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You’ve probably heard how paramount blogging is to the success of your marketing. Without it, your SEO will tank, you’ll have nothing to promote in social media, you’ll have no clout with your leads and customers, and you’ll have fewer pages to put those valuable calls-to-action that generate inbound leads. Need I say more?

So why, oh why, does almost every marketer I talk to have a laundry list of excuses for why they can’t consistently blog?

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When it comes to content, sometimes old school can be a good thing (namely, when it comes to old school rap or Throwback Thursday on Instagram). But when it comes to your company’s public relations strategy, being old school isn’t advantageous for your business or your brand. 

Ten years ago, people still relied on morning papers for news.

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Working from home is awesome … right up until the cat throws up on your computer. And your neighbor — who you can only assume is building a time machine — starts firing up all sorts of power tools and noisy machinery across the street. 

For many modern professionals, working from home every once in a while is a luxury that our respective companies afford us.

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If you’ve ever planned an email marketing campaign, you might have wanted to pull your hair out at least once or twice.

Maybe you didn’t have enough time to properly segment your lists, so you knew your clickthrough rate was gonna totally suck.

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In this fast-paced world, when we’re firing off emails, posting status updates, and sending messages a mile a minute, we’ve all pressed “send” or “delete” sooner than we’ve intended at one time or another.

From posting a photo of my “amazung view of the muntains” to sending an email prematurely, I know that feeling of regret all too well.

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Sometimes, when I tell people that I blog for a living, they roll their eyes. “That’s so easy,” they say. “You get a paycheck for sitting on the internet all day and writing. A monkey could do your job!”

That’s when I roll my eyes. See, people are quick to deem blogging as a no-brainer job. But when they actually sit down to write their first couple of posts, it hits them: This is way harder than I thought.

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Think about all the times you’ve signed up for things in your life. Did you once download Evernote? Dropbox? Spotify? Maybe you’ve even taken a class on General Assembly.

Each one of these signups is likely a result of an effective call-to-action.

And it’s really important to guide your visitors through the buying journey using strategic calls-to-action (CTAs).

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