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How “ISYOT” Can Help Your Online Presence

August 27, 2010

“ISYOT” is a concept I learned from a fantastic online social media guy – Paul Colligan. “ISYOT” = “I’ve Seen You Out There” It’s the response you want people to have when they meet you in person for the first time. It should help you decide where to focus your social media marketing. If you [...]

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Put A Face To The Name With A Gravatar

August 26, 2010

What’s a gravatar? Gravatar stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar”. It’s the picture you see, particularly in the comments section of blogs. Why should you get one? Well, would you rather get into a conversation with someone who’s picture was a white chess pawn on a grey background, or with someone whose face you could see? [...]

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SEO 101: Easily Get Links To Your Site

July 30, 2010

This is something that I can’t believe I haven’t heard other people talk about yet, but it’s so simple and easy to implement! When you’re surfing the net, catching up on the news, reading your favourite blogs, etc – if they have a comment section, take an extra 2 minutes and comment on what you [...]

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How To Build Your Own URL Shortener

July 29, 2010

URL shorteners like bit.ly and tinyurl.com are great, particularly if you are active on social media. They are also great for tracking how much traffic any particular link generates as well as other cool statistics like what country the visitors are from. The problem I see with using such URL shortening services is that they [...]

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The Secret to Having 50,000 Twitter Followers

May 26, 2010

I’ve often been asked how I got 50,000 followers on Twitter. I’ve thought long and hard about it and it’s time for me to tell publicly how I did it. If you’re looking for secret hacks or special autofollow software, I’m sorry, but you’re in the wrong place. They are against Twitter’s terms of service [...]

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If God Used Facebook…

November 28, 2008

I received this recently. I have to say it puts a whole new spin on social media and shows that it’s been around a lot longer than we thought That, or someone just had too much time on their hands…

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RSS – List Building of the Future

April 30, 2008

I have been hearing a lot of talk recently about building email lists. For a long time, building email lists was “THE” way to market online. Then they died off a bit in the general conversations. But they are now making a comeback to being “one of the best ways to market”. But why is [...]

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Suffering Blogger’s Block?

April 14, 2008

I just read a great article that has helped me with my writing for blogs. Chris Brogan has written a list of practical ways to get around writer’s block. While it is tailored specifically to blogging, if you do any sort of creative writing, it’s worth checking out. He talks about getting a “scratch blog” [...]

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Authority Black Book 2.0 is Here!

March 3, 2008

Jack Humphreys has done it again! I just found out that one of the best resources if you want to understand the Web 2.0 scene has been updated. Oh yeah, and IT’s FREE! I know, we all like free stuff. What’s the catch? well you have to give him your email address, but who cares? [...]

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