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Content Crooner Offers RSS Feeds for Every Category We Distribute

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

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In an effort to provide our authors with even greater exposure, Content Crooner has built RSS Feeds for every category we distribute. This will provide much farther reach for our authors than ever before.

Not only are these feeds available to the general public, but smaller publishers as well. Publishers who do not have the required scripts to subscribe to our general service may now feed specific articles into their blogs or news aggregators on their sites.

Additionally, Content Crooner is submitting these feeds to the major RSS Feed Directories to be made available to a still wider audience yet.

Every article we distribute, in over 360 categories, is sent out through these feeds to subscribers and news aggregators alike. We have high expectations that this will be a real boon to our authors at Content Crooner.

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To your success,

Mike

Mike Lawson is a freelance consultant to internet marketers. His Professional Writing Service provides quality content for article marketing automation programs

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“Crooner Rocks”

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GoArticles.com Partners with Content Crooner To Boost Author Exposure

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Just a bit of great news for all Content Crooner authors.

We have partnered with GoArticles.com to provide our authors the capability to have additional reach with their articles. For a nominal charge, you can now have your articles featured on GoArticles.com.

This is a brand new option they are offering and is already showing itself to be very popular.

Learn More Here.

To your success,

Mike

Mike Lawson is a freelance consultant to internet marketers. His Professional Writing Service provides quality content for article marketing automation programs

Follow Us on Twitter: ContentCrooner

“Crooner Rocks”

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New Blogger Joins Content Crooner

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Carol Palmatier is a freelance consultant offering internet marketing advice to businesses and non-profits. She is a frequent contributor to the Content Lounge. Why does she use Content Crooner article distribution service? Because it works!

Last week I wrote about Inbound Marketing University, an online learning adventure that I’ll be sharing with you in this blog.

I just completed lesson one, “How to Blog Effectively for Business (GetFound 101)” with Ann Handley and Mack Collier of MarketingProfs.com. The take-away from lesson one is simplicity; breaking the blogging platform down into its most common components.

Why blog?
In 2008, 45% of the US online population read blogs on a monthly basis. In 2013, that number is projected to be 58%, 0r 128 million. In 2008, 13% of the US online population created or maintained a blog; by 2013 38 million US netizens will be blogging.

There will be an online conversation about your agency, company or area of expertise. If you aren’t engaged in it, you have no say over how that conversation is framed. With an active blog, you become a thought leader in the discussion.

So, what is a blog?
A blog has two basic characteristics:
1)A tool that allows you to quickly and easily create and publish new content; and

2)allows readers to leave feedback on that content, as well as react to feedback from other readers.

Google loves blogs. Why?
The content is constantly changing and fresh. Search engines want to provide their users with the freshest, most relevant information available. By blogging, your site becomes fresh, exciting, and more attractive to the search engines. You get more traffic.

Basic components of blog
Most blogs have the same basic components: the post, the comments, a sidebar, and a header.

The Post
This is the dominant part of the blog; it sets the tone for what you talk about, how you want to position yourself to your readers. This is where you add your fresh content. This is not about advertising or talking about your agency. It’s about giving folks information that will be helpful to them. This allows you to establish your expertise while providing useful information.

The Comments
This is where your readers get a say in the content being created. When your readers interact, it makes your content more powerful, more interesting. When someone does comment, be sure you comment back, in a conversational and personal way. Use first names; be welcoming and friendly. Make that personal connection and you’ll open the door for even more comments.

The Sidebar
The sidebar is your opportunity to connect with other people in other ways. For example, you can add your Twitter feed, or offer an RSS feed of your blog. You can run a quick poll, or add a sign-up form for your newsletter. The great thing about the sidebar is this can be fully automated, so it is constantly changing, but completely hands-free for you.

Header
This is a great place to put your branding elements (logo, tagline, etc) as well as links to more information about the agency or company. It sets the overall look and feel of the blog, and ties it in to your existing website.

Layout and Design
There are myriad choices for layout, either through easy-to-use templates or customization. A word here…start simple, start clean. Make it easy to understand at a glance, so the reader’s focus isn’t distracted trying to “figure it out.” You can even use dropdowns for the information in the sidebar, for a really clean look.

That’s the basics of “what is a blog?” In the next post we’ll talk about some things to consider before you commit to a blog. In the meantime, please add your thoughts about blogs, and if you know of a blog that you really love, post it here so we can talk about it.

Attending IMU

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From the Crooner Mail Bag…

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Hello all,

Seems there is a bit of confusion about exactly what was said in a previous post this week. I have received several queries about it, so I’ll clear it up now, once and for all.

The data used in the blog post about correcting HTML errors in the body of articles was correct. I was not referencing the author’s resource box.

“But HTML is only allowed in the author’s resource box.”

This, too, is true. You still cannot put intentional HTML code in the body of the article.

