I recommend this excellent post from John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing about the value of social networks for business. Read on: “Sometimes people question the benefits of belonging to multiple social networks and building out all those detailed profiles on each. I don’t know that I want to use this post to try to [...]
Trying out Twitter
OK, I am going to do it. I’ve been resistant and I’m still not totally sure I want to do this but I have now joined the millions who are tweeting. Yes, I signed up for twitter. I know a number of business people who are using it and so it is time for me [...]
Great Free Tool – Audio Testimonials
I came across a great free tool that lets your clients leave you a voice message. The message can be downloaded and used for many purposes. I thought this might be a great way of gathering client testimonials. Some people don’t want to take the time to write something but they may record a message. [...]
Amazing New WordPress Upgrade Plug-in
If you have WordPress as your blog and you install it yourself, there is a fabulous new plug-in which automates upgrading to a new release. Previously I was doing the upgrade manually but it was usually a royal pain. I didn’t go through the upgrade process frequently enough to remember what I had done the [...]
Marketing Blogs
As many of you know, I am part of a network of marketing coaches across the country — and the world for that matter — well the UK, Australia and Canada anyway — called Duct Tape Marketing. Many of my fellow coaches across the country have business blogs so I thought every now and then [...]
How to Read Blogs Efficiently
Do you read many blogs? I never really did until recently. It seemed too much trouble to visit all the various sites so I missed out on a lot of useful information. Until I discovered Bloglines. Bloglines allows you to easily subscribe to the blogs you find and then instead of you visiting each site [...]
Do as I do and as I say!
I keep telling my clients that a blog is a good thing — really. But yet I had not quite started my own blog. Get the impression that perhaps my credibility was at stake? It’s not that I didn’t believe it, just that it takes time to set up a blog and then actually create [...]
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