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      <title><![CDATA[Publisher vs. Self-Published: How to Adapt Your Social Media Strategy to Your Publishing Path]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Self-published authors own their funnel. Traditional authors amplify beyond the publisher. How social media strategies differ by path.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Speaker's Reel: How to Create a 90-Second Video That Gets You Booked]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Event organizers make booking decisions fast. They have a short list of speakers, a budget, and a deadline. They will spend, on average, less than three…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[YouTube for Course Creators: The Free Class That Sells Your Paid Course]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most course creators use YouTube wrong. They post trailers, teasers, "what's inside my course" videos — promotional content designed to make people...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building an Author Platform on Instagram: The Reading Recommendation Strategy That Grows Your Audience]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recommend other books in your genre. Constantly. Generously. Bookstagram and BookTok audiences follow people who curate great reading lists — readers...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Author Collaboration on Social Media: How Co-Promotion With Other Writers Actually Works]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Newsletter swaps, Instagram takeovers, and joint BookTok campaigns can drive 200+ clicks per swap. Here's how author collaborations actually work — with specific platforms, formats, and results you can expect in 2026.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Stop Calling Yourself a 'Thought Leader.' Let Your Content Do It for You.]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA["Thought leader" is the LinkedIn bio equivalent of "I'm a really nice person." The people who say it most loudly are rarely the ones demonstrating it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Self-Published Authors Should Stop Marketing Their Book and Start Marketing Themselves]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The self-published author's default marketing approach goes something like this: write book, publish book, post "my book is available now" to every...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[LinkedIn for Software Engineers: Building in Public Without Sounding Like a Bro]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tech LinkedIn has a reputation problem. The fundraising announcements dressed as reflections. The \. Tech LinkedIn has a reputation problem.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[LinkedIn for Executives: The 3-Post-Per-Week System That Builds Authority Without a Ghost Writer]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most executives who want to build a LinkedIn presence run into the same problem: they don't have time to write content, so they either hire a ghostwriter…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Social Media for Keynote Speakers: Your Stage Clips Are Only 20% of Your Content Strategy]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every keynote speaker posts their stage clips. The moment of connection with the audience, the standing ovation, the clip where they say the thing that…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Social Media for Coaches Who Are Tired of Looking Like Every Other Coach on Instagram]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Search "life coach." Scroll for thirty seconds. Motivational quote on a pastel gradient. "Your dreams are valid" on a different font.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Social Media for Podcasters: Nobody Cares About Your New Episode (Until You Make Them Care)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is the laziest social media post in existence, and it appears in some form on roughly 90% of podcasters' accounts on release day. It generates almost…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Social Media for Course Creators: Give Away Your Best Stuff for Free (It Sells More Courses)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every successful course creator is giving away 90% of what they know for free on social media. This is not an accident and it is not charity. It is the…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Social Media for Authors: How to Build a Readership Before Your Book Launches]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The authors who sell on launch day built their audience for six months before it. That's the uncomfortable truth most self-publishing guides bury in...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Software Engineers Build a Reputation That Finds Them (Without Becoming an Influencer)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Let's get the objection out of the way: you're not trying to become a tech influencer. You don't want to post hot takes about JavaScript frameworks or…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your LinkedIn Is Costing You Business Every Week You Stay Silent]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[You know you should be posting on LinkedIn. You've known for two years. And yet — your last post is from Q3, it got fourteen likes, and you've quietly…]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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