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How to Turn Your Blog Posts Into a PDF and Upload to Slideshare.net

Here’s a quick video I made showing how to convert your blog posts into a PDF document, and then upload to Slideshare.net for more traffic and exposure! I also have a blog post on the same topic here:  How to re-purpose Your Content on Massive Authority Sites  

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5 Ways to Promote Your Blog Posts and Get More Readers

Ok, so you’ve written the worlds best blog post and published it on your blog. Now what?
Unless you’re already very established and have a huge following you’re going to have to do a lot more than just sit around waiting for people to come check it out. In this post I’m going to cover five different things you can be doing after you hit publish to get your post noticed!

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Becoming the Expert

A friend of mine came into the coffee shop one day and announced he had gotten a job as a fifth grade teacher.  I nodded approvingly.  “What do you teach?” I asked and he answered dryly, “French.”  I set my gaze on him, furrowed my brows then burst into laughter, “Dude, you don’t speak French!”  [...]

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Hiring Freelance Writing Help for Your Blog

If you’ve blogged for any amount of time, you can probably attest to the face that blogging is extremely time-intensive.  Depending on your niche, the availability of information and the amount of blog saturation in your particular market, blogging can turn out to be quite the undertaking.  There are times when you’ve got more content [...]

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There are advantages to having a content plan

16 Advantages of Content Planning

Content is key.  You know it, I know it.  So often bloggers fly by the seat of their pants where written content is concerned.  In the rush to handle other aspects of the business, bloggers sometimes let the deliberate planning of well-thought out content go by the wayside, instead focusing on whatever is trending, whatever [...]

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3 Simple Things to Remember About Your Content Strategy

3 Simple Things to Remember About Your Content Strategy

If there’s one thing we now have plenty of it is content. Whether good or bad, most of us are exposed to someone’s content on a daily basis and if your job is anything like mine, you’re feeding on content sometimes for hours a day.  For bloggers, a good portion of your day may be [...]

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Traffic Tuesday – Link-Building for Smarties

I hope that title makes you feel pretty good.  I read the Dummies books, but I never feel good about it.  So here we are, learning about building links.  Link-building is an important part of optimizing your content for search engine rankings. By now, you probably know that one of the main issues with building [...]

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Digital Copyright 101

Back in the early part of this century, when I was studying copyright law as part of a music business degree program at a university in the Midwest, I was required to know the five exclusive rights every copyright owner is guaranteed under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.

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The Definitive Guide to Developing Your Social Media Strategy – Part 2: Building a Powerhouse SMM Strategy

We know from Part 1 of this series that the purpose of social media marketing is to connect you to your users and customers.  Crafting your social media marketing strategy as an executable plan helps you to recognize the potential value in having an SMM strategy.  So now that we know for sure what an [...]

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4 DON’TS of Compelling Blog Content

People are always so quick to tell you ways to improve on what you’re doing.  Plenty of helpful tips like, blog about current events, use keywords, keep your posts under 500 words.  I am of the mindset that we need balance to prevent disturbances in the Force. For the last few years, blogging has been [...]

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