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You’re blogging regularly. You’ve keyword-optimized your blog for Google. You’ve commented on other people’s blogs to begin building reciprocal links.  Are your efforts paying off? A recent post by Dawn Foster in WebWorkerDaily (12/17/2010) explains how to find out whether anyone reads your blog. Here’s what she has to say:
Google Analytics Provides Capabilities You May [...]

For this post, I’m drawing on my training and certification as a personal life coach, although I don’t coach for a living any more. I’m a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), credentialled by the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and completed about 300 hours of training and supervision. One of the core concepts in my training was [...]

I didn’t do it on purpose. It started with a ridiculously unimportant thing. I was drafting a post that I would have published yesterday, and wanted to include a picture. For reasons which I haven’t yet figured out, I was never able to load pictures directly into WordPress using the upload function in the Posts [...]

Today I attended an workshop that was jam-packed with information on SEO, social networking and more. How to Cost-Effectively Drive Audiences to Your Website was presented by Todd Tweedy, CEO of Audience Machine, and David Robinson, Creative Director and co-founder of Birch Studio. I’ll be sharing what I learned in the next few posts.
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The blog is built and I’m posting regularly. The more often I post, the more ideas about posts come to mind. I added three posts about the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council panel discussion this week on incorporating social media into your business strategy. And learned a lot in the process of writing–great reminder of what [...]

I’m checking my email this morning, and I have a message from Google Alerts showing that the entry I posted last night has already been crawled and indexed. Two points here:
(1) Posting to your blog regularly provides you with more Google entries and, if the quality is good and you are busy cross-linking, raises your [...]

It’s been about two weeks since my last blog post. My intention was to relate continuing adventures in exploring social networking and how to use it for business development. I’ve followed a few leads in Twitter that will make interesting stories. And I’ve been using Facebook more freely and experiencing Facebook. It has been fun [...]

Although this blog is intended as a forum for conversation about marketing, I’m starting out by sharing my adventures in social networking. I’m a complete noobie, although I’ve had a page in Facebook and a listing in Linked-In for about a year. It’s time to learn more, and I’m going to share what I learn [...]