Three Keys to Spectacular Guest Posting Success
May 20, 2012
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A guest post by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing Note: If this subject interests you, then you should register for the free live training event that we’re holding next week! Got a new blog? Want to grow it to mammoth proportions? Then you’ve got to be guest posting. You probably don’t need me to tell [...]
Read More...Beware! Google is Changing Title Tags at Will
May 18, 2012
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By Karon Thackston © 2012, All Rights Reserved In all the years since Google became a player in the search engine optimization arena, we have seen countless changes. Some have been minor algo tweaks while others caused a major upheaval. Still, one thing remained constant: we controlled our title tags. But no longer. The recent [...]
Read More...Noun/Verb Agreement with “Number”
May 18, 2012
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When a sentence begins with “A number of,” should the verb that follows be singular, or plural? For example, when a sentence refers to a number of objections being raised, is was correct, or should you use were? In this case, number stands in as a vague reference to the quantity of objections, but the [...]
Read More...Lessons I’ve learned from landing clients on first dates (Guest Post)
May 18, 2012
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Call it “inadvertent self-promotion”… Men With Pens recently ran a guest post about dating rules you can apply to client prospecting. Considering I’ve inadvertently won over a commercial writing client while on a first date, I found the post pretty funny. This has actually happened to me not once, but twice. Dating your clients? To [...]
Read More...Lessons I’ve learned from landing clients on first dates (Guest Post)
May 18, 2012
Filed under Email Copywriting
Call it “inadvertent self-promotion”… Men With Pens recently ran a guest post about dating rules you can apply to client prospecting. Considering I’ve inadvertently won over a commercial writing client while on a first date, I found the post pretty funny. This has actually happened to me not once, but twice. Dating your clients? To [...]
Read More...Noun/Verb Agreement with “Number”
May 18, 2012
Filed under Email Copywriting
When a sentence begins with “A number of,” should the verb that follows be singular, or plural? For example, when a sentence refers to a number of objections being raised, is was correct, or should you use were? In this case, number stands in as a vague reference to the quantity of objections, but the [...]
Read More...How to Hook (More) Copywriting Prospects
May 18, 2012
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The other day, an aspiring copywriter asked me a question that I hear all too often: “How do I distinguish myself from other copywriters?” The answer is not an easy one. It takes some thought, some time, and perhaps some inspiration. But time after time, I have found that most people tend to overlook one [...]
Read More...Results of Daily Blogging Experiment
May 18, 2012
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I blogged daily, Monday through Friday, from January 1st through March 31st, 2012. The results were interesting. Traffic went WAY up. It more than doubled. I had 21,707 unique visitors in 4th quarter 2011… but 46,322 unique visitors in 1st quarter 2012. “List churn” increased quite a bit. Lots of new people subscribing, nearly as [...]
Read More...Three Keys to Spectacular Guest Posting Success
May 18, 2012
Filed under Email Copywriting
A guest post by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing Note: If this subject interests you, then you should register for the free live training event that we’re holding next week! Got a new blog? Want to grow it to mammoth proportions? Then you’ve got to be guest posting. You probably don’t need me to tell [...]
Read More...#009: How To Get 90 New Customers In 90 Days
May 17, 2012
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There are few businesses that would not benefit from a steady, predictable flow of new customers. Yet very few businesses have any kind of system in place to do this. Here’s a simple plan for generating 90 new customers for your business in 90 days. And the best part is, you don’t have to stop [...]
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