Blog

Indie Author Legacy Awards (IALAwards) Celebrates Non Fiction Authors

Events
Calling all non fiction writers and book lovers! Nominate the book and author that has made the biggest impact on your life for an Indie Author Legacy Award. If you’re the author, go ahead and nominate yourself. You deserve it! What are the Indie Author Legacy Awards? The Indie Author Legacy Awards (IALA) is the only one of its kind, specifically celebrating non-fiction literacy geared towards the promotion of social awareness, education and personal transformation. The mission is to recognize the efforts of writers who use their platform and gift of writing as a tool to develop community empowerment, business ownership and generational wealth building. In 2016, the first awards ceremony is expected to gather over 100 national independent authors, bloggers, entrepreneurs and advocates. While the focus of the event is to…
Read More

Succeeding In Business With Instagram Strategies [Infographic]

Social Media
No matter if you are doing Instagram marketing for small or large organizations, there are wealth of opportunities for sending messages to your audiences and creating leads through Instagram. So, it is not surprising to know that Instagram is one of the credible tools for increasing your business reputation and creating brand awareness. Many people are on Instagram and among them several of them connect their Instagram account to other social media platforms, thereby successfully spreading their brand name. But when it comes to posting images on Instagram, you are limited to relatively tiny square pictures. Now contained with each square, you have to come up with content which are memorable, catchy and relevant to your business as well as brand. Applying Instagram Content Strategies for Business Instagram strategies are…
Read More

How to Schedule Your Social Media Content Curation [Infographic]

Social Media
How do you decide which content to share on social media? Do you simply share your own blog posts, videos and memes? Are you hanging out online, in the hopes of finding something interesting to share with your audience? Do you post too much or too little on social media because you’re stumped as to what you should be posting to get people’s attention? Maybe a better question is simply “Do you use schedule social media content curation to actively engage your audience, build connections with influencers in your industry, and position yourself as an authority?” Say what now?! What in the world is a social media content curation plan, and where do they sell ‘em? It’s not as complex as it sounds. Let’s back up a moment. How to…
Read More

7 Common Blogging Mistakes to Avoid [Infographic]

Blogging
If blogging is a part of your content marketing strategy, I will presume you have read blogs in your niche. Most of us read blogs everyday. If you're anything like me, you're eager to learn the best ways to build a better blog, to improve your blogging IQ. And avoid blogging mistakes. Humor me, do you ever think to yourself... How can I be more efficient with my blogging time? Should I blog everyday? Is once a week enough? Am I using the best SEO tips? How do bloggers make money from all of this hard work? How long should my posts be? Should I write short posts or long posts? Ugh... who has time to write all these long posts anyway? It's ok to laugh at me. I'm laughing as…
Read More
Get Traffic and Blog Comments During the Comment Carousel Commentathon

Get Traffic and Blog Comments During the Comment Carousel Commentathon

Events
**Update: The December 2015 commentathon has ended. How would you like to get 50 comments on the next blog post you publish? Are you wanting more traffic and interaction on your blog? Well, we have just the thing to help you… and it’s going to be fun, too! Introducing the Comment Carousel, a Blog Commentathon for Entrepreneurs! We’re going 'round and 'round to each other’s blogs starting Dec 8, 2015. For seven days, we’ll be blog hopping, reading and leaving comments, and sharing each other’s blog posts. Register here to be notified of the next commentathon! Get 50 comments On YOUR Next Blog Post! Join us for this week-long blog commentathon event! It’s easy to get involved – and it’s going to be fun! What is a commentathon? We’ll be putting together…
Read More
5 Quick SEO Tips To Drive Website Traffic Fast

5 Quick SEO Tips To Drive Website Traffic Fast

Blogging, Website Design & SEO
One of the most significant keys to online success is getting website traffic. The more visitors you have, the better your chances for sales and profits. Presumably you have a niche and you know your keywords, and regularly conduct keyword research to stay on top of what’s popular. Based on those assumptions here are five quick and easy SEO tips to get website traffic fast! 5 Quick SEO Tips To Drive Website Traffic Fast Tip #1 Make sure you’re actually tagging your keywords. Do you spend a lot of time optimizing your content and then neglect to tag them on your web page? So what's a tag? Tags are where search engines look, and if there are no tags they’ll pass right by your web pages. Here’s a quick brief on tags.…
Read More

Do’s and Don’ts for Successful Business Blogging

Blogging
When you begin blogging for your business, you should be aware of certain blogging “etiquette” that will help you rise to the top of your reading audience’s list. There are many things that you should do, and of course, things you shouldn’t do, and knowing the difference will allow you to be far more effective in your blogging endeavors. Tips for Successful Business Blogging   Three Basics for Every Business Blogger #1 Direct traffic with your content  Content is the hallmark of every blog. Before you start a blog, consider the types of content and posts you plan on sharing. What are you posting about, and in what format? When blogging, think of yourself as a traffic controller. As you are blogging, tell people when you want them to click…
Read More
Overnight Success Does Not Exist, and Luck Ain’t Coming to Dinner

Overnight Success Does Not Exist, and Luck Ain’t Coming to Dinner

Tips and Tools
Rarely do I write a blog post because I am compelled to share a message in the here and now. If I am moved to speak on a topic immediately, I typically share a message in 140 (or perhaps 280) characters via a tweet or two, or I take to Facebook to post. And move on. However, this message from GaryVee is too powerful to simply share on Twitter or Facebook, to let dangle in the wind for 15 minutes before disappearing. I'm posting this for you and me, for when we need a reminder about why we do this thing called entrepreneurship. How this post came about Sooo, I was looking for something to listen to while I worked today, I guess I unconsciously needed a kick in the pants?? I started skimming social…
Read More