Mar
14

Content creation for multiple sites is all about the hustle

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Over the past several months, we have been making content creation a bigger priority. However, when you create content for multiple sites, you’ll more than likely find yourself involved in the hustle. Besides the hustle of the actual creation, there is the strategy and prioritization as well as the promotion through social media channels to…
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Oct
18

Why WordPress is your best option as a content platform

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Over the summer, Jim and I launched several client websites on the WordPress platform. Our own websites are built on the WordPress platform as well and, as we’ve worked with ours and with those of our clients, we’ve become appreciative of how WordPress serves as a great content platform. This will be our topic for…
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Sep
06

Is a click the same as a social media share?

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Since we are on a business trip this week, Jim and I decided to hand the laptop back and forth and discuss the difference between engagement on blog posts vs. promotion and shares of blog posts via social media. For a change of pace, the five questions listed below will be very similar to the…
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Aug
22

Content creation can’t always come first

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I remember not so long ago when I looked at creating content (i.e. writing blog posts and even participating in social media) as my primary avenue for getting the word out about what I do. I also recall that finding time to create that content used to be a lot easier. While I still think…
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Aug
16

A place where social media rules and limits don’t apply

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Yesterday Shelby wrote “Reaching my social media limit & the day I was kicked off Twitter” and my original plan was to write a very snarky response. I mean, come on folks. Clearly she has a Twitter problem and needs an intervention. Oh wait. She hit her Twitter limit because she is my co-host of…
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Jul
25

How to market via email and social media without spamming

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In the very near future, we will be launching a new company website for a client. As we prepare to take the final steps toward that launch, I’ve been talking to my contact at this company almost every other day. This week, he asked me how we should announce and market the new site. I…
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Jul
19

Which came first the headline or the blog post?

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It seems odd that I’m sitting here trying to write a blog post about about headlines and subheads and I can’t come up with any content. On the other hand, perhaps that is not odd at all. Headlines and subheads only matter if they are the glue holding a useful, well-written post together. A good…
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