Entries in the ‘Blogging’ Category:
filed in Blogging, Marketing, Misc, Social Networking on Dec.12, 2008
I have over 3500 followers on Twitter and it’s growing every day. I’m often asked how I manage to do it and the answer is very simple: I give my followers what they want and I interact with them.
The #1 mistake people on Twitter make is that they use it purely for their own gain. [...]
Tags: blogs, followers, howto, interaction, twitter
filed in Blogging, Google, SEO on Dec.04, 2008
One of the things I’m always surprised about is the sheer variety of search terms that people use to find my website.
Recently I wrote a very brief post about the impact of the recent VAT changes in the UK and how it would likely affect small businesses. I didn’t actually write it with the intention [...]
Tags: analytics, Blogging, Google, keywords, long tail, optimisation, SEO, traffic, trends
filed in Blogging, Misc on Sep.29, 2008
I’ve finally lost patience with Subtext so have taken the opportunity to move to WordPress.
Subtext is good, but it’s huge, a nightmare to skin or make any configuration changes too and it’s started to be a bit flaky lately. Plus I wanted to have a completely separate blog so have take the opportunity to install [...]
Tags: Blogging, subtext, wordpress
filed in Blogging, Marketing, Misc on Apr.29, 2008
The other day, I mentioned that you could offer some free advice to your clients in your blog.
For some people, that’s just crazy talk. Surely you should be charging for advice? What on earth would people pay you for if they can get the same advice from your blog?
Good point - let me elaborate.
I’m not [...]
Tags: Blogging, markting
filed in Blogging, Marketing on Apr.25, 2008
I’ve mentioned before that blogging is a great thing to do for your business but I’ve never really explained why. So today I’m going to elaborate and show you why, if you’re serious about using your website as a marketing tool for your business, you should be blogging.
Blogging isn’t hard. People see it as a massive [...]
Tags: Blogging, business, Marketing