Why You Hate Writing, And How to Lust After the Blank Page Again. 10 Ways to Find Blogs You'll Love. 'Start Here' – the two most important words in blogging. The internet can be an incredibly impersonal place. With all of the socialization that goes on online, 99% of all content we interact with is still text and images.
While text and copy is a wonderful tool for persuasion, it still is not very personal. Yet we hear all of the time that in order to get people to buy from us we have to get them to know, trust and like us. Don’t let "know, trust, and like" become a buzz phrase. Too often the phrase, “know, trust, and like” is bled together. “Experts” say “get people to knowtrustandlike you, if you want them to buy.” It’s as though “knowtrustandlike” you is a single action that will make you internet famous, where you can sell tons of stuff with a single tweet. Don’t make this mistake. Make a conscious decision to remember that “Knowing”, “Trusting”, and “Liking” are three distinct and separate actions.
Separate the three and free yourself the mental space to work on each individually. Know- Allowing people to know who you are and what you’re about. Learn the best days and times to blog, email, tweet and more. Learn the best days and times to blog, email, tweet and more Tweet this Webinar Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn View the Slides Below: The Science of Timing View more presentations from HubSpot Internet Marketing About Learn Inbound Software Support Jobs Contact. 3 Simple Ways to Repurpose Your Blog Posts for More Exposure. How many ways are you leveraging your blog posts? (7:56 min) Most people write a post and that’s the end of it. You’re probably syndicating your blog feed to the usual places: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, at the very least.
And that’s a good thing. Yet there are many other ways to get more mileage out of your content. As discussed in one of my prior articles, content syndication is just one part of the equation. Repurposing your content means turning your blog posts into different formats like reports, white papers, articles, slide shows, videos, podcasts, teleseminars, ebooks, etc. Why Repurpose Content? It may come as a shock, but not all your ideal clients know about or read your blog! When you publish content on your blog, you’re most likely providing valuable, relevant information that demonstrates how you solve the problems of your ideal client or customer.
You get more exposure and more value from the time you’ve initially invested in creating the content. What You Need to Know. 30 Tools Every Blogger Should Use. Here are 30 online tools that can help make blogging easier, more efficient and enjoyable. Some you may already have heard of, others might new to you, so make sure to check them out. 1. BannerSnack – BannerSnack is perhaps the easiest way to make professional animated banners. Just select your size, and add images, texts, buttons and transitions from each slide. They offer some examples here. 2. BirdHerd – BirdHerd is great way for teams or groups to manage a single Twitter account. 3. 4. 5. 6. ecwid – ecwid is a shopping cart that can easily be implemented into any blog or website. 7. fivesecondtest – This is a very useful tool that allows you to easily identify objects or parts of your blog that stand out the most. 8. 9. 10. Example: 11. iPad Peek – Before you purchase your iPad, check out how your website looks on the device. 12. 13. myGengo – myGengo is a simple way to get your website or document translated by humans, and not by robots. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …) Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable Blogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. By definition, if you are reading this you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. 1. People often ask me why I started blogging. I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. The results have been both unexpected and astounding. Transparencyaccessibilityauthenticitythought leadershipadvice I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar. 2.
You wouldn’t. Think Magento. 3. So. 4.