Looking ahead to 2010, the fields of internet business and blogging are poised for dramatic growth. This is a huge opportunity for small business people, who are willing to enter the learning curve and grow their business. The bottom line is that you cannot afford to close your eyes to the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the internet itself. Continue reading
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Content is King, Marketing is Queen
Gary Vaynerchuk author of “Crush It!” and founder of Winelibrary.TV a social web 2.0 media entrepreneur, puts some of the focus of his success and personal branding strategy down to understanding that “Content is King, Marketing is Queen”.
Whatever the format of your Content be it video, images, audio or text, when it comes to putting it on the internet and connecting and creating awareness this can only be done through Marketing. Work hard on the Content and be smart on the Marketing, make use of the social networks and understand how the game is changing, citing things like twitter, social networks, using online video, how using a camera and talking about wine got him noticed and how he now has the same agent representation as Oprah Winfrey.
Gary Vaynerchuk Crush It tour. Mesa, AZ from Jay Thompson on Vimeo.
How to Become a Better Blogger 7: Brand Evolution
Either by intention or by default, branding starts during the design and strategy stage of creating a new blog. That’s when the blogger chooses the niche (subject matter and keywords) and lays the foundation for what kind of a blog they intend to create, selects a url, blog title and blog tagline that reflect the intended “brand”. Thereafter, branding begins to shift as a reader community develops and grows.
Link building strategy: Locating similar sites
High quality popular blogs set the pace for all other related and similar blogs in any niche. Link popularity is the total number of blogs that link to a blog, and major search engines now factor link popularity into their relevancy algorithms. Consequently, increasing the number of high quality, relevant sites which link to your site will improve your search engine rankings, and that’s why it’s an integral part of any link building strategy. Therefore, locating high quality similar blogs is an important step to becoming a better blogger.
Re-mix the web with Netvibes
Netvibes is a free web site that lets you personalize your web experience. Take everything that matters to you while online — newspapers, blogs, weather, email, search, videos, photos, social networks, podcasts, widgets, games and funny applications — then bring them together in one single page, your personalized page. You can make this page automatically update every time you open it. That’s what netvibes does. And it does so much more. Continue reading
