Build Your Network Before You Need It
I was reading an article by Jeremiah Owyang and read the following line that I thought was pure brillance: Grow your network before you need them. Now, Jeremiah was referring to building up a network of business contacts to protect yourself if faced with sudden unemployment in today’s economy, but I thought of it in a different light. My thinking is to grow your network in the face of less sales prospects. The last thing you want to face as a business owner is waking up one day and...
Read MoreFurther Exploring of Twitter
I wanted to do a post on Twitter highlighting all the pros and cons and then remembered Chris Brogan has already written an excellent article on this very topic. Twitter is one of those social media tools that you can get a lot out of if you take the time to use it and get over the initial uneasiness of telling the world what you’re doing at that exact moment. But at the same time, it helps to know what you can expect to get out of it before jumping in. While I find Twitter a great...
Read MoreStumbleUpon More Traffic For Your Site
After more experimentation with StumbleUpon.com I’ve come to the conclusion that it is one of the best secret weapons to help quickly boost your site traffic. And the best part is it is really quite easy to use. Ok, so what exactly is StumbleUpon.com? In simplest terms, StumbleUpon delivers up random websites on related topics that you can either give a thumbs up or a thumbs down rating to. Sites that get more thumbs up ratings are served more frequently to other users of...
Read MoreSocial Networking with Rick Itzkowich – A 3,000 Mile Interview
Today’s post is an interview with Rick Itzkowich, the co-founder of Productive Learning & Leisure LLC in La Jolla, California, author of The Xtraordinary Living Blog and creator of Quote Actions. I first meet Rick on Biznik.com where he has a number of excellent articles posted. After furthering our communications via Twitter and LinkedIn, I knew Rick had some useful insight on marketing that would be beneficial to my readers. Brent: You mention on your website quoteactions.com...
Read MoreLinkedIn.com – I Told You It Was Cool
Just when I thought I was going to leave LinkedIn.com alone as a blog topic for awhile since I have a few recent posts on it, LinkedIn has to go and introduce a cool new feature. Now you can plug mini applications (widgets) into your LinkedIn profile. These applications range from auto-embedding your most recent blog posts, displaying Power Point presentations, embedding Twitter activity or sharing documents among other apps. The power in this is that you further engage visitors to your...
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