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November 11, 2015
The 4 Best Social Media Management Tools of 2015 (Infographic)
How do you manage your social media?
I use Hootsuite and I’m really fond of it. I often suggest it to clients and although I don’t teach it, I have frequently been called on to help organize.
Looking at this infographic I found in my inbox had me questioning my decision – I mean, isn’t new better 
What are your thoughts? I currently use Hootsuite, I’ve dabbled with SproutSocial, until today never heard of AgoraPulse and although I’ve heard of Sendible, I’ve never used it.
BTW, credit for this infographic goes to Seriously Social, and I found it here.
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November 8, 2015
The Author’s Platform: The Beginner’s Guide is on sale for 99 cents!
Today is a special announcement!
My book, The Author’s Platform: The Beginner’s Guide is on sale for 99 cents.
I’m sure that there are a lot of books available on this subject. The one that I’ve written is directed at the beginner author. It explains everything from the ground up. I make no assumption of prior knowledge
From the work that I do with authors, I’m well aware that there are a lot of you out there pretending to know what your friends are talking about because you don’t want to admit you don’t have an ever loving clue! If you fit this description, this book is for you!
Creating buzz for your book and your career as an author just got easier.‘The Author’s Platform’ will help you create, understand and use a powerful author platform to sell books!
Social Media and WordPress Consultant Barb Drozdowich will steer you through the technology behind book marketing without all the techno-speak. She has helped many authors just like you build an author platform that engages readers and builds sales.
This book will help you decode the mystery behind building a powerful author brand and navigating the social media platforms essential to publishing success.
‘The Author’s Platform’ teaches you why you need the various facets of the author platform to build visibility. Barb uses a simple analogy, Operation Book, to help you understand the steps to successful book marketing in the media age. She covers:
The Difference between a Website and a Blog
The Important Items Your Blog Should Contain
The Nine Essential Social Media Platforms
Newsletters
Amazon’s Author Central and many more
˃˃˃ With simple-to-follow steps, Barb will help you create, understand and use an Author Platform to support your career.
Grab a copy today.
The Author’s Platform is available from:
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November 4, 2015
Care and Feeding of your blog
Welcome back everyone!
I’m guest posting over at Rachel Thompson’s Bad Readhead Media blog. Today’s topic as you can see is Care and Feeding of your Blog.
To give you a bit of background on my reasonings for this post…I’ve had the occasion to ‘fix’ several blog recently. Honestly, there is nothing worse that a tearful call from a friend saying they have been locked out of their hosting and upon further questioning they admit to no backup. I’m always available to help my friends, but where to start when there is no back up?
The second disaster that I found myself involved in was a site that was not kept up to date and subsequently was infected with malware.
I felt that is was worth mentioning the steps that are necessary to keep your blog healthy and protect your work against loss – hence the guest post.
Please drop by the post here and see if you can learn a tip or two.
The video that I talk about in the post is the one from a few weeks ago:
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I’d like to thank you for dropping by today! If you have a friend that would benefit from this post, please use the share buttons below to pass it on. I have created 25 or so videos to address sticky problems that I get questions about. If you are interested in getting these videos or any of my posts delivered directly to your inbox, sign up for my Tech hints newsletter off to the right ⇒
I’ve now re-worked and republished the first two of my books. They were written in hopes of helping. If they sound interesting, click on the covers and you will be taken to Amazon.There are two more that will be out in the next few months. Stay tuned for news.
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October 28, 2015
SEO Tips for Social Media Managers (Infographic)
For those of you still struggling to understand social media and it’s placement on your platform, not to mention SEO and how to implement actions to improve it on your blog, Sprout Social is a great source of information.
Today’s infographic was produced by Sprout Social and I found it on Browser Media. Although I really like this infographic, I also encourage you to click on the link and read the whole article on Browser Media. There’s a lot of really valuable information there.
As always, if you think a friend could appreciate this post, please forward it on.
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I’d like to thank you for dropping by today! If you have a friend that would benefit from this post, please use the share buttons below to pass it on.
I’ve now re-worked and republished the first two of my books. They were written in hopes of helping. If they sound interesting, click on the covers and you will be taken to Amazon.There are two more that will be out in the next few months. Stay tuned for news.
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October 21, 2015
The Ultimate Off-Page SEO Factors (Infographic)
One of the hardest things to teach to beginner bloggers is that to create a great blog, a searchable blog, a high ranking blog, there is more to it than just posting and peppering Facebook with your posts.
There are the technical aspects that typically only the tech savvy marketing bloggers and of course the tech bloggers take advantage of.
When I found today’s infographic, I knew that I just had to share it.
