5323 readersI discovered this week that Copyblogger has strong fans among the 2-year-old set. While working on the Wrap Thursday morning and clicking through posts on the homepage, my daughter Sydney became increasingly excited as I scrolled up from the bottom: “Look at that boy!” “Ice cream!!” “Flower!!!” Makes me wonder if we’ve done proper SEO
4439 readersThis week, I went to Target, bought a $30 desk, built a stand that would raise it 18 inches in the air, stuck my in-laws’ unused treadmill under it, and made myself a walking desk. (I know the monitor needs to move up. You’re looking at the 1.0 iteration.) Yes, I know it’s a weird
4346 readersThe other day while out riding my bike, I was accosted by three turkeys. I’m not kidding. The turkeys were crossing the road, and I was screaming down a hill at them. I hit the brakes but they didn’t flinch at all — and then, they advanced menacingly. I was able to make an initial
6337 readersI always find myself having to explain what it means to have “internet relationships.” Last month, I went to South by Southwest. Next month, I’m going to Blogworld (I’m actually presenting at Blogworld, but sadly don’t have enough people “interested” on my event page yet — hint, hint). I go to these events, and I
5632 readersA week ago yesterday, this post ran here on Copyblogger, all about how I’m actually a woman. Not coincidentally, a week ago yesterday was also April 1st, widely known as April Fool’s Day. So, the whole thing was the drunken brainchild of me and James Chartrand, who actually did make that revelation for real. (In
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Can regularly publishing relevant, useful, entertaining and valuable information online actually build a business over time?
Or, is this whole content marketing thing just a massive waste of energy?
You can probably guess where we stand on these questions, but in this episode we lay it all out anyway. You, of course, can make your own decisions.
Also,
2998 readersThis Monday was Valentine’s Day, which is one of those rare days my wife Robin and I go out without the kids and then realize that we’ve forgotten how to converse without being constantly interrupted. So, in an attempt at some sense of normalcy, I started banging my silverware on the table and demanding to
3341 readersThis was a fun week for me. A group of cool people and I launched The Badass Project, getting underway by debuting our inaugural interview with Copyblogger’s own Jon Morrow. (NOTE: If you’re making assumptions about what a project with that name is, you’re probably wrong and will be ashamed of yourself for thinking ill
2743 readersMy birthday was on Wednesday (I turned 17 and my dad says I can drive his car to the prom – SCORE!), and I got about fifty billion of those little Facebook notifications of people writing on my wall to say Happy Birthday. Got a ton of tweets saying the same. And now I think
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Guest post by Wolfgang Bloomfield
The secret of a good blog lies in its content. It is the content and the key words that time and again attract potential customers. Good blog content literally means putting something diffe...