From the category archives:
Last month, I started a series on why business blogs are a valuable part of any online marketing and content plan. Because I’m still hit with many blank stares when I speak and consult on blogging, I decided to answer the simple question: “Why Blog?”
Reason #3 to blog? Share-ability! A blog’s built-in buttons, widgets and [...]
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Remember that killer blog post idea you had a while back? Still sitting on it? Are you in love with the concept but beating yourself up about not finishing (or starting) the piece? Perhaps you shouldn’t be so hard on yourself.
Last week, one of my contacts tweeted an article by Robert Biswas-Diener on CNN.com called: [...]
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Last week, we began our “Why Blog?” Series with Reason #1 – Content is King. Today, we look at how blogging helps in the quest to be blessed by Google.
Call it what you will: Karma, juju, brownie points or just “appeasing the Google gods.” The bottom line is that we all want our businesses to [...]
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Many new bloggers or prospective bloggers think that embedding video into a blog post is hard. Nonsense! If you’re producing your own video, certainly the production and editing may be involved. But, if you’ve got a clip already on YouTube that you’re eager to share, it’s a piece o’ cake. Find that clip, cut and [...]
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What the heck is a “real time” expert? It’s an expert who continuously communicates advice, questions, challenges and thoughts with their audience or customer. A real-time expert doesn’t publish a book and walk away. They feed their audience with their views on current events, industry news, shake-ups, best practices and epiphanies. They produce a stream [...]
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If you don’t know Gary. Here’s the short story: Gary Vaynerchuk is an insanely successful, charismatic, unconventional entrepreneur that has attracted a cult-like following (self-described “Vayniacs“) of more than 60,000 viewers per day to WineLibraryTV.com. He’s written a new book called “Crush It.”
He was in Tampa tonight and made so much sense it hurt. [...]
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With the swarm of Twittermania, some once speculated that blogs were a dying breed. However, it’s because of Twitter and other emerging social media that blogs are more alive and necessary than ever before!
Recently, TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld compared the future of Blogging and Microblogging. He references statistics that show Twitter’s flattening growth, while WordPress’ growth [...]
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Blogging is one of the best ways to produce a stream of relevant content that will create an influential buzz about your business and build relationships with customers and prospects. But, it’s far from easy.
I hear small business owners comment that they can’t possibly blog because they don’t have the time. While time is certainly [...]
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Social media has added an entirely new layer of opportunity for sales, relationship-building and knowledge-sharing. In fact, for many of us, it’s radically changing the way we network and do business with others. But, just as the internet gave us all a degree of anonymity, social networking allows us all a degree of laziness.
The #1 [...]
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I’m still recovering from a great day at BarCamp Tampa on Sunday. It was an amazing event where I truly felt connected with the local tech and new media community. Awesome, awesome stuff!
There were some very lively discussions. Okay I admit, I participated in a rather heated debate with a guy in one session who [...]
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