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If you’re like me and writing up to eight posts per week while juggling multiple businesses, it can be seriously draining.
So out of pure necessity, I’ve experimented with a plethora of different tools to aid me in the process of generating new content ideas.
Some have been home runs and some have been strikeouts.
But there are seven in particular I really like and want to share with you....
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Super useful, several new! Neil Patel's seven content tools are essential reading for bloggers, marketers and PR pros. 9/10 
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I’ve had the privilege of my writing being published on Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch, Time, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur, and several other publications, and if you aspire to see your writing in mainstream publications like these, perhaps there is something in my story that will help you get there.
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Bloggers take heart! Josh Steimle shares some blogging inspiration.
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But before we dig deeper, here are two more facts for you:
Blogging is practically a given these days, regardless of your title or industry — and for good reason.
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Jerry Low suggests the tips that can take your blog to the next level. Great reminders.
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We’ve all experienced content like this. But do we know how to create it? That’s the question. Because consistently creating remarkable content over time is what it’s all about. You’re aiming to create content that makes people pay attention, think, and feel. I believe that remarkable content takes a three-step journey. And as content creators, if we keep this journey in mind, we can craft an experience that will have a profound effect on our readers.
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Remarkable content takes a three-step journey to inspiration says Pamela Wilson.
Tom George's curator insight,
June 5, 2014 10:05 AM
Always great copy and content marketing tips from Copyblogger.
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I’ve been reading some advice from successful writers lately and exploring what their routines are like to see what I can learn about.Here are six of the most common pieces of advice I came across that have helped me a lot improving my writing here at Buffer.It also features actionable tips for you on how to implement them in your own writing....
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Belle Beth Cooper shares inspiration and superb writing tips from very big authors
Bright Medusa's curator insight,
January 22, 2014 11:38 AM
The best piece of advice to just get started is to just get started. I (and many other novice writers) fear not getting it perfect out of the gate. There’s a nugget of wisdom in only commiting to do the first 80% of the writing. That is, get it about 80% of the way there. The first draft. Unpretty. Unpolished. Then pass it to someone you trust for edits and critiques. This helps keep momentum going and prevents you from getting stuck, unsure how to pull it together or finish it up. 
Christopher Philbin's curator insight,
August 3, 2014 9:33 PM
This article has some good information about how to become a better writer.
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The pace of social media is relentless. It tempts you hourly to enter the Twitter Twilight Zone. The Facebook Folie Bergere beckons. Pinterest pulls you into its vortex while everywhere by the grace of Google go all of us. And blogging? Don’t get me started. My microblogging and blog posting owned me. That’s why I decided to take a blog “holiday” this past November and December.
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It was time for a blogging intervention followed by a blog holiday!
Lori Wilk's curator insight,
January 7, 2014 9:29 PM
And there's more and more platforms launched every day and you're invited to participate . There is more to do each day and growing networks can take up more of your time, especially when you have to respond to customers and clients and to blog post comments. It can spiral out of control. Some people even feel guilty when they miss a day of blogging or tweeting.
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I’ve been reading some advice from successful writers lately and exploring what their routines are like to see what I can learn aboutHere are six of the most common pieces of advice I came across, and how to implement them in your own writing....
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Belle Beth Cooper provides inspiration for writers, bloggers and PR too.
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Hold the front page used to have a interesting, and updated daily, section called 'story ideas.' The idea was simple - you have slow news days, and these were ideas to see you through....A rainy day in Bury, obviously, isn’t news. However, hopefully these 10 websites could be of use. Yes, some of them are obvious, but I thought I’d list them all the same.
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Writer's block? Bloggers and writers take note...
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After a while, you get sick and tired of writing. You just want to quit. Is it that notorious condition known as writer’s block? It could be, but in many cases it’s a little bit different. There are a few things going on:You’re bored with what you’re writing about. Boredom kills affection.You’ve exhausted your creative energy. Creativity, like a muscle, has its limits. Push it too hard, and it caves in.You need something more challenging. Lack of challenge -- goals, vision, perspective -- leads to disillusionment. You need some fresh experiences. Fresh experiences will give you a fresh perspective.It’s time to figure out how to get your brain back on task. How do you get past the drudgery and enjoy writing again? Let's talk through a few tips....
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Suffering from writer's block? Feeling uninspired? Check out Neil Patel's five tips for moving past the drudgery to enjoy writing again.
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As soon as you start to try to write, everything freezes up.
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Here's a great blogging tip: answer questions. Sage advice.
