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27 MayFeatured

Creating Visual Content: The Favorite Tools and Tips for Non-Artists

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By Rainmaker.FM

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You don’t have to be a trained artist to create stop-them-in-their-tracks images that boost your content’s effectiveness.

These days, you can find easy-to-use free tools that will allow you to create beautiful images for your blog, website, and social media.

This week on Hit Publish, host Pamela Wilson invited three Copyblogger experts to share their best advice for creating remarkable visual content.

Tune in to hear from host Pamela Wilson, Demian Farnworth, Chris Garrett, and Lauren Mancke as they discuss:

  • Why images “put the brakes” on readers, and why that’s a good thing
  • Which “off the beaten path” …read more      
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27 MayFeatured

Josh Pigford on Shipping, Hiring Smart People, and Not Being Epically Wrong

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By Rainmaker.FM

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Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a self-proclaimed maker — but host Jon Nastor would call him an entrepreneur, writer, designer, developer, and master marketer.

He has been developing and shipping products online for more than 10 years now and has seen his share of successes and not-so-successful ventures.

He is currently the founder of Baremetrics, software analytics and reporting for Stripe. Baremetrics seemingly came out of nowhere with an awesome content marketing strategy, lead by today’s guest, on the Baremetrics blog — one of the best software business blogs on the Internet.

Now, let’s hack …

Josh Pigford.

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27 MayFeatured

The Oddest Story About Overcoming Obscurity You’ll Ever Hear

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By Rainmaker.FM

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It’s a monumental moment in the history of Rough Draft because we are going to break — for the first time ever — the monologue mold of Rough Draft.

In fact, we’re going to do it all week.

See, Demian Farnworth has four short interviews for you from four superb web writers. People who will teach you fabulous lessons on overcoming obscurity, finding your voice, choosing the right words, and rapidly expanding your audience.

Right now, you’ll hear from the lovely James Chartrand, a single mom with two kids who built a world-class design and copywriting boutique called Men …read more      

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27 MayFeatured

Why Link Building Is NOT the Future of SEO

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By Neil Patel

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Over the years, SEOs focused all their attention on link building. Why? Because it impacted rankings more than anything else.

Although links still help with rankings, the big misconception in the search world is that the majority of your time and effort should be placed on building links.

So, if building links is not what you should be spending your time on, what is? It’s user experience—because it will impact rankings more than anything else.

Here’s why user experience will impact your rankings more than links will:

What’s best for users is best for Google

As you already know, Google makes a large …read more      

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27 MayFeatured

5 Reasons Why It’s Practical and Profitable to Share Your Expertise Online

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By Amy Harrison

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We were silent as the car left the coziness of our home to the bright lights of the train station. I’d never been so anxious.

At the drop-off bay, I opened the door to leave and gave a barely noticeable lurch … barely noticeable. My husband looked at me with wide eyes.

“Did you just throw up in your mouth?!”

“No …” (I lied.)

And so I went, to run the copywriting workshop that made me (almost) decide to give up live workshops altogether and only teach online.

And I want to share what happened because it’s cheaper than therapy …read more      

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