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Blogging Musts You Can’t Ignore
If you run in some of the same circles we do, you might have bumped into our team members without knowing it. It’s an occupational hazard – joining Facebook, LinkedIn and other groups that focus on blogging, social media, website content, writing, editing, marketing and business. We love to learn, and we love to pass on what we learn. No, that’s...
Choose Your Verbs Carefully
Here at All Things Writing, LLC, we love words. Long words, short words, poetic words and words that get straight to the point. We also love grammar and parts of speech. One of our favorite and more important parts of speech is the verb. Verbs are the doers — the movers and shakers in your sentence that liven things up and keep things...
Can a Small Business Get Leads From Facebook?
Why yes, social media lovers, you, the small business owner, CAN get leads from Facebook! And referrals and prospects and clients and returning clients…all those good things we love to see in our sales funnels. After all, Facebook “remains the most-used social media site among all ages, used by 64 percent of Americans 12 and up.” (Hootsuite,...
Questions to Ask Yourself When Building a Blog Content Calendar
So, you’ve decided to blog. What now? Well the most efficient way to tackle your blogging is to create and follow a content calendar. Some people refer to it as an editorial calendar, and others just have ideas scattered on sticky notes all over their car, bathroom mirror and computer screen. But that’s not you! You are going to be far more...
The Mysterious Hashtag: What It Is and What It Does
Do the importance and significance — and maybe even the entire point — of the widely-used hashtag elude you? If so, take heart. You’re among friends here, and we won’t tell. We’re here to clarify and help you get it. From definition to implementation, with our information, you’ll be tagging your #TBT pics, claiming #FollowForFollow, sharing...
Don’t Fall Victim to Blogging Block! Five Tips to Help You Break Through
We’re about to give away some of our best creative tips. Are you paying attention? These tips could save your blog, especially if you’ve fallen victim to what we call “blogging block.” It’s like writers’ block, but worse because you need to blog to create credibility, to grow your business and increase your bottom line. You need to write....
7 Steps to a Killer SEO Friendly Blog
There’s so much talk about search engine optimization these days and making blogs SEO friendly. Yet, after all your reading and research, are you still left with the feeling that you don’t REALLY know what Google wants? You’re not alone. The truth is, no one knows exactly what Google favors, but over time, we’ve gotten a pretty good idea. If you...
Who Cares About Content?
There’s this thing that sometimes happens when you’re developing a website. You’re laying out pages and picking plugins. You’re looking at widgets and forms. You might get so into it, you forget there’s something equally as important, something you probably don’t do often or very well. Content creation. Now content can mean a lot of things, but...
Why You Should Become a Blogging M.D.
We know. You spend your time between patients buried under an endless stack of medical records, case studies and nurses’ notes about even more patients. What in the world makes us think you have time to start a blog? Because we know it’s worth your time. Content is king, and blogs from your doc are meaningful, trusted and informative. Not enough...
Three Tips for Writing Should-Be-Featured Feature Articles
Here at All Things Writing (fondly called ATW when we’re being lazy), we talk a lot about blogging. And this makes sense because we love to do it – which is good, because it’s also a necessity for any business. But one thing we don’t really talk about is the feature article. We’re not sure why. We write feature articles for local publications and...