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This post comes from my colleague Donna Gunter from her Blog Get More Clients Online The blogging platform, WordPress, has proven itself to be a robust host for an online content management system (CMS), especially with the development of new WordPress themes and plugins. I was skeptical at first, as I was a devout user [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )My colleague David Newman at www.doitmarketing.com shares this exceptional list of ideas with you. As John Jantsch likes to say, “social media is a tactic, not a religion” and I have to agree. Here are 10 social media tips for professional speakers that will help you balance your mix… 1. Youtube One Of Your Speeches [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Speaker Services is coming to Atlanta, September 30 and October 1, 2011 Calling all Speakers, Authors, Consultants, Coaches, Experts, Entrepreneurs, CEO’s See a short video that panelist Keith Ivey prepared and why he thinks you just might want to be at this event. http://youtu.be/8mrewimiuvk If you’re a would-be speaker, a business hotshot, an entrepreneur [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )by Donna Gunter on Thursday, April 21st, 2011 Now that everyone who owns a business seems to be building Facebook Pages (also known as Fan Pages, Like Pages, and Business Pages), the next inevitable dilemma that we face is what to do with those pages once they’re created and how to drive traffic there. I’ve [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )by Donna Gunter As I work more and more with WordPress, I began to see the need for an installation checklist, or all of those tasks that need to be completed for a new WordPress installation. Part of my rationale in creating this checklist is to make it easy for my assistant to set up [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Post by Donna Gunter Now that I’ve become a devout WordPress fan after years of being a naysayer, I’m trying to quickly get up-to-speed about strategies and tactics I can use the make my WordPress blogs work hard for me to bring more traffic to my sites. Some of the strategies I’ve learned about have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )by Judy Cullins, judycullins@cox.net Want a lot more book sales? Want your business to stand out from the crowd? A blog, one of the best content marketing techniques, can give you much higher results than you imagined. It helps you build a following, build a reputation as the savvy expert in your field, and make increased book sales! [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )By Eric Gruber, Your Article Marketing Expert www.articlemarketingexperts.com Thank god for my article submission staff that manually submits my clients’ articles. The process is long and boring. It’s robotic work and can be quite painful. Trust me. I know because before I hired my staff, I handled all of the article submissions by myself so [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )How to Sell Your Ebooks and Reports in Amazon’s Kindle Store by Denise Wakeman Until I bought a Kindle last month, I had not paid much attention to the amazing content that’s available for digital download. Then, I discovered that I could promote my blogs on Amazon for download to the Kindle. Next, I found [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Posted by Kipp Bodnar, http://blog.hubspot.com/blog The iPad has become the poster child for a new emerging device category: tablet computers. Much debate about this new device and category exists, but the numbers don’t lie. In the third quarter, Apple sold more than 3 Million iPads, meaning they sold almost as many iPads as Mac computers. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Published July 20, 2010, Social Media Examiner Whether you’re planning a real-world event (like a conference, tweetup or political gathering) or a virtual event (like a webinar or teleclass), social media can be an inexpensive, cost-effective way to build buzz, fill seats, and turn a one-off gathering into a recurring event. The trick is to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )And it was just a matter of time before people stopped putting videos on their blogs, and began vlogging. The video IS the blog post!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )By Mari Smith @marismith Published April 27, 2010 in Social Media Examiner If you build a Facebook Page, will fans come? This is the great hope for many businesses. However, fans do not magically appear from the Facebook mist. People must be lured to your fan page. And there are some good and bad ways [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Post by Larry Brooks First, let’s get one thing out of the way. A blog alone, no matter how popular, isn’t enough to score you a book contract. It’s not quite that simple. In other words, it doesn’t quite work the way it does on television. “Did you hear that Random House gave me a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Post by Penny C. Sansevieri, penny@amarketingexpert.com THE BOOK MARKETING EXPERT NEWSLETTER. Embarking on an Internet marketing campaign doesn’t have to be difficult, tricky, or complicated. Here are a few simple ways (twenty in fact) that you can easily implement to get tons of traffic to your site right now! 1) Write articles: believe it or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Post from Denise Wakeman- Internet Marketing Tips Susan note: Video is all the rage and my colleague Denise offers the