For planning and organizing your blog editorial calendar, CoSchedule might just be your new best friend.Your blog, in and of itself, is a major investment. The time you put into it, the passion that drives it, and the vulnerability of creating something and sharing it with the world are all huge investments.That takes guts.After a while, you ...
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How to Promote an Epic Blog Post for 30 Days in 5min
A quick and simple template for creating 30 days worth of social media posts in 5 minutes or less!Let's say you've just finished up a blog post and it's a masterpiece. You've spent hours crafting it, ensuring that it's a literary work of brilliance. You've carefully crafted your content in a way that people are just going to eat it up and ask for ...
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How to: Typography for Visual Content That Doesn’t Suck
Choosing the right typography (or fonts) for your visual content can be difficult if you're not a seasoned designer, but it doesn't have to be.The good news is that all you need are a handful of helpful tips to start improving your visual content typography today!In this post, I cover some basic principals of choosing the right fonts, pairing ...
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The Best Social Media Management Tools
Need to make the most of your time on social media? These tools are the best of the best for social media management, planning and posting.If you’re like most people trying to grow your personal brand or business on social media, you’ve got your work cut out for you. It’s likely you’ve got a Facebook page, Twitter profile, Instagram account, ...
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The Ultimate Guide to Branding Yourself on Social Media
Create a strong personal brand across all your social platforms with this no-nonsense guide.When people visit your social profile, are they impressed? Does your social media presence look like one cohesive, professional brand?If you cannot confidently shout “yes” to both of the previous questions, we’re going to fix that.Want the PDF version ...
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The Biggest Social Media Mistake (And How to Avoid It)
As the recent fate of Vine shows us, you should never put your audience solely in someone else’s hands.Are you working to grow or build an audience on social media? If so, I want to warn you about a very serious social media mistake that I see a lot of social media stars making.With recent news of Vine’s imminent death, it makes this post all ...
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The 20+ Best Places to Find Free Images Online
Looking to find free images to use in your blogs, websites or social media posts? The following sites are the best on the internet.If you are frequently sharing images online it’s essential to have a virtual Rolodex of go-to websites where you can quickly and effectively find 100% free images. Not only that— but it’s important that you have ...
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Instagram Announces Shopping Feature: What You Need to Know
Instagram is going to jump into the ecommerce ring with its new shopping (a.k.a. product tagging) feature.Today Instagram announced some big news for its retail business users. They're testing a new feature that will allow retailers to tag products within their photos, just as you would tag another user in a photo. Only these new product tags are ...
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How to Do a Yearly Blog Review
Understand how your blog has grown and the fruits of your blogging labor.A lot can be accomplished in 365 days, and unless you take the time to evaluate the last 365 days how can you have a proper perspective of what you can expect in the next 365 days?Do you have a yearly review process for your blog? Not to be confused with a blogging ...
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Top 11 Things That Are Killing Your Pinterest Success
These are exactly what you shouldn't be doing if you want to harness the power of Pinterest.In case you weren’t aware, Pinterest has massive potential for driving blog traffic. And I’m not talking short-lived, low-quality traffic. I’m talking long-term, highly engaged traffic that can be a total game-changer for your blog.The best part about ...
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