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12 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs | www.socialmedia.biz

www.socialmedia.biz5/3/12 Or, surefire ways to sabotage your blog posts & jeopardize your reputation. Blogging is a lot like fishing. Some people do it all the time and never catch anything, while others catch everything. Why is that? It’s not luck. … Continue reading

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5 Helpful Blogging Resources for Local Business

If you’re not blogging for your local business, you should be. We’ve seen the proven results when clients put a business blog to consistent use for their local business. When we incorporate keywords, the right meta-tags, and work to create … Continue reading

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5 Tips to Becoming a Top Blog in Your Industry

www.socialmediaexaminer.com4/10/12 Have you ever dreamed of becoming one of the top blogs in your space? Are you wondering how some bloggers find success and why others struggle to survive? If so, keep reading as I reveal five tips and techniques … Continue reading

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3 Things You MUST DO for Your Local Business Blog (if you want people to actually read it!)

We were recently taking a look at a prospective client’s blog to help them understand why they weren’t generating readers. In this case in particular, they had done a decent job of generating hits on the local business blog, but … Continue reading

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Video 6: Posting with Blogdesk

On this Video, you will be learning how to manage and post to your blog from your desktop, making it much easier on yourself and saving all kinds of time.

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Powerwords PDF File

If you are looking for words and phrases to use in your marketing campaigns then be sure to check out this PDF document which outlines dozens of words and phrases which are really appealing to people as a whole.

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Featured Interview: Michael Licamele

Michael Licamele is a mortgage brokerage marketing expert. He used social media (specifically blogs, LinkedIn, and Twitter) to take his company, totalmortgage.com, to the stars. In this exclusive interview, Michael shares with us his deepest marketing secrets.

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Lesson 5: Syndicating Your Blog Content

You may have already heard of an “RSS” feed, but have no idea what it is. This video will help you set up an RSS feed for your blog, using simple Wordpress plugins, so that your blog followers are able to subscribe to your blog posts, receiving them INSTANTLY over any RSS reader. This video contains information essential to running a successful blog that drives loads of traffic to your site.

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Lesson 4: Building Your Business And Your Blog

  • Comparing two different blog platforms.
  • How to write to your blog.
  • How to link your blog together.
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Lesson 3: Getting Started With Your Blog

Now that you know how to organize your content, lets start posting. Check out this video to find out the steps to creating your self-hosted Wordpress blog. No need to be nervous, we suggest using Wordpress because of its “user-friendly” platform and extremely easy to navigate – even for the non-technical individual.

Don’t have time to set up your Wordpress blog? Need some help? StudioPress offers a special discount rate for all Surefire Social members. Interested? Watch the video to find out more!

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