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June 28, 2010 | Posted in Weekly-Tips | View Comments
Each week I read a lot of posts, try out a lot of products and come up with lots of tips. So each Monday I’m going to share the best ones out. Here’s some to get started with.
1.5 Steps for curating good content – Blog Post
Author: Pawan Deshpande, CEO of Hivewire, Guest post on Hubspot
Summary: A very good post from Pawan about how to find, track and use great content across the web for your blog. Well worth a read.
2. How to get 40,310 fans in 4 days – Blog Post
Author: Guest post on Allfacebook
Summary: A very interesting article on tips for getting the maximum number of fans from your activity on your facebook page. For example, using a welcome (landing page) on your facebook fan page increases conversion to fans significantly.
3. In social media engagement has it’s rewards – Blog Post
Author: Brian Solis on Briansolis.com
Summary: If you’re wondering if social media engagement gets you sales, have a look at the stats Brian has published.
4. Text Expander – Application
Text expander is a cool time saving tool that Chris Brogan mentioned on a really cool blog post. If you find that you type in some of the same data several times a day why don’t you assign a special character or series of characters to it and get text expander to automatically expand it out. Pretty Cool.
5. Increasing your blog traffic - Blog Post
Author: Antti Kokkonen Zemalf.com
Summary – A great post (and a great blog) from Antti about increasing your traffic on your blog. Well worth a read.
6. Tip – Monitoring what’s popular
Use Delicious (a social book marketing tool) and search for your topic of interest. See what other people are indexing and what is popular. A good source for blog post ideas!
Picture Credit: Basegreen (by the way, this has great pictures also which can be used for blog posts, creative commons license applies which just means you need to reference where you got the picture from).
Have you found anything interesting this week you’d like to share?
I'm the Co-founder of RazorCoast, mentor for LINC entrepreneur program, SME advisor for allaboutbusiness.ie. I also do some Internet Marketing lecturing with the Digital Marketing Institute. This blog is all about how to market your business on the internet. There are many areas to consider social media,search engine optimisation, online advertising, converting traffic on your website and much more. Feedback positive or negative always welcome and I love networking with new people so get in touch!
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