The first major struggle for business owners who want to use a blog for content marketing is creating content. With the dearth of content being created daily, it’s certainly a challenge to come up with anything helpful and interesting to say. The second major struggle for business owners is getting people to actually visit their …
Triberr Poised to Take the Blogging World by Storm
Triberr is putting authors first. I spoke with Dino Dogan, founder of Triberr, while he was recovering from one of the toughest issues a tech start-up can face: server downtime. Triberr, the blog-sharing uber-machine, experienced a database issue during what was supposed to be a routine maintenance session, and ended up down for the better …
10 Benefits of Using Images in Blogs
I have always told my clients that every blog post needs to have at least one image, and I stick to that rule myself. I even go so far as to set up a separate field for the “primary post image” in my Drupal website installations so that an image must be uploaded. (That also …
Quora introduces bloggers to over 500,000 readers
Right on the heels of LinkedIn announcing that it would be canceling the LinkedIn Answers service as of January 31st, Quora, the alternative Question & Answer service, has announced some major improvements and developments. Namely, Quora users will now have full blogging capability within Quora. According to Quora’s blog, users will be able to select …
Ping Your Blog to Increase Traffic
Each time you create a new blog post, there are a number of things you need to do. The post needs to be shared to your appropriate social networks and groups, and you may want to consider sending a link to some customers or potential customers if you think they will find the topic useful. …
Triberr works to improve their blog amplification service
Triberr may be one of the best tools in your blogging toolbox that you’ve never heard of. For the uninitiated, Triberr is a online service that encourages members to share each other’s new blog posts. They have been working on improving the service and attempting to address some of the issues that arise with any startup. …
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What’s your focus for 2013?
As 2012 comes to a close, the thought at the top of my mind is THANK YOU! Thank you to my clients for being great and supporting me throughout the past year. Thank you to my readers for enjoying, commenting and sharing my writing. And thank you to my friends and family for taking this …
iPhone Blogging
If you are blogging on your website, an easy way to make sure you find the time and inspiration is to enable blogging from your iPhone! You can then blog from anywhere at any time on any thing you see. All you need is a site that supports a Blog API and an app for …
Blogging for your Business
Every new site that we build for clients comes with the ability to blog, out of the box. So, naturally, blogging is always one of our first recommendations. Not because it’s there but because it makes good business sense to do so. First, every website needs to have *some*method for regularly adding new content. Google search engine …