Visual Content Marketing: What’s a Writer to Do?

Quality Visual Content Marketing is Key to Engagement

With visual content marketing all the rage online and off, if you’re not creating engaging visuals all over the place, you’re going to be an internet marketing dinosaur in no time at all. For those of us who revel in the written word and feel more comfortable tapping away at a keyboard than crafting images, [...]

Google Reader Alternatives – Hello Feedly

Google Reader Going Away, but not your news

Google has made it clear that they’re not going to be spreading themselves so thin any longer by trying to provide solutions and products for every man and his dog. One result is that they’re saying “bye bye” to Google Reader, a mainstay tool for organizing all those wonderful RSS news feeds from your favorite [...]

Business Automation: Tips and Tools for Putting Your Business on Autopilot

Automate Your Business

Wouldn’t you just love to take some of your more tiresome tasks off your to do list? Wouldn’t we all? Well, business automation is the first way to do it – before you go spending money hiring more employees or outsourcers. In fact, putting as much of your business as possible on autopilot will save [...]

Top Tips for Google+ Live Hangouts – From a First-Timer

Tips for Google+ Hangouts

 I participated in my first Google Hangout last week, and again today with Alice Seba from DIY PLR as the host. There’s definitely a learning curve there and this week’s one was far better than the first. To make it a little easier, I thought I’d share a few tips from my experience along with [...]

Online Community for Your Business – Round-up and CurationSoft Test

Building an Online Community for Your Business

Having just released a new PLR report on Building Online Communities for your Business, I thought I’d do a little more research and round up some recent articles on the topics. (I’m also giving my new CurationSoft software a whirl to see just how easy it makes it for me to curate content.) First off, [...]

How to Use PLR Articles to Create Videos

How to Use PLR Articles to Create Videos

I know I haven’t been posting here on my blog very often lately. But there’s a good reason! I’ve been busy adding useful content for all my readers and customers over at Business Content PLR. And then I realized that you could really use this content too . Most recently, I started putting together tutorials [...]

What Makes People Remember You?

Do people recognize your personal "voice"?

Do you have a clear, recognizable voice in your market? Would you know your own voice if you heard it? Your personality, opinions, contributions, and consistent image are why people visit you. If you can’t recognize yourself, then how can anyone else? Okay, so that sounds a little deep, and it’s certainly not easy. I’ve [...]

Weekend Inspiration – How Far Can You Go?

T.S. Eliot quote - Find out how far one can go

Looking for a little graphic inspiration this weekend? Well, I’ve been playing around with Snagit for doing a few of those popular images with quotes on them. You know, the ones you see on Facebook and Pinterest all the time?  I absolutely love, love, love this program! No matter how many times I try, I [...]

The Future of Online Marketing 2012 – Infographics

I just stumbled across this insightful infographic on eConsultancy.com, where they summarized some of the top trends that online marketers need to focus on moving forward. At the high level, the results were that the future is: Technological Personal Emotional Connected Curated I wouldn’t say that any of this is mind-blowing for those of us [...]

7 Customer Service Tips to Make Your Competition Drool with Envy

Customer Service Tips for all Businesses

In the world of Internet marketing customer service can be a crucial determiner of whether a business survives or fails. True customer service must include procedures and ongoing oversight in order to be helpful rather than harmful to business. When considering incorporating effective customer service into Internet marketing, the following tips will be helpful. We’ve [...]