Yearly Archives: 2012

Why Good Grammar Matters In Business Blogging

Do you think grammar and good spelling matter less in the blogosphere? When teaching our clients how to blog for business, we always recommend they adopt a more personable, conversational tone when writing. A business blog is not the place

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7 Tips – How To Leverage Pinterest for Blog Promotion

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Spotting this question on twitter during the week, it seemed the perfect title for a blog post! Why You Should Promote Your  Blog Posts on Pinterest As I remarked to a social media class during the week, when I started

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Use This Top Tip To Drive More Traffic To Your Business Blog

We use Twitter to direct traffic to our blog, but realize that with all the noise on Twitter, only a fraction of our followers will click on a blog link every time we post one.  So, while Twitter is a

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12 Ideas for Using Secret Boards on Pinterest

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Secret or private boards have been eagerly awaited on Pinterest and were made available to all Pinterest users last week. Each user has access to 3 secret boards and if you want to create another new one, you must delete

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How to improve your business blog with crowdsourcing

I recently wrote a post, entitled, What’s Wrong With Most Business Blogs, in which I outlined a failure I see in many business blogs – that is the blogs  are too much about the business, when they should be more

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Posted in How to Blog

How to Create a Great Pinterest Pin?

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What makes a good Pinterest pin? A good pinterest pin, in my opinion, is one that gains hundreds of repins and click throughs to your website, resulting in conversions, increasing your brand awareness, gaining you new followers and improving your

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The Virtual Book Tour

Have you recently published a book? Are you looking for new ways to publicize your writing?Would you like to reach a highly targeted audience in a new way?  Well now you can with a virtual book tour. Write On Track

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What’s the problem with most business blogs?

The problem with most business blogs is that they are all about the business, when they should be all about the customer. This is something I have written about before, but it is so fundamental to the success of your

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Posted in Blogging for Success, Blogs

Mobile commerce is growing fast – is your site mobile ready?

Some interesting stats in this infographic on the growing popularity of mobile commerce. As the number of  purchases being made on smartphones is increasing, it’s time to make sure your ecommerce site is mobile ready.  

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Why It Is Important To Credit Your Sources on Facebook

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Crediting your sources, particularly for images, is seen as important in good etiquette, copyright practice and good manners.  It is often emphasised in posts about blogging and indeed, it was part of the judging criteria in the recent Blog Awards

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Posted in Facebook, For Beginners
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