Online Marketing

Leaving blurbs

Leaving blurbs is one way to connect with your clients. What, you may ask, are blurbs? I define blurbs as little pieces of information about me and my business so my clients know me better. I didn't know how to do that at first. My website is set up using the...

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Bring us your problems

Bring us your problems is the title of a blog post written by Seth Godin six years ago. I discovered this post as I was cleaning out my Google Chrome bookmarks as part of this year's spring cleaning. The article seems timely right now. Godin's post refers to a...

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Finding trends to write about

Finding trends to write about is vital to getting more eyeballs to your blog. And I've been blogging wrong. So says the blogging expert, Mike Allton of The Blogging Brute. I'm a Bad Blogger I don't research trends and write about them. Instead, I write about what I...

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The Dummies Helped contest is back

The Dummies Helped contest is back because I've written two new Dummies books and crossed those tasks off my whiteboard. Wiley will publish Programming Interviews for Dummies and Instagram for Dummies this month. I co-authored Programming Interviews for Dummies with...

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Structuring a successful blog

Structuring a successful blog and creating a content marketing strategy takes a lot of work. I wrote a post on March 14 about using The Content Pyramid by Mike Allton as the basis for building a successful blog. The content pyramid shows each topic requires 13 posts....

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