3 Juicy Marketing Questions Answered

By Rainmaker.FM

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This week on Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer, Sonia Simone is pleased to have three big questions from Authority, our community of content marketers.

Major thanks and kudos to David, Julie, and Mike for the food for thought …

Here are three really smart questions from the audience … and some in-depth answers.

In this 22-minute episode of Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer, host Sonia Simone talks about:

  • How long it takes to make a decent living online
  • Where to put your focus to get traction with your business
  • How to find the right balance between creativity …read more      
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Where Headlines Have Gone Horribly Wrong

By Rainmaker.FM

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When I was young, I sported pink hair, suede sneakers, raver jeans, and punk t-shirts.

Sure, I was cool, but strike up a conversation and you’d wonder if something was wrong with me.

I had nothing interesting to say. I was all show.

And that, unfortunately, is the direction online content has been going.

Here are 10 reasons your humdinger of a headline won’t save the catastrophe that is your blog post.

In this roughly 10-minute episode of Rough Draft with Demian Farnworth, you’ll discover:

  • Where content marketing has gone wrong with headlines
  • How to add life …read more      
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How to Generate $100,000 a Month from a Brand New Blog

By Neil Patel

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A week ago, I wrote a blog post stating that anyone can generate $100,000 a month in income. To prove it, I told you that I’m going to create a new company and grow it from scratch without leveraging my connections.

In the majority of your comments, you told me you wanted me to create a new company in a space that I had no ties to. So I’m now starting a nutrition blog.

The official start date will be April 1, 2015. And within 12 months, I have to get the blog to generate $100,000 in monthly revenue.

So, how am …read more      

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4 Ways to Identify Site Visitors (and Why It Matters)

By Demian Farnworth

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You think we all would know what marketing automation meant, the way we throw the phrase around in the corporate hallways and home offices of America.

“Reginald, what you need is a marketing automation solution — then your sales team would be balling!”

That’s the idea. Software that captures, nurtures, and delivers leads to a sales team. But not everyone needs this style of marketing automation.

Case in point: Copyblogger Media.

A little more than a year ago, we hired a well-known marketing automation provider to help us convert more of our traffic into sales. We spent …read more      

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Giveaways: How to Create an Irresistible Incentive to Join Your Email List

By Rainmaker.FM

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Getting that opt-in to your email list is much easier when you offer an enticing incentive in exchange for an email address.

But what should you create? And how will you ever find the time to make it? And what if no one wants it?

This week on Hit Publish, host Pamela Wilson invited three Copyblogger experts to share their best advice for creating irresistible giveaways: the kind that have people clamoring to sign up just so they can get their hands on them.

Tune in to this week’s episode of Hit Publish to hear from host Pamela Wilson, Sonia Simone, Chris Garrett, …read more      

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