If Your Dog Wrote Your About Page

Great About Page Practices

Anita Hampl is pretty passionate about About pages and I think she makes a great point when she says: You need it to catch their attention. You want the visitors to think, “Hmmm, let me read a little more about this person (and their business) before I click away.” She’s sharing great quick tip and [...]

You Really Can Make Pinterest Graphics Yourself

Pinterest Pixlr Templates

My pal Lynette Chandler has released a super tutorial showing you how to create your own Social Friendly Images to grace your blog content and make it more clickable and shareable. She says: In the video below, I’ll guide you through the steps for creating pin-worthy graphic from scratch using Pixlr, a free online tool. [...]

5 Apps for Blogging from Your iPad

I am always on the lookout for new apps to make Social Media easier, but I do not usually think about Blogging Apps. Do you think about them, or research them on a daily basis? I am a hard core WordPress user, as of now, and just use the handy dandy dashboard they provide for us! Well [...]

How I promote my new blog posts | The Social Media Hat

After I have finished writing, editing, deep linking and have published a new blog post, my work has just gotten started. Simply creating content isn’t sufficient to gain readership. You need to actively promote that new post so that people can see it and have a chance to read it. It can take a long [...]

A Golf Lesson in Content Marketing Success

This is the eighth letter in a series on Professional Content Marketing. World class golfers like Tiger Woods see the game of golf differently than you and I… …but the hard reality is that difference has nothing to do with their athletic abilities, work ethic or God given talent. It would be much easier to [...]

Bloggers, Are You Having Trouble Bonding With Your Readers?

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For some bloggers, it’s just about the writing. For the rest of us, it is so much more than just the writing. Many of us write in order to connect with people, either as an individual or a business. For the connectors, we feel downright depressed when we write the way we’re told to write…but [...]

Content Marketing Podcast Episode 19: Why Content Marketing Works Pt 4: Liking

I’m sure Sally Field had no idea she was tapping into a huge marketing concept back in 1985 when she chirped, “You like me! Right now, you like me!” in her Oscar acceptance speech for Places in the Heart. But it’s true: when faced with a decision, we’re much more likely to decide in favor [...]

Go! Go! Google+ Redesign

Google+ Launches New Look & Features

Google+ beat Facebook to the punch with the launch of its new look, along with 41+ new features. How long have we been waiting for the new Newsfeed after the BIG announcement? Ages. Google+ quietly launched this massive overhaul without a ton of fanfare and false promises. Sure, some folks are saying it’s a little [...]

How to Rank: 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint | SEOmoz

If you’re like most SEOs, you spend a lot of time reading. Over the past several years, I’ve spent 100s of hours studying blogs, guides, and Google patents. Not long ago, I realized that 90% of what I read each doesn’t change what I actually do – that is, the basic work of ranking a [...]

12 Common Misconceptions about Content Marketing | Jeffbullas’s Blog

Content marketing (at least, as we understand it today) is still relatively new … and with all new concepts, it has more than its share of misconceptions out there. Check out Jeff Bullas’ latest blog post for a rundown of the 12 biggest misconceptions and what makes them inaccurate: 12 Common Misconceptions about Content Marketing [...]

10 Simple Steps Will Improve Your Business Blog

It is the start of a new week with new and fresh ideas, but you still can’t figure out what to write about for your business blog. Small Business Trends has come up with 10 steps to help improve your business blog. A great read through. You still want to be honest, open, and engaging [...]

An Exhaustive Guide to Exceptional Guest Blogging

There are few shortcuts to great SEO in the post-Panda update era. While quality content, and a powerful social media strategy are key to earning higher organic search rankings, your website can’t gain authority overnight. Or can it? Guest blogging is a remarkable tool for earning back links to your company’s website, a component that [...]