What do you want people to do after they’ve watched your video? Most beginners forget to ‘close the sale’. Their efforts go into making the video, getting it up on YouTube, but forget its original purpose. It’s easy to do when you’re in a hurry or engrossed in the technology. But you want people [...]
Entries Tagged as 'blogging'
Video: How to Create a Call to Action on Your Blog
February 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · Video Blogging
Tags:blogging·Call to Action·Camtasia·How To·Launch·Product·Promotion·Sales·Screen Recording. Screencast·Upselling·Video·YouTube
Google News: How to Get Your Blog Indexed
February 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Google
Ever wondered how some blogs appear on Google News and others don’t? Ever wanted to get your site on Google News. Google has published guidelines explaining how the process works. Do it right and you might be indexed. If you’d like a site to be included in Google News, you can also send them the [...]
Tags:blogging·google·guidelines·index·News·Sitemap·social media
How do you Manage Extremely Negative Comments on your Blog?
January 17th, 2010 · View Comments · How To, Tips
I need your advice. Someone has left a fairly negative comment on my blog. What should I do? Approve or Delete? The reason I ask is this. I want people to give their opinion and, even if it offends me in some ways—let’s say they made some sarcastic remarks or found a typo—I’d still approve [...]
Tags:blogging·Feedback·guidelines
How to write Link Bait for Digg, Reddit & StumbleUpon
November 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Want to be on the very first page of Digg.com? You’d be famous, right? Here’s how to do it.
Chris Brogan: If You Intend To Blog Seriously
October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Social Media
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Chris Brogan writes: Blogs are not traditional media, and bloggers are not journalists. Unless they are. But it’s not a requirement.
A blog is software. It’s something one puts up on the web to capture information, of whatever type one wants to put on there, and thus, if anyone tells you that you’re doing [...]
Tags:blog·blogging·Business·Chris Brogan·howto·Inbound Marketing Summit·ing·Link·Marketing·Money·New Marketing Labs·Productivity·professionalism·socialmedia·socialmedia100
How to Blog Almost Every Day – Use the Inverted Pyramid story format
October 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity
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Do you want to update your blog every day?
Chris Brogan provides this framework for writing a blog post (almost) every day. He adds that while it’s not easy, once you develop the right habits, they stick with you. I’m writing quite regularly now, but it took me several years to get [...]
Tags:Advice·Alltop·blog·blogging·Chris Brogan·Creative Commons·Delicious·Flickr·Techniques·Tennessee State University·Tips·wikipedia·writing
Wordpress Twitter Tool – How to change ‘New Blog Post:’ when new posts are tweeted?
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Twitter Tools lets you integrates your blog with Twitter, so that every time you publish an article, it is automatically sent to Twitter. Even better, it can setup a daily and weekly blog post listing all the tweets you sent. One small thing is that the default setting for the blog posts is “New Blog [...]
Tags:Admin·blogging·plugins·seo·Tips·Tweets·Twitter·Wordpress
How much do freelance writers charge for writing posts?
June 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
How much do freelance writers charge for writing posts? Now that our little site is doing well, freelance writers are approaching us and offering their services. I thought I’d offer this to give you all an idea of the rates per post and per article we’re being quoted. By the way, the writer you sent this was very professional, had a great portfolio and recommendations from satisfied clients.
Tags:blogging·fees·Free·Freelance·paid posts·rates·salary·writing
Add Sidenotes to your Web Pages and Blogs
May 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Unobtrusive Sidenotes combines Javascript and CSS so that you can incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs. It even includes a handy set of colors (all set in CSS and tweak-able) to create that oh-so-subtle correlation between the sidenote and the relevant text.
20 Mistakes I made when making it to #2 on Google
May 14th, 2009 · View Comments · How To
Is there anything worse than people telling you how they got to #1 on Google? And, if you pay them $33.99, they’ll send you an eBooks that tells all. Well, our sister site is now at #1 in four different categories on Google. But rather than tell you how great we all are, I’d like to tell you the mistakes we made on the way. Hopefully, you’ll learn something and spare the pain we had to go through.
Tags:blogging·google·making money·ranking·seo
Sketchcasting – blogging with interactive whiteboards
May 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
This tools merges the power of blogging with the “high-bandwidth” experience of talking and scribbling at the same time.
