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13 DecFeatured

How to Invite Your Creative Angel and Devilish Editor to Help You Write

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By Pamela Wilson

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Type, type, type. Backspace, backspace, backspace. Type more, delete, rewrite.

Sound familiar?

Writing and trying to edit as you go gets you nowhere. It’s two steps forward and one step back. It makes your writing process excruciatingly slow.

Stick around because it gets worse.

When you try to write and edit at the same time, you’re setting up two sides of your brain in a duel. Rather than getting these two sides to support one another, you’re putting them into a competition that neither wins.

As author Susan Reynolds says in Fire Up Your Writing Brain: How to Use Proven Neuroscience to Become …read more      

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12 DecFeatured

Lessons on Business and Life from the ‘Zen Master of Marketing’

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By Brian Clark & Jerod Morris

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This week’s guest is a visionary strategist for the digital age. She helps brands reach the next level by leveraging digital opportunities to drive meaningful results. She is Shama Hyder (aka the “Zen Master of Marketing”), and she is a Digital Entrepreneur.

In this episode, Shama walks you through her journey as a digital entrepreneur that started back in school:

  • Why she strives to have a student mindset (no matter what)
  • The importance of the freedom to make contributions without boundaries and limits
  • The lessons she took from her parents (that you can implement too)
  • How she finds humbling moments every day and is always …read more      
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12 DecFeatured

Is It Okay to Alternate Between Monologues and Interviews?

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By Jerod Morris & Jon Nastor

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We’re back! In this week’s episode, we explain why we didn’t publish a new episode last week and what you can learn from our mistake. Then we discuss a listener question that leads to an important epiphany from Jonny.

The question we tackle is whether or not it’s okay to alternate between monologues and interviews in the same podcast feed. We provide some reasons why this is a good idea, as well as some reasons why it’s not a good idea.

Then, most importantly, we provide three questions you should answer to determine if it’s a good idea for you, your show, …read more      

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12 DecFeatured

Why Passion Matters More Than Skill When Launching a Membership Site

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By Sean Jackson

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Charity Preston — a teacher turned teacherprenuer — shares her incredible journey to creating an online membership network for teachers.

Imagine you have a sick child at home that demands 100 percent of your time and attention. And these demands require you to give up your professional career.

What would you do?

Today’s guest faced that exact situation — a classroom teacher at the pinnacle of her career that resigned in the middle of the academic year to care for her child.

But she was not content to give up her passion for helping others. So she made the leap from teacher to online …read more      

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12 DecFeatured

18 Things You Need to Know about Marketing Your Local Business on Instagram

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By Neil Patel

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In just six years, Instagram has gone from being nothing more than a novelty photo-sharing app to a legitimate social media marketing powerhouse.

Some of the world’s major brands, such as National Geographic, Saturday Night Live, and Coca-Cola, use this platform as a means of building buzz and strengthening relationships with consumers.

To give you an idea of how Instagram stacks up against other social networks, here is a graph from Smart Insights:

With 400 million users as of April 2016, it has surpassed Twitter and is poised for sustained growth.

You can see its level of growth on this graph:

<img src="http://www.quicksprout.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/image00.png" …read more      

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