Post Overview
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Review
6 years ago+19 19 05 podcasts for indie makers
Podcasts are all the rage. At home or on-the-go, more and more indie makers are listening to podcasts as a source of information and inspiration.
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Expression
6 years ago+20 20 0You don’t need to quit your job to make/create
“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we realize.” – Adam Grant
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Analysis
6 years ago+26 26 0Did we just experience the hardest decade in journalism?
The news industry doesn’t look like it did a decade ago. Poynter interviewed 15 journalists from across the United States to hear their experiences during the last 10 years.
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Analysis
6 years ago+13 13 0Productivity vs. Creativity, the Content Creator's Catch-22
The sum total of a great creative feat is quantifiable, but the immense effort it requires is done invisibly behind the scenes, sometimes for decades.
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Analysis
6 years ago+15 15 0Content promotion is changing. My thoughts on where we go from here
Community content promotion, the term we coined back in 2016, is becoming harder. Here's why, and how we'll approach content promotion in the future.
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Expression
6 years ago+7 7 0Facebook Writing Secrets for 2019: New Year, New Rules?
How to write powerful Facebook posts to boost clicks and shares: tricks, words, content types, techniques, and emotions behind Facebook writing this year.
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Expression
6 years ago+18 19 1How to fix bad writing before you type a single word
If you don’t know these 3 things, you may as well be rolling your face your keyboard.
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Expression
6 years ago+11 11 03 Types of Action that Stir Up the Desire to Keep Reading Your Article
When your introduction only explains information, you don't show your reader that you have something to offer that they won't find anywhere else.
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How-to
6 years ago+10 10 05 Practical Tips on the Craft of Copywriting
Discover simple ways to make your writing a whole lot better ... whether you're writing a sales page, an email, a blog post, or a social media update.
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Analysis
6 years ago+5 5 0When Does the Customer Journey Begin?
The buyer's journey does not begin with awareness, as is traditionally thought, but instead before the potential buyer is aware there is even a need.
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Analysis
6 years ago+23 23 0As Barnes & Noble Struggles to Find Footing, Founder Takes Heat
Sales are falling and critics say the company lacks a direction, sometimes seeming to give priority to sales of gifts and tchotchkes over books.
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Expression
6 years ago+18 18 0 x 13 Areas of Focus for Consistently High-Quality Content
Little professionalism "leaks" in content are errors that undermine the content's authority, squander audience interest, and detract from business goals.
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How-to
6 years ago+11 11 0How to Publish Regularly, Even If You Lack Writing Confidence
Apply these three elements to your content, even if you aren't a "great writer" (yet), to produce useful work that will serve your audience.
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Expression
6 years ago+8 8 0Why do we demand perfection from ourselves?
Why do we want our work to be perfect? How is this quest for perfection working out for us? Why do we expect our work to be good, particularly if we are new to our craft? Perfection can stop you creating, make you throw your work in the trash and ...
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Expression
6 years ago+4 4 0Overcoming Shyness
Throughout my life, I was a shy guy. In my early twenties, I acted like a cool guy to hide my shyness. I didn't speak much and didn't get involved a lot. I didn't want people to see that I was nervous in social situations.
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Expression
6 years ago+3 3 0Writers Need Community
Writing is a solitary experience. We have an idea, we flesh it out in our minds, then we sit behind our computers or with pen to paper and pull the visions from our imaginations, painting pictures with our words. But this doesn’t mean we have to go ...
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Expression
6 years ago+12 12 0Your Big Break Is Never Coming
Most of us are waiting for our Big Break. And that’s the worst way to succeed. Let’s look at one of history’s most successful artists to see why — and what we should do instead.
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Expression
6 years ago+13 13 0Why I Tell All of My Entrepreneur Friends to Write
— and What Happens to the Ones Who Listen.
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Expression
6 years ago+8 8 0How to be a creative genius
I give up when the work I make sucks. When I hate it.
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Expression
6 years ago+10 10 0The three most important lessons I have learned about creativity
I’ve been blogging consistently for two years. Today I would like to share the three most important lessons I have learned in that time about creativity.