The Shocking Way to Master Any Book

By Rainmaker.FM

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What Rough Draft host Demian Farnworth is about to say might make you grit your teeth. Clench your fist. Or even pick up a crow bar …

Demian wants to show you why marking in a book is a good thing. And he wants to show you that unless you do this, you’re likely missing out on the best kind of reading.

The point of reading a good book is not to see how many you can get through. The point is to see how many get through to you.

How many you absorb into your blood. …read more      

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How KISSmetrics Grew to 793,858 Visitors a Month by Using One Simple Formula

By Neil Patel

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What if I told you that you can grow a blog to 100,000 plus visitors a month without even blogging.

It sounds crazy, right?

Both the KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg blogs receive well over 100,000 visitors a month each, and I didn’t even have to write one blog post to hit those traffic goals.

Sure, I now blog on both of those properties for fun, but it wasn’t the main source of traffic initially. So, how do you get to 100,000 visitors a month without blogging?

Well, you have to hire writers. Here is the process you should use to find writers who will …read more      

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What You Don’t Know About Copyright Can Hurt You

By Mark Trenner

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As writers, we are very protective of our own creations.

But when we perform research on a topic and come across the perfect passage on a website, or an image that perfectly captures the essence of the point we are trying to make, sometimes it can be tempting to just copy and paste it into our own content.

With that one move, however, you commit copyright infringement — which could cost you your reputation and your business.

Copyright infringement is serious

Since it can be difficult to determine whether or not you’re committing copyright infringement, you may …read more      

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How Sarah Stodola (Author of ‘Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors’) Writes

By Rainmaker.FM

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Journalist and creative non-fiction author Sarah Stodola shared her writer’s file with host Kelton Reid in this episode of The Writer Files.

Her recent book Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors is a fascinating collection of the habits and habitats of heralded scribes.

Ms. Stodola is also an accomplished journalist and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Mental Floss, The Daily Beast, The Fiscal Times, Condé Nast Traveler, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, Storyboard, Slate, and many others.

Take a listen to learn about the process of an author who is a …read more      

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How to Roll Out the Red Carpet on Your Home Page

By Rainmaker.FM

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Your home page makes an important first impression … and you only have one chance to make it.

You have the opportunity to begin a long and fruitful relationship if you set your home page up to meet the needs of the people who land there.

Or you can confuse them and turn them off, never to return.

Hit Publish host Pamela Wilson is betting you’re aiming for the former, not the latter, right?

This week on Hit Publish, Pamela invited three Copyblogger experts to share their best advice on building home pages that work.

Tune in to …read more      

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