I provided had a sense of humor (sometimes at the expense of usefulness).Our interaction rates went through the roof.The more I knew about these users, the easier it what to approach them on their own wavelength.This, in turn, helped me learn even more about what we needed to be offering our customer base.
Ultimately, you can use Facebook's responder profiles to take on a virtual version of your own client's personalities.The effect is that your blog's visitors will feel at home communicating candidly with you following your work, and buying from you, without ever questioning why they feel so comfortable.
And when people like you that much, they become brands advocates.It only takes a few of them to spread the word about your site among the people they know and beyond.
"You hard don't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."-Eames
Tommy is an online marketing strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name.He is about to release hack the social network, the ultimate guide to Facebook Marketing, and is currently developing a "mind hacking" course.
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Monday, 3 January 2011
How I make money blogging: income split for August/September 2010
Blogging for dollars
Since April of this year, I put together put income to try my own business reports, type readers feel as income from a variety of sources to blogger can earn.
It has an update a few months since I, was today so I'm going to cover both August and September.
Below two pie charts with the two months Splits.Sie will notice that it will sell a few differences between them with eBook the greatest author of the month (it moves quite a bit when you start a new ebook as I in August with the copywriting scorecard for bloggers).
The following I've included a chart, track the different income streams over the last six months and shows both income and each of the stream.
You'll notice that September the lowest income had since may, mainly because I no product to start or do all large affiliate promotions that month (it is the calm before the storm, hopefully, the end of the year looks as it, busy, busy, will be busy).
The other factor in play here is that the exchange rate between US dollar and the Aussie dollar has worked my favor.
Where I $1 the. 20AUD a few weeks ago for each $USD, the exchange rate is now almost 1: 1, due to the strength which the Australian economy was currently always (we seem to be not one of the few countries in the world recession).
As always, people ask why I $ setzen.Ich numbers on these charts am not really fit in, that, except to say that the business generated a seven figure income each year.
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Sunday, 2 January 2011
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Build the perfect blog audience for you
Various blog tips
This review is the contribution of David Risley DavidRisley.com.
If you hand-your ideal blog readers could pick, would you? what are you like? what you look like?
Have you thought ever?
See all too often a blogger puts a blog and just hope starts someone posting with your thumb by will come.In those days you really too much about the people who is to gewinnen.Es about these numbers and traffic stand. Finally see some positive numbers in your Analytics at least someone is listening, isn't it?
As someone who was in this blogging thing for over a decade, I'm here to say that the numbers mean so much not. When it comes to make a full time business out of blogging, the kind of people you don't is more important than quantity.
I'd rather have an audience of 1,000 people, that I really "good click" as 10,000 people, the I don't. I'll make more money with the smaller audience of anytime.
For this the Empire sense enter, let us look at real life, shall we?
I have said before, that blogging is a business people. People to understand and you will understand blogging as a business model.So, with that in mind, just think about things we saw in the little thing called "real life".
Had you ever treat someone you not only in conjunction with - ever get?May have a sense of humor, but the other person has none and lands to take all your jokes seriously (or, worse yet, gets offended) .vielleicht are the responsible way and this other person is only a model of irresponsibility. Perhaps you share guys just not any interest.You guys are like oil and water.
On the other hand, others are only really easy to together with to bekommen.vielleicht share the same goals and work together at the end. Perhaps have you a similar sense of humor and each other up to knacken.vielleicht that special person to meet and experience "Love at first sight".Call it chemistry or what Wünschen.Wie Forrest Gump it would have said to you, do you guys like peas and carrots.
Well, what I am talking about taking over a fancy word for you is consistency. When you try to arbitrarily to symbolize this person in a number of vectors all your vectors would more or less point in the same direction.You have before or orientation.
It has often been said, but a very important part of earning money, a strong relationship is building as a blogger with your audience. Want to know, like and trust you.
If only a little deeper than that, we deepen, is attracting the kind of people click "with". People having consistency.
Your ideal readers would be someone who shares certain objectives with you (after all, that's what makes part of your market to start with). In addition you should share however, certain features with you so that you "by clicking your style and personality".
These are the people with congruent figures.These are the people who will be the strongest bond with you, love be what you produce, and feel what you be empfehlen.Sie or who will be much more likely to buy your stuff, as if you know.Are you like and trust you.They are fans.
