Stepping Up From the Bottom Pile

by Rob Angeles on March 18, 2010

Stepping Up From the Bottom Pile

A start-up blog may be difficult to get out in public. Unless you’ve got influential friends promoting your blog on their sites, you’re bound to land at the bottom pile.

Bottom pilers don’t really get much traffic. They get an occasional spike on pageviews, but not really a lot of readers. It’s a sad fate, I know, but there’s a way out of it.

It’s called blog hopping and commenting. continue reading →

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Aim For Strong Relationships In Twitter

by Rob Angeles on March 17, 2010

Aim For Strong Relationships In Twitter

With so many people joining Twitter every day, it’s tempting for corporate Twitter users to just mass follow people and pray that they somehow end up as patrons of the business. But the thing is it should be like this.

In social media, you don’t just aim for casual acquaintances. What you should thrive for is a strong and solid relationship with the people you connect with on the social web. continue reading →

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Does It Always Have To Be About You

by Rob Angeles on March 16, 2010

Does It Always Have To Be About You

Don’t you just hate it when you get into a conversation and all you can hear a person talk about is themselves? And no matter how hard you try to steer the conversation away from that person, he always seems to be able to direct it back to himself?

Please don’t get me wrong. I see no evil in self-love. However, too much self-love can be, well, annoying, if you know what I’m saying. continue reading →

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When Consistency Drowns Quality

March 15, 2010
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How many here are too obsessive-compulsive (OC) about minute details of work? Filtering emails, organizing files, arranging them by dates and whatnot? It shouldn’t matter if you work this way, so long as you’re consistently turning over work, should it? But what if this productivity isn’t really as effective as you think?
What if all that [...]

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Effective Strategies In Giving Out Coupons Online

March 14, 2010
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How many times have you enjoyed the savings you get from coupons for, say, groceries or meals? I’ve got to say, in as much as it looks a bit desperate to be cutting out coupons from magazines of newspaper just for the savings (however little) you can get from them; these are tough times where [...]

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Find Customers Through Content Marketing

March 12, 2010
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How many times have you been advised to put up a blog for your business? If you have a lot of friends in the social media circle, I’d imagine that your answer would be “a lot of times”. Don’t think of it as them bugging you to try out their suggestion. They’re actually telling you [...]

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Social Media Channels For Creative People

March 11, 2010
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More and more people are starting to express themselves creatively. Artists of different media are popping up left and right trying to make a name for themselves. But even if you want to make it out in this cruel world on their own, it would be easier if you belong to a group or organization [...]

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How Freelance Writers Deal With Aggravation

March 10, 2010
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I equate working as a freelance as living the good life. For one, you work at home, or anywhere of your leisure. Another, you keep your time, provided you meet whatever quota your client has for the day/week/month.
However, it can’t be helped that setbacks will appear every now and then. It can’t always be good; [...]

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Are Social Networks An Obstruction In The Workspace

March 9, 2010
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You know how social media’s supposed to be giving you the right to freely express yourself on the web? Well, sometimes that can backfire on you as well. Fairly recently, one guy lost his job for some demeaning and somewhat threatening stuff he posted on his blog.
The blog entry was about the company’s policies on [...]

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The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit

March 8, 2010
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The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit will be on April 16 and 17, 2010 at the Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, from 8 am to 5 pm. Registration will still be FREE.
iBlog6 will be two days this year. The first day (April 16) is targeted for businesses and entrepreneurs wanting to understand how to tap [...]

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2 Simple Strategies To Get More Backlinks

March 8, 2010
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When you have a blog, you want people to hear about it everywhere. So you turn to social networking sites to tell your network about your site, hoping they’d pass the message along to others.
Well, that works perfectly. If you’re lucky, you can even have people linking your site for whatever reason they see fit. [...]

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Why SEO And SMO Go Hand In Hand

March 7, 2010
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The debate regarding SEO and SMO has long been on-going. Some would say SEO should take the spotlight while some think that social media should be in front and center.
So which one is it?
My answer to it, is neither. I’ve been saying it over and over again; SEO and SMO go hand in hand. SEO [...]

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How To Write Engaging Blog Posts

March 5, 2010
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Engagement is one of the strong points of social media. It gives you the opportunity to make your readers feel valued. As blog owner and brand manager, it’s your job to make sure that followers feel engaged with each post you make.
You must be wondering, what will you get if you exert extra effort in [...]

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How To Screw Up Your Blogging Career

March 4, 2010
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In as much as social media practitioners suggest that business owners put up a blog for their company, there are just times when you got to admit that you’re not cut out to do it.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it, but, rather, that you should take a long hard look at yourself and your [...]

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6 Tricks In Getting Inspiration Back

March 3, 2010
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When you write too much, you sometimes find yourself looking at the task as, well, a task. You look at it as your bread and butter that you tend to lose your grasp on the one thing that got you started into writing in the first place – inspiration.
I can’t say it’s that surprising, considering [...]

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One Gmail To Rule Them All

March 2, 2010
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There are so many things you can do over at Gmail right now. I’m probably not the most in tune to these things, but I find it convenient that you can add extra services like Twitter and Facebook onto Gmail.
If you just found out about this now, congratulations. You’ve learned something new today.
Anyway, gadget adding [...]

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Defining The Limit Line In Social Media

March 1, 2010
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Social media is pretty much like real life – it offers you an opportunity to meet a lot of people. But when you’re dealing with a diverse crowd, you’re going to want to lay down some ground rules to avoid clashing.
But what type of rules should they be?
This question is kind of subjective, if you [...]

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