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After I did a Hangout On Air in anticipation of Mid-Hudson Valley Digital Marketers Meet-Up, Paul Rakov asked “how could a business in the Hudson Valley stand out using social media?” See Paul’s comment below. I mean, sure. I could have given Paul a half-assed answer in Youtube comments, but I figured a blog post would [...]

How come Google is able to make money indexing blog content, and yet bloggers are not able to make money creating content? Something is wrong with the system. It needs to be re-imagined. Embed This Image On Your Site (copy code below): Courtesy of: DIYBloggerNET

If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, then you might be familiar with the pain and agony of filling out this little guy. Tags. That painful afterthought that stands between me and getting my next blog post done and done with. Tags. That annoying thing I don’t want to fill out but have to because [...]

Some of you will know the story through a film adaptation of a graphic novel by Frank Miller. 300 is a story based on the Battle of Thermopylae as described by the Greek Historian, Herodotus. According to Herodotus, King Leonidas of Sparta held off a million man Persian army for seven days. Outflanked, Leonidas stood with his [...]

I’ve written about basic tribe building strategies already. The niche, the low-mid-high strategy and timeline strategy. After using Triberr for a while and with ample input from everyone in Triberr community, I’ve devised three additional strategies. Here we go. The Posting Frequency Strategy It might be perceived as unfair if one tribe member posts 3-4 [...]

In the age of choc-o-block mediocre blog(s) that no one reads, and the emergence of A list bloggers with book deals, it can be a difficult decision to decide to launch a new blog into an over-saturated market. And harder still if you’re a total tech newbie? A Twitter ignoramus, and wouldn’t know CSS or [...]

I remember listening to one of Gary Vee’s talks where he said that he wishes he could erase his Social Media notoriety only so that he could show that the hard work and his passionate approach to marketing would win the day once again. I love Gary, I really do. I think he is on [...]

If we track the progression of writing a captivating Headline; we have newspapers delivering punchy, intriguing and human-friendly Headlines ever since the days of the early Printing Press. With the advent of google and the fact that 84% of Internet users start out by typing a search-query string into google’s Search box; over the last [...]