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5 Can’t Fail Blog Promotion Strategies That’ll Get You Noticed
When you write a blog post, what is your workflow or your blog promotion strategy? This is a pretty serious question, and I’m really interested in hearing people’s responses to it, because I think we might all have a lot to learn from this one. If you asked me this a...
Google Chrome Goes After Marketers With New ‘Do Not Track’ Feature
If you use Google Chrome and don’t want your online behavior tracked by marketers, today’s your lucky day. Chrome, currently the world’s most popular browser, just got an update with the much-requested “Do Not Track” feature — which Google promised it would release...
6 Ways To Define Your Unique Selling Proposition and Differentiate Yourself
How are you different? How is your website any different from the million others on the same topic? I hate to break it to you, but if you haven’t asked yourself that question, then you’ve already failed. But you can do something about it. Today is all about finding...
59 Essential Inbound Marketing Resources
With so many blogs, ebooks, articles and podcasts about marketing out there, I decided to share with you the 59 online resources that have given me the extra edge. I understand how overwhelming it can be sorting through all of the information on the web. Hopefully...
Not Sure What to Tweet? Here are 13 Great Ideas…
It’s funny… Before I was on Twitter I used to make every excuse under the sun not to use Twitter. And one of my biggest excuses was “But I don’t know what to tweet” – thinking it was a good excuse, haha. Now, as a prolific Tweeter I have other newbies asking me the...
5 Social Media Publishing Lessons Brands Learned This Year
Social media is still in its infancy as a marketing tool and, as you’d expect, many brands aren’t yet ready to take the stabilizers off yet. Last year there were some great examples of how to use social networks and social media publishing processes to promote...
How to Write a Must-read Product Review
This guest post is by Karol K. Reviews are one of the more common types of content on the internet. I’m sure you’ve looked for a review of a given product yourself once or twice. However, being on the receiving end of a review, so to speak, is a completely different...
How to Publish Your Blog on Amazon Kindle
Have you published your blog on Kindle? If not, you should do it, pronto! It’s easy, it’s productive and it’s free. We’re not talking about publishing ebooks or PDFs, but your dynamic and regularly updated blog. Rather surprisingly, not a lot of bloggers have...
Can You REALLY Make Money Blogging? [7 Things I Know About Making Money from Blogging]
Every now and again I am pulled aside at a conference or am emailed and/or tweeted by someone wanting to get the “real” scoop on whether it is possible to make money blogging. Is it really possible to make a living from blogging? Is it just a small number of people...
15 WordPress User Errors That Make You Look Silly [Infographic]
Through superior flexibility and excellent quality, WordPress shed the label of mere “blogging” software long ago. It’s become an indispensible content publishing platform for millions of real businesses and talented writers and thinkers across the web. Chances are,...