7 Secrets to a Better Blog

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7 Secrets to a Better Blog

By Pat Marcello on Monday, July 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Over at Copyblogger today reading a guest post from Dean Rieck, entitled "The 7 Secrets of Running a Wildly Popular Blog." And of course, since all us bloggers want just that, my eyes were glued to the screen. Did I learn anything new? Not really. But Dean wrote an amazing reminder for those of us [...]

Do You Know Shoemoney?

By Pat Marcello on Friday, January 15th, 2010 | View Comments

For a long time now, I’ve been a fan of Jeremy Shoemaker. He’s a no-nonsense blogger and marketer and you KNOW what he thinks about this, that and the other thing… all the time. And he’s a very smart marketer. He makes the Big bucks with his blog and his other ventures, and he really [...]

Social Media: UGC

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 | View Comments

So, did you read this article yet? http://searchengineland.com/when-ugc-means-users-give-away-control-24444 It starts by citing an issue between a Blogger user and a New York Judge, who forced Google to turn over a user’s information. Did you know that when you sign up for Blogger and many of the other social sites, you’re giving them ownership of your [...]

Blogging and List Building: Feed vs. Autoresponder

By Pat Marcello on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 | View Comments

A simple question keeps popping up from folks in my corner of the universe, so… I thought I’d address it here. Lots of people may be wondering about the same thing. So, here’s the question: What’s more important–the number of subscribers to your feed or the number of subscribers on your email marketing list? To [...]

Blogging: Keep a Swipe File

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 | View Comments

If you have studied copywriting at any level, you’ll have heard the term “swipe file” often. That’s just a collection of headlines or really good sales copy that can be modeled. It can’t be used verbatim, of course, because that would be plagiarism, but you can rewrite what you find, and even the best copywriters [...]

What Can't You Google?

By Pat Marcello on Friday, May 1st, 2009 | View Comments

We have a premium level of The ListBuilding Club called “ListBuilding 411,” where members can ask a question each day and one of the Overcome Everything team answers it on video within 24 hours. It’s an awesome service, and I wish it had been available when I was learning. It could have shaved years off [...]

Posts Tagged ‘blogger’