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The Rise of Earned Media

The Rise of Earned Media

Welcome to 2013 and Some Cool New Year's Quotes I see you made it and I’m so glad you are here. I hope you had a wonderful Holiday Season, got some rest and enjoyed great quality time with your family and friends. As you probably noticed I took part of December off again, just like I did last year. Welcome to 2013 which I know will be a funtastic year. So the $64 thousand dollar question is… Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions? I used to, because it’s the thing to do I guess. So, to spare myself feeling miserable about breaking the promises I made to myself, I don’t make any New Year’s Resolutions anymore. I think the thing about resolutions is that they are too vague. For example, if you say, “I want to lose weight this year”, it’s probably not going to happen. Another example: Instead of saying, “I’m going to turbo-charge my business this year,” make it a goal to talk to at least 5 new people a day about your business. There’s a big difference behind wishing for something and putting the action behind it to achieve it.

How to Integrate Social Networking Sites on Blogs Image Source: It is beyond doubt that most of the marketers and brands have jumped on to the bandwagon of Social media. Social networking sites are of extreme importance when it comes to promoting your articles or product. So, quite expectedly, most of the bloggers would like to see some sort of social networking mechanism in their blogs. Some of the networking websites, with which people would like their blogs have a connection, are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn et cetera. There are some tools provided by each of these social networking sites that can help get some social activities on your blog. Comments from Facebook and Twitter You would definitely notice that some highly popular blogs get many comments from its followers. Like or Retweet option Another cheeky but immensely significant social network plug-in to integrate on your blog is the like/retweet button. Sign-in via other networking website account Follow the author option

Top Five Direct Marketing Strategies - What Home Business Does to Make Money Online If you want to know how to write articles in 15 minutes, then read this. One of the drawbacks many web copywriters and bloggers face is how time consuming it is to sit and write articles for their web pages, blog posts and article directory publications. Although you can use my secret to writing articles fast for your website and blog, I mainly use this strategy when submitting articles to article directories. Elastic articles is my name for articles that stretch from an article directory across the Internet to the author’s defined destination. My secret to writing elastic articles really has two parts. If you want to know my secret, read on… For some, it takes all day to research and write a completely original article. One of the keys to being able to pound out article after article is knowledge. What chance do new home business startups have to take advantage of article writing if they spend all their time guessing what to write, verifying facts, and publish? Research Your Article A. B.

Our Blog Direction for 2013 Today, on this last day of 2012, we thought we would give you a quick preview of what this blog will look like (generally speaking) moving into 2013. We are excited to tell you that we have mapped out the entire year in terms of posts, and we are going to make every effort to give coverage to all of the issues that may be on your mind in regards to marketing your company. We are going to be offering two new “feature” topics every week in 2013. Every Monday, we are going to add to a series called “Manage Your Marketing.” These posts will be big picture topics like how to deal with products that might make your messaging seem contradictory or inconsistent, or how to hire for the kind of culture you want on your marketing team and in your company in general. The week will be book-ended with a Friday feature called “Five Tips Friday.” Wednesday will remain an open day. That’s our plan, all wrapped up and tied with a bow. Like this: Like Loading...

Turn 404 Error Pages into a branding opportunity | SCALEOGY Recommended for you... MyTikka The Free News Ticker For Your Computer ShareThis Founder Tim Schigel talks about sharing, search, and SQI Founder of Eve-Olution shares her success strategies Information overload, its time for an information diet Turn 404 Error Pages into a branding opportunity 404 error pages can be annoying. Here’s the thing, 404 Error Pages are website blunders – a broken link, a wrong search, or a technical issue. How? So, did you get an idea for your 404 Page? This ‘bite-sized’ portion of business is sponsored by: Where Do Good Ideas Come From? Kitesurfing meets Tech at MaiTai Listen Up: Gary Vaynerchuk Q&A Session In London Google’s Project Glass makes an appearance in England Unbeatable Strategies to Harness Your Emotions in Negotiations Can you control your emotions when negotiating an important deal? The easiest way to harness and manage emotions in negotiations is to prepare you for unforeseen situations. Be knowledgeable What can you do to make the audience pay attention?

Credibility Starts With Your Name - How to make a blog and a blog income Establishing credibility online, especially if you wish to operate as an internet marketer, has some similarities with the real world. The first thing to think about when launching yourself onto the online world would be your online name. Seems an easy enough concept. But it’s not that straight forward. Let’s have a look at some of the issues here. Calling your company ‘Sexy Girl’ or ‘Hot Stud” will not be the right move if you are hoping to establish a serious business that sells computers, serious books or even green technology. It will take a considerable amount of time to brand those names to make people think of them as representing a serious business. If you want to sell sexy lingerie, or naughty pictures, possibly even pornography then the name would be an advantage and certainly add to the credibility of the business. If you are an avid gardener and want to start up a small business online you might want to go for a name such as Gardening Guru.

Blog Review Of 2012 54 Flares Twitter 20 Facebook 10 Google+ 23 Pin It Share 0 LinkedIn 1 inShare1 StumbleUpon 0 Reddit 0 Email -- Email to a friend 54 Flares × I reviewed my blogs for the past year to see what was the strongest and weakest blogs I’ve written. I like to measure it by reading the comments that I have received on a particular subject. My readers will actually read the post! They will comment and sometimes add to the content to the post. You won’t see many one liners in my comment section. Commenting on a blog is just as important as writing one. How are your comments on your blog? * Don’t accept a comment without a gravatar, unless you know that person well and there is some kind of hiccup in their system. * Check out the commentluv when approving a comment. * When someone comments on your blog, REPLY! * After replying to a comment, go to that person’s blog and reciprocate. * Go the extra mile if you find that blog resonates with you, and syndicate it by sharing it on the social platforms.

20 Loyal Bloggers You Will Want To Know This is my last post of the year. Wow, what a journey this has been too. I contemplated on what to share since my last post of 2011 was pretty epic. I thought about doing a follow up like what still works and what doesn’t type thing but I decided against that. I’ll share with you in my first post of the new year why I decided not to go that route. Most of you who have been visiting my blog for quite some time now already know my story. By March of 2011 I started getting a decent amount of traffic and comments to my blog. I started connecting with a lot of bloggers and really learning from each of them. Paying Tribute to 20 Loyal Bloggers As the nature of the industry goes, a lot of those bloggers that I bonded with early on are no longer around. Because there are so many new bloggers coming online every single day I’ve been fortunate enough to continue meeting even more awesome people. I’m truly honored to know then all and be able to call them a friend. Jens P. Dee Ann Rice of Dee Ann Rice

Don't do that! Do This....Bad Boy URL Shortener Links - The Epic Blog The Epic Blog So what can we do we do about them then dear reader? We have all heard of horror stories when people click on these shrt links that mask their true source. Recently in the blogosphear a new Virus/Trojan called Ransomware has been in the news that has the ability to take control of your computer and even access you social network profiles. What happens next to the unfortunate victim is a webpage comes up from the FBI or the British Police saying that you have accessed indecent images or downloaded some pirate material and to get your computer back you need to pay a ransom using UKash vouchers! Everyone should be suspicious of shortened URL’s especially ones from people you down know or trust as some of them can be viruses or malware, so what can be done about this? Enter LongURL – Thanks for reading! Phillip Enjoy this post? No Related Posts

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