LinkedIn

LinkedIn and Your Resume

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With 130 million profiles on professional networking website LinkedIn, there’s great potential for you to increase your professional visibility among those in your industry and beyond. It would be almost silly not to consider the benefit of actively participating in LinkedIn’s social networking as well as maintaining an up-to-date resume. But despite the fact that social media networks are fast becoming a primary form of communication for millions of users, some people aren’t quite convinced that a social network for professionals is worth their time.

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Blog Writing Checklist

Blog Writing Checklist: Have You Covered These 8 Blogging Essentials?

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Readers love to read list posts — for example, “5 Ways To Win a Negotiation”. The advantage for you is that they’re easy to outline, to research, and to write. In the example below, we’ll follow a wedding photographer as she thinks through a blog post that she can write for her business blog. I recommend that you get out a pen and paper or open your favorite word processing document. Read the post once all the way through. Then come back and fill in your own ideas step-by-step until you’ve outlined your post.…continue reading…

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Lujure Apps

How to Build Facebook Page Timeline Apps with Lujure

100 Comments / Social Media, Tech / /

During the evolution of Facebook pages, about a year ago, Facebook did away with the FBML tabs and everyone moved over to using to the more popular iFrame tabs. Lujure has a nifty iFrame widget, which is the one everyone “oohed and aahed” over in Amy Porterfield’s webinar (including your’s truly). Lujure’s iFrame app is one of my favorites because you can drag an entire web page right into your Facebook Page with the iFrame. It’s so easy to build an application with the iFrame widget, by simply adding the URL to the wigdet and dragging the frame to fit the page. Sounds super awesome right! You can build a page in less than 60 seconds flat. No kidding and absolutely NO CODING involved…continue reading…

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Joost De Valk

Blogger Interview: Joost de Valk aka Yoast

66 Comments / Blogger Interviews, Blogging Tutorials / /

In this installment of the blogger interviews series, I have the chance to introduce to you to Joost De Valk aka Yoast. We chat about WordPress, plugin development, SEO, blogging conferences, social media and more. He also give us an insider tip about what might be coming to the next version of WordPress.…continue reading…

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Impressive Brand Image for your Blog

How to Create an Impressive Brand Image Around Your Blog

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Today, every successful blog thrives on the brand image online. Many bloggers have the perception that only blogs with good money to spend on amazing designs and featured authors can create a brand image. It is completely untrue. The best things about a blog is that helps a person become a one-man army – depending on how well he/she expresses their opinions on a topic or issue. Creating a brand image is all about influencing your reader in such a way that it leaves a lasting impression on their minds about your blog…continue reading…

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Google Shopping

Credit Card Processing Alternatives for Beginners

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When you’re first getting an eCommerce site or web store up and running, one of the main things you need to deal with is credit card processing. If you already run a brick-and-mortar store that has a merchant account, chances are you can simply talk to your bank about adding online processing. If not, however, you need to start from scratch; and the merchant account application process can be difficult and time-consuming. Fortunately, there are some credit card processing alternatives out there. These payment gateways offer you the ability to accept payments without a merchant account…continue reading…

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Blog maintenance

My Routine for Blog Maintenance on Basic Blog Tips

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My blog maintenance routine is basically a proactive approach to avoid problems with my blog before they ever happen. As most of the community here knows, Basic Blog Tips is a very active blog with loads of fresh content, attractive high-quality images and plenty of social sharing options to choose from. I always try to limit the number of plugins that I install on the blog but there’s always a new one that comes along that it seems like I can’t live without. When the blog seems to lag and perform poorly or if something isn’t working as it should, I can usually hone in on the problem. Here’s what I’m doing to keep things running as smoothly as possible.…continue reading…

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