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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 |
Another good short but useful vintage Wordpreneur “must bookmark” article from Rix “How Your Advice Column Can Build Loyal Readers” Quinn — EES
By Rix Quinn
It’s much harder to teach somebody today than it was 20 years ago. Why?
- Radio and TV, the Internet, newspapers and magazines all send us information.
- So, we’ve got less time to absorb more data, and therefore…
- The time we allot to each new message shrinks.
So, how do you climb inside a person’s brain when it’s already overloaded? I stumbled upon several techniques while researching my book, Words That Stick.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 |
Vintage Wordpreneur article and checklist that you’ll probably have fun seeing if it’ll stand up when applied to Harry Potter (the Potters aren’t children’s books anyway… ask Rowling — EES).
By Caterina Christakos
There are seven fundamental reasons that some books succeed and others collect dust on the author’s bookshelf. These seven keys to success as an author are simple, obvious even, and yet in the midst of our writing many of us forget them.
We get so focused on the idea of the book that we forget the mechanics. Here is the strategy that award winning authors use:
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Friday, April 11th, 2008 |
Vintage Wordpreneur Article
By Nick Vernon
Your title is your selling tool. It’s the first thing readers will scan and contemplate whether to read your story.
What your title’s job is, it has to lure the readers into your story — it has to be so compelling that they won’t even have a chance to ask themselves, ‘Will this story interest me?’
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008 |
Vintage Wordpreneur Article
by Matthew Keegan
Writing for websites — content, as it is called — is an important task for webmasters. Your site must be current, relevant, and interesting in order to attract and retain visitors. The following are some tips I have successfully employed in order to keep my websites relevant:
1. Write with Passion. There is nothing worse than reading a dull article! If you aren’t interested in what you are writing about, then please don’t!
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Monday, February 4th, 2008 |
I have no need for these now and in the foreseeable future, but maybe you do.
Search marketing expert Lee Odden has successfully done a bit of “conference blogging” (if 14 in 2007 is just ”a bit”). As he puts it so succinctly:
“[W]e’ve learned a thing or two about live blogging at conferences.”
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Monday, February 4th, 2008 |
Personally, I hate having to deal with SEO and consider it a necessary evil. Thankfully, there are a bumch of good people out there who seem to really enjoy it, and do lots of the research, testing and monitoring so we don’t have to.
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007 |
Extraordinarily busy day, and have been zooming around. Sorry I don’t have the minutes to pump out much of a post today, but managed to free up a few at least to pull this together. It was easy… I just stole it from this Saturday’s coming Carnival.
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007 |
These techniques work for all kinds of content you’re working on that you need to pad and “make larger” (books, articles, ebooks, blog posts, etc.). You can add:
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Friday, October 5th, 2007 |
These, according to writer Suzanne Fleming, are the 10 things you must know “before you should even think about setting pen to paper.”
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