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In 1748, the British politician and aristocrat John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich used a lot of his free time for playing cards. One of the problems he had was that he greatly enjoyed eating a snack, whilst still keeping one hand free for the cards. So he came up with the idea to [...]
The story of why we started a fully focused content marketing strategy here at Buffer is actually one that isn’t glamorous at all. It was born out of pure necessity that we couldn’t get any press coverage for the launch of Buffer. For the first few weeks I was on board, I tried restlessly to [...]
This is a guestpost by Iris Shoor, co-founder and VP Product and marketing at Takipi, a new start-up leveraging Big Data technology to change how developers debug software in the cloud. It originally appeared on Lifehacker, more about Iris at the bottom of the post. A few days ago I was telling someone about my startup company. [...]
I’ve been lucky enough to have people ask me fairly often how I continue to share great content on Twitter on a regular basis. Over the last year I’ve built up a number of different methods for doing this, as well as ways to keep to both high frequency and high quality. I’ve found 15 [...]
This is a guestpost by Matt Ragland (@mattragland). Matt is a blogger sharing lots of great productivity tips. More on him at the bottom of the post. On Tuesday, April 17, my 1st guest post 10 Free Tools to Help You Organize the Internet was published on the Buffer blog. I was excited, nervous, and hopeful. As [...]
This a guest post from Amanda DiSilvestro, content writer at Resource Nation. More about Amanda at the bottom of the post. Most bloggers would jump at the chance to let a tool help them create a better blog in less time. As it turns out, an online tool known as Zemanta will do just that. This plugin [...]
This was always the most important question for me, when I started out blogging. It is something which took me quite a while to figure out and I am by no means at a stage where I have completely understood it. Yet, over the past months, I have seen a clear pattern here on the [...]
Only very recently have I started to focus more on blogging. I was always determined to give it my best shot and stick with it. What I am grateful for are the amazing mentors along the way that gave me essential advice to better my writing. One person that I am particularly thankful for is Irene [...]