Pinterest, the shiny new bauble in the social media world, now has its own “influence score,” similar to the Klout score. It’s PinClout and it will rank your influence on a scale of 1 to 100. It measures factors such as how many followers you have, how many people you follow, and how many likes you have accumulated.… Read More
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Dog Tweets — Follow These PR Rules If You Want To Raise Some Real Capital
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. Follow These PR Rules If You Want To Raise Some Real Capital. http://t.co/OFOfjLof Submit series of articles to papers in rich suburbs via NAPS. Expensive, but might be worth it for you. http://ow.ly/93OKP Don’t… Read More
6 Ways to Overcome a Writing Setback
This guest post is written by Lior Levin, a marketing consultant for a company that offers to-do list tool applications for individuals and businesses, and who also consults at a psd to html company. * * * Whether you maintain a blog or develop user-friendly content for business websites, every writer fears getting… Read More
Dog Tweets — 7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Radically Successful Guest Post
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 7 Crucial Tactics for Writing a Radically Successful Guest Post http://ow.ly/8TLYO Farts: The topic of a 6th-grader’s 1st-place speech. Here are 5 lessons from the speech: http://ow.ly/8TPHk 5 ways LinkedIn can freshen up and… Read More
3 things you DON’T need to get onto big TV shows
Dying to get onto one of the big TV shows like the “Today” show? Of course you are. Just one appearance can send your book flying off the shelves. If you’re a small business person, it can mean thousands of people rushing to your website. If you’re an expert in your field, it can mean… Read More
Dog Tweets: How entrepreneurs decide how to post on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. How entrepreneurs decide how to post on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter. http://ow.ly/8MvYM 4 easy tactics for becoming a must-follow account on Twitter. http://ow.ly/8MHte 5 Ways Writers Can Break Out of the Tired Old Social… Read More
Doing business locally? Share your blog at Patch.com
At the winter farmer’s market in my town, I ran into my local editor for Patch.com, the uber-local website that’s giving Publicity Hounds yet another outlet for their press releases, photos and local news. Lyssa Beyer and Matt Schroeder, her associate regional editor, were stopping shoppers and asking if they knew about Patch, which operrates in 22 states in the… Read More
Dog Tweets: Write killer headlines using this clever trick
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. How to write irresistible blog intros. http://ow.ly/8Em6E Chicago Tribune Offers Sunday Book Review Section for $99 a year. http://ow.ly/8FRZM Facebook timeline becoming mandatory for all users. (Ugh.) http://ow.ly/8HvgH 4 Simple Steps to a Facebook… Read More
Will Flickr allow this kind of photo promotion?
Chris Stephenson of Madrid, Spain, asks: “I’d really like to use Flickr to host a competition. I’d ask people to submit photos of a variety of airports, highways, bridges and all types of buildings that the company I work for has or is currently managing or constructing. “Potentially, I could offer a prize of photo… Read More
Dog Tweets: 10 content marketing tips for 2012
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 10 content marketing tips for 2012. http://ow.ly/8mLqd Top 3 Video Marketing Lessons from Nielsen. http://ow.ly/8mLRO Bloggers: Want (recurring) donations from your readers? Just ask! http://ow.ly/8ohOz Daily newspapers going the way of the milkman. http://ow.ly/8ox57… Read More