I don’t know about you, but left to itself, my blog sidebar quickly resembles my kitchen counter: it becomes a catch-all. Every button, link, and feed I don’t know where to put ends up there. And before you know it, the sidebar is so cluttered you can’t see anything! I like clean and simple sidebars…
No Thumbnail? No problem. Ever go to share a link on Facebook and the URL is the only thing that shows up? No picture or summary? Run the link through the debugger and Facebook will update its image: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug. (You can do this whether it’s your link or someone else’s.) Wrong Thumbnail? Get a WordPress…
Social media is not about you—it’s about the people you are following and the people following you. There is no “currency” in social media: it’s all about relationships. Don’t forget the Golden Rule, but don’t promote just to be promoted, either. Having an others-first mentality is the only way to use social media. Reply, Retweet,…
Social media is not about numbers. It’s not about how many followers you have or how many likes you get. Social media is about the relationships you’re building. And if you’re looking to go deep, not wide, in your social media relationships, it’s essential to find your tribe. Your tribe is made up of more…
Unplugging allows me to gain perspective on my computer time and the effect I allow it to have on the rest of my week. -Trina Holden (@TrinaHolden) in “My #1 Sanity Saver” on trinaholden.com When you own your own business, you can never really leave work at the office. When your family business takes place…
I don’t know about you, but too often I tend to visit social media networks when I’m too tired to do anything else. Which can easily lead to me typing Facebook comments that I’ll think better of in the morning. Or Tweeting something that sounds a bit more negative than I would if I’d written…
It might be tempting to write off-the-cuff posts on social media networks without regard to proper spelling or punctuation, but when you do, please remember that they are a part of the whole of your online presence. If you are committed to serving others online, you will serve with excellence, no matter the venue. A…
Now that you’re giving everyone easy access to your social media profiles in your email signature, it’s time we take a look at those social media profiles themselves. With all the different apps and smart phones we use to post to social media, we rarely have cause to visit our own profile pages. It’s easy…
If you’re online, chances are the only communication method you use more than Facebook and Twitter is email. But when you email someone about your website, do they have to Google your name to find it? When you mention the fact that you’re following them on Twitter, is it easy for them to find your…
My cousin Lindy asked me for some blogging tips in anticipation of trying to keep all of us up-to-date on her time overseas as a nanny. So here are a few tips for Lindy—and for the rest of you who are just blogging for the fun of it, blogging to keep Grandma in the loop….
A Facebook page is an ideal way to connect with your customers on Facebook, while a Facebook group is better suited to interacting with your downline (or, on occasion, focused groups of customers). Today we’ll delve into the details of creating a Facebook page for our direct sales business. How do I create a Facebook…
There’s nothing like being part of a blogging mastermind group to get everyone redoing their social media profiles at once. While I worked on my own rebranding, I helped walk friends through the same renames and inconsistencies I was working through…
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