Monthly Archives: July 2009
Twitter at Conferences: Building Your Brand
Blogging If you’re using Twitter to further your personal or business blog and build your brand, then make sure you’re incorporating some of your brand-building activities int your Twitter stream. The easiest way to do this is to tweet about industry-related conferences. Whichever event you’re attending, tweeting about it will help you increase visibility both online and offline. That’s because others attending the same event are ...
Continue readingPlugins for English Nerds
Blogging There are a lot of plugins out on the Internet for bloggers. There are so many in fact, that no matter what you enjoy there’s bound to be a plugin for you to use. I’ve found a few plugins for those book and literary nerds out there who love to let people know silly information. Personally I’m a book nerd so when I found out about the Amazon Showcase WordPress Plugin I was excited. I’m always reading several books at a ...
Continue readingSales Copy Versus The Personal Blog: Pick One That Suits You
Promote your blog Like any other good discussion there are people on both sides of what I like to call the sales copy versus personal blog debate. I write both for different clients so I can see the benefits of each and how they suit different needs. Blogs Not Articles Remember this is about blogs not articles. There’s generally a two hundred to two hundred and fifty word generally agreed on limit here so which ever style you choose you need to be concise and ...
Continue reading7 Legit Ways To Make Money On Twitter
Making Money It’s no secret, everyone loves money and with Twitter’s huge growth, everyone is trying to profit off of it. Plus, the fact that we’re in a recession makes people even more eager to find legitimate ways to monetize their Twitter stream. Here are 6 great sites that can help you make some extra money on Twitter and all without spending a dime. Twittad Covered on Blogging Tips before, Twittad is a way to monetize your Twitter ...
Continue readingBlogging for Results: Whose Face Are You In Today?
Blogging If you happen to have a teenager, then you know how this feels: you have something important to share, you want to teach, and your intentions are pure and loving. Even if you come off sounding like a self-righteous politician who’s just been caught with their knickers down. Because you know you’re right. And still, the fruit of your loins looks back at you – or more likely, not – like they’d rather be having a root canal. Your kid ...
Continue readingWhy You Should Track Your Content
Blogging On my main site, Plagiarism Today, I talk a great deal about finding people who are misusing your content and how to stop them. However, not everyone is interested in stopping plagiarists or scrapers, many don’t care if their content is used, no matter the capacity. Other still take a more centrist approach and use Creative Commons Licenses to encourage at least some forms of distribution. However, Even if you never intend to stop a single ...
Continue readingMisleading Visitors To Generate Affiliate Sales
Making Money I have read many affiliate marketers say that it doesn’t matter how you convince a web visitor into a buying a product, all that matters is that you generated a sale. I can agree with this on some levels. For example, one of the most common ways of making money through sites like Amazon is to create a store front and give visitors the impression that they are actually buying the product from you and not Amazon. I would consider this a ...
Continue readingAdd Facebook’s Value to Twitter with fb140
Blogging fb140 is a tool that lets you find your Facebook friends on Twitter. It does so by scanning your Facebook friends’ visible profile information to see if they’ve listed a Twitter URL, then providing you with their Twitter information. Why would you want to use such a tool? It connects you with existing friends on a vastly growing social network, Twitter. Facebook began as asocial network that connected you with those that you knew in ...
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