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Specific recommendations are made for taking steps to building a professional presence by focusing on a member's profile, connections, and website links.

Michael R. Drew's blog on the book publishing industry. Includes categories such as building your own promotional platform.

LIMA | January 28, 2012 In a country where firefighters are not just notoriously underfunded, they volunteer where the entire nation's firefighting budget is only $19 million dollars per year, it is no surprise that a fire killed 26 people and injured 10 others at a 2-story unlicensed and overcrowded private rehabilitation center in the Peruvian capital, Lima on Saturday, officials said. The blaze started around 9 a.m. local time at the "God is Love" rehabilitation center for drug addicts and alcoholics located in the capital city's poor Zarate district. The cause of the fire is still unknown and the 10 injured were taken to Lima hospitals, said Zarate police chief Clever Zegarra. Peru's chief fire fighter, Antonio Zavala, said the fire was of "Dantesque proportions, with most of the people having died from asphyxiation" Gianfranco Huerta, who was being treated at the center, told local radio station RPP that he jumped from the second floor of the center to escape the fire. "The doors were locked, there was no way to get out," he said. Residents were apparently kept inside like prisoners, Health Minister Alberto Tejada told the Associated Press. An AP journalist at scene said all the windows of the building were barred that he was able to see. As police cordoned off the block, Journalists were not allowed inside. By early afternoon, all bodies had been removed from the center. "This rehabilitation center wasn't authorized. It was a house that they had taken over... for patients with addictions and they had the habit of leaving people locked up with no medical supervision," Tejada said.

LIMA | January 28, 2012 In a country where firefighters are not just notoriously underfunded, they volunteer where the entire nation's firefighting budget is only $19 million dollars per year, it is no surprise that a fire killed 26 people and injured 10 others at a 2-story unlicensed and overcrowded private rehabilitation center in the Peruvian capital, Lima on Saturday, officials said. The blaze started around 9 a.m. local time at the "God is Love" rehabilitation center for drug addicts and alcoholics located in the capital city's poor Zarate district. The cause of the fire is still unknown and the 10 injured were taken to Lima hospitals, said Zarate police chief Clever Zegarra. Peru's chief fire fighter, Antonio Zavala, said the fire was of "Dantesque proportions, with most of the people having died from asphyxiation" Gianfranco Huerta, who was being treated at the center, told local radio station RPP that he jumped from the second floor of the center to escape the fire. "The doors were locked, there was no way to get out," he said. Residents were apparently kept inside like prisoners, Health Minister Alberto Tejada told the Associated Press. An AP journalist at scene said all the windows of the building were barred that he was able to see. As police cordoned off the block, Journalists were not allowed inside. By early afternoon, all bodies had been removed from the center.

Strategies are provided for marketing online articles and blog posts to support a writer's efforts to increase their readership and monetize their work. All too often after completing an online writing project or blog post, writers fail to take full advantage of the online resources available to them for promoting their work. Building a web presence is an essential component of writing, which cannot be overlooked. Writers who desire to capitalize on their ideas and knowledge must employ as many social media tools as possible to expand their readership.

How to build a web presence for marketing and advertising is provided using social media, free web tools, online portfolio, and mobile technology.

There are many elements of business writing you need to master before you can call yourself a skillful business writer. No matter what your profession is, you can always use some improvement in this aspect. The following 10 tools will help you start building business writing skills from the basics.

"If you want to build a successful blog and maintain its popularity, then you need to be fully committed to it. At one point or another, you will surely face a writer's block or lack of time. When you find yourself making excuses that you don't h"

Content marketing is the most crucial aspect of elevating your business to unparalleled heights irrespective of the type of business you operate. Due to the rapid growth of business associations and entrepreneurship, the Content marketing strategy of a company separates its successes from its failures. Thus, preparing an overview plan of content writing for your business becomes absolutely crucial for the overall growth of the business organization.

Upgrade Your Presentation Consider this situation: you are an ardent blogger with wonderful and innovative ideas to present to the world. You start a blog where you build your content with the utmost care and spread the word across social media. You even use some amazing content writing services who provide you with solid content. However, your blog isn't getting the desired traffic. Is this your story? The blog visiting traffic is a moody one with a special brand of impatience. Today's readers are more likely to scan through the content before deciding to read it in detail. This is why, as a blogger, it is important for you to capture their attention within the first few seconds. Studies have shown that the first 8 seconds are key towards deciding the quality of a blog. What you need to do is to present your content smartly so that you can get your point across without compromising on the objective of the blog.

Blogging is easy. Blogging successfully is hard. But if you can make your readers drool, you've created a mouth-watering blog post.

The average person doesn't think much before writing on social media. But the average person is not a business with a reputation to build and defend.

If you sell a service, you know that reputation is everything. Potential clients need to see you as credible, knowledgeable, and trustworthy. There are many ways to build that reputation, and few compare to marketing with a book.

Looking to build your personal brand, but struggling with the time commitment required to write a LinkedIn post or, even worse, a lengthy thought leadership article? You are not alone. A fellow entrepreneur recently said to me: "I would rather have another C-section than sit down and write!" That is chuckle-worthy but relatable to so many of us, isn't it?

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