Alessandro Butler

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16 tricks to turn your Medium drafts into beautiful looking stories

A mini-guide to formatting your writing — Formatting tricks will never cover up poor writing. But poor formatting can ruin the reading experience no matter how good the writing is. We’ve brought together 16 formatting tips to up your Medium game. Formatting the above-the-fold section: titles, subtitles, hero image. 1. Couple your “title” with a “subtitle” In the most cluttered marketplace in history, grabbing the attention of your readers begins even before…

Medium

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Medium

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Published in The Startup

·Sep 7, 2022

Issue #7: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Issue #7: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books Top courses: Beyond Online Writing Bootcamp: a 3-Day LIVE experience to turn your writing into a profitable business without working 24/7 3X the Email Subscribers from LinkedIn: Get the secrets on how to capitalize on LinkedIn’s latest changes Start writing online in 30 days: a cohort-based course that has taught over 4,000…

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 30, 2022

Issue #6: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top free resources — Build your online business: A step-by-step framework to launch your online business How to build your personal monopoly: Uncover your strengths, clearly communicate your value, and start building your reputation online. Grow and monetize your LinkedIn audience: a free 3-video mini-course teaching you how to explode on LinkedIn Elements of…

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 11, 2022

Important Updates to Our Submission Guidelines

Plus extra tips and tricks to help you get published with us — This article should be read in conjunction with our standard submission guidelines which can be found here. Over the last year, we’ve been working hard to rebrand our publication to suit the new creator economy and support the many individuals that choose to join it every single day. In this…

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Important Updates to Our Submission Guidelines

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Published in The Startup

·Aug 2, 2022

Issue #5: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top tools — Taplio: Grow and monetize your LinkedIn audience. Looka: Design your own beautiful brand. Typeshare: Everything you need to start writing online. Riverside.fm: The easiest way to record podcasts and videos in studio quality from anywhere. QuillBot: Rewrite literally any sentence using state-of-the-art AI. Top stories: The real reason Shopify just fired 1,000…

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Published in The Startup

·Jun 21, 2022

Issue #4: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top tools — Looka: Design your own beautiful brand. Taplio: Grow and monetize your LinkedIn audience. Webflow: How the internet’s biggest creators build their websites. QuillBot: Rewrite literally any sentence using state-of-the-art AI. Hunter.io: Find anyone’s email address in seconds and cold email them. Top stories: 4 tricks to steal from spam writers who make…

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Published in The Startup

·Jun 9, 2022

Issue #3: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top stories: — 15 simple ways to improve your writing — by Sinem Günel Paid Ads ≠ Sales? Here’s how to change that—by Jano le Roux I just got banned from LinkedIn: Lessons everybody with a LinkedIn profile must read—by Tim Denning How I survived a recession as a freelancer—by John Pa 3…

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Published in The Startup

·Jun 2, 2022

Issue #2: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top stories: — I’ve made 5 eBook sales in my first month on Gumroad — here is how — by Victoria Kurichenko Investments to make in your 20s, 30s to avoid regrets in your 40s, 50s — by Tim Denning 5 tiny habits that helped me write 500 articles alongside my 9–5 over…

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Published in The Startup

·May 26, 2022

Issue #1: This week’s 5 most popular stories, tools, ideas, and books

Top stories: — Big news: LinkedIn is paying me to write — by Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi I built a 5 figure income stream in a weekend — Here’s how—by Jenn Leach How to write a blog post in one hour—by Zulie Rane Why the biggest creators on the internet are flocking to LinkedIn—by…

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Published in Curious

·Apr 5, 2022

Curious Submission Guidelines

Our new streamlined guidelines. Essential reading for new and existing contributors looking to submit to us in 2022. — Curious is a self-improvement publication for those who are eager to find out what others have already figured out. We publish on a wide range of topics including: relationships; personal growth; psychology; mental health; and productivity. There are two types of stories we accept:

Writing

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Writing

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