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The Secrets to Opening a Successful Nursery

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

With the year now in full swing, it is only natural that many peoples thoughts will turn to opening their own business. And whilst the credit crunch has hit many businesses hard, the pre school childcare sector is still a popular choice for many new start businesses. This article looks at some points that would be nursery owners should consider before going it alone.

Choosing Promotional Products for Your Business Event

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

In the past, organizations or businesses just hand out their business cards to their prospective customers to promote their business. Those days are gone. Today, there are more effective and innovative methods of business promotion. Of course, companies are still handing out business cards in business events such as conferences or trade shows. However, they would rather give promotional products instead.

Home Insurance - The Basics Explained

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Confused by home insurance and don't know how to separate one policy from another? This quick guide will put you on track breaking down the different types of home insurance cover, what to look for, how premiums are calculated and how to get a cheap deal.

Free Credit Reports - How to Get Them

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Obtaining all 3 of your free credit reports is more important than you think. This article explains why you need them and how to get them in an instant.

Cash Advance Loans are a Good Solution to your Cash Needs?

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Although a cash advance loan can be a viable solution to your short term cash needs, make sure you know just what you are getting into before you sign on the dotted line.

How Do You Know it's Time to Switch to a Paperless Medical Practice?

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

The decision to switch to a paperless medical practice should calculate return on investment, to become a cost-effective solution.

Loan Modification Application - Important Facts to Know to Get Approved

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Finding the right loan modification isn't just enough to help you out financially. Find out what you need to know to get approved and why.

Oregon Loan Modification - Tips on What You Need to Do

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Get the facts about loan modifications in your area to see if you can qualify or not.

Mortgage Loan Modification Programs are Here to Help

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

These mortgage loan modification programs offer help for those financially struggling with their home loans.

Tenants! Relieve Your Tensions, Unsecured Loans are with You

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Unsecured loans for tenants help them in their urgent needs. The information about these can be taken from the websites on World Wide Web, daily newspapers, magazines etc.

Payday Loans: Short Term Finances with Easy Accessibility

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Payday loans have become a recent craze among citizens of UK. It has proved highly advantageous for the middle class as well as the poor people who can now avail immediate cash advances without long formalities, security pledging or strict credit checking.

Motorcycle Injury Claim Procedure and Tips

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Motorcycle accident injury claim procedure may look complicated but with appropriate tips and with the help of an experienced lawyer the procedure can be made simple. A no win no fee lawyer can deal with the claim procedure if the victim is not having enough funds to spend on lawyer's fees. Motorcycle accident claims lawyer also will get you the appropriate compensation for the injury and losses suffered in the accident.

Benefits of Government Jobs

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Government jobs have lots of highly sought after benefits. Learn more about the advantages of working for Uncle Sam.

Create Wealth Online by Giving Away Something of Value

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

One of the enduring qualities that human beings look for in others is generosity. As a marketer, you can be generous to people in whom you have no financial interest. Yet these people can become your best customers. Learn how to give away valuable gifts and create wealth online through your generosity.

Downtown Houston is Attracting Many Individuals who are Looking for Housing

Posted: 27 Apr 2009 10:00 PM PDT

Details what types of housing are available in Downtown Houston. Many people are choosing to live in Downtown as an alternative to other areas in Houston, Tx

Gobbledygook Grader

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:27 PM PDT

How to Use Content to Find Customers

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 06:41 PM PDT

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Posted: 30 Apr 2009 03:28 PM PDT

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Posted: 30 Apr 2009 03:26 PM PDT

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Copyscape - Search for Website Plagiarism and Duplicate Content Online

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Web Writing: The Good, Bad and Ugly

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 12:17 PM PDT

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Erik Spiekermann's Typo Tips | The FontFeed

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 12:35 AM PDT

The FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.

How to Use Content to Find Customers

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 07:25 AM PDT

Content Marketing 101

Sure, it makes us feel warm and fuzzy to create great content. But can we actually get any customers with it?

Absolutely, but not if we take the usual blogger's approach. Money doesn't drop out of the sky just because we produce high-quality material. We need to put some time, thought and planning into the marketing side of the content marketing equation.

And that means we need to think strategically about how different types of content contribute to the larger persuasion cycle.

Get their attention

Earlier in this series, we talked about the fact that every bit of content needs to be a tasty cookie that rewards your audience for consuming it.

So how can you attract a new audience to come find you? You need something bigger and more exciting than a cookie.

You need a birthday cake.

In other words, a piece of content that's exciting, that feels special, and that tastes good. (It doesn't hurt if it also has a great headline.)

Not only that, it has to show your potential audience that you know your stuff and that you solve a worthwhile problem. Otherwise they might enjoy scarfing down your content, but they won't bother coming back for more.

White papers, special reports, extended tutorials, manifestos and viral video all make excellent birthday cakes. (If you want more ideas, you can find lots more here.)

Contrary to popular belief, you do want marketing messages in your birthday cake content. But they have to be palatable, subtle messages. You're not closing sales here . . . the birthday cake is just the beginning of the conversation.

Raise questions. Poke around at pain points that you can address in later content. Tell stories that resolve objections. But be subtle about it. The purpose of this content is to get your audience into a receptive state of mind before they start hearing any overt sales messages from you.

Create interest and desire for what you have to offer, but don't talk too much (if at all) about how you're going to solve all your audience's problems and make their lives wonderful.

If your birthday cake is compelling enough, your audience will stick around to find those answers.

And, of course, how does your birthday cake get in front of a new audience? By being remarkable enough to share. If it's not good enough to link to, bookmark, retweet, and email friends about, it's not good enough. Keep working on it, or partner with a content expert who can create something exceptional for you.

Converting attention to customers

Good bloggers are fantastic at capturing attention, but sometimes we have a tough time knowing what to do with it.

The answer is to keep delivering compelling messages to our new audience, either using a blog, an email autoresponder, or both.

Here's where you use content marketing fundamentals to start creating a commercial relationship. Obviously, you still deliver terrific quality. You teach and entertain more than you sell. You use metaphor, rhythm and vivid language to make your writing sing.

But you also use the techniques we teach at Copyblogger to create an audience of buyers, not just fans. You begin to call on your copywriting bag of tricks, adding more persuasive elements to your writing.

You're still keeping the selling under the radar at this point, especially if you're using a blog to deliver your content. At this phase, you're building your case, establishing trust, and increasing the intensity of your audience's desire.

When you're ready to take an order, send your loyal fan to a well-crafted landing page. That page does the most explicit selling, with a killer offer and a clear, direct call to action.

There's definitely an art to writing an effective landing page, but if you've primed your audience with a smart content strategy, the landing page doesn't have nearly as much work to do.

How to be in the third tribe

If you don't see yourself using the hard-sell, high-squeeze tactics of the traditional Internet marketing crowd, but you also don't want to eat ramen noodles for the rest of your life as a "cool but broke" blogger, you can ignore those two tribes and join what we're calling the third tribe.

In the third tribe, we take the best elements from hardcore Internet marketing, but we deliver them with the passion, personal voice and credibility that the best bloggers have to offer.

Content marketing is our tribe's most important tool. In fact, it's the tool that defines this tribe. Master it, and the game is yours.

So please join us for the rest of the Content Marketing 101 series. Coming up next week is an interview showing how one blogger took sharp, snarky content and turned it into a highly profitable business.