Short Spark: How to Say ‘No’ While Helping a FriendPhoto by Gaetan Lee.
If you have an online audience of any size you are often going to be asked for help and advice. You might be at the point where you can assist everyone who asks, but if your audience keeps growing this state will eventually pass you by.
Or, you might already be finding it difficult to help everyone and regularly forced to say the dreaded ‘No’ word. You worry: are you losing a potential customer or client in the process? More importantly, are you making someone
How To Create Your Own Local Small Town Affiliate NetworkHave you ever wanted to create your own affiliate network locally within a small town? In this article I will give you some ideas on how this can be done. A few days ago in a blog comment, a reader had asked me a question that triggered me to write this post. While I don’t know if this post will completely address and answer his question, I do know that it will trigger so of your own ideas
Why No-one is a Social Media ExpertPhoto by mikebaird.
The term ’social media expert’ has been the subject of a lot of talk and a lot of controversial articles lately. People have written about the different types of social media expert, whether it’s OK to call yourself a social media expert and outlined who they believe are (and are not) experts in social media.
The term has never been more commonly used. This is probably because an entire industry has bubbled up around people creating businesses and services
Blogging Debates - There are Many Ways to Build a Successful Blog
Debates in blogging circles have raged for years now on many topics.
Should a blog have full feeds or partial feeds?
Is a blog a blog if it doesn’t have comments?
Frequency of Posting - Should a blog post once a week, once a day or 20 times a day?
Should you self host your blog or use a free blogging platform?
There are many questions and issues that bloggers tend to debate when it comes to blogging and each time I ask one of these questions as a reader question it is amazing to
Four Copywriting Techniques for Engaging Podcasts and Audio Presentations
There’s nothing easier than audio content, right? Just fire up your recording software or teleseminar service and start talking away….
Well, sure… but “easy to create” doesn’t guarantee anyone will listen (or keep listening). Take some time to structure and prepare for your recording, however, and you can crank out exceptionally engaging audio content that still only takes a fraction of the time that polished writing would.
Even though you’re not producing written content, what
