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5 Awesome Tips To Achieve A Better Blog

September 13, 2009
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A lot of bloggers think they won’t run out of things to write or the inspiration to get them writing, but that’s just not right. Why do you think writers came up with such a term as “writer’s block”? It’s because some way, somehow, you’ll experience at least a day where you can’t come up [...]

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4 Metrics You Can Use to Measure Social Media ROI

September 12, 2009
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It’s always been a problem for most people, measuring return of investment (ROI) when it comes to social media. I don’t blame companies for finding it difficult to do so because metrics vary from business to business. Think about this, not all business treat certain metrics with the same level of importance. What may be [...]

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He Who Runs First Doesn’t Always Win

September 11, 2009
He Who Runs First Doesn’t Always Win

You probably see a lot of people posting about the same topic once new news hit the airwaves. It’s mostly because these people are competing to be the first to blog about the news. Why so? Because being the first guarantees a lot of page visits, that’s why. But sometimes, you have to understand that [...]

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A List Of Other Things You Can Do With Twitter

September 7, 2009
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More and more people are enjoying Twitter these days. I mean, who wouldn’t? It’s a relatively easy alternative to blogging and instant messaging, at least by my opinion. But then again, some people get tired of the fact that Twitter is limited to just that – short message blogging and limited character instant messaging. A [...]

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What Will Happen To Your Blog If You Die

September 4, 2009
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Ok, stop throwing tomatoes at me. But I’m just curious. Let’ say a year or 2 have passed by and you become a social media rockstar. The number of your followers can start a country in a small island around south-east Asia. Your exposures to main-stream media was such a success that people think you [...]

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How To Maximize Your Time And Do More

September 3, 2009
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A lot of starting social media practitioners often finds themselves out of time to do things, and that’s quite normal. You’ll hear people say that it’s all a matter of time management and discipline. But what if there are ways you can do more with your time? It doesn’t matter if you belong to a [...]

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2 Most Important Questions To Ask Yourself In Blogging

September 2, 2009
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Pretty much, anybody who goes around the Internet a lot knows how to use a blog. But most of the time, bloggers lose sight on the two most important things in blogging. It may be unintentionally, but losing track of these two essential things lessens one’s effectiveness as a blogger. One of the reasons why [...]

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Link Building Strategies Unleashed

August 29, 2009

We’re always talking about how great content, on its own, can attract people to view it and link it for other people in their network to see, right? Let’s face the facts, it is true. Instead of begging people to link our keyword-laden content, which isn’t really that bad, providing value-filled content actually results in [...]

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Rock The Boat With Content Marketing

August 25, 2009

Content marketing is becoming a big hit these days. A lot of people think of it more as a means to share information rather than a way to sell. Truth be told, people are too skeptical about the power of content marketing in driving sales or related actions. But what if there are ways that [...]

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4 Styles Writers Can Learn From Hemingway

August 24, 2009

You may be a fan of a lot of contemporary writers. But as for me and a lot of writers out there, Ernest Hemingway’s writing style epitomizes the most effective writing style fit for blogging. Truth be told, I won’t ever get anywhere near Ernest Hemingway. His technique has forgone the complex styling other writers [...]

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8 Tips You Gave Me When I Started Blogging

August 20, 2009

Some people get confused about how to properly write for a blog. Now, personally, I don’t think that there’s supposed to be an actual format or step to write blogs. It is, basically, just a channel you can use to get your message across. Now, your message depends on what you want to say. It [...]

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The Vito Corleone’s Guide On How To Build Authority

August 19, 2009

In the social web, one of our currencies is authority. It’s one of those things that are hard to build and easy to devastate. Authority allows you to use leveraging in many aspects. It makes you famous, be the center of the crowd and the guy that knows it. Once you have it, you will [...]

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Pinoy Entrepreneur 2.0

August 18, 2009

For your information, Pinoy Entrepreneurs are one of the most creative business people I know. Their passion and enthusiasm tells you a story of a bigger picture on how they manage to strive despite economic hurdles. What they passionately do, defines them. But that is until the way we do business changed, in the web. [...]

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7 Effective Slasher Strategies to Get More Subscribers In Your Blog

August 17, 2009

Writing well is something that can be honed. Like any craft, with the right techniques, you’ll learn how to write really, really well. But writing well isn’t everything. You’ll find that there are a lot of good writers who don’t have a lot of following. You might be asking yourself, if those great writers can’t [...]

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Why College Professors Should Start Using Social Media

August 16, 2009

Back in college, which was N years ago, internet technology was still in its infancy (stop computing my age please) and there were few tools that people from the academe can use. At present, there are so many Web 2.0 tools out there and only a few college professors use them. Some consider social media [...]

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6 Easy Ways To Update Your Facebook Status

August 14, 2009

Facebook, undoubtedly, is one of the  places to be in right now. A lot of people are using it to connect to old friends, make new ones, and to pass time. Also, many businesses are using it as a platform for marketing their products. You can pretty much do anything in Facebook nowadays – share [...]

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If I Were To Start An Influential Blog Contest

August 13, 2009

Plaques, trophies, certificates and medals are forms of awards given to a set of people who have done extra ordinary things and raised the bar in their respective field. Same with blogging awards, popular in my home country, had awarded many bloggers who raised the bar in our local blogosphere. But looking in to the [...]

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The Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of Social Media Marketing

August 12, 2009

It’s very easy to say social media is a useful strategy for your business. But there’s more to that than just saying it’s what a lot of successful businesses are using these days. You have to look deeper into things. And just like in writing a great news report, you have to ask yourself the [...]

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More Tips For A Consistent Social Media Practice

August 11, 2009

Some time last week, I started a list of tips that could help make a more consistent social media practice. I’m hoping the initial batch was able to help you in any way, but I started drafting a few more just to add to the existing tips that I’ve mentioned. Again, I say that establishing [...]

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