Blogging on WordPress.com: A Step by Step Tutorial

Posted by gestroud on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 | 6 views
Blogging on WordPress.com: A Step by Step Tutorial

Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, WordPress.com. Become a blogger in less than an hour. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get started blogging with WordPress. Covers everything from registering at WordPress.com all the way through set up and administration.

BubbleTweet – A Hot Video Widget For Twitter

Posted by gestroud on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 15 views
BubbleTweet – A Hot Video Widget For Twitter

BubbleTweet is a great widget to add to any Twitter page and is a twitter “must have” widgets for the hardcore Twitter user.

It also has a lot of potential for both personal and corporate branding. Imagine being able to tell followers your latest news or information, but instead of tweeting it you can say it? It’s a great way to make yourself stand out in a large group of followers…

Five Steps to Building Your Brand on Twitter

Posted by gestroud on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | 47 views
Five Steps to Building Your Brand on Twitter

There are 5 basic steps to effectively branding your business on Twitter: Designing, attracting, building, interacting, and selling are all the tools you need to successfully promote you brand on Twitter. Following these steps will ensure you are building a permanent base of repeat customers in the Twitterverse.

This is not an overnight processes, but with a customer base of which 50% have a college degree and earn $60,000 plus each year, it’s worth the slow cultivation…




The Dirty Secret SEO Services Won’t Tell You

Posted by gestroud on Monday, April 27, 2009 | 12 views
The Dirty Secret SEO Services Won’t Tell You

OK, you did your research, filled your copy with powerful keywords and beefed up your meta tags. Thanks to strong organic SEO results, more people are starting to find your website. But they’re not buying your product or service. Why?

Because you forgot your most important audience. You may have optimized for your site for the mighty search engines, but in doing so you made it boring, confusing or irrelevant to your most important audience – the human beings who are interested in your product or service.

Here’s the dirty little secret most SEO services won’t tell you

Should You Start a Real Estate Blog?

Posted by gestroud on Monday, April 27, 2009 | 9 views
Should You Start a Real Estate Blog?

It seems like everybody and their dog has a blog of some sort. So, you think, what can a real estate blog do for me and my business? The answer is: a lot, if you are willing to put in the time and effort to make it so.

A good blog is, as far as the search engines go, an ever-changing webpage that constantly offers content. This is a great place to be, from a search-engine-optimization (SEO) point of view.

Gurus Angry about How Many People YOU Follow on Twitter

Posted by gestroud on Monday, April 27, 2009 | 32 views
Gurus Angry about How Many People YOU Follow on Twitter

There are “gurus” ranting about how you should manage your Twitter account. Some of these folks stand on a soap box and tell you to only follow a small number of people. They go on to say anybody following 100, 200, 500 or more people are liars, fakes or any number of insulting adjectives.

These gurus say if you are following this many, then the noise level in your tweet stream is deafening. There is no way you could possibly pay attention to anyone.

What’s the Real Motivation Here?

Stop and think about this before you dismiss it outright. Why do high-profile marketers want you to only follow a few people? Of course, they should be on your small list of followers. After all, they are providing useful, valuable content. The kind of content deserving your attention.