How to Get Great Advice

By Rainmaker.FM

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Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is an avid networker and mobile business strategist, chef, podcaster, and golfer.

He is co-founder and Director of Business Development at ChamberDS.com. Chamber D.S. is a complete app and mobile business agency that turns ideas into profitable app businesses.

He develops and grows relationships with clients, agencies, and companies, as well as specializes in mobile app strategy consulting.

He also hosts The App Academy, a successful podcast with the aim of sharing wisdom from the most successful app business owners on the planet, to teach the necessary steps to make more money from app businesses.

Now, let’s …read more      

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Bringing More Emotion into Your Writing, from the Inside Out

By Rainmaker.FM

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Great content and copywriting builds emotional resonance. But how does that happen? And do you need to be a “genius” writer to create it?

Handling emotion in your writing is a favorite topic of many writers — from novelists to copywriters and including those who write content for the web.

But sometimes we mistake professionalism for whitewashing, and we miss out on using a full range of emotions to create content worth reading and sharing.

Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer host Sonia Simone recently saw the wonderful movie Inside Out, and it sparked some thoughts about how professional writers bring emotion to …read more      

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Let This Stupid Machine Read Your Copy Out Loud

By Rainmaker.FM

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You know that conventional wisdom that you should read everything you write out loud? Let’s put a twist on that advice.

Say you lost your voice. Or are simply lazy. But you just finished a 300-word article and are ready to refine it. It’s natural to read it out loud to see how it sounds.

So let’s say you do that two or three times. But you are still not satisfied with it. So you want someone else to read it.

But no one is around. Enter Ginger.

In this 5-minute episode of Rough Draft with Demian Farnworth, you’ll discover:

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A Step by Step Guide to Modern Broken Link Building

By Neil Patel

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The Internet is broken…

…literally.

Millions of links become broken every day as hosting expires, sites mess up when they migrate, and typing mistakes occur.

All of those events create one of the most consistent opportunities for SEO link building.

Broken link building isn’t new; in fact, it’s been around for years.

It’s a tactic that will never be exhausted because the Internet will always have new broken links.

Here’s what broken link building is in a nutshell:

If you find a broken link on a website, you can contact the owner. Since you did him/her a small favor of pointing out a broken link, they …read more      

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Guiding Online Dreams (and Dreaming of a New Community)

By Pamela Wilson

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Darren DeMatas has built a career helping others bring their dreams online. With his newest venture, selfstartr.com, he’s finally shifted his focus to a new client he’s never served before: himself.

It’s a new business, and his dream is to create a community where people can start to learn how to use content to market their own e-commerce businesses.

Darren’s story is this month’s Hero’s Journey feature. We’re tapping the collective wisdom of our community members to bring you reports from the front lines of the content marketing world. You can read about Belinda Weaver, …read more      

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