“Reading around” for my blog is a habit I’ve developed, one I highly recommend for all blog content writers. Having found a gold mine of ideas in the latest issue of Mental Floss magazine, I’ve been sharing those insights over the past week and a half with Say It For You readers. Today, though, I’ve […]
In Mental Floss magazine’s “In Praise of Light Beer”, Jed Lipinski may have taken things a bit far, at least where blog content writing is concerned. On the one hand, I’m quick to assure business owners and professional practitioners that writing about what they do almost never leads readers to want to “do it themselves”. […]
Read around, learn around, is my ongoing advice as a corporate blogging trainer. Ideas are all over the place, all of the time, in fact, but you've got to "hear" and make the connection. This week, I found several examples of Other People's Wisdom (O.P.W.) in the October issue of Mental Floss magazine tto share […]
Last week wasn’t the only close presidential race in American history. Back in 1840, Mental Floss magazine reminds us, when Whig candidate William Henry Harrison campaigned to unseat Democrat Van Buren, an interesting thing happened. Not only does my finding blog fodder in this political story illustrate the process of “learning around for your business […]
“On the fifth day after a televised NASCAR race, something strange happens: Roads turn into death traps.” West Virginia Institute of Technology professor Guy Vitaglione discovered that watching the race on TV affects drivers subconsciously, causing them to speed. Can SEO marketing blogs have a similar (but perhaps more beneficial) effect on readers? As an […]
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