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I am new to blogging. I have only been consistent since September 2016. I am also a learner :lol: So that means I learned a lot from a lot of different people before i felt confident to get started.

In the end I came up with a checklist of things to...

We entreprenuers hear it all over. SEO, blog, social media,SEO, Pinterest, videos.

But once I looked into the why behind it all, it made sense to me. Words. Google looks for words for people. If our websites don't have the words for Google to...

It took me a very long time to figure out how to find and use good keywords when writing. It needed to be explained many times to me. I am still not as good at titles and meta as other people but I do have a method to find and use reasonably good...

Social media has changed how we post and where we post. Now, I can't speak to where we were 10, 15 or even 20 years ago with content, but I know a few people... ahem, Sheryl, Brad.... who can. Last year, we started this forum for a few different reasons....

There comes a day when you can trust your own experience more than what they say. In my case, I trust myself when it comes to writing without the net of an editorial calendar.

Ultimately, I work on building a writing practice that encompasses everything...

Just about a year ago, U2 made that very public oops when they pushed their album at everyone with an iTunes account. The backlash was more memorable that the music. Bono quickly apologized and explained the band's actions:

A drop of megalomania, a...

Beach vacations are meant to be unstructured, relaxed situations. Blog posts are not.

Start meandering through your next biz blog post like a kid making her way across the sand and your readers will click away faster than a live lobster trying to...

Vocal fry... Does it make you crazy? Do you do it yourself? Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?

An open letter from feminist writer Naomi Wolf appeared in The Guardian last week. She was taking young women to task for a growly vocal habit they...

This post could go anywhere in the forum because we're all spouting opinion on every topic under the sun. This article highlights the dark side of all those beliefs.

When are you entitled to have an opinion? When are you just sharing misinformation...

This has to be the best headline I have come across this year: How To Write The Best Copy Ever With Advice From Junk Mail

IRRESISTIBLE, eh? And that's the first lesson that 'junk mails' teach you: craft shocking, unorthodox, bizarre, weird, uncommon...

Neil Patel used to be one of my least favorite content marketers/writers: I thought his penmanship was sloppy, selfish and salesy!

BOY, has he proved me wrong in the last year by having a COMPLETE makeover or what?! Now, his prose is clear, consistent,...

Generic ideas lead to bland, generic mindmaps. These don’t make anyone want to write anything. - Daphne Grant

I don't know how to 'mindmap'. I don't doodle

Daphne Grant, one of my favorite bloggers, wouldn't like my confessions. A firm believer of the...

“Writing is habit before an art. It’s hard to create something that’s artful without first building the muscle.”

This #bufferchat, summarized here:

They covered some great territory and discussed issues that plague professional writers and newbie...

People don't read anymore! Authors and college professors have been whining about this for years, but what about all of us who spend so much time on content marketing? Why are we doing all this blogging when people only skim through a post, only seeing...

As I grow my freelancing career, I want to take up more clients, tell better stories, offer value to more people and, yes, earn more money too (Well, anything is better than the NADA I am earning now :P)

Anyway, I am not productive, as I have often...

Have you heard Demian Farnworth's new podcast on Rainmaker.FM called Rough Draft? I can't listen to more than one or two episodes at a time (even though they're super short), but he does deliver some great content. For what it's worth, my five year old...

Ha - I had to smile when this post popped into my Inbox!

As someone who is well-acquainted with crappy posts, I was eager to learn how to extract nuggets of wisdom from my worst endeavors.

The author offers ten ways to unlock quality content from your...

Your thesaurus may be a handy resource when you're working on a blog post or a piece of fiction, but there are so many options there, and many of the words you'll find are way off the mark.

When you're looking for just the right word to describe an...

What are you most likely to let slide this summer? Not customer service or client deliverables... the time consuming aspects of marketing. Sure, it's easy enough to tweet by the pool or sitting in the day camp pick up line, but what about blogging?

If...

You only have so much creative fire, bandwidth to craft intelligent sentences, and hours in the day... so what do you do when you have dreams of being a published writer and know you must build a platform through blogging? And what if you've created a...