Expanding your business into another state forces a decision most founders don’t think about until it’s too late: Should you register your existing LLC as a foreign entity—or create a brand-new subsidiary? On the surface, both options let y…

Starting an LLC is the easy part. Staying compliant year after year? That’s where most business owners mess up. Miss a filing, forget a document, or ignore a deadline—and your LLC can fall out of good standing, rack up penalties, or even ge…

Your LLC was active… until it wasn’t. No warning, no dramatic moment—just a notice from the state saying your business is “suspended,” “revoked,” or “not in good standing.” This happens more often than most people realize. And the worst par…

In 2024, I hiked the entire Long Trail in Vermont, 263 miles from the Canada border to Massachusetts over 26 days. I hiked southbound from Canada, so the first big climbing challenge was Jay Peak, two days into my journey. In 2024, I hiked …

I’m super excited for the New HubSpot Unbound event, to be held in Boston on September 16-18. If you will be there, I hope you will consider attending my talk on Wednesday September 16 from 2:30 - 3:15. I’m super excited for the New HubSpot…

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Learn how to start a blog step by step. This guide walks you through choosing a topic, setting up your blog, and publishing your first post without the confusion. The post How to Start a Blog: Insights From Someone Who’s Helped 1000s …

Power words trigger emotion and influence readers. Here’s the original Smart Blogger list of 317 words writers use to grab attention and drive action. The post Power Words: The Original List of 317 Words That Influence Readers appeared firs…

Literary devices are the most versatile (and oldest) tool in a writer’s toolbox. Seriously… From metaphors and alliteration to help ideas “stick” in readers’ minds, imagery to evoke sensory sensations, or fores…

Author Ann Garvin shares her unease with marketing strategies and shares her struggles to be authentic and sell more books at the same time. The post Be Authentic, They Said. Sell More Books, They Said. appeared first on Writer's Diges…

In this interview, author Ally Zetterberg discusses how where she was living inspired her setting in her new thriller, The Dating Game. The post Ally Zetterberg: Don’t Worry About Being a Great Writer appeared first on Writer's Digest …

Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a “(blank) the World” poem. The post Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 798 appeared first on Writer's Digest . For this week&…

My theory is that marketing leaders don’t need more content. They need better filters. Each day new marketing reports, frameworks, and case studies flood your feed and inbox. There’s always another podcast episode, a LinkedIn think piece, a…

The term ‘do more with less’ can be enough to make marketers wince. While budgets and resources tighten but pipeline targets grow, it can feel contradictory to achieving marketing goals. But what if the solution isn’t to “do more” but to fu…

Digital marketing strategies tend to revolve around familiar platforms like Google Ads, LinkedIn campaigns, and Facebook retargeting. They’re reliable platforms with measurable outcomes you can assess for ROI. But are these commonly used st…

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“People don’t simply hunger for information. They hunger to belong, to be seen, to understand where they come from. To imagine where they’re going. And I’ve learned that creativity rarely grows in isolation.” When we gathe…

Welcome to our joyful, little corner of the internet where we share our favorite links that we discover each week. Why you need a creative ecosystem . Thinking about thinking . † What if you actually tried ? Do you have to perform on social…

Feminists, celebrities, and politicians pay tribute to the feminist Gloria Steinem following the news of her death. Feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday, according to a post shared on her Instagram account . She…

TikTok is adding voice comments, polls, photo carousels, and Live Photos to make the comments even more chaotic. TikTok 's comment section is about to get a lot more chaotic. The platform is rolling out a slate of new ways to interact benea…

Singles on GLP-1s speak to Mashable about what it's like dating after weight loss. GLP-1s are inescapable online , as Mashable reported, including extensive discussions about them. The latest topic of conversation to hit your FYPs may be ab…

Learning how to optimize your website for AI search is one of the hottest skills for marketers right now, because the audience for these tools is growing fast. Monthly unique visitors to the major answer engines climbed from 634 million in …

How much does AEO cost? The short answer is roughly $30 a month for a monitoring tool you run yourself to over $15,000 a month for a full-service agency program that handles everything for you — with a wide middle in between. How much does …

G2’s 2026 Answer Economy research found that 51% of B2B software buyers start their research with an AI chatbot more often than Google. That shift means marketing teams need to track not only traditional search performance but also how AI a…

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Why Zero is an immersive web experience about how Zero University is replacing the broken education system with AI-native learning by offering real projects and jobs at top companies.

Compliance-first content architecture helps regulated finance brands scale content without sacrificing governance. Learn the five-component workflow. The post Compliance-First Content Architecture appeared first on Contently . Compliance-Fi…

Finance deals close months after the content that influenced them. How to measure content ROI across long sales cycles and large buying committees. The post Measuring Content ROI in Long Finance Sales Cycles appeared first on Contently . Ma…

Your Best-Ranked Page Might Be Invisible to Google’s AI Earn a spot in the top 10, close the tab satisfied, and head out to happy hour. That’s how it used to be. If you appeared high on the search results page, you felt confident abou…

A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox; you’ll love it. *** Markus writes: Greetings from Germany. I subscribed to learn m…

While Amazon is buying up rare books to feed to AI, Ann Handley is asserting the value of human-written words. The post Don’t Outsource This Part of Writing appeared first on Ann Handley . A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy,…

While everyone is trying to sniff out AI slop, Ann Handley looks at the bigger picture and poses these two questions to consider... The post AI Slop, Accusations, And A Better Way appeared first on Ann Handley . A version of this story appe…

I know! I know. I’m being very annoying with all this “book promo” stuff, but hey, I got a book out, and if I don’t promo it, they pull a lever and I fall into a glass tube full of coked-up piranha. In fact, real qui…

The Calamities (Book One of The Fiends) is now out, rampaging through the populace, gamboling about, claws at the ready, teeth sharp, and its countless eyes fixed upon you. So, I do hope you’ll check it out! Here’s how, and wher…

In one week, the demons are free! The Calamities hits shelves next Tuesday, 8/18, and let me just be the first to say: AHHHHH. And, in addition: AHHHHHH. It’s very exciting to have this story on the precipice of emerging from its long…

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