Category Archives: Social Media Stuff

Feed Your Blog Automatically to LinkedIn & Twitter

Update From Patsi, February 2012: We apologize for not updating this post earlier. I no longer update any social media automatically, but am posting manually (read why here, Say NO to Auto-Feeds: Your Blog & Facebook, Social Sites). This is time-consuming and may require a virtual assistant for some of you. I recommend SerenityVA.com. How…

Connect Your Blog to Facebook Automatically

UPDATE: From Karen, January 21, 2012  Unfortunately, Facebook has disabled this process as of September 2011 and it no longer works. We have to post a link to our blogs in the status or copy and paste as a rich text note. From Patsi, February 2012: We apologize for not updating this post earlier, but…

3 Easy Tips to Target Readers with Your Content

This is a guest post from Sam Briones, a freelance writer, who explains how to get targeted traffic to read your online content. You may be on your keyboard all day and night, writing about content that you are knowledgeable and passionate about. You know that what you are writing makes sense, and more importantly,…

10 Ways to Use Facebook as a List Building Tool

(Annalaura Brown is guest blogging this week, while Patsi’s on vacation.) Facebook can be a powerful list building tool if you know how to use it properly as such. Here are ten ways you can use FB to build your email list and increase your online business income. Share your blog posts. You can do…

How’s Your LinkedIn Profile?

(Note from Patsi who is on vacation: This week I asked Phyllis Miller to write a guest post on social media resources. This is excellent advice you need to know and act on. And, if you haven’t already, connect with me on LinkedIn…) I will be the first to admit that, when three years ago…

3 Great Twitter Apps for Content Marketers

Today’s post was written by Louise Baker, freelance blogger and journalist. When it comes to Twitter apps for today’s busy professionals, there are some top notch applications available that will let you maximize your productivity on the service without falling prey to the infamous social media “time suck.” Here is an inside look at what…

Smart Time-Saving Tips on Blogging…

What are the steps you need to follow to ensure each blog post is optimized for search engines as well as for your readers’ interests? Oh my… there are a lot. But to keep me out of overwhelm, I wrote them down, and put them into a flow chart. This is good for days when…

Social Networking for Business: What’s Right for Yours?

(As I’m on vacation for a week, I’ve invited Sydni Craig-Hart to share social networking tips.) The big 3:  Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Everybody who’s anybody has a profile in each.  And it seems everybody is preaching the same thing: You HAVE  to have a Facebook Fan Page You HAVE  to be on Twitter You…

Blog Marketing: How Readers Find Your Business

What’s your favorite excuse for not blogging for your business? Here are some that I hear: “I don’t have time to blog.” “My clients aren’t surfing the Web reading blogs.” “Oh, that means I’ve got to write about my business every week?” And yet, if these same professionals realized that a business blog is the…

Online Reputation? 4 Tips

Friday’s guest post is by Robert Stretch, author of VA Mortgage Center blog: For business people, few things are more important than reputation. Thanks to the worldwide web — which sometimes feels as vast as a universe-wide web — monitoring your online reputation demands serious attention. Only a few belittling remarks can spread like wildfire…