Archive for August, 2009
Social Media Yes…But Keep Your Focus
August 30th, 2009 at 6:36 pm by Livvie
With all the buzz about social media, social networking, and other social sites, it can get very frustrating not to mention distracting.
Since attending the Social Media Success Summit’09, I’ve also started coaching with Chris Marlow, the Copywriters Coach and more recently am half way through a course for becoming a Certified Social Media Specialist! Whew…I just got tired typing it all out.
All of this with social media is good, but be careful. This is about being social yes…but you must keep your focus.
Facebook has many distractions. Applications, games, surveys, sending cards and flowers, joining different groups…etc. Twitter can be distracting as well with all the tweets coming through, applications, responses, direct messages… etc
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Internet Marketing: Harness The Most Powerful Form Of Advertising On The Internet!
August 16th, 2009 at 1:04 pm by Livvie
With Internet marketing, blogs, and social media marketing, people have developed an insatiable appetite for information and they want it now! Writing informative articles relevant to your business to post on blogs, article directories, in ezines, and on web sites is a very effective way to get the word out and to market your business…free!
Writing and submitting articles is by far one of the best business building resource and most powerful forms of free advertising on the Internet! You share your knowledge, experience and expertise and in return you receive publicity…free!
Post your article in your blog, on your web site, publish it in your ezine, submit your article to other ezines, offer as “free content” to other web sites and even compile a series of articles into an “e-book bonus”….free!Â
Cement yourself as a thought leader in your field. Writing articles is the most important skill you can learn for online marketing. In addition to establishing you as an “expert” in your field, writing articles gives you author status which offers other opportunities within itself….free!
Beginning to get the picture?Â
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Tags: Building Business, Internet Marketing, social media marketing |
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Blogging: Selecting a WordPress Theme
August 9th, 2009 at 5:25 pm by Livvie
You’ve done your thought work, know what you want to blog about, and what you want your blog to do. Now it’s time to select your “theme� (your look), but you don’t quite know where to go or how to start?
Since Write Business uses WordPress.org, these themes will be WordPress themes. All the sites listed have free downloads available.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
http://topwpthemes.com/
http://themes.rock-kitty.net/
http://www.themesplice.com/
http://www.freethemelayouts.com/
http://www.wpthemespress.com/
As you look through the different themes, have available some blogs you like the look of for comparables.Â
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Tags: Blogging, Building Business, Internet Marketing, social media marketing |
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So What If It’s Not The Best Ever Blog Post?
August 4th, 2009 at 9:51 pm by Livvie
I’ve just finshed reading The Most Horrible Blog Post Ever on Copyblogger posted by Michelle Russell of Practice Makes Imprefect. She explores the perils of perfectionism.
I can so relate to this and how it feels. I have had so many ideas, good ideas, but just when it came down to the final step….I needed to “add this” or “change that”, or “just tweak it a little more”.Â
I “tweaked” it until I tweaked it out! It was never quite right. The result was, it never got completed or published.
A perfect example is I could have been on the Internet years before I actually started, but I managed to “analyze” myself right out of it.Â
Until I “published” my frist website and my first ezine, I had only completed three things in my life…Sandra, Susan, and Stacey…my three daughters .
We’re of the opinion it has to be “perfect” before we can actually begin whatever it is we’re trying to do.
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