blogging Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/blogging/ Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:49:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg blogging Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/blogging/ 32 32 A Christmas Twist: The 12 Days of Content https://old.wordsbyapro.com/a-christmas-twist-the-12-days-of-content/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-christmas-twist-the-12-days-of-content Mon, 24 Dec 2018 22:46:27 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2977 Greetings from Words by a Pro! We hope everyone’s enjoying the holiday season so far. But if you’re like most folks, you’ve already had your fill of holiday cheer thanks to the nonstop barrage of Christmas music that comes post-Thanksgiving. We’ve all heard these holiday tunes in stores—in coffee shops—running through our heads nonstop—for nearly […]

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]]> KSI, Paul Logan, and Content Polarization — Making Your Content More Interesting https://old.wordsbyapro.com/boring-content-marketing-what-ksi-logan-fight-can-teach-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boring-content-marketing-what-ksi-logan-fight-can-teach-you Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:42:40 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2904 The post KSI, Paul Logan, and Content Polarization — Making Your Content More Interesting appeared first on Words by a Pro.

]]> Content Marketing in a Fake News Era https://old.wordsbyapro.com/content-marketing-fake-news-era/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=content-marketing-fake-news-era Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:37:59 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2515 To suggest that fake news is novel, new, or a secret suddenly revealed is naïve. The intentional act of exaggerating content and spreading false information for a desired effect has been in practice since long before print was first pressed to paper. Fortunately, so too has integrity and a desire to encourage the advancement of […]

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]]> Content Marketing and SEO: Is There a Perfect Formula? https://old.wordsbyapro.com/content-marketing-and-seo-perfect-formula/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=content-marketing-and-seo-perfect-formula Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:56:41 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2453 Remember back in the old days when a Yellow Pages listing and a well-placed advertisement in the newspaper were all it took to market yourself? If so, you’re definitely showing your age right now. But more importantly, if you haven’t already, forget the marketing tactics that you used in the 90s and 2000s. Marketing has […]

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]]> Questions for a Language Ninja: Why, Oh Why Will No One Read My Content? https://old.wordsbyapro.com/questions-language-ninja-oh-will-no-one-read-content/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=questions-language-ninja-oh-will-no-one-read-content Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:19:30 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2162 Q: I’ve been trying to produce content that bolsters my online profile and optimizes my search engine rankings. I’ve studied nearly all of the online tips and incorporated the strategies of various thought-leaders into my own web content, but I haven’t seen any improvement. What gives? A: The Language Ninja has received so may questions […]

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]]> The Key to Marketing Magic https://old.wordsbyapro.com/key-marketing-magic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=key-marketing-magic Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:22:43 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2157 There’s a tendency to view marketing campaigns through a lens of cynicism. A lot of it has to do with the unwelcomed ubiquity of ads in every aspect of modern life. People see advertisements as daily hassles from people they assume are trying to sell them something they don’t need. The truth is that this […]

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]]> UX Writing and Why It’s Not Just a New Trend https://old.wordsbyapro.com/ux-writing-not-just-new-trend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ux-writing-not-just-new-trend Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:18:18 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2143 Anyone who’s been working in a digital-based industry for some time knows that User Experience (UX) is one of the hottest buzzwords around the office. Everything from website design to marketing campaigns is being constructed based on the principles of UX, which essentially focuses on making content easy to understand, access, and navigate for the […]

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]]> The Trick to Converting One-Time Website Builds into Monthly Sales https://old.wordsbyapro.com/trick-converting-one-time-website-builds-monthly-sales/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trick-converting-one-time-website-builds-monthly-sales Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:48:22 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=2219 Web designers—stop us if you’ve heard this one. You pound the pavement and spend weeks marketing yourself to find new clients. You meet some prospects, negotiate rates, and eventually deliver the website build. And after the project is done? Poof—you never see that client again. Is there a secret sauce to keeping these clients around […]

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]]> How Your Language Use Influences Your Marketing Strategy https://old.wordsbyapro.com/language-use-influences-marketing-strategy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=language-use-influences-marketing-strategy Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:30:00 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1912 We’ve all had those insightful moments where a brilliant thought or idea rushes through our mind. It’s this time that we run to grab our pencil and paper and quickly jot down our fleeting thought. Did you ever feel like your brilliant idea became a complete flop once you put it into words? Sometimes it’s […]

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]]> Humor Me: When to Use (and Avoid) Humor in Your Writing https://old.wordsbyapro.com/humor-me-when-to-use-and-avoid-humor-in-your-writing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=humor-me-when-to-use-and-avoid-humor-in-your-writing Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:35:23 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1609 It’s fairly safe to say that no one knows how to write humor. The great modern humor essayists – Dave Barry, P. J. O’Rourke, and the late Lewis Grizzard and Erma Bombeck, among many others –do it naturally, instinctively knowing just what turn of phrase and clever irony readers will find funny, but they probably […]

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