Now, is the way you your online brand signs very important, draws matching personalities.Play the characteristics, the "jive" with your audience and hides others play.In essence are a brand avatar for yourself create.Ideally should be representative who wants to be your audience where the brand avatar.
If you are the Internet marketing familiar at all with the world, who then maybe you know Frank Kern ist.Ist a master who is this mark Avatar.Seine ideal client interested in making money.Money means typically freedom of time and Ort.Menschen often associate beach with freedom.So what is Frank's brand?A surfer-bum, living in San Diego on the beach and turn everything in huge piles of money just by berühren.Er is open a sense of humor.
What did Frank?He played those aspects which the congruent is sind.Er a brand avatar for where you want to be with his audience.
The purpose of this post is simple, think about your blog brand get avatar.
In short, it is you not only natural, but also strategische.Werden yourself on your blog, but also to something strategic about the kind of detail online brand and thus the kind of people you anziehen.Und if not someone who just click with you, along rolls, leave to you the relationship more important than the extra pixels abbestellen.Da your is Analytics graph.
Order to get started, I recommend that you display a "wanted" for your ideal customer or readers schreiben.Wenn such an ad to write, what you would write?
Here is an example if I write one for the ideal audience of my blog:
WANTED: Blogger who wants your passion in a full-time effort to verwandeln.Ein action taker ready to work, while fun must be motivated.
It is short and concise, yet it spelled the kinds of qualities will.Ich I do not say that you're going to go and post this überall.Dies is just an exercise you get on your mark avatar, and think your audience.
Finally, how to create this ad, think you how you represent yourself on your blog and what types of people who attract wird.Line your brand avatar and your audience up?
David Risley shows how the intersection between blogging and marketing to find bloggers, and finally money with your start Blog.Sie can follow antics is on Twitter at @ Davidrisley.
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Saturday, 1 January 2011
5 Reasons to use press releases to promote your blog
Blog promotion
This guest post is Director of product management for PRWeb by Jîyan Wei.
Creating content in a blog is just one aspect of being a prolific blogger - you have written, the content, but now what? How do you want your blog or specific posts within to promote it?
Companies, firms and individual blog owners try many tactics, but few consider a press release as promotional tactics for your blog. It is an idea that simply forget many blog owners underestimate or don't even exist.
An external link to a Web site is like a vote of confidence - imagine, the cast with targeted anchor text could become as powerful. With anchor text links to press releases help the authority from your blog in search engines to increase if the new version itself, or in original content recycled by an influencer. Not only are using targeted anchor text but win domain authority sites your blogging competitor, the press releases aren't using can't have.
Remember not to fall into the trap exaggerate your links in press releases.Too many links, and it is obvious to find readers and engine robot trying to do. The reader is postponed by too many links and erkennt.Die feel advertised, while you appreciate bot that the document contains too many links and is the search engine can connect press releases be, powerful, but only when they are used as needed. My recommendation (conventional wisdom) is a link for every 100 words.
Press releases are still a format that is preferred by the mainstream media so that advertising can pick up a request from a mainstream media outlet for your blog by press releases.The media are looking for something unique, so most promote eye-catcher or attention content on your blog (or even your blog) .even if media write the history of your release, not if, release an influential journalist makes available, to your blog and you are a Subscriber, you could just write later about you.
Releases from the major wire services that have large distribution channels are greater than your blog traffic for fresh, niche-specific senden.Je the site that there are more channels and categories of distribution (that is, what with paid wire vs. free services get).Think you a community of influencers erreichen.Journalisten and other bloggers could press releases from your niche see your release and send highly targeted traffic as a result.This is the power of the new direct distribution model - it gives you the ability to create your own audience.
The days actually get visiting a Web site to provide information which are long behind many of us, and the best press release have distribution services until required categories in the large distribution sites are evolving demand for the Inhalt.Da, Subscribe to Web savvy influencers via RSS based on your Interessen.Durch from your blog to an audience is to promote that already use RSS and feed your share within the version can greatly increase your customer base of influencers.
Press releases can rank well in major search engines, providing a great entry point for a new niche Blog.manchmal only a highly optimized press release is all it takes to on the first page of a search engine for a competitive term drive consistent organic traffic and increased awareness about your blog.
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Jîyan Wei is Director of product management for PRWeb, leader in online news distribution and online Werbung.Weitere follow tips for using press releases @ PRWeb on Twitter.
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