Although some of this info might be above some people’s heads, I think that the average person can follow the instructions and work on increasing their SEO. Have a look and let me know what you think.
To read the whole article that this infographic was from, click here.
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I’d like to thank you for dropping by today! If you have a friend that would benefit from this post, please use the share buttons below to pass it on.
I’ve now re-worked and republished the first two of my books. They were written in hopes of helping. If they sound interesting, click on the covers and you will be taken to Amazon.There are two more that will be out in the next few months. Stay tuned for news.
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October 18, 2015
How to Create Export Files to serve as back up files on WordPress and Blogger (Video)
Today’s topic seems to be sore one for me. I’m often the one that is called in to fix a site when it goes south. The first question I ask is “Do you have a backup of your site?” Too often the answer is “No 
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I hear people tell me that they aren’t very technical and creating a back up is far beyond their capabilities. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Although an export may not be the be all and end all, it is better than nothing. Take a few moments to watch the video and see how easy it is – on WordPress as well as Blogger.
For those of you that blog on WordPress, put UpdraftPlus in place. It is free, easy to schedule and will send a backup to your Dropbox or GoogleDrive or even your email.
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I’d like to thank you for dropping by today! I hope I helped simplify another tech issue. If you have a friend that would benefit from this post, please use the share buttons below to pass it on. I have created 25 or so of these videos to address sticky problems that I get questions about. If you are interested in getting these videos delivered directly to your inbox, sign up for my Tech hints newsletter off to the right ⇒
I’ve now re-worked and republished the first two of my books. They were written in hopes of helping. If they sound interesting, click on the covers and you will be taken to Amazon.There are two more that will be out in the next few months. Stay tuned for news.
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October 14, 2015
The Art of Social Media – Top Ten Power Tips (Infographic)
Imagine my delight when I found an infographic based on one of my favorite books!
The Infographic below is created from Peg Fitzpatrick and Guy Kawasaki’s book, The Art of Social Media. If you haven’t read this book, I’d suggest you put it on your wish list for Christmas. This book is filled with pearls of wisdom that everyone should have a look over if they are hoping to build a presence on Social Media. The Art of Social Media is available on Amazon here.
I hope you enjoy the infographic below!
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I’d like to thank you for dropping by today! I hope that you have enjoyed the latest infographic that I found. If you feel that one of your friends could appreciate this, please use the share buttons below to send it in their direction.
I’ve now re-worked and republished the first two of my books. They were written in hopes of helping. If they sound interesting, click on the covers and you will be taken to Amazon.There are two more that will be out in the next few months. Stay tuned for news.
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October 7, 2015
Integrating Your Email and Social Media Audeinces (infographic)
Today’s little tidbit summarizes the effect of social media spending across all the channels.
Enjoy!
This infographic was found here
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October 4, 2015
The Cheater’s Way of creating HTML using a blog (Video)
If I had a nickel for every time someone told me that they don’t code, therefore they can’t have a blog (or operate a WordPress site) I’d be rich.
Let’s be clear
Coding is NOT necessary to operate a WordPress or Blogger blog!
Now that we have gotten that out of the way…do I use HTML or iFrame code on my blogs? Yes, of course. The video embedded below is an example of me putting iFrame code on my blog post. How to do that was covered in a previous post.
Do I take HTML that I’ve gotten from other sources and put it on my blog? Yes, I do that also and how to do that is covered in the post here.
But did you realize that you can use your blog to create HTML code for you? I like to call it the Cheater’s way of creating HTML code. You can do this using either a WordPress blog or a Blogger blog – both will work. For the how, watch the video below and you will be amazed at how easy it is!
Enjoy!
Since you are here, I’d like to mention the re-do that I’m doing of my survey of Book Bloggers.
If you are a Book Blogger, please take 5 minutes or so to answer some questions here
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I’d like to thank you for dropping by today! I hope I helped simplify another tech issue. If you have a friend that would benefit from this post, please use the share buttons below to pass it on. I have created 25 or so of these videos to address sticky problems that I get questions about. If you are interested in getting these videos delivered directly to your inbox, sign up for my Tech hints newsletter off to the right ⇒
I’ve now re-worked and republished the first two of my books. They were written in hopes of helping. If they sound interesting, click on the covers and you will be taken to Amazon.There are two more that will be out in the next few months. Stay tuned for news.
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September 30, 2015
10 Musts of Using Instagram for Business
So…how much do you know about Instagram?
I must admit that I learned quite a bit about Instagram from this infographic! Have a read and let me know if you do all these things…I’m off to fix a bunch of the mistakes I’ve made…..
The source of this infographic is here
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