It is always a challenge to keep individuals and organizations focused, but that’s what great leaders do. Distractions abound, but great leaders have an internal compass that keeps them from drifting off course. Two things set your bearings – your why and your what. For companies implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System®, those two things combine […]
Hi there and welcome to episode 236 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com, a blog, podcast, events, job board, series of ebooks, and courses, all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your blog and to build profit around your blog which is exactly
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Your keyword research is done and you know what to write about. Nothing is going to stop you from getting all that traffic with your new articles. But when you start writing your article, you notice it can be hard to keep your text focused. Yoast SEO Premium has a helpful little tool to guide
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If you lived during the time of Christopher Columbus, veering off course when sailing across the uncharted seas could have serious negative consequences—or it could have led you to amazing new discoveries. But when you veer away from what should be the focus of your small business, it can make it harder to reach your
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Ever post a photo to Twitter only to have it look odd and incomplete when it comes up in tweet timelines, maybe focused on the wrong area of the image? That’s because Twitter crops images to improve display consistency, and thus far, they’ve been using face detection to focus the view on the key element
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In an era of constant digital distractions, how do we compete long enough to convert? The trick is to make your content as customer focused as possible. Content marketing is a constant struggle for any brand. It is probably the most important element to their overall promotional strategy and the greatest tool at their disposal.
Three tips for a content marketing plan that makes your customers the central focus Read More »
The blame game – it’s so easy. When shit hits the fan, the easiest thing in the world is to point fingers and find some poor unsuspecting employee to blame. Hell, it’s so much easier just to fire whoever was responsible for creating such a panic in the first place. At least as soon as
Each year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commits himself to a personal challenge – learning mandarin, reading a heap of books, building a personal assistant for his home. But this year, Zuckerberg’s challenge is a little closer to home, and more aligned with the wider goals of the empire he’s created. After a year of controversy
Zuckerberg to Focus on Fixing Facebook’s Issues as His 2018 Challenge Read More »
It can be a great strategy to focus on long tail keywords. But don’t go overboard there. Trying to rank for very long keyphrases usually makes your text a terrible read. Why is that? And what should be your strategy for those long keywords? Let me tell you all about long focus keywords in this
The recent holiday was a happy one for Amazon, if the company’s latest report is anything to go by. The eCommerce giant alleges that “tens of millions of Alexa-enabled devices” were sold worldwide during the 2017 holiday season, making it a breakout year for the voice-activated digital assistant. Alexa Ruled the Holidays The Amazon report
