Monthly Archives: August 2010
Listening to the Voice of the Audience
Blogging I was just reading Patti Stafford’s post on Staying Motivated when you are not seeing results and I had to chuckle to myself because I’ve just recently changed things up big time on my own blog. For seven years I’ve written about myself and my life through my blog. I started doing a photograph a day in 2005 and would post the photo and write something about it or about my family. I began to wonder why I wasn’t getting ...
Continue readingStaying Motivated When You Aren’t Seeing Results
Blogging Do you feel like you’ve been working your backside off getting your blog or website in front of the public and just not seeing the results you thought you would? Is it time to give up and throw in the towel? I wouldn’t go that far but it may be time to pull some new tricks out of an old hat. Take a look at what you’ve been doing. Is there anything you can improve? Do you post quality content? Is your blog or website one big ad ...
Continue readingWin a Hotel for a Weekend with Hampton
Reviews This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Hampton Hotels. All opinions are 100% mine. You need a vacation. Whether you work from home as a professional blogger or you make the daily commute to a more conventional office, it pays to have some time away from the world of work. At the same time, you want to save as much money as possible in doing so. Well, getting something for free is one way to save a few bucks. The kind folks at ...
Continue readingA Few Facts About SEO
Blogging The other day someone I know approached me about taking a look at a business website because they’d spent a fair amount of money with a search engine optimization company toward getting the kind of traffic they thought they deserved. The mission failed miserably. I’ve been working with SEO as a content writer for several years now but I’m no expert. If I was though, one of the first things I would do when writing a top ten ...
Continue readingReach Targeted Customers with Rent-A-List
Promote your blog, Reviews So, you’ve started your own business and everything seems to be going reasonably well. Unfortunately, you’ve tried your hand at a few traditional marketing channels and they’re not exactly performing as expected. They don’t have the kind of targeting that you need. Helping you “find your ideal customers fast” is Rent-A-List. They have been helping online advertisers for nearly a decade, offering “a ...
Continue readingSimplenote Makes Staying Organized Painless
Reviews Simplenote is an easy way to stay organized on the web, your desktop and mobile device. It’s free and easy to use. Your notes are also seamlessly synced across devices. You can use Simplenote to create things such as to do lists, grocery lists, class notes, drafts for blog posts, keeping a journal, and more; the possibilities are endless. You can view the various apps they offer from their downloads page; their selection is quite ...
Continue readingWhen Failure is Not an Option
Blogging What makes a successful blogger successful? Is it the time they put into it? Or who they know and associate with? Or maybe they just have a lucky charm and the world falls into their lap? All of these may contribute to their success, but for this post let’s say they’ve taken failure out of the equation; it’s not an option for them. Does that sound strange or even hokey? It’s not as weird as you might think. Go back to ...
Continue readingQubrit – Virtual Business Cards for Internet Professionals
Reviews, Social Media Long are the days of physical business cards that you hand out in person. Qubrit lets you exchange cards the easy way — virtually. “Qubrit is a social platform used by professionals every day to connect with each other.” You can create, manage and exchange cards with anyone on the Net. Plus, Qubrit lets you message and organize your contacts. The main card itself is pretty simple. There are spots for basic information like your ...
Continue reading5 Skills Every Blogger Needs to Excel
Blogging On the surface, writing a blog and maintaining it may not seem like that hard of a job. You set up an account, pick a theme, write some posts and hit “publish”. Pretty much anyone can do it so long as they know how to use a computer and understand the basics of the Internet. However, there is a difference between just blogging and blogging well. If you want to do the latter, you’re going to have to learn a few additional skills ...
Continue readingLink Proz Helps You Ascend Google’s Ranks
Links, Making Money, Reviews, Search Engine Optimisation You want your site to get noticed. You want your site to be popular. You want your website to rank well for your target keywords and keyword phrases. For all of these, search engine optimization can play a very critical role, but SEO can be a very tricky business. Working on your team, should you choose to hire them, are the experts from Link Proz. As you might be able to gather from the firm’s name, one of their primary services is to ...
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