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  • newWhy 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 maze and resolves to keep moving for…
    - 20 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • new22 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 repur…
    - 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • newThe 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…
    - 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • 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 highlight here…
    - 5 days ago, 18 Feb 12, 11:00am -

Blogging Tips

  • newHow I Use Guest Blogging for My Weight Loss Blog
    Getting consistent and quality traffic to a blog can be very difficult these days, especially if you are in the weight loss niche. Most of us would have already heard about guest blogging, especially since it is the talk of the town in the blogospher…
    - 13 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 5:28pm -
  • newEffective Email Marketing Tips for Bloggers
    When it comes to driving action and creating engagement online, email is king. Email is the single most powerful weapon in any marketer’s arsenal. If you follow the journey of some of the most successful bloggers online today you will discover that…
    - 13 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 5:22pm -
  • newThe Elements of Style will make you a better blogger
    There’s a need for more and more content as things go along and get more and more mobile, but that also means there’s a new need to revisit some of the rules of grammar that have held up since the First World War There’s room in today’s moder…
    - 3 days ago, 19 Feb 12, 6:57pm -
  • Blogging Tops Advertising as Highest ROI for Online Marketing
    Do you realize what you’re blogging about has more ROI worth to your business then traditional advertising does?  According to a study done by Hubspot about one of their clients. Truth be told, this company has made great progress implementing an…
    - 9 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 8:01pm -
  • Iran Blacks Out The Internet. Perfect Storm On Way?
    There were recent reports that Iran blacked out the Internet and for thirty minutes on Tuesday, the Web went blank on that country where freedom of speech and information has never really been high on the list of priorities. Ron Deibert — director…
    - 10 days ago, 12 Feb 12, 9:04pm -
  • Get A Mobile Landing Page and QR Code for Your Social Profiles with Voxini
    How do you share all of your social profiles and contact info with others? Do you list out your social profiles individually or do you have a single URL to give them? How about your contact information? Do you often give out your email address or pho…
    - 12 days ago, 11 Feb 12, 5:00pm -
  • Get Focused or Fail!
    What’s the number one cause of failure and keeping you from getting totally focused? It’s one single, simple little word, but it can make or break you. Distraction! More people fail due to being and staying distracted. It’s no secret that a lot…
    - 13 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 4:56pm -

ViperChill

  • new7 Steps to Creating Million-Dollar Web Apps (And a Big Announcement)
    A few weeks ago I asked on the ViperChill Facebook page whether people would be interested in a blog post on how I’ve developed various web software and plugins. The question was the most ‘liked’ status update I’ve ever made, making it clear…
    - 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 3:57pm -
  • How I Reached #1 on iTunes: A Guide to Launching a Podcast
    As many of you will know, last week I stuck to my promise of launching a Podcast in the new year and released the first episode, ‘How I Would Make Money Online If I Was Starting from Scratch‘. I had hoped that a lot of people would get some value…
    - 37 days ago, 16 Jan 12, 10:35pm -
  • Case Study: How Campbell Makes Up to $10K/m in the Forex Niche
    When I was working in a clothes shop, dreaming of making a living from the internet, I remember one thing that really kept me motivated was reading success stories from other people. Just knowing that someone, somewhere was doing exactly what I wante…
    - 78 days ago, 7 Dec 11, 4:49pm -
  • Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis
    In my post on how to become a niche rockstar I said that in order to be at the top of your industry (in a lot of cases online) it’s important to know as much about it as possible. What your competitors are doing, how they’re making money and how…
    - 85 days ago, 29 Nov 11, 10:30pm -
  • The Post on Productivity I Wish Someone Else Had Written
    Though the title of this blog is ‘viral marketing’, regular readers will know that it’s far from being the only thing I talk about. Sometimes I’ll share a case study to inspire you. Sometimes I’ll offer insights to educate you, and sometime…
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  • It’s Here.
    There’s more documentation on ‘how to make money online’ than most subjects out there, yet I can safely say that 99% of people who try to replace their offline income fail to do so. Many of you have seen the case studies of marketers – who cl…
    - 3 Sep 11, 10:41am -
  • How to Become a Niche Rockstar: The Guide
    A common desire for humans, once we’ve surpassed our basic requirements for survival, is to be part of something bigger than ourselves, while making a contribution to the world. The huge growth of online sites like Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, wh…
    - 25 Aug 11, 10:23am -
  • 5,867 Words on Becoming a Conversion Machine: A Guide for Bloggers
    June was the first time in the history of this site where the blog gained over 1,000 subscribers in a month. To be specific, the final increase count was just over 1,300. Even though I’m posting as infrequently as I ever have, traffic levels are at…
    - 11 Jul 11, 11:40am -
  • The Ultimate Guide to Keyword Research
    Utilising the power of the keyphrases that people use online has enabled me to make a full-time income since February 2009. I’ve spent the last two and a half years of my life doing nothing but using my own tactics, coupled with powerful resources,…
    - 20 Jun 11, 11:53am -
  • How to Double Your Subscriber Growth With 10 Minutes Work
    Thanks to one of my favourite tactics for increasing the number of leads I generate with my sites, it’s very possible to double the amount of visitors you convert into subscribers – with just 10 minutes of work – today. The process also makes t…
    - 16 Jun 11, 12:56pm -

