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12 MayFeatured

How Chief Content Officer Sonia Simone Writes

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By Rainmaker.FM

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Coral-coiffed marketer and prolific online publisher Sonia Simone stopped by The Writer Files on Rainmaker.FM this week to share her writing secrets with us.

Ms. Simone is co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Copyblogger Media, as well as an educator, speaker, and the devious mastermind behind the podcast Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer.

Sonia appeared in The Writer Files written series on Copyblogger and stopped by again to drop some writerly wisdom on us.

In this 18-minute file, host Kelton Reid and Sonia Simone discuss:

  • Why you should read outside your echo chamber
  • Sonia’s secret of reading the tea leaves
  • Writer’s block vs. deadlines
  • Productivity for flakes, …read more      
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12 MayFeatured

Clean Up Your Sidebar!

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By Rainmaker.FM

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Does your sidebar look like a cluttered closet that’s stuffed to the gills with distracting ads, images, and text?

Time to unpack your sidebar, look at everything you’ve put there, and consider whether or not it’s pulling its weight.

The result of your efforts? A sidebar that’s good for business.

This week on Hit Publish, host Pamela Wilson invited three Copyblogger experts to share their best advice on cleaning up your sidebar once and for all.

Tune in to Hit Publish to hear from host Pamela Wilson, Brian Gardner, Rafal Tomal, and Brian Clark as they discuss:

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12 MayUncategorized

Social Media Metrics, Social Metrics, Data—or Metrics, And Vanity Metrics

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May 04, 2015
One chief marketer breaks down the unique benefits found in only social media metrics.
These days there’s certainly no shortage of data?or metrics for that matter. In fact, if you’re not careful, you can end up drowning in a sea of vanity metrics.
Recently, I had a chance to cha…

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12 MayFeatured

The 10 Rules of Rough Drafts

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By Rainmaker.FM

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Rough Draft host Demian Farnworth is about to destroy the lie that suggests your first draft must be perfect. The illusion that great copy is born in a single moment of white hot inspiration.

One of the most famous white-hot inspiration ambush stories in American literary history involves Jack Kerouac, Beat Generation pioneer.

As the legend has it, Kerouac wrote On the Road, a 293-page novel, in three coffee-fueled weeks on one long, flowing scroll.

Now, that is true. He did do that. But it’s not the full truth.

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12 MayUncategorized

Daniel Bennett, Steven Clift, Digital Democracy, And Congresswoman Anna Eshoo

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Before the Greek Gods ascended to Mount Olympus, the Titans ruled the heavens. Among them was Prometheus, who gave humanity the power of fire. And with fire, humans became masters of their own destiny? to some degree. When it comes to the world of digital democracy, where the ?gods? include Facebook…

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