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Does Tweeting Work?
Blogging Over the past couple weeks I have been paying attention to my Klout Score. It goes up and down based on a variety of factors. Klout is a site that tries to monitor your social influence over people on the internet. It monitors how many people are seeing your posts, mainly on Twitter but says it monitors Facebook, Google +, and a few other sites out there. I have found over the past two weeks that raising your Klout isn’t that hard. ...
Continue readingKlipfolio – The Dashboard that Keeps Track of All Your Business Data
Productivity, Reviews Most business and blog owners love to keep up with their data such as traffic/analytics, sales/revenue, Adsense earnings, etc. Unfortunately, it’s a pain to have to sign and out of these data sources on the Web; plus it’s rather time consuming if you’re doing this many times a day. Klipfolio Dashboard aims to be a solution for this and lets you organize all of this data into a single dashboard on the Web. On the support site, ...
Continue reading5 Ways Businesses Blow it on Twitter
Social Networking For businesses both large and small, Twitter is a very strange beast. Nothing in the history of advertising and public relations has been quite like Twitter and, even as social networking is becoming a better-understood field for business promotion, Twitter stands apart for many reasons. So as businesses stumble onto Twitter, many are using the new medium to find innovative ways to fall on their face. Though not every business or personal brand ...
Continue readingGet Business Training Videos on Demand
Making Money, Reviews This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of TrainingVOD. All opinions are 100% mine. One of the most important life lessons, both within and outside of the world of work, is to never stop learning. It is positively imperative that you avoid falling into a state of stagnation; learn something new each and every day. This will help you grow and evolve as a person. Unfortunately, our increasingly busy lives are making it even more difficult ...
Continue readingStop Wasting Time on Social Networks
Blogging As a blogger, there are two major aspects of your professional presence in the online environment: your writing abilities and your business savvy. By creating content and publishing it on the web, you are also creating a need to market yourself. Otherwise, no one will come across your content and your voice will not be heard. Balancing your life to accommodate these two demanding aspects of your blog can be a tough task, but managing your time ...
Continue readingCan Plato’s Forms add Wisdom to Blogging?
Blogging News While I participate in the alpha and beta testing for many web services, this is the first time I am writing about a pre-alpha product. However, I think that the concept behind Plato’s Forms could be key to the future of blogging. With so many blogs and so much misinformation in the wild, there is a need to create a venue for bloggers to communicate with the companies they are writing about. On three occasions, I have been asked by the ...
Continue readingTwitter Acceptance Good for Business Bloggers
Social Media, Social Networking If you blog for business purposes, then you’ve heard of the ways in which Twitter can help you either build your brand or help you redistribute your content in order to spread the message of your brand. And it looks like all the talk of Twitter being good for business was right. According to a recent survey by MarketingProfs, small business owners view Twitter as an important aspect of their company. Well, that’s fine for business ...
Continue readingSelling on Twitter without Being Hated
Blogging Selling on Twitter can really help you on the marketing end, but the microblogging site has become such a hotbed for people pitching to you that merely signing up can feel like you’re simply preparing yourself for infomercial nightmares. But if you’re going to be selling on Twitter, whether you’re selling yourself, your time, your service or your product, you must remember that others are warning Twitter newbies against you! ...
Continue reading5 Practical Things You Can Do with Twitter
Blogging, Making Money, Social Media Yesterday, Kevin announced the launch of Blogging Tips first WordPress plugin, Twitter User, which lets users integrate their Twitter username with their profile information in WordPress and display a link to their Twitter account in the footer of every post (or elsewhere in the template). However, many, including those who currently use Twitter, have wondered just how useful the service really is. Though there is a lot being said by ...
Continue readingBuilding a Small Business Website with Blogger – Part 1
Blogger, Making Money In the past few years, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the number of companies who have a presence online. Almost every major retailer now offers the service to purchase their products online, while consumers are more likely to look up local businesses online rather than reach for a bulky telephone directory. For small businesses or companies who previously have little experience with web design and site building, the process of building a ...
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