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This Simple Question Could Be the Key to Your Personal Brand Strategy According to Brand Expert Mike Kim

Success

In 2013, he started building his brand by blogging every week, and then starting a podcast. Authentic online content should be inviting like a campfire. “I “And then we realize the ladder is leaning up against the wrong building.”. Kim says.

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How to Ask for More Money (and Get It)

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I landed my first writing gig in 2013. I had been casually blogging for about a year, so the prospect of creating content for pay was thrilling—even if it was just $30 per 500-word post. Less than two years later, I was offered my first five-figure writing assignment. Lesson 3: Find the right employer or clients.

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Life Is Not a Movie

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1 ranking in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ annual column contest in the category “Online, Blog, and Multimedia Column—over 100,000 monthly unique visitors.” From 1992 to his death in 2013, Ebert was married to former lawyer Chaz, at his side for everything from surgery to business matters to quiet nights at home.

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How to Optimize Space

Clutter Coach

by Although I still have websites, the blog is the place where I put my new content. The blog, by contrast, is easy as pie (thanks, Typepad!). However, there’s some valuable content on the sites that people aren’t seeing as much because my traffic is coming here rather than there.

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28 and a ½ Ideas for Business Blog Posts

Men With Pens

Ah, the business blog. Blogging for your business helps attract new customers, and it solidifies your brand for current clients as well. And of course, writing for your business blog helps brand you, the owner, as an expert in your field. And that''s just the nutshell version of the benefits of a business blog.

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January is Get Organized Month!

Clutter Coach

Make sure to budget time to put away/throw away/give away the contents. Originally posted 2013-03-30 08:37:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter The post January is Get Organized Month! Get an inbox , or start using the one you have. Make an appointment with yourself to sort through one box (one pile, one folder) this month.

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The Booming Field of Public Relations

Small Business Labs

As the Pew chart below shows, over the 10 year period from 2004 to 2013 the number of reporters fell by 17%.   The industry calls PR "earned media", which the marketing firm Hubspot explains in more detail in their blog post What is Earned Media. .   marketing trends'

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