Posts Tagged ‘blog’

Announcing “Launch Your Awesomeness”

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

SocialMouths - Launch Your AwesomenessSocialMouths is turning one year and to celebrate, I’m launching my first product.

It’s called “Launch Your Awesomeness – Your own kick-ass blog in only 48 hours” and I would absolutely love it if you can take a couple of minutes to read this post to understand what it is, why I created it, for who and how you can hopefully benefit from it.

Also, I’m leaving the comments open if you want to give me feedback, if you have some ideas to improve it or to simply ask questions.

So What Is It?

It’s a packaged solution to speed up the process of launching your blog, a successful one, either for your business or for your own personal brand.

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How To Promote Your Blog Before Its Launch

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

How To Promote Your Blog Before Its LaunchOne of the toughest parts of starting a new blog is getting some visibility.

The problem with doing your initial promotion post-launch is that at that point you have already develop a new series of activities such as content management or front-end interaction. These tasks will considerably reduce your time and resources.

What if you could instead create buzz around your blog even before its launch and before you drop a line of content in it? In this post I’ll share with you a few ways you can build hype about your launch and go live with traffic already coming in your door.

When it comes to planning, this is no different than doing so for your actual blogging in which we’ll assume you have a strategy for content generation, scheduling and stuff like that. In this case, you should also write a little pre-launch strategy.

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Snapshot Of Your Social Media Presence [Part 1]: The Hub

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

SocialMouths - Snapshot of your online presence Do you really have an idea of where you or your company stand online today?

There are several conversations on how to develop a social media strategy but in this case, we are suggesting you take a step back to look at who you are online, where you’re standing today. What kind of reach do you have? Are you an influencer in your segment? Do people know about you in your industry?

Figure this out first and then move forward, plan, set up goals, compare.

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How Do You Follow The Blogs You Love? [Poll]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

We had a couple of conversations last week on both our Twitter and Fan Page about how we subscribe to online content, in this case from blogs. One of the things I find interesting is that all the responses came with at least 2 options, usually following on Twitter and RSS or combining Twitter and Facebook. In some cases even connecting in 3 different platforms at the same time.

In my case, I first follow on Twitter, then depending on the content and if I consider worth subscribing I do it via RSS. If we are talking about a singular post then I’ll give it some bookmarking love on Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, depending on what’s appropriate.

So share with us, you can actually choose 2 options and also feel free to add comments too…


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Followers, Subscriptions or Fans? [Poll]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

There is a community building around your blog, people signing up via RSS or email, some of them following you on Twitter or even joining your Facebook fan page.

But what is your main focus? Do you have a clear strategy of how you want to lead that community and help it grow.


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Tweet To Win A FREE Fully-Loaded Blog

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Free BlogEnter our 1st. contest of 2010 and win a blog in exchange of a simple Tweet. Seriously.

But… aren’t there like a million free themes available everywhere? This is not a theme, this is your Ready-To-Rock, unique and fully-loaded blog.

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Make Your Blog iPhone-Friendly

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

iphoneI’m not talking about turning your blog into an iPhone application but rather making it more friendly for the iPhone browser. In other words, when a user is visiting your blog from the device.

This is done for WordPress blogs with a very simple and free plugin called WPTouch (created by Brave New Code) that you can install and configure yourself in just a few minutes. There is nothing else to it, you do everything from your WordPress dashboard.

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Social Power Tools To Kick It Up A Notch (Tool #2): ClickTale

Monday, December 28th, 2009

LensEver wonder how to make your site or blog perform better? What do you change so it can help you reach the results you expect?

Sure, you can ask some friends for their opinion but, what if you could experience how a real person behaves, what they do or where they click.

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