Promoting Your Next Workshop Online

Creating and presenting workshops is a great way to showcase your industry knowledge and experiences.  Putting systems in place to reach out to the correct audience is the next step to reaching success. 12 steps to reaching your ideal attendees and having them take action: Create a title that is sure to catch their attention […]

Resources for Blogging Efforts

Maribel Garcia Valls, MPH, ACC. spoke to North Austin Influencers on Blogging to attract your ideal client.  Below are some links she shared to help with your blogging efforts: Website Options:  WordPress : This one is the best and most respected blogging platforms. It has so many options, yet it also has a bigger learning curve. Just note […]

Scoop.it : Content Curation Technology

Scoop.it is a robust content curation technology that assist users to save time finding the content needed. This intuitive publishing platform allows publishing to be easier to reach goals. Scoop.it’s smart suggestion engine crawls more than 30 million web pages every day to minimize efforts to find great content. Discover  how to automate content through the big-data semantic technology by […]

Tips for Better Local SEO

Local Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an essential and efficient strategy for businesses that want long-term success across search engines. With the rise of mobile devices, such as Apple watches, proximity-based searches will continue to grow in popularity, and local searches will be determined by hyper-specific locations. Since local searches often lead to in store visits […]

Use Your Online Touch Points to Grow Your E-mail List

E-mail campaigns are a successful way to grow your business and stay connected to your ideal client to communicate new, updates, and continued products/services.  Are you making use of all your online touch points to grow your e-mail list?  Here are some areas you may want to assess closer to make sure you are making […]

ProFinder for Freelance Professionals

LinkedIn ProFinder program is designed to help freelance and independent marketers in the Austin, Texas Area find new clients. Some questions to ask yourself if you meet some of the key qualifications LinkedIn is considering when evaluating independent professionals to join pilot program are: Are you a freelance or independent professional? Are you experienced in your industry? Is it […]

Choosing the Right Keywords

When branding your company, it is important to use your keywords consistently through your communications offline and online. These are the words that people will recognize with your brand. Make a list of 10 words that describe your business and look at all your marketing materials to see if these words consistently are including in areas like your […]

Optimize Surveys for Mobile Devices

Sending surveys are great for collecting customer input about your product or service, better customer service, and the data received can even be used to create content to communicate to your ideal client. When asking people to participate, it is important to keep in mind that more and more people are taking surveys on their mobile devices. […]

Foodshot: Collections of Handpicked Food Photos

Foodshot handpicks food photos from around the web making it an excellent source for anyone needing images in this category. New, curated hi-res photos are added each day, from sites where photos are distributed for free use. These pictures are distributed and shared under the Creative Commons Zero license. This means the person who is associated […]

Tips for Creating and Managing a WordPress site

WordPress is a free open-source content management system and is the most popular blogging system in use on the web at more than 60 million websites. WordPress powers over 24 percent of the internet for consumers and web professionals which rely on the platform to create a unique online presence. With a wide variety of templates, plugins, and other […]