Archive for the ‘Blogs’ Category

When I reflected on my first year of business by analysing google analytics and what I had asked customers about where they had heard about me, I realised that at least 40% of my revenue had come from the blog – not bad for an offline business.

“Add This” is the name of a plugin (website add-on) that’s pretty hard to miss on the internet these days. To be precise, it’s currently used on over 9 million websites, meaning that if your website…

Internet marketers can learn a lot from the X Factor. Take Simon Cowell. He’s not a particular nice guy but he’s interesting (and usually right). Louis Walsh is nice but…

You’ve just written a blog post and it’s absolutely perfect; beautifully written content that has the ideal balance of valuable information with easy-to-read conversational language…

One senior manager from Sage in North America made a very valid point about how the size of the firm, culture and even the location can play a huge role in the expected behaviour of employees. He also made the point..

The web is full of blogs and bloggers: an alien mix of opinions, recommendations, tips, tricks and guides. All virtally hanging in cyber space…waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting reader…

Effective commenting is an art and when done correctly, it can raise your profile, establish your credibility, drive more traffic to your site and gain you new readers…

Too Busy To Blog

Actually, I really don’t have time to blog, my life is so busy. But I think about it all the time, I think to myself “I really should sit down and spend an hour researching and writing a blog”. Then I think…

Finding Time

Engaging fully in social media is critical to ensuring that business benefits fully from it. Partial or sporadic engagement simply doesn’t work.

Just thought I would share how I go about blogging for a company. I am currently working for Tradesmen.ie. I’m aware that there are plenty of other strategies to explore…