Social Media and Blogging Weekly Round-Up {03.24.12}

I’ve stumbled upon a number of great posts about blogging and social media this week: {Blogging & Vlogging} Spring Cleaning Your Blog: The Essential To Do List With spring around the corner (hopefully) it turns many of our minds to decluttering our homes and lives in a yearly purge we like to call spring cleaning. [...]

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Blogging With Purpose

I’m able to meet a lot of really amazing business owners and bloggers at events I attend throughout the year. I’m a social person, and I really thrive on getting to know new people and helping them with their businesses. One of the most interesting themes I come across with meeting people is that they [...]

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Social Media and Blogging Weekly Roundup {03.17.12}

Here are the best social media and blogging posts I stumbled upon this week: The 10 Commandments of Landing Pages That Work The landing page would no longer be a desert of confusion and bad taste. Its goal would now shift to the ethical and neighborly persuasion of the prospect to take their desired action. [...]

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New Pinterest Profile Updates!

What a pleasant surprise this morning to see that Pinterest has made updates to the personal profile. As I’m making my changes, I wanted to share a few things with you to help you market your boards/brand. Description Use this section to market your brand or draw attention to a specific board. This can updated [...]

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Watermarking Images For Pinterest

Lately I’ve noticed that everyone is watermarking their pictures. This can be attributed, for the most part, to Pinterest. While I understand that people do not want their photos pinned, and repinned without actually getting the link back to their site, the watermarking I’ve seen lately has gone overboard. I’ve seen some sites “watermark” photos [...]

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Which Plugins Are Slowing Down My Site?

Are you trying to get your site to load faster? Besides implementing these tips to reduce load time and setting up W3 Total Cache for WordPress, what else can you do? Many times, plugins can be the cause of a site slowdown. But how do I figure out which plugin it is? Thankfully, there’s an [...]

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Author Tags on a Site With Multiple Contributors

If you are growing your website by adding regular contributors here are two easy ways to link to their previous posts. You can tag each post with their name and then link to the tag at the end of each post. http://www.5dollardinners.com/tag/alea Or you can just pull the feed from a single author, if they [...]

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Better Manage your Gmail with ActiveInbox Plugin

Need a little productivity boost? Need help managing your overflowing inbox? ActiveInbox is a free Gmail plugin for Chrome & Firefox. It will help you… Never forget an important task in email again Focus on your work, not your emails Glide through your emails faster Transform your inbox into a lightweight task manager Get email [...]

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New Facebook Timeline for Pages – What You Need to Know

In case you did not get the message on your Facebook fan page, Facebook has started letting pages convert to the Timeline format. The details can be found on Facebook here, or by clicking on the link on the top of your Facebook page. As with any Facebook update, there are some exciting new features [...]

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Sign Documents Online with SignNow

This helpful tip comes from our friend and blog designer, Five Js.  As a business blogger you probably end up signing numerous contracts and documents every month. For me this involves switching computers (to the one that wasn’t buggy with our scanner) and printing, signing, and then scanning, converting, and emailing. It took too long [...]

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