Social Marketing

In the next two weeks, I’m going to be traveling a bit for the holidays, as well as just spending some time relaxing and planning my 2009.
I’d imagine you’re doing the same thing, so I’m giving you a bit of time to prepare.  I’d like to keep the blog active during the next couple weeks, [...]

Here are a few of my favorite ways to bring traffic to your blog quickly and easily:

Submit posts to blog carnivals (really, it works)
Comment on other people’s blogs
Use Comment Sniper to comment on popular blogs
Have a link to your blog in forum and email signature lines
Add a video linking to your blog to video sharing [...]

I discussed Blog Rush & Traffic Jam in a recent post, and Andy Beard has followed up with a comprehensive pros-n-cons look at the services from John Reese.  One tool he mentioned was the Blog Rush Click Maximizer plugin for Wordpress.
This plugin allows you to change your post title to something a bit more BlogRush [...]

I was at a holiday gathering this season and had a short conversation about Twitter with my husband’s Grandfather, Steve. He wondered “Why” in regards to Twitter.
I told him I wouldn’t Twitter if it weren’t for my business - and unless you have lots of actual, real-life friends on Twitter, it’s probably worthless… [...]

I installed BlogRush about 2 months ago, but then didn’t do a lot of updating here, so my initial numbers are skewed.
Since I’ve been back to regular posting, Reese has updated the service to include new analytics, more specific categories and new sizes for the BlogRush widget.
What do I think?
TWO CAVEATS

I hate, hate, hate putting [...]

A new update to the Wordpress Plug IM Vitebox plugin is available today, you can download it here.
When a users’ template used Wordpress’ “the_excerpt()” function, it’s disables javascript.  Since the Votebox IS javascript, that lead to nasty code being displayed in Category & Archive pages, instead of your nice votebox.The plugin has been updated to [...]

I came to this little ditty from Jack Humphrey, who’s always on top of all the things the cool bloggers are doing.
Participating in this merry-go-round of sorts is an easy way to get a bunch of backlinks to your website, and what’s more, you get to pick the anchor text of those backlinks.  Your “anchor [...]

An update is available to the Wordpress PlugIM Votebox plugin.  This update allows you to customize the position of your votebox.  Find it here.

Claims made at http://www.socialmediariches.info we’ll review:
“You can make cash by creating and uploading videos!
You can make cash by uploading pictures!
You can make cash by uploading music!
You can make cash by writing on blogs!”
Ya think? We’ll see…
We’re in another “golden age” of the internet. Tons of new startups popping up all over the place. [...]

I’m super-stoked about this!
The WP-PlugIM Wordpress plugin is available, so anyone can drop it in their ‘plugins’ folder and have a shiny PlugIM votebox on their posts (see upper left of this post for what it looks like).
Your blog readers do not have to be registered at PlugIM to use the votebox and they [...]