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7 Smart Ways You Can Use TBT To Grow Your Brand on Social

Hootsuite

Well, it often makes for perfect content for your brand. If you’ve got fun, interesting or unique TBT content, you’ll build brand awareness and gain new followers in no time. We get it — it’s hard to come up with fresh angles or new ways to present your content. Make sure your posts include old content.

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How to Start a Blog When You’re Not an Expert: 11 Ways to Make it Work

ProBlogger

When I started ProBlogger in 2004 I’d been blogging for a couple of years, but hadn’t been making money from blogging for very long (less than a year). What Kind of Content Should You Create? If you’re not creating tutorials or ‘how to’ posts, what sort of content can you create as a non-expert? #1:

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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

ProBlogger

April 2004: I was now earning $20 per day from my blogs, having put extra effort into them over the last few months, and at this rate I started to consider my blogs as a part-time job. June 2004: May and June continued to see the income grow and it passed $1000 in a month for the first time. social media (mainly on ProBlogger).

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247: How to Create a Blog on a Topic You’re Not an Expert In

ProBlogger

Be careful about the content you post. What kind of content should you create if you’re not an expert? Here are some content sources: Personal stories. Guest content. Curated content. How to Use Quotes in Your Blog Content Legally and Ethically. How to Use Embedded Content on Your Blog [Challenge].

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Social Pros 18 – Ike Pigott, Alabama Power

Convince & Convert

Your use of social really becomes more of a content marketing play than a social marketing play. We’ve said this on the podcast in the past, that content is fire and social media is gasoline. Looking at Posterous’s terms, I said, ”Hey, these are pretty good, actually.” Eric : Yes, without a doubt.

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Warning: Reading May Cause Your Hat to Fall Off

Viper Chill

Barry started openly selling links in the sidebar of his website back in 2004. Guest posting is of course another hot-topic right now in the SEO world after Matt Cutts made an official announcement on the subject, recommending guest posters to no-follow links back to their site. The Playing Field Will Never Be Fair.

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216: How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog (and Why You Should)

ProBlogger

How to Create a Content Style Guide to Improve Your Blog’s Quality. Style guides in my opinion are one way that you can really lift a good blog to a great blog by building more consistency across your content, across from one blog post to another. I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed.

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