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Don’t Know What to Blog About? 104 Ideas.
TweetDon’t know what to blog about today? Well, Lisa Barone has come up with a solution. In a post for Small Business Trends, she identifies 104 topics covering your industry, your business, your...
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What Marketers Are Saying About Social Media
TweetWant to know how communicators are using social media? You could pose a question on Twitter or you could do a deep dive. MarketingProfs did the latter, surveying 4,763 marketers and others...
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The Secret to Regular Blog Posting
TweetIf you know the secret sauce, please let me know. A lot of people have strategies to facilitate regular blog posts. In fact, I’m doing several things right: Don’t strive for perfection. There are...
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Why Business and Politics Don’t Mix
TweetIt’s generally a bad idea to mix business and politics. (Unless, of course, your business is politics.) My friend Deborah Brody pointed me to this story on Friday about a bar owner who used his...
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Are Blogs The New Business Cards?
Tweet Check out the latest data on business blogging from Hubspot’s State of Inbound Marketing report: 65 percent of respondents say that they publish a company blog. Before you get too excited, two...
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Why I Don’t Have A Marketing Blog
TweetMy target audience isn’t marketers. It’s businesses. There’s nothing wrong with marketing blogs. Or PR blogs. Or blogs about kittens. But too many business bloggers are really just writing for...
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The Rich (Marketers) Aren’t So Different After All
TweetF. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that “the rich are different from you and me.” (And Ernest Hemingway, unblinded by bling, is said to have replied, “Yes, they have more money.) Turns out, when it...
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The Fastest Way to Shut Down Conversation on Your Blog
TweetWant to know the fastest way to shut down conversation on your blog? Moderate comments. (And if you’re going to hold comments, you should at minimum have a process for getting them approved...
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On Blog Action Day, Celebrate the “Power of We” in Your Business
TweetYou’re probably going to see a lot of inspiring blog posts today (and maybe read a few of them too). You see, it’s Blog Action Day, and the theme this year is The Power of We. But since I write a...
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Goodbye Reader, Hello Feedly
TweetApparently no one uses Google Reader. No one, except me (and a whole bunch of other people too). As a voracious consumer of online content (I subscribe to over 100 blogs), nothing beats the...
View ArticleHow I Read 100 Blogs a Day and You Can Too
When I tell people that I read 100 blogs a day, it’s not about making myself into Wonder Woman. (Of course, she is pretty awesome.) I read a lot of blogs to keep up with industry trends, to update my...
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