Everyone running a blog or business on the Internet is doing the same thing. Trying to build their brand. With Facebook and Twitter, you can get instant brand recognition, compliments, complaints or general mumblings. It’s never been easier to see how your brand fares or if it’s even known at all. Google Alerts allows you… (0 comment)

As long as I can remember, the almighty link bait was a great piece of content going viral and causing mass linkage. Free reports, e-books, awesome articles….all of it; an effort to grab more vital backlinks to your site. A new trend has emerged over the last couple years; the infograhic. An easy to read… (1 comment)

While I do enjoy searching for old pals via Facebook, I have to admit; their privacy sucks. Unless a user hides everything for friends only, I can find the info I am looking for. This has been an issue with Facebook users for a few years now and FB has not really addressed the issues.… (1 comment)

Hope all who celebrate Thanksgiving are enjoying the moments with their families today.  I just wanted to take a moment to give a bloggers thanks today. 🙂 You have all stuck by this blog through thick and thin and Ivan is doing a wonderful job with it. Not only today, but everyday I am thankful… (0 comment)

The Social Business Index or SBI is now the way to measure the future of social business. Let’s take a look at what this valuable service is and how it affects the future. SBI The Social Business Index, built on top of Dachis Group’s Social Business Intelligence Insight Platform, analyzes the effectiveness of strategies and… (0 comment)

Here’s one question for you: Are blogs dead? A-list bloggers are still not so sure – Copyblogger, Problogger, etc. are still unsure about which sides to choose. As of for me, I observe “the sign of times” to learn whether blogs will be dead (or not.) Blogging trends I observe: If you visit Google+ and… (0 comment)

When things go wrong in real life there is one big consolation which bloggers can take from it. As that button finally pops on your trousers and you stand in the office showing off your knobbly knees, or the door on the manure truck swings open as you bend down to tie your shoelace next… (1 comment)

That is the question; to use SEO software or not? I know there are valid arguments on both sides of the topic here; but you know I love to give you my opinion. 🙂 SEO Software So, here is what I know. Seo can make or break you. Easy enough, right? But how do you… (2 comments)