Brains on Fire

  • newBe Remarkable
    A man sat in a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During the rush hour, it was estimated that more than 2,000 people passed him, most on their…
    - 16 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 2:38pm -
  • newCourageous Marketing.
    Years ago someone added a word to my title at Brains on Fire. And overnight, quietly and without fanfare, I became the Courageous President of Brains on Fire.It gets a laugh when I’m introduced at speaking gigs and meetings. Even though I admit…
    - 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 2:12pm -
  • Fandom Acts of Fanatics
    We are the stories we tell… being a part of a great story compels us to share. photo credit Birmingham NewsWe are the stories we tell – and being a part of a great story compels us to share.Meet Alabama Freshman Jackson Blankenship, a Univers…
    - 6 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 2:55pm -
  • Your Company is the Stories People Tell About it
    I had an entirely different blog post planned for today…and then I saw the below photo (and story) a friend had posted on Facebook.“So today I was in Hallmark buying my mom a birthday card when I noticed this old man stnding in front of the Val…
    - 8 days ago, 15 Feb 12, 2:39pm -
  • Sayings from Smarter People
    Quick shot today: I thought I’d take a break from my own writing and share a few thoughts from people who are much smarter than I am. Each of these quotes made me stop and think hard:“I don’t know where the line is. In any creative line of wor…
    - 8 days ago, 14 Feb 12, 6:57pm -
  • A Kinder, Gentler Capitalism.
    Photo from Libby William’s wonderful, heartfelt photoblog.The other day I received an email from someone who had recently read our book and often reads our blog. He wanted to see if I would help him re-frame his background and past experiences t…
    - 10 days ago, 13 Feb 12, 2:50pm -
  • I Watched, I Purchased, My Problem was Solved
    I recently remembered a story about advertising that worked wonders in introducing me to a product that I purchased and loved.Being somewhat of a music and technology nerd, I follow several blogs that keep pace with what’s happening in the industr…
    - 14 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 2:42pm -
  • Get Your WOM Notebook Ready… Chapter One: Believe
    So, here you are… a friend of WOM or maybe you are just starting to explore. Word of Mouth Marketing is a passion for me, and I’m lucky enough to have a career in it. But this didn’t happen by accident. My career took root organically, as a re…
    - 15 days ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:30pm -
  • Airport Conversations and The Secret Sauce of Success
    Every once in awhile someone will ask me what I do for a living. These conversations usually occur in the kinds of places where strangers feel compelled to carry on polite chitchat. In line at the grocery store. Doctor’s office waiting rooms. Airp…
    - 16 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 2:59pm -
  • Inspiration.
    The Erics, looking for inspiration. Hello! Hope you’re excited about the week ahead of you. I am. About a year or so ago, I posted a blog asking YOU a simple question. And since I LOVED the answers and they all inspired me, I am asking again……
    - 17 days ago, 6 Feb 12, 3:28pm -

Conversation Agent

  • newAre You a Spare Part?
    The current view of the world of work is still organized around a "spare parts" mindset. We're solving the wrong problem. We treat people as spare parts, constantly looking for a new one when things don't go the way we hope and forecast. We have the…
    - 20 hours ago, 22 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • newBook Review: The Power of Habit
    Late last November, I received a box containing a book and a small can of Febreze. The book didn't stink, no. Quite the opposite actually, it stood out for its clarity of purpose -- demonstrating how human intelligence is connected to habits and what…
    - 2 days ago, 21 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • newHow Marketers Selective Learning has Become Consumers Selective Hearing
    Is now a good time to have a Jerry Maguire moment? To refresh your memory, the story goes when a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlet…
    - 3 days ago, 20 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • newLearning by Doing and Thinking Together
    I have a confession to make -- some of my best learning, all the way to primary school, was situational, and the result of a group experience. The idea of individualized learning styles originated in the 1970s. The idea was that there are three main…
    - 3 days ago, 19 Feb 12, 7:00pm -
  • new50 Blogs for Your Must Read List
    If you're like me, you like to find stimulating and thought provoking content online beyond the obvious and often recommended small group. People who ask questions differently, or maybe from a new domain and subject matter. People ask me what I read…
    - 4 days ago, 19 Feb 12, 12:00pm -
  • Doing the Right Thing, Use Value, and Marketing Mojo
    I started this series of posts to show the increasing convergence of business and technology and this week's stories exemplify some of the emergent themes. As apps are going mainstream and more people are using them, tech companies grapple with inspi…
    - 5 days ago, 18 Feb 12, 12:00pm -
  • t.G.i.f.
    When you're talking about making connections online, it's not about Twitter (t), Google+ (G), or Facebook (f), it's about information/intent (i) -- the things you say, and those you intend to do. Small "i", not capital "I". The tools are there to hel…
    - 6 days ago, 17 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • Doing Work You Want to Feel Good About
    Stop what you're doing, take 16 minutes to watch this Gel video of Noah Scalin about his "One Skull-a-Day" project. As I watched the whole thing twice, my first instinct was to go look for a skull I could contribute. By the third day in the video sto…
    - 7 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 11:00am -
  • The Way You Look at Things Changes the Things You Look at
    Dan Frommer at SplatF links to Apple's Tim Cook interview at the Goldman Sacks tech conference (the full interview is here). Frommer observes it's worth listening to because of how he says what he says. Cook delivers the message from where he sits, s…
    - 8 days ago, 15 Feb 12, 11:00am -

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