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This may be hard for some to hear, but all blogs are not created equal. Yes, I know you think your story, your experience, and your POV is important, but how do your readers feel? When it comes to blogging, there are some tricks of the trade to ensure your blog doesn’t suck. Let me help you find your way when it comes to writing and maintaining your blog.
Family stories are a great way to capture the moments, relationships, characters, and quirks of a lineage; family stories are often memories of multiple family members that are compiled into an objective narrative that can be passed down for generations. The point of writing your family story is to remember an era as well as the intimacies that made your family unique and that made you who you are. Family stories often share the cultural, social, and political history of the time period in which they are written to fully set the scene. Like memoirs, family stories use narrative components like dialogue, setting, and description to tell a rich story for the audience: your family.
Graduation is an event marking both achievements and transition. For graduates and those who love them, graduation is an event of both potential and possibility and of reservation and anxiety. There’s the question of: what comes next? Even for graduates who know the college they will attend or the job they will walk into, there is still an element of uncertainty for what the future hold. A great graduation speech will embrace the positives of potential and possibility that comes with change and transition while also quelling the inevitable nerves that arise when one is moving forward into the great, wide unknown.
Gen Z, AKA the folks born between 1997 to 2012 (and up to 2015 because as we’ll learn from their grammatical predilections, members of Gen Z don’t do full stops) have followed the Millennial lead in reinventing accepted grammatical norms, which is fine…grammar is the system and structure of a language; it’s not stagnant—it’s living. It makes sense that with the technological revolution that there’d be substantial grammatical shifts. This grammar guide for Gen Z is designed to explain some of the most important modifications.
Writing an Airbnb listing probably seems like a simple-enough task, but you aren’t the only person putting their rental on the market. What sets your listing apart, and why should someone pick your rental over another? Learn how to write a stellar Airbnb listing in a few easy steps!
Despite the fact that blogs are still numero uno in terms of a brand’s content strategy, blogs sometimes get a rep for being boring. The reason is that there is a glut of genuinely boring blogs out there that use cheap tactics to scream for attention and then, when you finally look their way, there’s zero substance. It’s like when your kid interrupts your kundalini meditation to tell you what Chloe or whoever on YouTube did on Minecraft, and before you know it, you’ve glazed over like a donut and fear you may never find anything interesting again. Terrifying. Let us show you how not to bore your audience into a coma.
Working from home takes a high level of independence and tenacity, but the rewards from the WFH lifestyle are endless! For most of us, we can make our own schedules, wear comfortable clothing, and eat/clean at our leisure. However, one of the best WFH perks is the fact that you can work from home from anywhere! What does that mean, and what does that look like? Read on to find out.
As a business owner, you wear many hats. Whether you’re a solopreneur or have a team helping with various aspects of your operations, running a company can be very overwhelming and time consuming. There’s accounting, customer service, marketing… the list goes on! With a never-ending to-do list, one thing that can oftentimes fall on the backburner is blogging. There are many reasons why you should be blogging in 2021, including better SEO, building trust with your audience and establishing yourself as an expert in your industry (more on that here). This form of content marketing is critical when it comes to growing your business, so here are a few reasons why you should outsource this task to the experts:
2020 was a disruptive year, so it’s no surprise that 2021 has a few SEO and blogging shakeups. Relax…Google isn’t reinventing the algorithm and blogging is still blogging, but there are some modifications for 2021 that every copy blogger, blogger, brand, website (you get the idea) needs to be aware of to rank well and prosper.
With this week being filled with exciting happenings such as Halloween and the Cubs winning the World Series, you may have missed some important content marketing news. No worries though, because we have this week’s Friday Fix ready for you filled with the most up-to-date storytelling, blog writing, social media and content marketing updates.
