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 […]

LinkedIn Profinder for Users in Search of Freelancers

LinkedIn ProFinder is a new professional services marketplace that LinkedIn is piloting in select geographic areas across the U.S. that helps professionals find the best freelance or independent professionals in their local area. The program has already started testing the product with freelance professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now they are testing it with a select […]

How to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile and Presence

With more than 400 million users on its career-focused platform, LinkedIn is a prime place to connect with potential employers and employees. But you only have one shot at a first impression. Nearly nine out of ten recruiters say they’ve hired someone through LinkedIn. Something as simple as having a professional picture on your profile […]

How to link Facebook profile or Business Page to Twitter account

Anyone who has ever attended my workshops knows I am all about using the least amount of energy with the most impact.  For those not wanting to go onto yet another social media platform or wanting more content on their Twitter feed, arranging for Facebook status updates to automatically post to Twitter is an ideal solution. […]

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 […]

Quora: Question-and-answer website

Quora is a popular question-and-answer site with 80 million unique visitors. Questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. Quora requires users to register with their real names rather than a screen name.  The site is essentially unusable if a user is not logged in and using cookies. Quora has turned into an interesting platform […]

Create Lead Generation through Online Connections

Follow these key steps to successfully create lead generation through social media efforts while improving connections and increasing your Return on Investment (ROI): Take time to do research when making new connections and before communicating with them. Be consistent in your social media presence so that your contacts can be familiar with your brand. Create […]

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 […]

Leverage Your Team to Grow Your Brand’s Online Visibility

Businesses and organizations wanting to attract their ideal audience by increasing their online visibility should leverage their team’s social media network. Group’s benefit by team member’s taking content ownership with better customer service, higher conversion rates, increased inbound web traffic, and reduced marketing cost. Tips on creating the team’s online synergy: Create a specific time […]