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April 11, 2016

Do YOU Use Hashtags in Your Blog Post Titles? Yay or Nay?

Do you use hashtags in your blog post titles? Yes or no? (Yay or nay?)

Why should you?

Why shouldn’t you?

Today we will discuss the pros and cons of using hashtags in your blog post titles.

By the end of this post, you will have a better idea of whether or not you should adopt this technique for yourself and/or your business. Read More

August 10, 2015

A 12-Section Guide to Branding Your Business Online

Branding your business is easy if you know exactly how to do it. Unfortunately, most people have a hard time understanding what branding is.

This guide will help you navigate your way through the branding process. It contains 12 informative sections.

Guide Contents:

Section 1: Definition of Branding
Section 2: 4 Ingredients of a Successful Brand
Section 3: Characteristics of Good Branding
Section 4: How to Brand Your Business (What You Can Use to Brand Yourself)
Section 5: Create and Use Your Unique Selling Point/Proposition (USP) or Your Unique Value Proposition (UVP)
Section 6: Using Social Media for Business Branding
Section 7: Statistics of using Social Media for Business Branding
Section 8: Branding Using Hashtags
Section 9: How to Set Up Your Online Presence
Section 10: Social Media Etiquette Tips
Section 11: Free Resources to Use to Develop Your Brand
Section 12: How to Grow Your Online Following (Tips to Use To Build Your Online Presence)
Section 13 (bonus secion): How to Deal with Massive Amounts of Email

I’ll also share with you the Slideshare presentation I made, as well as a true story about a presentation I gave on branding. I’ll actually begin with the true story, move into the guide, and share the SlideShare presentation at the end.

Following that is a special offer that I want to extend to new business owners, to anyone starting a website, to anyone needing help with a blogging strategy, or to anyone who still has questions and wants some advice.

I’ve been blogging and running a business for years, so I know a thing or two!

And if I don’t have ALL of the answers, chances are that I know someone who will.

November 8, 2013

20 Blog Post Must-Haves: The Ultimate Blogging Checklist

20 Blog Post Must-Haves is the ultimate blogging checklist that has been endorsed by many awesome people who are well-known and who have large followings. (Take a look at the screenshots included in this article!) A must-have resource for bloggers, it is a step-by-step checklist that is jam-packed with information and links to the BEST articles I have found on the web. It is also illustrated by yours truly! Images accompany major points, designed to help bloggers reach their blogging potential!

Even though you may be an an experienced blogger, there is always room for improvement. No one is perfect, but reaching new personal heights as a blogger is easily accomplished by using the checklist of tips offered in my guest post on Dear Blogger.

You can also read an excerpt from the ebook in this post. It includes additional tips that are not in my ebook, 20 Blog Post Must-Haves, too, since I wanted to give people an idea of my expertise as a blogger. Plus, not everyone can afford to spend $5 in today’s rough economy.

If you are one of the few people who can, and want to improve your blogging skills, you can also choose to get all 20 Blog Post Must-Haves – designed to help you improve your blog posts! The price? ~~A $4.99 cup of coffee (with muffin or doughnut – whatever you prefer). I wanted to keep it affordable, even though it is easily worth $20.~~ FREE! Simply sign up to my newsletter.

I wish that I had this ebook available to me. Now it is! I use this checklist every time I create a blog post! It is indispensable to me, and I know you will feel the same way about it that I do. A recently published article about adding tags to your posts was just published, too, and if it had been published last week, it would have made it into my book!

It really is a good book. It received many RTs (retweets) on Twitter – and connected me with a few more influential people.

Some of the wonderful people who helped me get the word out are:

Danny Iny from FirePole Marketing who now has a new website design.