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 [...]

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 [...]

24 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About Content Curation

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    The number of people who understand the value of online content is growing, and thus, content curation is becoming a more important topic. Pinterest, which is my personal favorite social network, is build on this idea of curating the content you like best, and each Brilliant Bloggers post here on the NMX blog [...]

How to create great content

With new blogs being written every second yours has to enfold something better. You need to catch the readers’ attention. Difference isn’t always a good thing in marketing as it can put off some people who might prefer a more conventional approach. So I am not advising you to be extravagant but rather to differentiate [...]

Content Tools You’ll Want to Use

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No matter who we are or what we do, content is part of our everyday lives. We watch it, we read it, we hear it – content is everywhere. Content is available 24/7/365 through every search engine and social media platform out there. Fortunately, tools are also everywhere to help people filter, organize and share [...]

Storytelling and Your Small Business Blog via @jplussocial

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  I think all businesses have stories to tell –  but believe small businesses have much to gain from telling theirs. This post lists a few suggestions for how small businesses can use storytelling within their blogs. _____________________________________________________________________________ People of all ages enjoy a good story…but the act of good storytelling? Well, let’s just call [...]

Exciting New Social Media Tools Rolling Out in 2013

Social media can take up much of our precious time. It’s important that we learn to manage our social media profiles to market ourselves and or our company correctly. So how do we use social media correctly? How do we make the most of it and save time? The best way to do this is [...]

Why the Blog Post Is the New Ad Unit

  I noticed this post and had to curate it. I actually think even curation is the new ad unit, which incidentally has many of the same benefits as a blog post. The author of this post lists 13 great reasons to think about. Back at the turn of the century, blogging was in a [...]

How To Make Money From Blogging

Full-time blogging can sound like a dream job. But how exactly can you make money from it? There are lots of reasons why you may have written a blog. You enjoy writing. You want to share your views. You want to promote your business. Or maybe you want to make money.  Yes, you really can [...]

How to build an engaged community

Using social media for your business can bring in great results. But how do you build a social community? And even more so, how do you build an engaged community and keep them interested over time? Here are some quick tips on how to make your community go WOW! Social media is undeniably a great [...]

Working with Influencers

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I’ve shared a lot of information on becoming a brand influencer and how you can work with Klout, PeerIndex, Kred and Brandify to monitor your influence across the internet. Why would you want to measure your online influence? Because brands are looking to reach your tribe, and you can cash in on that.  Sometimes that’s [...]