The “HTML” I was referring to is when certain symbols or special characters are used in the article body box of the submissions form. For example, the infamous “curly quotes,” &, %, #, ellipses, dashes or word processor generated bullet marks, to name a few.

The software read these as HTML because they are frequently used in HTML code. It became confused and rendered them as garbled symbols in the finished text. This in turn generated an error for the author to fix.

But this is no longer the case. Our tech team created a way that makes the software more intuitive to the author’s intent than to the computer’s logic.

If this is what you gleaned from the earlier post, good. If not, then hopefully this clears that up for you.

The benefits to authors are obvious: you are no longer as tightly restricted in your composition and the overall article rejection rate has been reduced to an unprecedented level. More of your articles go out the door in less time than ever before.

This single improvement led the way to 1.8 million article distributions during our first two weeks of operation. That is what we did. It’s not “coming soon,” it’s already a fact of life at Content Crooner. It’s a done deal.

We’ve already moved on to other things to improve the service for authors and publishers. We’ll show you what we’ve done, not tell you about what we’re going to do. We’ll keep you posted as we move forward; setting the pace for those who follow.

Until next time,

Mike

“Crooner Rocks”

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Recent Review of the Content Crooner Distribution Service

Monday, October 19th, 2009

It’s not polite to toot your own horn most of the time. We try to keep that in mind here at Content Crooner. If anything, we watch our p’s and q’s and only talk about things we can deliver on today. When you get down to it, that’s all any of us really have to work with anyway.

I’m not discounting the need for planning a future, not at all. That only makes good sense. But one thing that history has proved over and over again is that all tomorrows are the direct results of actions taken today. Content Crooner has no intention of losing sight of that. We want to provide the best service we possibly can, and we will.

Do we have ideas for some improvements around here? You bet we do. But first things first. There’s no need to start laying shingles on a roof before the walls are framed. It doesn’t make much sense to pick out furniture before the plumbing is even installed. All of those things are important but not nearly so as a foundation that has set-up firm and level. We won’t rush to achieve that and risk a silly mistake that throws everything after out of kilter and off plumb.

That is where we are with Content Crooner. Our foundation is poured and in the process of being trued-up. A few shims here, a nail there, and we’ll move on to sheeting out the first floor and framing out the walls next. There’s not much need to worry beyond that right now. To do so only assures a loss of focus on what must be done today.

We truly appreciate everyone’s patience as we get our foundation true and level. It guarantees that the groundwork is laid for a quality content distribution service for years to come. Feedback in the blog and through your support tickets has helped isolate problems quickly and get repairs initiated.

Thanks to everyone who has offered a supporting hand. Your input is invaluable.

It’s nice to hear others say nice things about you. It lets you know you’re on the right track and makes you try even harder to do better job. The folks here at Content Crooner are no different than anyone else in this way.

I don’t know the guy that wrote this. I have not looked to see if he is one of our authors or affiliates; I would assume he is probably one or both, maybe neither. Either way, it’s nice to hear some encouragement come out of the past hectic week. (If I didn’t know better, I would swear it had five Mondays in it.)

At any rate, thanks for the thumbs-up, Johnny. We’ll do our part to live up to your expectations of us: Content Crooner For SEO Results

Look forward to more feedback from you guys. Talk soon.

Regards,

Mike Lawson

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Breaking News: The Content Crooner Shingle Goes Up Officially on 1 October, 2009

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Content Crooner; a quality content distribution service, goes live this Thursday, 1 October, 2009. Come on over and check us out, you’ll be surprised with what you find.

The benefits of a successful article marking program cannot be overstated. It’s a quick, easy and very affordable internet marketing strategy that is time-tested, efficient and deadly effective.

Our array of popular features offers content distribution that gets results. Among the benefits you’ll enjoy are:

  • Convenience of submitting content anytime from anywhere-no computer installed software required
  • One price guarantees unlimited submissions of your quality content-no more “pay-per-piece.”
  • Free, personalized coaching maximizes your campaign’s effectiveness
  • Content distribution to the largest list of publishers and editors in the industry
  • Submit content in bulk and schedule releases for up to a year to meet your “just-in-time’ marketing goals
  • Distribution and exposure reports let you feel the pulse of your market and tweak your marketing program for best results
  • And much, much more

 The most important asset that any successful business has, is a following of satisfied, loyal customers. Content Crooner recognizes this and embraces it as our mantra. The extensive Knowledge Base and Customer Service Desk are available 24/7 and our responsive Support Team only has one goal in mind: a happy customer. This is our promise to you.

Content Crooner offers three comprehensive, very competitive packages to fit every content marketer’s needs and budget. If you value your time (and if you don’t, you should), there is no argument that Content Crooner will save you time in your content marketing program. And we all know: time is money.

Take a few minutes to get more information here. It won’t cost you anything but a little time (and we’ll give that back to you a thousandfold if you choose to use the service).

To your success,

Kenneth Vogt
CEO
Content Crooner

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