latest cutting edge suggestions. You know how I’m always telling you to integrate video into your marketing mix? Well, what do you do with all those videos? On Build a Better Blog I shared my [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The New Frontier Workshop with Susan Levin Saturday, October 24, 1-5pm, $99, Marina del Rey, CA Social media has profoundly altered the way we market and communicate. Social Media Marketing is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value. Content + Context + Connections + Community = Social Media Marketing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Susan Note: Great post it is all about relationships. All about the connection. And connection is the new currency. Read on… BTW: Speaker Services offers up to date media lists so that you can reach reporters directly with your pitch letter. See http://www.speakerservices.com/services/media-lists.html This post was co-written by Len Kendall and Dave Fleet. Dave heads [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )by Donna Gunter, The Online Biz Resource Queen (TM) Amazon’s Kindle is a electronic book-reading device that allows people to purchase and download electronic versions of books, newspapers, and magazines. Now, you can have your blog available to Kindle readers, as well. Best of all, you can get paid for this strategy. However, you don’t [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Great post by Penny Sansevieri If you’re trying to pitch yourself to bloggers you may have found the dead silence at the end of your email exchange. Why? Well, let’s face it. The top bloggers in any market probably get a ton of email. Most of it fairly useless. I know this for a fact [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Denise Wakeman Biz Tips Blog: Internet Marketing Tips Use of social networking sites has exploded during 2008. Millions of business professionals are now connecting through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other sites that make it easy to post messages and attract like-minded people. While no one really knows which sites will end up being staples in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The following post if from my colleague Donna Gunter, The Boomer Biz Queen™ Increasing online visibility is the goal of most online business owners. After all, without visibility, you have no traffic and thus no business. However, when you start to research how to increase your online visibility, you discover so many options, yet [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )The following post comes to us from http://www.marketingprofs.com by Brent Altomare What first started out as a consumer phenomenon has turned into a growing corporate trend: Blogs now provide opportunities for organizations to interact and share their stories and thoughts online. As of 2007, there were a reported 100 million blogs; and as of July [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Great tips from Donna Gunter, The Boomer Biz Queen™ “So, what do I blog about each time?” is a question I often get from clients. To keep your blog active and healthy, I recommend blogging at least 3 times per week. However, that notion is overwhelming for many. Even though you may be an expert [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Angela Wills Looking for a quick, easy and low cost way to get a website up and running? Then you really should consider using WordPress. You’ve probably heard of WordPress as one of the most popular blogging platforms but it can do so much more then use let you post a few entries to your [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The following post is from Denise Wakeman of the Blog Squad. When you think of Twitter, you may not think about list building. You probably think about instant messaging on steroids, building relationships via 140 character “tweets” that connect you to your followers and allow them to get to know you and your business. And, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )post from Denise Wakeman, The Blog Squad Seth Godin does it again. Here’s a brilliant lesson from the master of permission marketing and author of Purple Cow. A couple of months ago I received an email inviting me to apply to be a member of Seth Godin’s new social networking site, Triiibes – For people [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )I posted the following question on several social network sites. LinkedIn, Twitter, FaceBook and to my e-mail list after I had blogged about it. Q: Know what blogging and speaking have in common? Find out http://tinyurl.com/53tqll I noticed it caught a lot of interest and varying points of view. Here are some of the responses [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )by Michael W. McLaughlin, Contributing Editor of Rain Today Many consultants ask if they should start blogging to add power to their market presence. Blogs certainly are pervasive. In fact, if you listen to the experts, you get the impression that everyone should be blogging. It is tempting to jump on the bandwagon. But only [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mark Hayward http://northxeast.com/blogging/like-it-or-not-blogging-is-public-speaking/ Do you get sweaty palms, an increased heart rate, or feel like you are going to faint when you have to make a presentation in front of an audience? Would you like to improve your public speaking skills and enhance your blogging at the same time? Public speaking and blogging are similar [...]
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