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 [...]

How To Find Interesting People To Follow On Twitter Using Klout

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Klout is a great new online tool that shows you your combined social media score and can help you find influential people to follow. The main interface screen looks like the picture below. It contains your cumulative Klout score (bigger is better), your Twitter picture, the social networks you’re active on, people that you influence, [...]

Weekly Wrap Up: Design

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This was our third theme based week on Success Begins Today. The theme was design and featured a free book giveaway. Theme: Design Monday: Design Week A text-graphic describing our week Tuesday: Design a Better Website Creating a website for your business or profession used to be hard. Not any longer… Wednesday: Design a Better [...]

Google Plus: What Will You Write?

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I’ve had the privilege of using Google Plus in beta format for the last few weeks. Plus is the new social network from Google, that is similar to Facebook. It has a timeline and allows you to interact with friends with an interface called circles. You group your friends in different circles (such as work, [...]

Planning Your Social Media Week

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As a long time blogger, I’ve found that blogging 4 to 5 times a week helps you develop a consistent web presence which facilitates improved traffic and a more loyal following. If you add to that a Facebook Fan Page and a Twitter account, you can drive targeted traffic to your blog on a daily [...]

Frustration & Fascination With Facebook

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I’ve been blogging for over six years now, and I’ve seen a lot of changes along the way. Blog software has evolved dramatically, and social media has taken center stage. Twitter and Facebook didn’t even exist back in 2005 when this blog started, yet Facebook now reports having 750 Million users and Twitter has a [...]