Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to another  weekly round-up post from our ever-growing community of bloggers, writers, vloggers, podcasters, and other content creators. Each and every week we hand-pick five top posts from a pool of the highest voted user-submitted/created posts in the community and include them in this weekly listicle blog post, along with the newsletter for all of our blog subscribers.

Here are this week’s (Jan 13 – Jan 19, 2018) most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. Seth’s Blog: Google, Please Don’t Kill The Blogs
“To the Gmail team, You’ve built a tool for a billion people. Most of my blog readers use it every day, and so do I. Thanks for creating an effective way for people to connect to the people and ideas they care about. That comes with responsibility…”

2. Motivation Is For Suckers
“The great part about New Year’s resolutions: You feel wonderful when you’re making them. The not-so-great part: Odds are you’ll fail before the end of the year. Only 9 percent of people stick to their resolutions for a full year…”

3. The Subtle Art Of Getting Your Work Noticed
“The world we live in today is heavily dictated by the attention economy. There are far more stimuli in our average environment than there has ever been at any point in history. Our senses are constantly bombarded with noise…”

4. What It’s Like To Be The Parent Of A Social-Media Star
“Parents can go years thinking their son or daughter is just an average teen on YouTube or Instagram until one day a marketing manager at a Fortune 500 brand calls the house asking to collaborate, as happened to one mother I spoke to…”

5. How Jeff Haden, Inc’s Top Columnist, Stays Motivated And Never Runs Out of Ideas
“Jeff Haden is Inc.com’s most popular columnist, one of LinkedIn’s most widely-followed Influencers, and the author of The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win…”

That’s all folks! You can view all the rest of the community’s top submissions (10 more) here.

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