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I’ve always been stubborn. So, it wasn’t out-of-character for me to stand my ground when everyone I knew was quite skeptical about my career ambitions. “How are you going to be a writer?” “What have you written?” “Who is going to listen to you?” I’ve heard it all, and I ...

You have the opportunity to help your ideal prospects with the problems they struggle with or the desires they’d like fulfilled. Progress Guide: Try This Prepare a new 7-to-10-step tutorial for your audience. Craft each step into a stand-alone piece of content. Use the sequence to create an email autoresponder ...

So, what happens when someone clicks through to your website? Do you persuade them to stay and find out more about you through the experience you immediately provide? Or, do visitors see information that looks just like the other sites in your niche? Those are enough questions for now. 🙂 ...

In this day and age, substance matters. What you say must be meaningful to the people you’re trying to attract. Your content must solve real problems and satisfy real desires. So why should it matter how you say it? The reality is, how you say it has always mattered, and ...

You’ve heard it a thousand times: The money’s in the list. If you’re serious about your digital business, you need to build a list of people who are paying attention to you, typically an email list. So, how do you get people to sign up for your email newsletter? You ...

Moving on to your next piece of content — regardless of how your last one performed — is the mark of the diligent marketer. We have to keep producing, but we also want to improve and learn more about what our audiences want. Each new piece of content we create ...

I still clearly remember the first sales position I had when I was in college. Picture this: I was selling cell phones from a kiosk in the mall. Yep, I was one of those guys with khakis and a polo shirt who ask if they can have a moment of ...

What’s the second most important part of your blog post after the title? Master copywriter Eugene Schwartz often spent an entire week on the first 50 words of a sales piece — the headline and the opening paragraph. Just imagine how disappointed you’d be after crafting a killer headline for ...

Have you ever read a blog post, listened to a podcast episode, or watched a video and thought: “I kind of get what this person is saying — and I think I agree — but it’s difficult to follow their main points. The content feels incomplete.” When content consumers have ...

We all love to make predictions about the future, don’t we? Whether we think the outcome will be “good” or “bad,” we’ve got an opinion about how things will turn out … oftentimes before anything is even in motion, which means that we’re oftentimes wrong. For content creators, these are ...