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Don’t spend time article marketing – watch TV and drink beer instead!

Date: 11th August 2009
No Comments Related Categories: Admin posts, Articles, Blogging, Content

We’ve just sent out our latest newsletter, and once again we’re thrilled with the cartoon depiction of our headline subject – which in this case was Article Marketing and how it can save you time if you let a company such as us do it.

Mike from Flantoons exceeeded our expectations again with this fab cartoon – we hope you like it as much as we did!

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Why being (or having) a Guest Blogger is A Good Thing

Date: 22nd July 2009
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Blogging

We’re great fans of guest bloggers / authors on blogs, having welcomed them and guest posted on other peoples blogs, but what is a guest author, what does being one involve and why is it good (for both sides)?

What is a guest blogger / author?

This bit’s easy :)   A guest author is simply someone who writes a (guest) post on someone else’s blog. (You have to be invited or allowed to do this, you can’t just randomly start putting posts on other peoples blogs!)

Usually the blog will have some relation to your industry or speciality, but this isn’t necessarily always the case.

Free Social Media Marketing Checklist

Date: 20th July 2009
Comments: 23 Related Categories: Admin posts, Blogging, Freebies, Musings, Social Networking

This checklist was inspired by a blog post from Social Media Expert Chris Brogan – you can find his post here http://www.chrisbrogan.com/19-presence-management-chores-you-could-do-every-day/ – I’ve simply added and tweaked a few bits to cover the extra things that I do every day too.

THE PDF DOWNLOAD IS HERE

Please feel free to share this list, as long as you give it away for free and keep both mine and Chris’s details intact.

You can download the social-media-marketing-checklist if you’re impatient – the rather long blog post below simply explains my reasonings behind each item. (Please note, these are MY thoughts, not Chris’s, so we might not 100% agree on the whys, even if we agree on some of the whats…)

Get business and leads through blogging – our clients do!

Date: 23rd June 2009
No Comments Related Categories: Blogging, Musings

We often encourage our clients to run their own blog, whether as a part of their own site, or as a separate site, and it’s always nice to see the traffic coming into those blogs, and the enquiries that leads to.

Every so often I have a mooch around some of our clients’ blog, so I thought I’d share some of them with you:

Cellulite, eco products and accounting software!

Date: 22nd June 2009
No Comments Related Categories: Admin posts, Articles, Blogging, Content, Musings

Never let it be said that my day isn’t varied :)

Part of what I love about my job is that no single day is the same as any other – because we have a good range of related services, I can be working on quite a few things throughout the day, and chatting with many different customers and associates, as well as trying to keep order in the offices both here in France and in the UK!

Today, among other things, I’ve been working on: