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How to Develop a Social Media Marketing Campaign

March 30th, 2010 · View Comments · Social Media

When implementing any type of marketing campaign it is wise to first take a step back and decide how to develop your campaign. Many companies are have made the executive decision to go forward with social media—they just aren’t so sure what to do.

29 Ways to Increase Traffic to a Micro Niche Blog

March 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Google

Making money from blogs in an inexact science. What works one blogs fails on another. I’ve launched over 200 websites since 1998 (mostly ecommerce) and about 30 blogs (mostly technical). If your blog has a technical slant, for example, it’s target audience is technical writers, analysts, architects, or others micro niche areas, then use some of these techniques to increase your traffic.

Social Media Budgeting: Where Do You Start?

March 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · Social Media

Guest article by Shannon Suetos from Resource Nation The terms social media and social networking have been tossed around for quite some time now, but businesses are struggling with how to implement these strategies in their budgets. How much is too much, how much is too little? There are many factors on how to plan [...]

9 Guaranteed Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Blog

March 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Facebook

To quote Van Halen, ‘everybody wants some.’ And what you want is traffic. Why write a blog if no-one visits, right? I have 17 technical writers’ blogs in my Google Reader & RSS feeds. Most are fine but… if they used some of the following tactics, they’d get more traffic, comments, money and Nobel prizes. [...]

Video: How to Create a Call to Action on Your Blog

February 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · Uncategorized

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 to [...]

#1 Mistake When Making Your First YouTube Video

February 12th, 2010 · View Comments · Video

What’s the most common mistake people make when shooting their first video? Christopher Ming Ryan points out that most video-makers don’t get in close enough to the person talking. This lessens the impact of the message. Zoom in. Frame the face. Here’s some tips from Ivan.

Video Blogging: Mistakes to Avoid & Doing It Right

February 8th, 2010 · View Comments · How To

I’ve started to use video to sell (and upsell!) my digital downloads and information products. Like most beginners, I’m making mistakes at every step. But I’ve learnt a few tricks this week, mostly thanks for Christopher Ming Ryan. Here’s what I learnt.

Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free

October 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free

What’s The Social Technographics Profile Of Your Customers? Forrester Research knows the answer

June 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Forrester’s Social Technographics classifies consumers into six overlapping levels of participation (see short presentation). Based on its survey data, they can see how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.

What's The Social Technographics Profile Of Your Customers? Forrester Research knows the answer

June 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

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How to Improve your Style Guide

June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

How to Improve your Style Guide. PerfectIt does not require any kind of configuration. Once you install it, you can use it straight away to find mistakes in any MS Word document. This article is for users who want to get even more out of PerfectIt by fine-tuning it to search for particular errors or to enforce a style guide.

Groundswell – How Social Media Technoloiges Really Work

June 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

I’ve been reading this book most of the weekend. It’s a terrific exploration of social media and how social media technologies are effecting corporations and companies from a business perspective. I thought you might want look at these links as these are the footnotes to the book and provide some very interesting material. Worth a [...]

Screenshot Tips – How to create special effects with Snagit

June 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

Screenshot Tips – How to create special effects with Snagit

Why is NoFollow so important to Search Engines?

June 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

I’ve been working on SEO (search engine optimization) code this weekend, mostly for my Word Tips site and also with a client. I do some freelance Wordpress work here in China where corporate blogging is now taking off. During lunch we got talking about different SEO tricks, amongst which was the ‘no-follow’ attribute. This was new to my colleagues, so I gathered some material from Wikipedia and sent it to them.

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Review Jing Pro – Record HD-quality Videos for YouTube

June 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · How To

Jing Pro Review – This review looks at the new features in the professional version and how it compares against the free product. We liked everything except for 1 thing – and it wasn’t the price.