Guiding Online Dreams (and Dreaming of a New Community)

By Pamela Wilson

inspiration: how your community influences your business

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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So You Hit Publish, Now What? 9 Simple Ways to Get More Readers Once Your Content Is Live

By Rainmaker.FM

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If you don’t have a system in place for promoting your content, you’re really missing out. Fortunately, Hit Publish host Amy Harrison has you covered.

Today, we’re going beyond hitting the publish button.

You’ve taken time to research, write, and publish high-quality content your audience is going to love. The mistake you don’t want to make is to think hitting the publish button is the final step — because really, it’s just the beginning.

Many business owners get frustrated by putting time and effort into content creation only to see their social media counters at zero, no blog comments, and no real …read more      

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How to Ditch Your Perfectionist Mindset

By Rainmaker.FM

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Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, blogger, consultant, coach at Systems Scientist, podcaster, and author of Owning It: Embrace the Best and Worst Parts of You to Thrive in Life and Business.

She is the founder of Mydzik Media, the host of The Off-Road Millenial podcast, where she talks about the future of work and millennial entrepreneurship, and she writes about personal branding and life-work balance for her personal site.

She is a scientist by trade, so she uses a mixture of her analytical and creative mind to help others identify their deficiencies and strengths within their …read more      

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This Free App Will Help You Write Bold and Clear Copy

By Rainmaker.FM

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So there’s this new browser app that allows you to write/drop content into a text box and click “Edit” to determine if your writing is “bold and clear.”

It’s called the Hemingway Editor. It’s simple to use, but the questions remain: Does it work? And how does Hemingway actual stack up against his own app?

That’s what this episode is all about.

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

  • How many long sentences you should use in an article
  • What to do with dense, complicated sentences
  • The acceptable number of adverbs to use
  • The problem with purple prose
  • And more!

<a class="colorbox" href="http://feeds.copyblogger.com/~/t/0/0/copyblogger/~https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id974801366" …read more      

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How to Create a Valuable Lesson Plan that Sells Your Online Course and Motivates Your Students

By Henneke

develop an online course that has immense value for you and your students

The demand for online education is exploding.

The global market for online courses is expected to reach $107 billion in 2015. A mind-boggling figure, right?

Imagine stuffing one-dollar bills into a 53-foot truck. Depending on how crumpled your bills are, you’d need around 1,000 trucks stuffed up to the roof to transport those 107-billion dollar bills.

Would you like one of those trucks to deliver a heap of money to you?

Then you must create a lesson plan so valuable that students get excited about buying your online course.

A valuable lesson plan motivates people to …read more      

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