My 200th Blog Post Celebration
What can I say about reaching this milestone of my 200th blog post? Well, let me start here. A few months ago, I was alerted that our images, even paid ones could lead to copyright problems unless you are extremely careful. Some people were faced with law suits, because they were grabbing free images […]
Drive Traffic To Your Blog With Facebook Page Posts
Facebook page posts are a great way to drive traffic to your blog. My clients are always asking me how to get traffic, or how to increase the flow of traffic to their blogs. As usual, they are most interested in free or very cheap methods for doing this. In other words, organic methods. Facebook […]
Facebook Is A Marketer’s Dream
Some people are upset that Facebook has gone corporate. They tell me that their posts don’t get the organic social reach they once did. While that may be true, I still think that Facebook is a marketer’s dream. I’ll give you a few reasons why I say that, then I’ll share with you a short […]
Why Updating Your Blog Is Important
When you hear the term “updating” what is the first thing you think of? Probably updating your plugins or updating to the newest version of WordPress. But it goes way beyond that. Now I am not a techie, but noticed there were some things about my blog that needed re-vamping. Here is a list that […]
How To Deal With Going Off Line For A Week
This post was most recently updated on March 27th, 2014Bloggers know how it is. We are on line every day. Blogging, chatting it up on social sites, and of course, running the marketing end of our business. We get so caught up in our 2-dimensional world, that abandoning it for several days can create […]
Is Your Blog A Graveyard?
This post was most recently updated on March 27th, 2014Let’s talk about your blog. Does it look empty and lonely with too few comments? Comments are absolutely necessary in order to get some social juice to your blog. If your blog looks like a Graveyard… and you want to get more comments and social buzz, […]
10 WordPress Security Holes You Must Close To Protect Yourself Online
This post was most recently updated on March 27th, 2014 I was having so many problems not only with my blog, but more importantly with the membership site I had created for my product. This had me in a tizzy… everything was done, but my hosting company wasn’t able to connect different sites properly for […]
Getting My Product Live
I’ve had quite a few questions about how I made my first digital information product “live.” It’s not really a simple process. Truthfully, my husband (I think most of you know “David Merrill 101”) did the bulk of the technical work, and I focused on actually creating the product. Now that the product […]
Blogging for Marketers
This post was most recently updated on March 26th, 2014 Introducing “Blogging Magic” Are you an affiliate or network marketer? Marketers and business or opportunity team leaders often need to educate their subscribers and followers how to use blogging in order to market products, opportunities and services. Are you a […]
Spread Your Wings And Challenge Yourself!
For the past several months, I have been doing a little experimenting on my Facebook Page. I decided to experiment before beginning a campaign selling something, so I had this great idea. Every week when I had a new post, I put it on my page and then pressed that little button that […]
Not All Comments Are Equal
This post was most recently updated on March 26th, 2014Social media engagement is so important in the current world of blogging. Pages, posts and your entire blog are ranked by search engines largely on the amount of social engagement your blog generates. One of the key ingredients to social engagement is the amount and […]
Time For A Blog Makeover?
This post was most recently updated on March 26th, 2014I have had my blog up live for about four years now and I know I need to change and update some things. Just looking at it you can see that it’s not as “clean” and savvy as newer ones you have visited. I […]