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![19 Visual Social Media Secrets from the Pros [SlideShare] | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/v0WkZ5buVig0jJk78Mj8oTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Is your brand telling visual stories? Are you empowering your fans to create and share visual content for you? Brands who create and curate visual content are seeing wider reach, more shares and traffic to their real or virtual doorstep. We asked 19 Visual Social Media Experts to give us their Top Visual Content Secrets - here is what they shared with us (featuring a cool SlideShare)....
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This is recommended reading for bloggers, marketers, PR and content marketing pros. 10/10
Hsin-Ju Tsai's curator insight,
August 16, 2014 8:46 AM
Visual social media is getting popular these days. Many blogger love to share a short video to tell story. The main point for visual social media is to make sure video is suitable for platform and followers are able to share it. @Ashleigh Ali 
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
August 16, 2014 8:05 PM
A must-read and excellent resource. Highly recommended 10/10.
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While the WordPress community continues to grow and expand every day, so does the craft beer scene. So it only makes sense that a growing number of craft breweries are choosing to build their websites on WordPress. After all, WordPress and craft beer have a lot in common: enthusiasm, loyalty, broad appeal, no shortage of strong opinions and a community of contributors of every stripe. Craft brewers often share many of the same ideals found in open source culture, including the cheerful sharing of knowledge, skills, recipes and the strong support of each other’s work. You might even say that craft brewing culture is the open source version of the beer industry. With that in mind, here are 30 beautiful brewery websites that have been built with WordPress. Pour your favorite local pint, sit back, and enjoy. Cheers!...
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Tasty website and blog ideas.
France Lafleur's curator insight,
February 11, 2014 12:19 PM
Pour donner un aperçu des possibilités offertes par WordPress.
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There is a trap with tools. They work very well in a particular setting, but when the environment changes, if you keep trying to use the same tool in the same way, you can go out of business. Here is how Seth Godin describes it: "One study found that when confronted with a patient with back pain, surgeons prescribed surgery, physical therapists thought that therapy was indicated and yes, acupuncturists were sure needles were the answer. Across the entire universe of patients, the single largest indicator of treatment wasn’t symptoms or patient background, it was the background of the doctor. When the market changes, you may be seeing all the new opportunities and problems the wrong way because of the solutions you’re used to. The reason so many organizations have trouble using social media is that they are using precisely the wrong hammer. And odds are, they will continue to do so until their organization fails. PR firms try to use the new tools to send press releases, because, you guessed it, that’s their hammer." The best way to find the right tool for the job is to learn to be good at switching hammers....
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A very thoughtful post by Tim Kastelle on how to avoid the tool trap. Recommended reading. 9/10
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Tumblr is an awesome blogging platform where you can take inspiration from its great design ideas. This particular post is designed so as to provide you with the best 50 inspirational Tumblr blogs.We hope that our hard work will help you find what you have been looking for. Choose any of the following and innovate one of your own masterpieces....
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Take a creative coffee break and look over these inspiring Tumblr blogs.
Jennifer Frezza 's curator insight,
December 17, 2013 11:47 AM
Looking for some inspiration? This is a great collection.
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"As a writer you should not judge. You should understand."Ernest Hemingway has contributed a great deal to the collected advice of great writers, from his famous admonition against the dangers of ego to his short and stellar Nobel Prize acceptance speech. But some of his finest wisdom springs to life in this excerpt from his 1967 nonfiction piece By-Line, found in the altogether excellent Hemingway on Writing (public library) — a compilation of the celebrated author’s most insightful meditations on the craft, culled from his published works and his private letters. ...
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The always-inspiring Maria Popova shares inspiration on writing by Ernest Hemingway.
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It’s one of my favorite pieces of writing advice from Ray Bradbury, and it’s blindingly brilliant in its utter simplicity. If you want to identify the ideas you should write about, the themes you can write passionately and believably about, follow this advice: Make a list of ten things you love, ten things you hate, and ten things you fear. Write to celebrate the things you love, and write to destroy the things you hate and fear.
Bradbury put it this way in an interview with his biographer, Sam Weller: “You can’t write for other people. You can’t write for the left or the right, this religion or that religion, or this belief or that belief. You have to write the way you see things.
I tell people, Make a list of ten things you hate and tear them down in a short story or poem. Make a list of ten things you love and celebrate them. When I wrote Fahrenheit 451 I hated book burners and I loved libraries. So there you are.”...
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Great advice and inspiration from a masterful storyteller - Ray Bradbury.
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