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November 20, 2019
Employees are Cyber Secure in Theory, But Not in Practice [Infographic]
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Today’s infographic is short and sweet but really, really important!
How CyberSecure are you? I’m the person who has to intercede when websites are hacked. I’m the one who feels like a nag sometimes when having to deal with access to things that are supposed to be secure.
Have a look at the stats presented below and see if you are more or less cybersecure than the averages presented.
I found this graphic here. Be sure to click on the link and read the full article.
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November 13, 2019
Listen Up: Voice Search 101 for Marketers [Infographic]
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Do you pay any attention to the ever expanding voice control of our world? We talk to Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant. We can tell our little device to lock our front door, add items to a grocery list and yes, search Google for us.
Most authors I know pay very little attention to Google but focus on Amazon. Because of this, items like Voice Search are generally ignored . But Amazon can be searched by voice also!
Today’s infographic I found on one of my favorite blogs – Social Media Today. I encourage you to read the post, and give some attention to today’s topic.
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November 1, 2019
November Social Media Key Dates
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Are you looking for ideas for social media posts for November?
Here’s a calendar with key dates you can leverage when working on social media for November.
Enjoy!
I originally found this calendar here .
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October 23, 2019
Mobile Search is Huge! [Infographic]
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Mobile search is huge!!! I’m sure you’ve heard that before, but this infographic does a great job of summarizing what you need to know.
The infographic was originally found on this post.
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October 21, 2019
Why I No Longer Recommend PromoRepublic
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As many of you are aware, I spend a lot of time searching out and recommending various services and tools to authors.
I have three criteria: 1) that the service is relatively straight-forward to use (suitable for beginners), 2) that the service is priced reasonably and 3) that the company is ethical.
In today’s publishing world, we have too many companies lining up to take our money! Some are honest, but many are not. I’ve witnessed the fall out from some of these dishonest companies. Not pleasant! Because of this, I list ethical companies on my website here, and I frequently point people in the direction of various vetting services to help figure out who to give money to.
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PromoRepublic was a service that I signed up for several years ago and then life took me in another direction and I stopped doing a lot of work on social media – and stopped using my PromoRepublic account. Recently life’s drama has settled down and I am trying to refocus my efforts on social media. I tried to log into PromoRepublic and was unsuccessful. Since a lot of time had passed, I started up a new account with the assumption that the first account had been discontinued while life was keeping me busy.
When I tried to hook up my Facebook account to this new PromoRepublic account, I was unsuccessful. I reached out to the support desk and found out that the original account was still active and hooked up to m Facebook account. Problem solved!
I *thought* I shut down the new PromoRepublic account and went on to try to work my social media plan on the old (or original) PromoRepublic account. First thing one morning I was confronted with a request to upgrade my account. I thought about it and decided that the account was so old that it was possible that a payment was required. Still operating on my first cup of coffee I stumbled through entering my credit card number and then was called away to deal with getting my family out the door to work and school. It wasn’t until several days later that I found time to go back to working on PromoRepublic. Although it took me a while, I finally figured out that the account I *thought* was shut down was the one that I had *upgraded.* Some how, I was auto-logged into the account and didn’t notice, in my fogginess, which account I was logged into.
I reached out to PromoRepublic and explained my error and asked for a refund. They said no.
I was taken aback. I had made an honest mistake and was hoping to get help fixing it. I reached out again – got another no.
I tried to reach out again and explained that this was an honest mistake. After some back and forth, they decided to add all sorts of functionality to my account that I will never use. I’m not a company and I barely have time to have a quiet cup of coffee each day let along use functionality that I was given.
Out of sheer frustration, I reached out to VISA to see about getting the charge reversed. Again, after much back and forth, I found out that since PromoRepublic has a “No Refund” policy, the charge couldn’t be reversed.
So – I am stuck with functionality that I will never use and a charge on my VISA that I really can’t afford to cover. Clearly, I will cover it and life will go on, but the whole experience has me questioning this company.
The authors that I work with are human and as such make the odd error. I can’t in all consciousness refer a service that doesn’t believe in human fallibility.
So…PromoRepublic has been removed from my “Valuable Resources” page.
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October 16, 2019
How to do a social media audit in seven surprisingly simple steps (Infographic)
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So…when’s the last time you did an audit of your social media accounts? Never?
Here’s a short guide!
This infographic cam from here.
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October 9, 2019
How to Rank for YouTube Videos (Infographic)
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Do you understand how to leverage YouTube? I don’t really, but I’m constantly trying to learn more.
This infographic goes to that subject. Hope you learn a lot!
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October 7, 2019
Round up for Oct 5th
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This post is where I take the opportunity to share with everyone what I’ve been learning for the past week. Information tends to flow at us at a fast rate, and this is my chance to share what I think is important from my geeky world for the past week.
This week I’m sharing 3 articles. One about using storyboards in social media, one on what’s coming in the next WordPress release and the last one talking about why readers unsubscribe from newsletters.
As always, I look forward to your thoughts.
How to Storyboard your Social Media Campaign
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Do you storyboard your books? Have you considered Storyboarding your social media? This article does a great job of discussing the topic
What’s Coming in WordPress 5.3 (Features and Screenshots)
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I’m always interested in what’s coming in the new release from WordPress. WPBeginner does a great job of sharing what coming next. For those of you who like to use columns or tables, they are improving!
10 Reasons Readers Unsubscribe From Newsletters
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If there’s one problem that everyone with a newsletter shares, it’s not knowing why readers unsubscribe. This is a question I field frequently and I like Nate’s take on the subject.
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October 2, 2019
What’s Age Got to do With It? Social Media Demographics by Generational Preference
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As I often suggest, we need to choose which social media platforms we use based on where our audience is likely to be. Demographics play a large role in that.
Hope you can find some pearls of wisdom from today’s infographic!
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October 1, 2019
October Social Media Key Dates
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Are you looking for memes to follow when creating social media posts? I have ideas! Today’s post contains some ideas for October.
If you are regular reader of this blog, you will realize that I’ve been sharing monthly calendars on the 1st day of each month this year. I found these calendars here. Be sure to visit the post.
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