When Inspiration Strikes, There’s an App To Help

The advantage to composing notes and ideas on your BlackBerry, Android, or iPhone is that – unlike the tried and true pad and pen – each has the ability to upload content to some kind of blog client or social network. Facebook and Tumblr allow users to update with ease, and there are several Twitter clients for reading and posting quick missives. For longer pieces, however, and news that must meet a schedule, there are specialized apps available to increase your productivity as you travel. Some are free, others are not, and not all are yet available across all phone platforms. Yet, if you have the means to try them all, you just may find you can go outside once in a while and seek deeper inspiration for your business interests.

It Only Takes One: Creating the Social Spark

You as a social media marketer may think: what are the chances some celebrity is going to follow your Facebook or Twitter, or else share your content and spark a viral spike in unique views. It would be nice to be singled out in this manner, thereby allowing you to take advantage of growing interest in your blog or social profile – while in time the mass numbers may drop off as the Warholian fifteen minutes tick away, there remains the opportunity to maintain a higher readership than you had before you were discovered.

Writing for Your Website When You’ve Run Out of Things to Write

As a writer, you may fear the inevitable wall, that moment when you feel you have exhausted your idea repository and aren’t sure what to write for your website or blog. You know it’s important to keep your online presence relevant and fresh in order to maintain high readership – with certain fields, there is always something new to explore. If your business is slow to offer innovations and new events, however, it’s possible to spend more time staring at the monitor screen than filling it.

Engaging Readers to Comment on Blogs and Social Networks

You can write for miles, you can post links to funny videos on your Facebook page, and you can tweet until your online voice gives out…it’s great to have the ability to easily produce content, but none it means much unless you know for certain people are processing it. What good does it do to have 500+ Twitter followers or a thousand fans on Facebook if none of them are regularly checking your content?

Top Blog Enhancements for Maximizing Your Presence

It’s not enough anymore to simply pen an amazing blog post, then kick back and wait for the traffic to roll in. With social media at the forefront of general consciousness, the mindset now is that people don’t search for news…it finds you. While you might think it a daunting task not only to create your brand’s news and updates but to actively seek out willing readers, know you don’t necessarily have to do all the work. If you write compelling copy, those who follow you will spread your gospel. It is up to you, however, to make that task easier.

Blogger’s New Pages Feature: Turning Your Blog Into a Mini-Site

As far as blogging platforms go, Blogger has always presented itself as user-friendly and quite adaptable…to an extent. If one had to compare Blogger to other instant publishing platforms available, one might have considered them a good start-up or practice publisher for the novice, with the hopes one might graduate to the likes of Wordpress, etc. Indeed, for the longest time it seemed Blogger’s devotion to simplicity – a broadsheet style layout of posts, drag and drop options on the sidebar – might remain for those uninterested in bells and whistles. Recently, though, Blogger has finally introduced page publishing functionality, moving one step closer to equality in the blogging world.

What’s on Your Blog? Widgetize That Sidebar for Fun and (Maybe) Profit

So if you’re blog sidebar is naked – doesn’t matter if you use Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, or another CMS – it’s seriously time to consider dressing it up. If somebody is aware of your blog and reading it, they should know where else they can find you. Here are just a few widgetized goodies to use to brighten up one of your Internet homes.

Lessons Learned at Internet Summit – Blogging is NOT Dead

With this year’s Internet Summit 2009 and the promising list of guest speakers and panelists, we couldn’t say no to attending. With Raleigh, NC just under four hours away, we decided a quick overnight trip might just be… Read the rest

Blog Writing Proves Necessary For Any Business

There seems to be many rules about Web site maintenance these days. Twitter this, SEO that — sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Of all of the rules of thumb to obey, one rule stands out above the others: your… Read the rest

Increase Search Engine Hits by Improving Article Content

Here are a few scenarios that the average person has more than likely encountered at least once:

• Buying something from an infomercial or store that they couldn’t live without, but the product fell flat
• Finally scoring a date with

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