A New Tool In Klout For Business Success

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If you are in business, you know how important connections are. They are the lifeblood of your operation. You need suppliers, B to B helpers, and most of all you need customers. You can spend weeks or months trying to find the right people. Your marketing campaigns may be ineffective if you don’t have the [...]

Improve Your SEO Ranking With Klout

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If you are a writer, speaker, or small business professional you know the importance of building your online presence or “platform.” Getting visitors to come to your website or blog is paramount in building your business. While there are many factors in a successful search engine optimization (SEO) campaign, having high quality websites linking to [...]

Design a Better Presentation

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We have all been there, the after lunch presentation that takes two hours, has 500 bullet points, and puts the most well intentioned person to sleep. Yet year after year, the standard Powerpoint snooze-fest continues. People keep filling slides with bullets in ever smaller font sizes and stand in front of everybody and read the [...]

Weekly Wrap Up: Communication

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This was our second theme based week on Success Begins Today. The theme was communication and featured a free book giveaway. Theme: Communication Monday: Making A True Connection We all communicate, but do we truly connect? Tuesday: Communicating Your Title The words you use in your title say a lot about you. Choose wisely. Thursday: [...]

Planning A Great Weekend

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While my weekdays are usually planned out in advance on a calendar, my weekends tend to have more free flow events. As a creative person, I usually like to take the weekend as it comes. While this adds a sense of adventure, it also can lead to a lot of lost time. A while back [...]

Leave Comments Here, Get A Conversation Back

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With the Intense Debate system it’s easy to see who comments a lot. Here are five people that have high reputation scores and great blogs. If you leave comments with them, you will be sure to strike up a conversation. Daniel Decker: Has a great blog focusing on leadership, publishing, social media and marketing. Dan [...]