I find it useful to turn notes from attending conferences into a blog post of takeaways. This is not meant to be a roundup of the entire two-day conference. It's just those things that caught my interest and that I plan to follow up on in the next week or so. I've tried to provide attribution where … [Read more...]
3 Favorite Blogging Tips and Tricks
If you are a one-person "blog as a business," then it's likely the writing part of the blog is the easy half of the equation for you. For many, the technical side of running a blog can be far more challenging. I've got a tech background and often find this to be the case. My three favorite blogging … [Read more...]
Blogging and SEO – Jim Says
When I wrote I don't want to turn work off, I discussed how your blog is one of the ways you can build a bigger megaphone to spread your message. Good search engine optimization (SEO) is just another one of the ways to expand your audience. It's quite likely that those who find your blog through a … [Read more...]
Blogging and SEO – Shelby Says
When Jim and I presented She Said, He Said Live for the first time at WordCamp Chicago last weekend, we had an interesting discussion with audience members about blogging and search engine optimization (SEO). We liked the conversation so much that we decided to incorporate it as a topic for this … [Read more...]
How Premise by CopyBlogger helps build great landing pages
This is the first co-authored post by Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek. Together, we'll give you some insight on why we chose the WordPress plugin Premise (affiliate link)from Copyblogger to design the ColorMetrix User Group Meeting landing page, what we liked about it and some advice from our … [Read more...]
Establishing Online Authority
After presenting Selling at (and to) a Higher Level for the first time last week, many of the audience followup questions centered around establishing online authority. I'm going to run through the steps I have used to increase traffic on this site, over at ColorMetrix and on Qip.com, which we … [Read more...]
Scribe SEO New (beta) Feature Review
Scribe continues to be an important tool in the quest to improve my writing and I have been using the service since February of this year (before they even had an affiliate program which I am now a participant in). I suspect many users, like me, utilize Scribe through the WordPress plugin. So, … [Read more...]
Scribe SEO Copy Writing Made Easy
I've written about the Scribe SEO copy writing tool before. It's a great service put out by Brian Clark founder of CopyBlogger and numerous other successful ventures like Third Tribe Marketing and the Thesis Theme. Over the last few months the early adopters of Scribe have helped identify the rough … [Read more...]