If you don’t want to be online all day posting your tweets and images, you need to check out this list of eight social media scheduling apps. The beauty of scheduling apps is that you can spend a few minutes each day or a week uploading your images, messages, captions, hashtags, and status updates. Once […]

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If you are passionate about your blog, if you want to reach more people, if you want to feel proud whenever you hit that publish button, then you most likely have spent hours upon hours searching the web for the secret to blogging success. Maybe you’ve invested in e-courses, books, and maybe even booked a […]

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on Author Help: A Universal Book Link (commonly referred to as a UBL) is a short link that will go to a web page showing links to all the stores where the ebook or audiobook can be bought. When the user clicks on any of the links, they will go to their local site if […]

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We often ask our students to summarize events in the texts that they read—be they fiction or nonfiction. However, to truly help students gain a clear understanding of the texts, we need to move beyond summarizing and take their writing and analysis a step further. This is where we introduce writing a synthesis: a discussion […]

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Are you torn between using SMM and SEM to market your business? 9 advantages and disadvantages of social media for business are explained with poll results.

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As they grow older, millennials are turning into quite a big market. Who better than Frank Hamilton, a millennial blogger and translator from Manchester, to answer some questions about them? Frank is a professional writing expert in such topics as blogging, digital marketing, and self-education. He also loves traveling and speaks Spanish, French, German and […]

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on Quick and Dirty Tips: Imagine not having a word for “yellow” or “beige” or “orange.” For many years, English got by with a lot fewer words for color than we have today. Colors are such fundamental, tangible things that it’s hard to imagine not having names for them, but the number of words for […]

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Every second, someone decides to start a new blog. Every second, your chances of standing out from the crowd diminish. So, what can you do to remain relevant? What can you do to be different in a way that constantly attracts new readers? Read on for some tips on how to differentiate your blog from […]

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