“The Best of the Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week of 2017,” a free ebook, includes two dozen tips on how to use traditional media and social media to build a following, promote what you’re selling, connect with journalist and use inexpensive marketing tactics and strategies. It’s yours to regift. Read more
Social Media Productivity
Dog Tweets—10 PR stars reveal secrets for social media success in 2012
Here are my Top 10 tweets from this past week, great for retweeting! If you missed these, follow me on Twitter. 10 PR stars reveal secrets for social media success in 2012. http://ow.ly/ginwi 5 ways to use a press release to promote your small business. http://ow.ly/gbOVB 3 worst ways companies waste money on social media.… Read More
Why social media is unprofitable for extroverts
I’ll bet you find yourself making this social media mistake occasionally, just like I do. During your work day, you start carrying on a conversation with a few Facebook friends about topics that are important to you in your personal life, or just make you feel good. For me, those include how much I love my… Read More
Free template for a targeted social media system
Don Crowther, my mastermind coach and social media teacher, is giving away a free video this week in which he shows you how to create a targeted social media system that will keep your efforts focused on the tasks that will make you money, instead of wasting time having conversations that go nowhere. He’s also… Read More
Twitter Tips for Newbies & What Makes Irresistible Tweets
If you aren’t among the more than 20 million people on Twitter, you may feel like you’re late to the party. That’s OK. There’s no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed that you don’t understand what all the fuss is about. Twitter, I’ve discovered, is one of the best and quickest ways to build a… Read More
The Top 13 self-defeating practices on LinkedIn
If you’re on LinkedIn, and even if you have an impressive number of connections, you might be making critical mistakes that are robbing you of the ability to make those connections work for you. The Business2Community blog lists its Top 10 Self-Defeating LinkedIn Practices, such as a boring or outdated profile, using the site to… Read More
Stop automating social media content—More tips May 7
Several years ago, when busy people were looking for ways to save time with social media, they relied on programs like Ping.com to automate their content. Post a status update and Ping could push it out to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the other sites you see in the photo at left, with just a click… Read More
How to link your Twitter and Facebook accounts
By Joan Stewart One of the most frequent questions we get is how to link your Twitter and Facebook accounts so that your tweets automatically feed into your Facebook status updates, or vice-vesa. Another is how to save time when doing social media tasks. You have three options which will solve both problems. Whichever one you… Read More
Get the monkey off your back using VAs, subcontractors
If you’ feel like you can’t do it all, start pushing the monkey off your back by delegating some of your work—particularly the stuff you hate doing—to an assistant. A good virtual assistant and other subcontractors can free you up to concentrate on the strategies and tasks that bring in the money. But knowing where… Read More
Bad advice from Copyblogger on time spent blogging
By Joan Stewart Copyblogger is one of my very favorite resources to learn about blogging, writing and sales copy. But a post written by Jonathan Morrow, 20 Warning signs That Your Content Sucks, does a disservice to beginning bloggers and could easily turn them off forever to blogging, one of the very best ways to… Read More