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How I Get My (Blog) Ideas

The Marq

Here's a sampling of some generic questions you can start with: What have I been working on and have some expertise about (for professional / business blogs) that I can share as Best Practices, ideas to pursue, stories with my readers? What ideas from disparate practices seem to merge together (based on reading, interviewing, observing)?

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How a Giveaway Ebook Benefits Your Business

Men With Pens

Free eBooks only lead to success if a writer makes a great first impression – it’s a lot like a job interview. Free samples work for everything from detergent to cheese, and they just might convince people to buy the cow. A writer is trying to “sell” something to readers, whether that’s a follow-up book, a service, or expertise.

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Sneak Peek – listen to course highlights of the Podcast Marketing.

Andrea Kalli

So here’s what I’ve done… I created an audio of just a sampling of the course highlights for the Podcast Marketing Success Strategies Program. Strategies, tools, and techniques. Things are much easier these days than just a few short years ago. Please enjoy it, with my compliments, through the player below.

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Using Social Media for Product Launches

Andrea Kalli

Build real relationships, plan out interviews months in advance, and offers samples of your new product to top bloggers, social media users, and online presences. Social media runs on buzz, and when you do not give your community enough time to generate that buzz, your product launch is destined to be a failure.

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Using Social Media for Product Launches | Internet Marketing.

Andrea Kalli

Build real relationships, plan out interviews months in advance, and offers samples of your new product to top bloggers, social media users, and online presences. Social media runs on buzz, and when you do not give your community enough time to generate that buzz, your product launch is destined to be a failure.

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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

And today, we have something very special for you here at Men with Pens – please enjoy my interview on creative careers with Québecois singer/songwriter Kevin Parent. Many people take advantage of that openness on another level, which is to say we’ve all had trouble with copyright law and keeping our work our own. Wait, what?!

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How NOT to Get the Freelance Job - and What to Do | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.&# Rhodester – Well, it was the sample article that included the porn star in a bikini. … When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.”

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