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What I Learned About Content Marketing by Analyzing 614 Posts

By Neil Patel

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Can you believe that I’ve published 614 posts on Quick Sprout? I published my first post on April 16 back in 2007.

Today, nearly eight years later, the blog gets well over 700,000 visitors a month. However, considering how long I’ve been blogging, I should have more visitors and ideally a quicker growth rate.

For fun, I decided to analyze all of my posts in order to figure out what is causing the blog to grow so that I can do more of it.

Here’s what I learned:

Infographics do extremely well

Infographics tend to get shared 42.4% more times than an average blog post. …read more      

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Why You Need to Become a Rainmaker Before It’s Too Late

By Jeff Goins

The portfolio life approach to your career

In his 1989 book, The Age of Unreason, Irish author Charles Handy made a startling prediction about the future of organizations.

He argued that businesses would soon be smaller and the workforce would be comprised of “portfolio people.”

And what is a portfolio person?

Handy describes a portfolio as a multifaceted career, comprised of different types of work that include fee work, salary work, and gift work. And soon, this is how we will all describe what we do — not as a job, but as a portfolio.

The 40-year career is dead

And for most of …read more      

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Website Blunders: How to Look Like a Pro (and Not Like a Fool)

By Rainmaker.FM

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We all know we have just a split second to make a great impression online. Users hover over their mouses, ready to click away from your site if they don’t like what they see.

There’s a lot riding on the quality of our websites. (No pressure!)

This week on Hit Publish, three Copyblogger experts share their best advice on designing websites that put the best face on your online business.

Tune in to Hit Publish to hear from host Pamela Wilson and her guests Rafal Tomal, Brian Gardner, and Tony Clark as they discuss:

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How to Find and Follow Your Inner Voice

By Rainmaker.FM

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Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is not only a smart entrepreneur, she is also part designer, part business strategist, and part coach.

A few years ago, she would’ve told you that she wasn’t an entrepreneur, but this has changed.

She now runs her own successful business and helps other ladypreneurs gain the clarity and confidence they need to connect with their ideal clients and build their brand and business online.

Last year, when they met at Chris Ducker’s Tropical Think Tank, Jon Nastor was blown away by her marketing strategies (which she calls her superpower) and her truly …read more      

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The Business of Local (and Localized) Search

By Rainmaker.FM

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Google rankings are dynamic and ever-changing, especially when searches are made by different people in different locations.

For example, a search for “car insurance” yields five out of 10 localized results for local directories like Yelp, local car insurance agents, and then national companies.

SEO is no longer about one type of rating. Google now serves different results based on query themes, the location of the user, personalization, devices used, and types of content available.

Has Google leveled the playing field, or is it making it harder to compete?

In this episode of Search & Deploy, Loren Baker invited his long-time friend Kris Jones …read more      

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