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Connect Your Blog to Facebook Automatically

Written by Patsi Krakoff in About Blogs, Content Marketing, Managing Your Ezine & Blog Tasks, Social Media Stuff

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…

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Tags: Attracting Clients, blog marketing, blog traffic, business blogging, Content Marketing, content marketing with blogs, social media marketing, Web traffic

Content Marketing Tips: Get Your Stories Straight

Written by Patsi Krakoff in Content Marketing, On Writing Better, Online Marketing

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Good content marketing requires good storytelling. Fortunately, the human brain is a story-creating machine. In our lives, we take whatever happens and impose logic and chronology upon it. Consider these common phrases: Everything happens for a reason One door closes and another one opens More will be revealed Things happen in threes People have a…

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Tags: Attracting Clients, content marketing with blogs, social media marketing, stories, storytelling

10 Ways to Use Facebook as a List Building Tool

Written by Patsi Krakoff in Content Marketing, List Building Tips, Social Media Stuff

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(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…

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How’s Your LinkedIn Profile?

Written by Patsi Krakoff in Attracting Clients, Content Marketing, Social Media Stuff

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(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…

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3 Great Twitter Apps for Content Marketers

Written by Patsi Krakoff in Content Marketing, Online Marketing, Social Media Stuff

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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…

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Tags: Online Marketing, online traffic, SEO, social media marketing

Smart Time-Saving Tips on Blogging…

Written by Patsi Krakoff in Content Marketing, How to...Tips, Managing Your Ezine & Blog Tasks, Online Marketing, Social Media Stuff

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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…

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Tags: blog formatting, business blog training, business blogging, Content Marketing, Content Marketing Institute, content marketing with blogs, how to start blogging, Online Marketing, SEO, social media marketing, Writing for the Web

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

Written by Patsi Krakoff in Content Marketing, Online Marketing, Social Media Stuff

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(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…

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Tags: Attracting Clients, Content Marketing, content marketing with blogs, Online Marketing, social media marketing

Content Marketing Results: 18 Ways to NOT Get Blog Traffic

Written by Patsi Krakoff in About Blogs, Content Marketing, Online Marketing, Writing Great Blog Content

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What do you need to know about about the way people read online to make your content marketing efforts pay off? What are you doing or not doing on your blog that screws up your traffic? At least a few times a week I get an email from a smart professional who struggles with making…

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Tags: Attracting Clients, blog content, blog formatting, blog marketing, blog traffic, blog writing, business blogging, content marketing with blogs, social media marketing, web marketing, web traffic search traffic

Blog Marketing: How Readers Find Your Business

Written by Patsi Krakoff in About Blogs, Content Marketing, Online Marketing, Pathway to Profits, Social Media Stuff

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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…

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Tags: Attracting Clients, blog marketing, blog traffic, business blogs, content marketing with blogs, converting readers to clients, Online Marketing, social media marketing, web traffic search traffic, Writing for the Web

Online Reputation? 4 Tips

Written by Patsi Krakoff in Attracting Clients, Content Marketing, Online Marketing, Social Media Stuff

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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…

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Tags: Attracting Clients, blog marketing, business blogging, Content Marketing, content marketing with blogs, online reputation, social media marketing, web marketing