Archive for November, 2009
If you’re marketing online, be thankful for…
1. WordPress. The open source blog software enables you to build a great website without knowing any code. And it enables me and millions of others to blab endlessly about great observations, information and sometimes just….stuff. 2. The thousands of how-to sites that tells you everything you need to know about marketing online, how to [...]
November 24, 2009
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Tags: Google Analytics, how-to sites, online marketing, social media marketing, YouTube · Posted in: internet, marketing, social networking
6 Ways to Feed Your Monster Blog
Sooner or later bloggers have to Face The Monster. The Monster is a blank blog screen and no ready ideas of what to blog about. Here are my six best ways to defend yourself against The Monster with a steady stream of ideas: 1. Develop a swipe file of ideas from articles, other blogs, and [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: blogging, finding topics to blog about · Posted in: blogging
What’s Your Chimp Factor?
Chimp Factor: A featured topic or element in an article, blog post, or ad that always makes you (or your audience) stop and look.” I just made that up. My husband recently sent me a link to the Trunk Monkey commercials that a car dealer made a few years ago. I’m a sucker for commercials featuring chimps. The joke [...]
November 9, 2009
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Tags: finding your niche, researching your topic, trunk monkey · Posted in: blogging, marketing, writing
5 ways to research your book idea
How do you know if your brilliant book idea is really brilliant? I’ve met a lot of authors who had what they thought was a great idea for a book, wrote and published the book, and were stunned to find out that nobody was interested. Or not enough people were interested to sell many copies of [...]
November 2, 2009
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Tags: book research, researching your topic, writing a book · Posted in: self publishing, twitter, writing
