5 Ways Strategic Bullet Points Make You a Stronger Content Marketer

By Brian Clark

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Bullet points make you a stronger content marketer?

Absolutely, if you’re good at writing them. In fact, being a master at writing exceptional bullet points is one of the most important copywriting skills around, second only to headline writing.

The goal of strategic bullet points is primarily to keep people reading. You’re highlighting easily digestible bits of important information, which keeps your reader’s attention focused and breaks up dense pools of text.

The downside is that if you write weak, boring bullet points, you give the reader an express invitation to leave. People scan content to decide …read more      

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The ‘Heart & Soul’ of Membership Sites, with Mike Morrison

By Chris Ducker

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Chris talks with Mike of the Membership Guys, and they discuss what it takes to come up with and maintain a membership site.

Membership sites have become something of an entrepreneurial pinnacle when it comes to online business. The idea of a regular and recurring income has sparked interest in so many business owners, but what does it really take to come up with and maintain a membership site?

On this episode, I deep-dive into the subject with Mike Morrison as we cover the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to the membership site model. We cover everything from …read more      

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Building Your Virtual Team with Jess Ostroff

By Brian Clark

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As the leader of a virtual company of more than 65 people located around the world, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Of course, I had a lot of help from my partners getting to this point over the last six years.

Nowadays, you have publications like the Harvard Business Review talking about virtual teams and the “post-geographic” office as the next big challenge for enterprise management. Virtual reality technology holds the promise of eliminating the need for a centralized real estate presence.

For solopreneurs and growing small businesses, the acceptance of the concept doesn’t make finding and managing the right …read more      

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Jerod Morris on This Old New Business with Jeff Korhan

By Caroline Early

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Jerod Morris chats with Jeff Korhan on This Old New Business about the importance of audience engagement and what an “audience of one” means for content marketers.

In this 37-minute episode, Jerod and Jeff discuss:

  • Jerod’s top audience engagement tip
  • Understanding your audience
  • Why you should trust the fundamentals of audience engagement

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You Are Not Allowed

By Sean Jackson

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In this new podcast on Rainmaker FM, you’ll learn how to use one of the most powerful — and counterintuitive — online marketing techniques to increase your online sales.

It is natural for online marketers to do whatever they can to increase the reach of their audience. It makes sense: the larger your audience, the more sales you make, right?

But what if there was a different way to increase your online sales, without trying to appeal to the masses? Sound impossible? Not really.

This new podcast goes in-depth on the insights, ideas, tactics, and strategies that will make a significant impact in …read more      

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