Should you start another site?

How many times have you gotten an idea and thought you should take what knowledge you’ve gained and start another site? If you’re like me and you continually renew domain names just because you have a good idea for them, you know what I’m talking about. So many ideas, so little time. The question is should [...]

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Social Media and Blogging Weekly Round-up {04.13.12}

Here are the top 10 posts about blogging and social media I’ve stumbled upon this week: Photography for Social Media: 5 Detailed Tips I thought it would be helpful to retrieve five tips from under my photography “hat” that should help anyone curating or shooting still images for their social and digital channels. Recommended Blogging [...]

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How to Create a Custom Facebook Tab

Would you like to add a tab with custom information to your Facebook page? I have used these tabs to share information about coupon classes and offer printable coupons to my users. Here’s an easy way to add your own custom Facebook tab: Head over to the Static HTML Facebook app. Click on “Add Static [...]

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Giveaway – Food Blogging for Dummies Book

It’s on shelves TODAY y’all! The lovely and talented Kelly Sendei from the fabulous food blog, Just a Taste, penned this next book in the “For Dummies” series. Food Blogging for Dummies is a must have for not only food bloggers, but any blogger who has ever written a single word about food, or posted [...]

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Social Media and Blogging Weekly Round-up {04.07.12}

Here are the top 10 posts about blogging and social media I’ve stumbled upon this week: How to Make Facebook’s New Timeline for Pages Work for Your Brand In this post, I will walk through how your page is different now, how to prepare your page for the new changes, and how to better showcase [...]

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Customizing Your Facebook Timeline Page

Facebook pages will be updated to the Timeline automatically on March 31, 2012, if you have not already manually updated it yourself.  There are several tips to optimizing your page to get the most out of it for your brand. Let’s walk through some of the features. Cover Photo Your Cover Photo needs to be [...]

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Ditch the Pitch

A while ago I heard someone say that today’s generation is so savvy that they can smell a sales pitch from a mile away. I’ve found this to be true of my own self. As someone that spends a lot of her time online, running blogs and chatting on social media, I’ve come to a [...]

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How to Block Photos from Being Pinned to Pinterest

While the Pinterest craze has certainly provided a boost in traffic for many bloggers, it has also brought along quite the controversy about image copyrights, etc. Pinterest has taken care of it from their end by modifying their terms of use, but what can you do to protect yourself? Enter the new WordPress plugin, Pinterest [...]

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Social Media and Blogging Weekly Roundup {04.02.12}

Here are the top 10 posts about blogging and social media I’ve stumbled upon this week: Five Reasons Bloggers Should Get Paid I began to see the power that bloggers had and the influence they wield over their communities. And because of my marketing background, I began to think of bloggers as more than just [...]

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Increase Your Page Views

If you want to increase your readership, increase your page views, increase your RSS subscriptions and Facebook likes, your brand has to demand it.  Think about the dictionary, when was the last time you were “inspired” to look up the definition of another word because Merriam Webster suggested you do so? The answer is “never” [...]

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