Posts Tagged ‘Small Business Marketing’

Add Skills To Your LinkedIn Profile Under The New Guidelines

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Here is my new video about Adding Skills To Your LinkedIn Profile and Editing followed by the transcript. Today I am going to be talking about my favorite subject LinkedIn and the topic will be adding skills to your LinkedIn profile. Why is adding skills so important? On February 24th, 2012 LinkedIn said it is [...]

Some Great Ideas To Generate Content For Your Business Blog

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Brian Clark of Copyblogger has these 22 suggestions for generating copy for your blog, and as far as I am concerned, business blog as well. Remember the purpose of a business blog is to post new, relevant content to your Web site regularly to attract search engines. This raises your visibility and credibility and says [...]

How To Create An Event On LinkedIn And Broadcast It

Friday, February 10th, 2012

One way to become seen and visible on LinkedIn is to Create an Event. This step by step video shows you how to easily do that. Creating an event allows you to publicize a presentation, workshop, classs, network meetings and other events to your connections and expanded network without investing a dime. Your event can [...]

How To Embed A YouTube Video Into A WordPress WebSite | Blog

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Here are some real easy instructions on how to embed a YouTube video into your WordPress Web site or blog. You can thus content to enhance the information to attract visitors. Add your comments and act as a ‘curator’ to others. Follow the steps starting with clicking on the ‘share’ button to get your embed [...]

Are You On LinkedIn To Grow Moss or To Grow Your Business

Friday, November 4th, 2011

This great video from Business Development University gives you a great BIG clue on what to do with that list of connections you have so diligently gathered on LinkedIn because you listened to me in the first place and grew that base. Let’s assume you did not join LinkedIn to make new friends, but to [...]

Add Custom Text To Your LinkedIn Website Links

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Too many LinkedIn profiles do not have links to the profile owner’s Web sites or blogs or merely use  the “generic” default descriptors: “Company Website” or “Blog“.   Well LinkedIn is a phenomenal source of links back to your site, which are good for Google search engine results.  Yes, they may be nofollow links, but [...]

Video Blog Posts Aids Your Overall Small Business Marketing

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Here is another do it yourself Web marketing tip and hint. Darren Rose talks about the benefits to using video posts on your blog in this video. Although a video takes longer to produce it is much more powerful than mere a blog containing only text and perhaps a photo or illustration. Some of the [...]

Amazon Fires First Shot In New War Against Small Business

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

My boy Gary Vaynerchuk talks about Amazon going into the direct publishing business. This fall they will market 122 books directly to consumers with no middle man involvement. According to Gary this is the first volley of a war to eliminate the middle man in this industry. A similar move was made in the music [...]

Should employers secretly monitor your Facebook activity?

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

I saw this question in my title on a Meetup discussion board earlier and replied:  “No, employers should not secretly monitor Facebook activity. They should overtly monitor and encourage it. Welcome to Gary Vaynerchuk’s ‘The Thank You Economy’.” I also started two five discussion threads on LinkedIn and encouraged viewers to comment there or here [...]

Ode To My LinkedIn Discussion Thread And Social Business

Friday, October 14th, 2011

I am an avid fan of LinkedIn and have used it to take my social business (thank you IBM) networking to new levels. In the past several months I have evolved from being a hunter to being hunted. Two fundamental steps preclude moving to that vaulted level, thereafter you must adhere to some protocols. The [...]