Online Writing & Blogging
Writing for online publications and blogs is a unique, new form of writing with its own considerations and rules. Although focused primarily on this explosively expanding market, even if you don’t write online, you’re bound to find helpful advice and information among these articles.
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Why Blind Obedience is Killing Your Business Picture three men racing through a tall hedge maze. The first man runs off and begins following paths randomly, hoping to stumble upon the exit. The second man is more methodical. He puts one hand on a wall of the… |
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Is Your Typing Speed as Fast and as Accurate as Most Freelance Writers? – Why Your Typing Speed Really Does Matter The idea of paying for typing classes is almost laughable to many freelance writers. If you’re a freelance writer, you know how to type! The more you practice, the faster your typing speed will get. Freelance writers should spend their… |
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22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue [Infographic] Yep, we’re introducing the first-ever Copyblogger infographic. It’s about our favorite topic — creating great content. And, as has been our style since the beginning, we’re practicing what we preach. This infographic demonstrates how to repurpose existing content in a… |
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Freelance Writing Jobs for February 20, 2012 Happy Monday, everyone! Are you ready to take on a new week? Here are your freelance writing jobs. Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Gossip/Celebrity/Style Writer (Manhattan) Profile Writer for Carpenter’s Website (Vancouver) Web Writer (Toronto) Blogging Jobs Full-time Blogger and… |
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The Downton Abbey Guide to Irresistible Narrative Marketing Every content marketer needs to build relationships with readers. To have a chance at achieving your marketing goals, you need readers who love what you do. What if there were a blueprint for telling irresistible stories, for making almost everything… |
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Do You Really Care About Good Writing Advice? “Could you tell me what I could do better for next time?” I hear that question all the time. And by all the time, I mean ALL the time. It’s the invariable response when I have to (sadly) tell someone… |
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The Quick and Dirty Guide to Tumblr for Small Business This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With the rise of Pinterest and Tumblr’s astounding growth, it seems that 2012 may be the… |
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7 Sharp Writing and Marketing Links This week on The Lede: David Ogilvy on writing A 7-step social media marketing strategy David Mamet’s legendary “storytelling 101″ memo What to do when you don’t feel like working If you want more useful links than the seven we… |
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10 Social Media Tips for Bloggers Liz Borod Wright, a freelance writer based in New York City, runs the popular travel blog, Travelogged. She is also a social media consultant and an adjunct for social media at Columbia Journalism School’s continuing education program. When it comes… |
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5 Tips for Affiliate Marketing Beginners What’s one of the most reliable ways to earn an income online? If done right, affiliate marketing is a hard model to beat. Problem is, there’s a lot of bad (and unethical) advice out there on how to approach it.… |
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Freelance Writing Jobs for February 16, 2012 Good morning, everyone! What is your biggest writing project at the moment? I hope that you are enjoying it, whatever it is. For more gigs to keep you busy, here are the listings for today. Have a productive day! Freelance… |
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Are You Making These 7 Mistakes with Your About Page? Does thinking about it make you stumble and sweat? Have you put it off, because you’re worried it will suck? You’re not alone — lots of website owners have an easier time proposing marriage than they do writing a solid… |
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Freelance Writing Jobs for February 15, 2012 Good morning, everyone! Here are your freelance writing jobs for today. Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Experienced Content Writer (Pasadena) Article Writer – Low-carb Dieting (NYC) Education Content Writer (Anywhere) Beauty SEO Writer and Keyword Strategist (Work from Home) Content… |
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How Freelance Writers Can Save Money By Giving Money For many writers, math is not a strong suite. Creativity comes easy, but when it comes time to worry about taxes, writers often run the other way. The danger that goes along with freelance writing is the idea that you… |
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How to Create Smarter Content Using Semantic Keyword Research Ever hear two people arguing and then someone dismisses their differences like this: “Well, that’s just semantics”? What the person means by that is the difference boils down to “just” a difference in the meaning of the words. In other… |
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Tweeting, Googling, and Capitalization Do you still remember the days when everyone knew that “tweet” referred to the sound that birds make? Those were the days when there was no confusion as to what the speaker meant. How about the days when your mom… |
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Freelance Writing Jobs for February 14, 2012 Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Even if you do not celebrate this day, I hope that you have a day filled with nothing but goodness. Here are your freelance writing jobs for today. Oh, and don’t forget to join the contest… |
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56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest In case you’ve been living in a mountain cave in Bhutan for the past couple of months, Pinterest is a relatively new social networking site that allows users to create online image collages, then quickly and easily share those collages… |
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The Seductive Art of Blog Commenting It's that time of year when everyone's thoughts turn to hooking up, getting together and making a sweet, sweet partnership. For bloggers, that means only one thing...… |
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7 Essential Tips for WordPress Beginners Raise your hand if this sounds familiar … You meet someone and they say all the right things. They’re full of compliments and accolades. Except, something bugs you about them. Their words don’t quite match their actions. They can be… |
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7 Worthwhile Content Marketing Links This week on The Lede … How George Lucas Would Write a Blog Post Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients of Success How to Make Your Content Go Viral The Difference Between Good and Great Content Marketing If you want more links… |
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First Photos of Beyonce’s and Jay-Z’s Baby Emerge on Tumblr [PICS] Blue Ivy Carter on Tumblr More than a month after Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed their first child to the world, pictures of the newborn, Blue Ivy Carter, have emerged. A Tumblr blog titled "HelloBlueIvyCarter" popped up on Friday night, displaying… |
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Why Not Sell Physical Stuff With Digital Media? We know that online marketing works when selling digital products. When’s the last time you thought about selling physical products online? Of course, the business of physical widgets is booming, even though Internet types tend to shy away from it.… |
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The Capello Communication Conundrum – How Poor Communication Will Scupper Your Chances of Success Fabio Capello had it all. A fantastic position with a world-renowned organisation, and a massive salary to boot. But taking the England job has ruined his career. Could poor communication do the same to you?… |
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The Capello Communication Conundrum Fabio Capello had it all. A fantastic position with a world-renowned organisation, and a massive salary to boot. But taking the England job has ruined his career. Could poor communication do the same to you?… |
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How to Recover From a Social Media Hangover “Hello. My name is Cori and I’m a social media addict. “Today is day 1 of my commitment to give myself a regular break from technology and the foggy, uncreative haze it can unwittingly lead to.” I was reading a… |
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The “New” SEO Secret Weapon If you have a web site, you may have noticed one of two things about the traffic you get from search engines. Your search traffic may have dried up overnight, with once-healthy streams turning into a sad little trickle. Or… |
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8 Quick Tips for Writing Bullet Points People Actually Want to Read It’s a Twitterized world, we’re just living in it. Blog posts, Tweets, quick videos, Google+, the Facebook Timeline, and tens of thousands of images pinned to digital boards are flying past us faster than we can read them. Faster than… |
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Why I’m Giving Up on Social Sharing Sites Community. Sharing. Social. These unfortunates are just three of the buzz words that have been ruthlessly stripped of all meaning by the internet.… |
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Prove It: What Makes You Trust a Website? What makes you trust this site? What makes you trust me? What makes you trust any website you visit? What is it about the site that earns your trust? I’ve asked this question at most of the conferences and keynotes… |
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7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Wildly Successful Guest Post We all know that guest posts grow blogs. But not many people realize that tactical guest posting grows careers. Most bloggers I see pump out these articles while reciting the mantra “quantity over quality”; there’s no real strategy and there… |
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