If you’ve been reading for a while, you know we LOVE the “Plain English” videos produced by Commoncraft, and here’s another one that may help to answer a few questions:
It’s a short explanation of the features and benefits of Social Bookmarking sites like Delicious.com.
Be warned – Mindmap is not my tool of choice, so this is pretty basic! But a few people have asked if the Free Social Media Marketing Checklist was available in MindMap format as well as PDF download, so I’ve given it a go.
I used Freemind, which is .. er, free, so if you want the mindmap and don’t have software to read it, download it and you can!
The MM has the steps from the original checklist included, as well as a couple of miscellaneous ones that weren’t on the original. It also has links included where you see the red arrows.
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.
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…)
I’m a big fan of Article Marketing, and have been for over ten years – in fact I still get business from an article that I originally wrote back in 1995!
But when I speak to people online, it amazes me how many of them think article marketing is a waste of time, isn’t for them, won’t do them any good, or simply haven’t heard of it!
I haven’t yet found a small business website that couldn’t be helped in some way with a targeted article marketing plan, so here’s my list of 5 ways that article marketing can work for you:
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!)
