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5 Profitable Places To Sell Your Books
Knowing your book’s audience is worthless if you don’t know where they hang out. These two crucial marketing criteria should be met before you sit down and start writing any book. In fact, traditional publishers require a marketing plan and platform be submitted with a book proposal—often even before the book is written.
13 Tools and Services I Use Every Day to Build a Profitable Blogging Business
During a recent Q&A webinar, we received a lot of questions about the tools and services we recommend for different aspects of blogging. While we touched on a few, there are quite a few more that I wanted to touch on. Not all are strictly ‘blogging tools’ but all are things we regularly use as a team.
DropBox & WordPress have integrated to make managing website back-ups even easier!
Keep your valuable WordPress website, its media and database backed up to Dropbox in minutes with this sleek, easy to use plugin.WordPress Backup to Dropbox has been created to give you peace of mind that your blog is backed up on a regular basis.Just choose a day, time and how often you wish yor backup to be performed and kick back and wait for your websites files and a SQL dump of its database to be dropped in your Dropbox!
How to Make Your Summer Sales Sizzle by Getting Your Video On
Summer may be time for sun, sand and surf, but that doesn’t mean it has to be the season when your sales slow down. In fact, you can still relax at the beach and keep your business booming! What’s the secret to enjoying more of the season while avoiding the dreaded summer sales slump? It’s video – your 24/7 automated sales person!
5 ways to use curated lists of blogs in your niche.
When you find a list of the top experts in your niche, even if you aren’t included on it, don’t just give it a passing glance and move on. Figure out how you can use that information to make more contacts, become smarter, and get more publicity.
Blog Content: 4 Ways to Make Your Blog Unique
Want to make your blog stand out? Try finding unusual facts and weird blog content. Give your blog a unique look and feel by publishing unusual blog content. With such an abundance of content available on the Internet, how can you make your blog unique?
How to Find New YouTube Content
YouTube is pretty incredible. Surf from cat video to amateur vlog to high-quality episodic show in just a few clicks, all under one network. Of course, with billions of hours of video available to chose from, how does one go about tailoring his interests and finding the people who create that great stuff? While extensive YouTube searches can help fix your bike or tie a Windsor knot, a television-like experience that offers a stream of entertaining content requires more work.
How to create perfect social media posts [INFOGRAPHIC]
Although there isn’t a general foolproof formula, there is a guide that can help you craft the best social media updates and posts possible. An infographic from My Clever Agency provides basic guidelines for creating effective Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+ posts. Here are a few of the tips:
10 Smart Moves for a Successful Local Marketing Campaign
Marketing for local businesses has come a long way. Just 20 years ago, “marketing” meant buying newspaper ads, yellowpage ads or perhaps billboard or radio advertisements. Marketing was costly and often ineffective. Today, the game has changed. There are literally dozens of tools available to the smart entrepreneur for marketing his or her business. Many of these tools and techniques can drive hundreds of paying customers to your business, without costing you a single dime. This checklist will help you get the most out of all the tools, technologies and techniques available today.
Better Business Blogging: 7 Lessons from Liberace
Liberace was well-known for his flamboyant lifestyle both on and off stage. During the 1950s-1970s he was the highest paid entertainer in the world. That’s pretty amazing considering he was a pianist. His career spanned five decades. His career spanned five decades. I just saw the HBO film “Behind the Candelabra,” with an amazing performance by Michael Douglas in the starring role.